Hyannis WCOMS July 2001

22nd Annual National Workers' Compensation and Occupational Medicine Seminar
July 23, 24, & 25 2002	detailed schedule
Sheraton Hyannis Resort, Hyannis, MA	registration information
*SEAK, Inc.* will be conducting its Twenty-second Annual National Workers' Compensation and Occupational Medicine Seminar. In this widely acclaimed program, the nation's leading workers' compensation professionals, occupational physicians, occupational nurses, and attorneys will join together to discuss cutting edge issues. Frank discussions and lively question and answer sessions will complement each presentation. Seminar registrants will be able to meet their colleagues and leaders in the field from across the United States and Canada, at the reception, luncheon, and breakfast to network and discuss areas of mutual concern. This seminar is currently the largest and longest-running national workers' compensation and occupational medicine seminar of its kind in the United States.

Schedule
click for speaker & topic descriptions	Tuesday, 7/23
	Wednesday, 7/24
	Thursday, 7/25

Tuesday July 23, 2002
8:00-9:00	Registration (Subject to space availability)
9:00-10:00	Maximizing the Employer Role in Return To Work: The Latest Developments By Glenn Pransky, MD, MoccH Sudbury, MA
10:00-11:00	HIPAA and Workers' Compensation and Occupational Medicine: The Latest Developments By Mark E. Lutes, Esquire Washington, DC
11:00-11:10	Break and Networking Opportunity
11:10-12:00	Psychiatric Fitness for Duty Exams: Making Them Work By Melissa J. LeBlanc, BSN, RN, CCM, COHN-S and East Greenwich, RI Donald L. Sherak, MD Brookline, MA
12:00-1:30	Lunch (On Your Own) and Exhibits
1:30-2:25	Breakout Sessions:
	Objective Functional Capacity: Early and Safe Return To Work By Susan Isernhagen Duluth, MN
OR	Admissibility of Scientific Evidence in Workers' Compensation Litigation: Daubert and Beyond By Alan S. Pierce, Esquire Boston, MA
OR	Environmental Hazards in the Workplace: Latest Developments By Stephanie M. Chalupka, EdD, APRN, BC, CEN Lowell, MA
2:30-3:25	Breakout Sessions
	FMLA Workshop: Practical and Advanced Implementation Techniques By Adam P. Forman, Esquire Boston, MA
OR	How to Use Electrodiagnostic Testing in Occupational Medicine: What Do the Tests Really Show? By Oregon Hunter, Jr., MD Ocala, FL
OR	Occupational Hearing Loss: Diagnosis, Causation, Impairment, and Conservation By Stephen F. Freifeld, MD Springfield, NJ
3:30-4:25	Breakout Sessions:
	Uncovering and Defending Fraudulent Workers' Compensation Claims By Dale W. Webb, Esquire Roanoke, VA
OR	Workers' Compensation, Psychiatric Disorder, and Prescriptive Accommodations By Norma Leclair, RN, PhD, LCPC and Steven Leclair, PhD, CRC Gray, ME
OR	ADA Workshop: Latest Developments By Gary Phelan, Esquire West Hartford, CT

4:45-6:00	Reception

Wednesday July 24, 2002
8:00-9:00	Late Registration and Exhibits
9:00-10:00	The Right to Hire and Fire Employees: Making the Workplace Work By Linda L. Holstein, Esquire Minneapolis, MN
10:00-11:00	Successful Management of Musculoskeletal Disorders in the Workplace Using Risk Identification By J. Mark Melhorn, MD Wichita, KS
11:00-11:10	Break and Networking Opportunity
11:10-12:00	Travel Medicine and Health in the Workplace: Latest Developments By Elizabeth Lawhorn, BSN, MSN, COHN-S, CCM Houston, TX
12:00-1:30	Seminar Luncheon
1:30-2:25	Breakout Sessions:
	What To Do After the Employee Is Put on Workers' Compensation By Philip J. Mohr, Esquire Winston-Salem, NC
OR	Differential Diagnostic Issues in Presumptive Traumatic Brain Injury: Fact, Fallacy, or Fraud By Nathan Zasler, MD, FAAPM&R, CIME, DAAPM Glen Allen, VA
OR	Medications in the Workplace: Latest Developments By Susan A. Randolph, BSN, MSN, COHN-S
2:30-3:25	Breakout Sessions:
	Upper Extremity Restrictions and Guides: Why Early Return To Work By J. Mark Melhorn, MD Witchita, KS
OR	Using Scanning Technology in the Practice of Occupational Health: Making It Work By Elizabeth Lawhorn, BSN, MSN, COHN-S, CCM Houston, TX
OR	Wrongful Termination and Retaliatory Discharge Workshop: Avoiding Employment Actions and Litigation By Nancy S. Shilepsky, Esquire Boston, MA
3:30-4:30	Breakout Sessions:
	Latex Litigation in the Workplace: The Latest Developments By James M. Brady, Esquire Walpole, MA
OR	Assessing Medical Causation in Workers' Compensation and Occupational Medicine By Adam L. Seidner, MD, MPH Old Lyme, CT
OR	Defending and Winning the Occupational Disease Claim By Philip J. Mohr, Esquire Winston-Salem, NC


Thursday July 25, 2002
8:00-9:00	Continental Breakfast and Exhibits
9:00-10:00	Non-Surgical Treatment of Occupational Low Back Pain: Latest Developments By James B. Talmage MD Cookeville, TN
10:00-11:00	Why Claimants Hire Lawyers and What to Do About It By John W. Valente, Esquire Rutland, VT
11:00-11:10	Break and Networking Opportunity
11:10-12:00	Mental Health in the Workplace: Treating Anxiety, Addiction and Depression With Alternative and Complementary Medicine By Scott Shannon, MD Fort Collins, CO
12:00-1:30	Lunch (On Your Own) and Exhibits
1:30-2:25	Breakout Sessions:
	How Pain Patients Are Mis-diagnosed: How to Correct this Cost-effectively By Nelson Hendler, MD Stevenson, MD
OR	Alternative Dispute Resolution: Impact on Employment Litigation and Workers' Compensation By Professor Samuel Estreicher New York, NY
OR	Managing Catastrophic Injury Claims By Kevin M. Quinley, CPCU, ARM, AIC, AIM, ARe Fairfax, VA
2:30-3:25	Breakout Sessions:
	Ergonomics to Reduce Injuries and Workers' Compensation Costs By Arun Garg, PhD Milwaukee, WI
OR	Improving Return To Work Outcomes: Formalizing the Process By Mary Lou Wassel, MEd, RN, COHN-S/CM, ARM Atlanta, GA
OR	Organizational Stress and Health: How to Overcome a Toxic Work Environment By Dianne E.G. Dyck, RN, BN, MSc, COHN-S, COHN(C) Calgary, Alberta, Canada
3:30-4:30	Breakout Sessions:
	Can I Work? The Science Behind Physician Imposed Activity Restrictions By James B. Talmage MD Cookeville, TN
OR	Surveillance and IMEs: Making Them Work By John W. Valente, Esquire Rutland, VT
OR	Minimizing Workers' Compensation and Employment Claims from Downsizing, Layoffs, and Corporate Downsizing By Kevin M. Quinley, CPCU, ARM, AIC, AIM, ARe Fairfax, VA