Program
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Experience the high-quality learning and expert instruction you've come to expect from ACOEM in-person education from the convenience of your home or office. This three-half-day, 2025 Virtual Fall Summit sessions will focus on Traditional OEM Foundations, Emerging Frontiers in OEM, and Policy, Advocacy & the Future of our Specialty.
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Program is subject to change.
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 5 | TRADITIONAL OEM FOUNDATIONS
| Time (CT) |
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| 11:30 - 11:45 AM |
Virtual Fall Summit Presidential Welcome |
| 11:45 AM - 12:30 PM |
Session 1: Update and complicated issues in Commercial Driver Medical Certification
Natalie Hartenbaum, MD, MPH, FACOEM
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| 12:30 - 12:45 PM |
Session 1 Q&A
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| 12:45 - 1:30 PM |
Session 2: Emerging Synthetic Opioids: What Employers Must Know Now
Dominik Sebastian Dabrowski MD, MPH & Cameron Kiani, MD, MPH
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| 1:30 - 1:45 PM |
Session 2 Q&A
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| 1:45 - 2:00 PM |
Break |
| 2:00 - 2:45 PM |
Session 3: Ambient AI in Occupational and Environmental Medicine*
Cameron Kiani, MD, MPH & Manijeh (Mani) Berenji, MD, MPH
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| 2:45 - 3:00 PM |
Session 3 Q&A |
| 3:00 - 3:45 PM |
Session 4: Story-Powered Advocacy: How Narrative, Listening, and Questions can Shape the Future of Occupational Medicine
Mary Ann Orzech, MD, MA, EMBA
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| 3:45 - 4:00 PM |
Session 4 Q&A |
| 4:00 - 4:45 PM |
Session 5: Migrane Impact on Workforce - Underestimated but Significant
Bill Lacy, Dr. Charles Yarborough, Dawn Holcombe
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| 4:45 - 5:00 PM |
Session 5: Q&A |
| 5:00 - 5:15 PM |
Daily Wrap Up |
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 6 | EMERGING FRONTIERS IN OEM
| TIME (CT) |
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| 11:30 - 11:35 AM |
Welcome |
| 11:35 AM - 12:20 AM |
Session 1: Disaster Preparedness Program - Selikoff Centers for Occupational Health
Yelena Globina, MD, MPH, Sharon Lee, MD, MPH & Michael Gormley, RN
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| 12:20 - 12:35 PM |
Session 1 Q&A |
| 12:35 - 1:20 PM |
Session 2: The Occupational Environment and Cancer
Hannah Thompson, MD, MPH, Liliana Tenney, DrPH, MPH, Lee Newman, MD, MA, FACOEM, FCCP
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| 1:20 - 1:35 PM |
Session 2 Q&A |
| 1:35 - 1:50 PM |
Break |
| 1:50 - 2:35 PM |
Session 3: Polychlorinated biphenyls: Forgotten but not Gone
John Downs, MD, FACOEM
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| 2:35 - 2:50 PM |
Session 3 Q&A |
| 2:50 - 3:35 PM |
Session 4: Harnessing Occupational and Environmental Medicine Expertise to Transform Medical Care: A Catalyst for Mitigating the Human Health Impacts of Climate Change
Robert McLellan MD, MPH & Manijeh Berenji, MD, MPH, W. Brett Perkison, MD, MPH, FACOEM
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| 3:35 - 3:50 PM |
Session 4 Q&A |
| 3:50 - 4:35 PM |
Session 5: Race-Neutral Spirometry: Why It Matters for Occupational Medicine
Stella Hines, MD, MSPH
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| 4:35 - 4:50 PM |
Session 5: Q&A |
| 4:50 - 5:00 PM |
Daily Wrap Up |
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 7| POLICY, ADVOCACY & THE FUTURE OF OUR SPECIALITY
| TIME (CT) |
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| 11:30 - 11:40 AM |
Welcome |
| 11:40 AM - 12:25 PM |
Session 1: In Crisis There is Opportunity: How We Can Fix The Occupational Medicine Training Pipeline
Christopher Martin MD, MSc
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| 12:25 - 12:40 PM |
Session 1 Q&A |
| 12:40 - 1:25 PM |
Session 2: Beyond Residency: Teaching, Mentorship & Impact in a Changing OEM Landscape
Alya Khan, MD, MS, FACOEM
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| 1:25 - 1:40 PM |
Session 2 Q&A |
| 1:40 - 1:55 PM |
Break |
| 1:55 - 2:40 PM |
Session 3: Advocating for Health Promotion Strategy Implementation in Occupational Medicine Clinics
Malika Garg, MD, MS
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| 2:40 - 2:55 PM |
Session 3 Q&A |
| 2:55 - 3:40 PM |
Session 4: Mastering Deposition Testimony: AI Simulation for OEM Clinicians*
Cameron Kiani, MD, MPH & Jalees Razavi, MD, FACOEM, FRCPC, FACPM
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| 3:40 - 3:55 PM |
Session 4 Q&A |
| 3:55 - 4:05 PM |
Virtual Fall Summit Wrap up |
* Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a new and evolving topic. This session will help facilitate engagement with the topic without advocating for, or promoting, practices that are not, or not yet adequately based on current science, evidence, and clinical reasoning.
**Program subject to change.**
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