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Full Schedule

  • Sunday, April 27, 2025
  • 8:00 AM – 9:30 AM CT
    Opening Keynote: Defining, Identifying, and Managing Implicit Bias in OEM Practice.
  • 9:45 AM – 10:45 AM CT
    Critical Suture Skills Workshop; Advance Wound Closure Workship Part 1
  • 9:45 AM – 10:45 AM CT
    Environmental Health: How to Incorporate it into your Clinical Practice
  • 9:45 AM – 10:45 AM CT
    Montgomery County Healthy 2500 Firefighter Program: Increasing the required yearly Bruce Protocol EST requirements from 9 Minute/METS to 12minute/METS
  • 9:45 AM – 10:45 AM CT
    Occupational Eye Injuries: Evaluation and Treatment
  • 9:45 AM – 10:45 AM CT
    Screening New Hires: Challenges (Latent TB, Vaccinations), Choices (Sleep Apnea, Migraine) and Change (Drug Testing. History & Physicals)
  • 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM CT
    Advances in behavioral medicine: the neurobiology of pain psychology, what works, how it helps, and how you can integrate it into your practice
  • 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM CT
    Conquering the “E” in OEM: Strengthening Your Environmental Medicine Expertise, Quiz-Show Style
  • 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM CT
    Critical Suture Skills Workshop; Advance Wound Closure Workship Part 2
  • 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM CT
    Neck Pain and Headache: Improving Diagnosis and Treatment for Workers
  • 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM CT
    OccPod for OEM Practice - Reimagining the Cutting-Edge Innovative Future of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (OEM) Practice
  • 1:30 PM – 2:30 PM CT
    Exploring the spectrum of brain health: why employers should pay attention
  • 1:30 PM – 2:30 PM CT
    Hazards Associated with Electric Vehicle Lithium-Ion Batteries – From Production to Recycling
  • 1:30 PM – 2:30 PM CT
    Onboarding
  • 1:30 PM – 2:30 PM CT
    The Challenges and Opportunities in Environmental Medicine through International Programs and Experience: Global Research, Impact, and Training [GRIT]
  • 1:30 PM – 2:30 PM CT
    The NIOSH National Firefighter Registry for Cancer- What Occupational Medicine Physicians Need to Know
  • 2:45 PM – 3:45 PM CT
    Causation Determination in Occupational and Environmental Medicine
  • 2:45 PM – 3:45 PM CT
    Illness and Injury Management Practice in Australia as an OP: Occupational Exposure to Respirable Crystalline Silica in the Construction Industry.
  • 2:45 PM – 3:45 PM CT
    Steer Your Career in the Right Direction: What You Need to Know for Early and Long-Term Success as an OEM Professional
  • 2:45 PM – 3:45 PM CT
    The ABCs of CBD and Medical Cannabis in the Workplace
  • 2:45 PM – 3:45 PM CT
    Understanding medical and demographic factors influencing occupational heat stress and solutions to safeguard worker health and safety in extreme heat
  • 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM CT
    Exposure Consults at Veteran Health Administration- Unique and Necessary Opportunity
  • 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM CT
    Firefighter cardiac guidance controversy, Multiple sclerosis and real case analyses.
  • 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM CT
    Impact of Global Mental Health in the Workplace
  • 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM CT
    Making Accommodations Work: Centering Occupational Medicine in a Global, Rights-Based Accommodations Process
  • 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM CT
    TED 9: Ambassadors to OEM’s Future
  • Monday, April 28, 2025
  • 7:30 AM – 8:30 AM CT
    Global Perspectives on Occupational Health: Challenges and Innovation
  • 7:30 AM – 8:30 AM CT
    Occupational Medicine in High Altitude Workplaces: A Physician's Guide
  • 7:30 AM – 8:30 AM CT
    Overview of Military Enviromental Exposures and some Important Topics to Stakeholders
  • 7:30 AM – 8:30 AM CT
    Strategies to Connect with IIS to Assess and Recommend Vaccine
  • 7:30 AM – 8:30 PM CT
    Integrating Lifestyle Medicine into Occupational Medicine Practices
  • 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM CT
    Addressing the Shortage of Board-certified Occupational Health Physicians: A Train-in-place Solution to Widen the Training Pipeline
  • 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM CT
    Airborne Hazard and Open Burn Pit Registry (AHOBPR) Transformation: A New Way to Build an Exposure Registry
  • 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM CT
    Current and Complex Issues in Commercial Driver Medical Certification Part 1
  • 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM CT
    Current Controversies in Occupational Ophthalmology
  • 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM CT
    UN Health Intelligence- The Second Decade of Global Collaboration in OEM
  • 9:30 AM – 10:30 AM CT
    Interpreting Spirometry Test Results in the Occupational Setting since 2023
  • 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM CT
    ABPM Certification: Updates on Initial Certification and the Continuing Certification Program
  • 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM CT
    Current and Complex Issues in Commercial Driver Medical Certification Part2
  • 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM CT
    Military Related Environmental & Occupational Exposures: the 5 Exposure Domains, focusing on chemical & physical hazards, & complex exposure concerns
  • 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM CT
    Occupational and Impairment Implications of Race-Neutral Spirometry Reference Values: Engaging Occupational Medicine in Vital Discussions
  • 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM CT
    Vitamin D Optimizaton for Workforce Health, Productivity, Safety, and Value Creation
  • 12:45 PM – 1:45 PM CT
    Best Practice: psychosocial risk assessment implementation, organizational impacts and learnings Colombia Latino America
  • 12:45 PM – 1:45 PM CT
    Military Related Environmental and Occupational Exposures: Current research and education efforts on exposure effects on women veterans
  • 12:45 PM – 1:45 PM CT
    MRO Controversies
  • 12:45 PM – 1:45 PM CT
    Protecting the Aging Workforce
  • 12:45 PM – 1:45 PM CT
    Resilience: The Key to Faster Recovery
  • 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM CT
    A Framework for Causation in Medicolegal Matters
  • 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM CT
    Exploring the Role of Justice Equity Diversity & Inclusion (JEDI) for ACOEM and in Occupational & Environmental Medicine Practice
  • 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM CT
    How to Build an Occ Doc: International Approaches to OEM Specialty Training and Certification
  • 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM CT
    Navigating Substance Use and Addiction in Occupational Health: Recognition, Treatment and Recovery Support
  • 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM CT
    Veteran Environmental Exposures and Assessments: Illustrative Clinical Cases and Discussions for VA, DoD, and Civilian Clinicians
  • 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM CT
    A Tangled Web: Navigating the Complexities of Recordkeeping, Privacy, and Security for Occupational Health Providers
  • 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM CT
    Brain Fog': The role of validity testing and mental health intervention for work-related cognitive complaints
  • 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM CT
    Innovative Approaches to Chronic Back Pain Management: From Behavioral Therapies to Novel Treatments
  • 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM CT
    WeCanWork: The Intersection of Occupational Medicine and Oncology to Improve Cancer Survivor Employment and Well-Being Outcomes
  • Tuesday, April 29, 2025
  • 7:30 AM – 8:30 AM CT
    How the Department of Veterans Affairs' Research on Military Toxic Exposures is Advancing Veteran Care
  • 7:30 AM – 8:30 AM CT
    Injured Worker and Clinician Cognitive Bias: Doing the Same Thing Over and Over, Expecting a Different Result
  • 8:00 AM – 9:00 AM CT
    From Conflict to Connection: The Role of Relationship Restoration in Workplace Wellness
  • 8:00 AM – 9:00 AM CT
    Long Term Disability in Clinical Practice
  • 8:00 AM – 9:00 AM CT
    The Crisis of Training in Occupational and Environmental Medicine
  • 9:30 AM – 10:30 AM CT
    Electromagnetic fields, mobile phones and public health: to be or not IIb
  • 9:30 AM – 10:30 AM CT
    Establishing a Corporate Medicine Residency Rotation at a Major Global Manufacturing Company
  • 9:30 AM – 10:30 AM CT
    Occupational Tuberculosis: It's not just for Healthcare Workers anymore
  • 9:30 AM – 10:30 AM CT
    What about work? Measuring the effectiveness of medical student education on OEM
  • 10:45 AM – 11:45 AM CT
    Evolving Occupational and Environmental Medicine Programs in the Department of Defense: Updates, Insights, and Future Directions
  • 10:45 AM – 11:45 AM CT
    Migrant Labor: Learning from Yesterday to Inform Today
  • 10:45 AM – 11:45 AM CT
    Occupational Health Among Dental Personnel: NIOSH Research on Respiratory Hazards, Lung Diseases, and Mental Health
  • 10:45 AM – 11:45 AM CT
    Stump the Chumps in 2025! Challenges in Medical Center Occupational Health
  • 10:45 AM – 11:45 AM CT
    The fiber you didn't know: an introduction to micro- and nano-plastics and their impact on health
  • 1:15 PM – 2:15 PM CT
    Cannabis in the Workplace and Employer-based Drug Testing
  • 1:15 PM – 2:15 PM CT
    Identifying practices likely to benefit safety for both healthcare workers and patients: A scoping meta-review
  • 1:15 PM – 2:15 PM CT
    Silicosis in an OSHA Engineered Stone Inspection and the Occupational Health Response; Worker Screening and Authorizations under the OSHA Standard
  • 2:45 PM – 3:45 PM CT
    100 years of Nurse Practitioner - Occupational Physician Collaboration
  • 2:45 PM – 3:45 PM CT
    Red Light, Green Light: Workers' Comp Basics for Managing the Injured Worker
  • 2:45 PM – 3:45 PM CT
    Safety at Our National Labs: US Dept of Commerce, NIST Safety Commission: Investigation, Report and the OEM, Engineering & Safety Lessons Learned
  • 2:45 PM – 3:45 PM CT
    Two Decades of Experience: Insights from a National Former Worker Medical Surveillance Project - Part II, Outcomes and Lessons Learned
  • 2:45 PM – 3:45 PM CT
    Welcome to the Monkey House: Managing Biohazards in Research Settings
  • Wednesday, April 30, 2025
  • 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM CT
    Applying Transformational Leadership Principles to the Practice of Occupational and Environmental Medicine: Lessons Learned and Applied Part 1
  • 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM CT
    Construction Trades Research Round-up: Key Findings from the Building Trades National Medical Screening Program
  • 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM CT
    Critical Suture Skills Workshop; Advance Wound Closure Workship Part 3
  • 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM CT
    IME Academy Part I
  • 10:15 AM – 11:15 AM CT
    Applying Transformational Leadership Principles to the Practice of Occupational and Environmental Medicine: Lessons Learned and Applied Part 2
  • 10:15 AM – 11:15 AM CT
    Critical Suture Skills Workshop; Advance Wound Closure Workship Part 4
  • 10:15 AM – 11:15 AM CT
    IME Academy Part 2
  • 11:15 AM – 12:15 PM CT
    Collaboration between two residencies and the state workers compensation provider in increasing occupational and environmental medicine specialists
  • 11:15 AM – 12:15 PM CT
    Leading the World into the Future through OEM - A Panel Discussion with your Corporate Medical Rock Stars
  • 11:15 AM – 12:15 PM CT
    Leapfrog Your Gaps-How to Identify Opportunities to Prepare for Corporate OEM Leadership Positions'