The ACOEM Components of Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York are collaborating to put on our first regional occupational and environmental medicine conference. The conference will take place on the campus at Rutgers, and nine MOC/CME hours have been approved. It proves to be a fantastic 2 days, and most of it has relevance to this list serv.

The dates are Saturday, 10/18/14, and Sunday, 10/19/14 for a day and a half. The venue is the Clinical Academic Building at Rutgers University 125 Paterson Street, New Brunswick. A reception will be held at the beautiful  Heldrich Hotel on Saturday evening starting at 5:30 pm. Please view  the website for more information: conference.regionaloccmed.com.      You can easily register on the following website: https://webportal.acoem.org/conference/RegistrationProcessOverview.aspx?id=54

Topics include:

Mandatory Flu Vaccination Programs (Dr. Larry Budnick)

Management of Exposures in the academic Medical Center environment (Dr. Iris Udasin)

Evaluation of Reproductive Hazards in the Workplace (Dr. John Meyer)

Management of the Infected Healthcare Worker (Dr. David Henderson)

Evaluation and Management of the Impaired Health Care Provider (Dr. Louis Baxter)

Functional Capacity Evaluations (Ms. Jill Galper)

Update on the Cardiac Effects of Particles (Dr. Howard Kipen)

Legal Update: FMLA, ADAAA, and GINA (Mr. John Geaney, JD)

Update on Hazard Assessment and Controls for Nanotechnology (Dr. Charles Geraci)

Update on Commercial Driver Medical Examinations (Dr. Natalie Hartenbaum)

Neuropsychiatric Testing (Dr. Nancy Fiedler)

Update on Medical Marijuana (Dr. Gilbert Fanuciullo)

 

Linda L. Clark, M.D., M.S., 2013-2014 President

New York Occupational and Environmental Medicine