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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)  
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

12:30 - 12:45 PM                                              Session 1 Q&A
 
12:45 - 1:30 PM 

Session 2: Emerging Synthetic Opioids: What Employers Must Know Now

Dominik Sebastian Dabrowski MD, MPH & Cameron Kiani, MD, MPH

1:30 - 1:45 PM  Session 2 Q&A
 
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

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

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

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)  
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

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

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

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

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

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)  
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

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

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

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

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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