THE NATIONAL VOICE OF SPECIALTY OCCUPATIONAL MEDICINE IN CANADA
SPEAKERS
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Approach to Managing Shiftwork as a Hazard
Joyce Zhang & Aditi Amin Dr. Joyce Zhang is an internal and occupational medicine physician with an MPH in Occupational and Environmental Health from the University of Toronto. She practices internal medicine and consults in occupational medicine with the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board and other public and private sector employers. She also serves on the boards of the Occupational Medicine Specialists of Canada and the Ontario Medical Association’s Occupational and Environmental Medicine Section. Dr. Aditi Amin is a Royal College of Physicians of Canada (RCPC) certified Specialist in Internal Medicine (IM) and Subspecialist in Occupational Medicine (OM). |
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Fitness to Work in People with Painful Conditions
Sebastian Straube Sebastian Straube holds degrees in Medicine and Physiological Sciences from the University of Oxford where he also did his DPhil (PhD). After clinical work and research at the Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals, he joined the University Medical Center Göttingen (Germany). There he completed his Habilitation (German postdoctoral qualification) and his postgraduate medical training in Occupational Medicine. Dr. Straube took up his current post in the Division of Preventive Medicine of the University of Alberta's Department of Medicine in 2014. He was appointed as Division Director for Preventive Medicine in 2016 and promoted to Full Professor in 2019. Dr. Straube has also been an Adjunct Professor at the University of Alberta's School of Public Health since 2015. He is the Director of the Foundation Course in Occupational Medicine, which teaches Occupational Medicine to physicians in Canada and in the Middle East. Dr. Straube's research program is focused on information synthesis (systematic reviews, meta-analyses) in Occupational Medicine and beyond. |
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Fitness
for Work and Return-to-Work Assessments in Safety-Sensitive Professions
Michael Schweigert Bio coming soon! |
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Medical
Monitoring in Safety Sensitive Individuals with Substance Use Disorders
Jennifer Melamed Dr. Jennifer Melamed is an addiction physician, certified medicolegal evaluator and a certified Medical Review Officer (MRO). Dr. Melamed is a Fellow of the American Society of Addiction Medicine (FASAM), a Fellow of the International Academy of Independent Medical Evaluators and a Fellow and Diplomate of the American Board of Addiction Medicine. Dr. Melamed is co-founder of Precision Medical Monitoring with Dr. Maire Durnin-Goodman. Precision Medical Monitoring was established in 2016 to provide biological monitoring services and comprehensive evaluations for individuals with substance use disorders who work in safety sensitive occupations. |
ABOUT THE ASSOCIATION OMSOC is Canada’s only medical society devoted to the specialty practice of occupational medicine. OMSOC brings together occupational medicine specialists and physicians from other specialties with an interest in occupational medicine to advise on health policy, encourage discussion and collaboration amongst stakeholders with whom OMSOC’s members interact, including physicians, employers, labour groups, and other allied health professionals, and to advance the specialty practice of occupational medicine through conferences and the training of future occupational medicine specialists. The Occupational Medicine Specialists of Canada is the recognized National Specialty Society for Occupational Medicine with the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada. | CONTACT USOccupational Medicine Specialists of CanadaE-mail: omsoc@secretariatcentral.com Telephone: 905-415-3917 Toll Free: 1-855-415-3917 Address: 20 Crown Steel Dr. Unit #6, Markham ON, L3R 9X9 |