Dr. Sue Stannard

President of the Board at International Maritime Health Association (IMHA)

Speaker

Dr Sue Stannard was elected as President of the International Maritime Health Association (IMHA) in July 2025 having served as a Board Member and Secretary since September 2022. Sue has a clinical background in Acute Medicine, Anaesthetics/ITU and Paediatrics. She worked as a Ship’s Doctor for P&O Princess and was later Medical Director at Carnival (UK). Sue was also Medical Director (Assistance) at International SOS in London overseeing all medical assistance cases. These included evacuation and repatriation flights, monitoring of medical cases overseas and providing medical advice to leisure and business travellers, expats and companies. She has worked as a Consultant at the Norwegian Centre of Maritime and Diving Medicine in Bergen and more recently as an Independent Consultant in Maritime Medicine, working closely with the maritime industry on a number of publications. Sue was appointed as Chief Medical Advisor to the Maritime and Coastguard Agency in the UK in February 2022.