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AOHC 2025 Conference Goals
 • To reset our collective approach by integrating diverse perspectives and experiences in a collaborative environment redefining best practices in     occupational and environmental medicine.
• To advance our collective profession and enhance the well-being of workers as we aspire towards excellence by encouraging all members of the     occupational healthcare team to share innovative ideas and strategies.
• To sustain a unified vision for the specialty of OEM as well as ACOEM by building and showcasing a strong, multidisciplinary network dedicated to     promoting long-term health, safety, and sustainability in the workplace and the environment.

*Please note that program schedule is subject to change

Full Schedule

  • Friday, April 25, 2025
  • 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM CT
    Medical Review Officer Comprehensive Course Two Day Course
  • 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM CT
    Spirometry
  • Saturday, April 26, 2025
  • 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM CT
    Medical Center Occupational Health Basics
  • 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM CT
    Medical Review Officer Comprehensive Course Two Day Course
  • Sunday, April 27, 2025
  • 8:00 AM – 9:30 AM CT
    501 - Opening Keynote: Defining, Identifying, and Managing Implicit Bias in OEM Practice.
  • 9:30 AM – 9:45 AM CT
    Networking Break
  • 9:45 AM – 10:45 AM CT
    101 - Critical Suture Skills Workshop; Advanced Wound Closure Workshop Part 1
  • 9:45 AM – 10:45 AM CT
    102 - Screening New Hires: Challenges (Latent TB, Vaccinations), Choices (Sleep Apnea, Migraine) and Change (Drug Testing. History & Physicals)
  • 9:45 AM – 10:45 AM CT
    103 - Advances in behavioral medicine: the neurobiology of pain psychology, what works, how it helps, and how you can integrate it into your practice
  • 9:45 AM – 10:45 AM CT
    104 - Interpreting Spirometry Test Results in the Occupational Setting since 2023
  • 9:45 AM – 10:45 AM CT
    105 - Environmental Health: How to Incorporate it into your Clinical Practice
  • 10:45 AM – 11:00 AM CT
    Networking Break
  • 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM CT
    106 - Critical Suture Skills Workshop: Advanced Wound Closure Workshop Part 2
  • 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM CT
    107 - Neck Pain and Headache: Improving Diagnosis and Treatment for Workers
  • 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM CT
    108 - Protecting Vulnerable Populations from Wildfire Smoke Danger - Lessons from the January 2025 Los Angeles Wildfires
  • 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM CT
    109 - OccPod for OEM Practice - Reimagining the Cutting-Edge Innovative Future of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (OEM) Practice
  • 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM CT
    110 - Conquering the “E” in OEM: Strengthening Your Environmental Medicine Expertise, Quiz-Show Style
  • 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM CT
    Lunch on Own
  • 1:30 PM – 2:30 PM CT
    111 - Hazards Associated with Electric Vehicle Lithium-Ion Batteries – From Production to Recycling
  • 1:30 PM – 2:30 PM CT
    112 - Onboarding
  • 1:30 PM – 2:30 PM CT
    113 - Updates on Global Occupational and Environmental Health Strategic Projects and Priorities by the IOMSC
  • 1:30 PM – 2:30 PM CT
    114 - Exposure Consults at Veteran Health Administration- Unique and Necessary Opportunity
  • 1:30 PM – 2:30 PM CT
    115 - The Challenges and Opportunities in Environmental Medicine through International Programs and Experience: Global Research, Impact, and Training [GRIT]
  • 2:30 PM – 2:45 PM CT
    Networking Break
  • 2:45 PM – 3:45 PM CT
    116 - Causation Determination in Occupational and Environmental Medicine
  • 2:45 PM – 3:45 PM CT
    117 - 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
    118 - Understanding medical and demographic factors influencing occupational heat stress and solutions to safeguard worker health and safety in extreme heat
  • 2:45 PM – 3:45 PM CT
    119 - The ABCs of CBD and Medical Cannabis in the Workplace
  • 2:45 PM – 3:45 PM CT
    120 - Residents Abstracts
  • 3:45 PM – 4:00 PM CT
    Networking Break
  • 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM CT
    121 - TED 9: Ambassadors to OEM's Future
  • 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM CT
    122 - Firefighter cardiac guidance controversy, Multiple sclerosis and real case analyses.
  • 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM CT
    123 - Impact of Global Mental Health in the Workplace
  • 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM CT
    124 - Making Accommodations Work: Centering Occupational Medicine in a Global, Rights-Based Accommodations Process
  • 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM CT
    125 - Residents Abstracts II
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM CT
    Opening Reception in Exhibit Hall
  • Monday, April 28, 2025
  • 7:00 AM – 7:30 AM CT
    Breakfast in Exhibit Hall
  • 7:30 AM – 8:30 AM CT
    201 - Family Functioning and Socio-Demographic Profile to PTSD Among Military Army Combatant Soldiers in the Armed Forces of the Philippines
  • 7:30 AM – 8:30 AM CT
    202 - Strategies to Connect with IIS to Assess and Recommend Vaccine
  • 7:30 AM – 8:30 AM CT
    203 - Integrating Lifestyle Medicine into Occupational Medicine Practices
  • 7:30 AM – 8:30 AM CT
    204 - Occupational Medicine in High Altitude Workplaces: A Physician's Guide
  • 7:30 AM – 8:30 AM CT
    205 - Overview of Military Enviromental Exposures and Some Important Topics to Stakeholders
  • 8:00 AM – 12:00 PM CT
    Worksite Visit: Austin Fire Training Academy
  • 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM CT
    206 - Current and Complex Issues in Commercial Driver Medical Certification Part 1
  • 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM CT
    207 - 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
    208 - UN Health Intelligence- The Second Decade of Global Collaboration in OEM
  • 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM CT
    209 - Current Controversies in Occupational Ophthalmology
  • 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM CT
    210 - Advances in VA Services to Veterans with Military Environmental Exposures: a Redesigned Registry, a New National Hub, and Ongoing Surveillance of Special Cohorts
  • 10:00 AM – 10:30 AM CT
    Networking Break in Exhibit Hall
  • 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM CT
    211 - Current and Complex Issues in Commercial Driver Medical Certification Part2
  • 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM CT
    212 - ABPM Certification: Updates on Initial Certification and the Continuing Certification Program
  • 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM CT
    213 - Vitamin D Optimizaton for Workforce Health, Productivity, Safety, and Value Creation
  • 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM CT
    214 - Occupational and Impairment Implications of Race-Neutral Spirometry Reference Values: Engaging Occupational Medicine in Vital Discussions
  • 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM CT
    215 - Military Related Environmental & Occupational Exposures: The 5 Exposure Domains, Focusing on Chemical & Physical Hazards, & Complex Exposure Concerns
  • 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM CT
    Worksite Visit: Circuit of the Americas
  • 11:30 AM – 12:45 PM CT
    Lunch in the Exhibit Hall
  • 12:45 PM – 1:45 PM CT
    216 - MRO Controversies
  • 12:45 PM – 1:45 PM CT
    217 - Protecting the Aging Workforce
  • 12:45 PM – 1:45 PM CT
    218 - OEM Training Pipeline: Recent Advances, and Report on the Presidential Task Force
  • 12:45 PM – 1:45 PM CT
    219 - Global Perspectives on Occupational Health: Challenges and Innovation
  • 12:45 PM – 1:45 PM CT
    220 - Military Related Environmental and Occupational Exposures: Current research and education efforts on exposure effects on women veterans
  • 1:40 PM – 2:00 PM CT
    Networking Break in Exhibit Hall
  • 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM CT
    221 - Exploring the Role of Justice, Equity, Diversity & Inclusion (JEDI) for ACOEM and in Occupational & Environmental Medicine Practice
  • 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM CT
    222 - How to Build an Occ Doc: International Approaches to OEM Specialty Training and Certification
  • 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM CT
    223 - Navigating Substance Use and Addiction in Occupational Health: Recognition, Treatment and Recovery Support
  • 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM CT
    224 - A Framework for Causation in Medicolegal Matters
  • 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM CT
    225 - Veteran Environmental Exposures and Assessments: Illustrative Clinical Cases and Discussions for VA, DoD, and Civilian Clinicians
  • 3:00 PM – 3:30 PM CT
    Networking Break in Exhibit Hall
  • 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM CT
    226 - Occupational Eye Injuries: Evaluation and Treatment
  • 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM CT
    227 - WeCanWork: The Intersection of Occupational Medicine and Oncology to Improve Cancer Survivor Employment and Well-Being Outcomes
  • 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM CT
    228 - Innovative Approaches to Chronic Back Pain Management: From Behavioral Therapies to Novel Treatments
  • 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM CT
    229 - Brain Fog': The role of validity testing and mental health intervention for work-related cognitive complaints
  • 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM CT
    230 - A Tangled Web: Navigating the Complexities of Recordkeeping, Privacy, and Security for Occupational Health Providers
  • 4:30 PM – 5:30 PM CT
    502 - Sustainability, Ethics and OEM - Patterson Lecture
  • 5:30 PM – 7:00 PM CT
    ACOEM Annual Award Ceremony
  • 7:30 PM – 10:00 PM CT
    Annual Social Event
  • Tuesday, April 29, 2025
  • 7:30 AM – 8:00 AM CT
    Breakfast in Exhibit Hall
  • 7:30 AM – 8:30 AM CT
    301 - The Crisis of Training in Occupational and Environmental Medicine
  • 7:30 AM – 8:30 AM CT
    302 - Injured Worker and Clinician Cognitive Bias: Doing the Same Thing Over and Over, Expecting a Different Result
  • 7:30 AM – 8:30 AM CT
    303 - From Conflict to Connection: The Role of Relationship Restoration in Workplace Wellness
  • 7:30 AM – 8:30 AM CT
    304 - Long Term Disability in Clinical Practice
  • 7:30 AM – 8:30 AM CT
    305 - How the Department of Veterans Affairs' Research on Military Toxic Exposures is Advancing Veteran Care
  • 8:30 AM – 9:00 AM CT
    Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall
  • 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM CT
    307 - Establishing a Corporate Medicine Residency Rotation at a Major Global Manufacturing Company
  • 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM CT
    308 - Occupational Tuberculosis: It's not just for Healthcare Workers anymore
  • 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM CT
    309 - What about work? Measuring the effectiveness of medical student education on OEM
  • 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM CT
    310 - Retrospective quality review of Department of Transportation (DOT) commercial drivers medical examination forms
  • 10:00 AM – 10:15 AM CT
    Networking Break in Exhibit Hall
  • 10:00 AM – 3:00 PM CT
    Worksite Visits
  • 10:15 AM – 11:15 AM CT
    311 - Stump the Chumps in 2025! Challenges in Medical Center Occupational Health
  • 10:15 AM – 11:15 AM CT
    313 - Migrant Labor: Learning from Yesterday to Inform Today
  • 10:15 AM – 11:15 AM CT
    314 - The Fiber You Didn't Know: An Introduction to Micro- and Nano-plastics and Their Impact on Health
  • 10:15 AM – 11:15 AM CT
    315 - Global forces, local health: the big picture in underserved occupational populations
  • 11:15 AM – 12:15 PM CT
    503 - From Heat Waves to Wildfires: Tackling Climate Risks to Workplace Health
  • 12:15 PM – 1:45 PM CT
    Lunch on own
  • 1:45 PM – 2:45 PM CT
    316 - Filling the Pipeline - Successes in Introducing Students to OEM
  • 1:45 PM – 2:45 PM CT
    317 - Identifying practices likely to benefit safety for both healthcare workers and patients: A scoping meta-review
  • 1:45 PM – 2:45 PM CT
    318 - Silicosis in an OSHA Engineered Stone Inspection and the Occupational Health Response; Worker Screening and Authorizations under the OSHA Standard
  • 1:45 PM – 2:45 PM CT
    319 - Cannabis in the Workplace and Employer-based Drug Testing
  • 1:45 PM – 2:45 PM CT
    320 - 100 years of Nurse Practitioner - Occupational Physician Collaboration
  • 2:45 PM – 3:00 PM CT
    Networking break in Exhibit Hall
  • 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM CT
    321 - Welcome to the Monkey House: Managing Biohazards in Research Settings
  • 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM CT
    322 - Safety at Our National Labs: US Dept of Commerce, NIST Safety Commission: Investigation, Report and the OEM, Engineering & Safety Lessons Learned
  • 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM CT
    323 - Two Decades of Experience: Insights from a National Former Worker Medical Surveillance Project - Outcomes and Lessons Learned
  • 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM CT
    324 - Red Light, Green Light: Workers' Comp Basics for Managing the Injured Worker
  • 4:00 PM – 4:15 PM CT
    Networking Break
  • Wednesday, April 30, 2025
  • 7:30 AM – 9:00 AM CT
    Membership Meeting & Breakfast
  • 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM CT
    401 - IME Academy Part I
  • 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM CT
    402 - Critical Suture Skills Workshop; Advance Wound Closure Workshop Part 3
  • 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM CT
    403 - Construction Trades Research Round-up: Key Findings from the Building Trades National Medical Screening Program
  • 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM CT
    404 - 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
    405 - Preventing Misinterpretations of Toxicological Bio-Monitoring Labs: A Case-Based Approach
  • 10:00 AM – 10:15 AM CT
    Networking Break
  • 10:15 AM – 11:15 AM CT
    406 - IME Academy Part 2
  • 10:15 AM – 11:15 AM CT
    407 - Critical Suture Skills Workshop; Advance Wound Closure Workship Part 4
  • 10:15 AM – 11:15 AM CT
    408 - A Checklist and Skills to Promote Clinical Quality for Upper Extremity Musculoskeletal Work Injury Claims Part 1
  • 10:15 AM – 11:15 AM CT
    409 - 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
    410 - Workplace alphabet soup: Making sense of occupational exposure limits
  • 11:15 AM – 12:15 PM CT
    411 - Leading the World into the Future through OEM - A Panel Discussion with your Corporate Medical Rock Stars
  • 11:15 AM – 12:15 PM CT
    412 - Collaboration between two residencies and the state workers compensation provider in increasing occupational and environmental medicine specialists
  • 11:15 AM – 12:15 PM CT
    413 - A checklist and skills to promote clinical quality for upper extremity musculoskeletal work injury claims Part 2
  • 11:15 AM – 12:15 PM CT
    414 - Leapfrog Your Gaps-How to Identify Opportunities to Prepare for Corporate OEM Leadership Positions'
  • 11:15 AM – 12:15 PM CT
    415 - The TED Stage: Presentation Wisdom for OEM Pros
  • Thursday, May 1, 2025
  • 8:00 AM – 4:30 PM CT
    AMA Guides to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment Sixth Edition:
    A Case Based Approach to Understanding and Implementing the Guides
  • 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM CT
    CAOHC: Professional Supervisor of the Audiometric Monitoring Program©