THE NATIONAL VOICE OF SPECIALTY OCCUPATIONAL MEDICINE IN CANADA


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From Subspecialty to Primary Specialty: The Evolution of Occupational and Environmental Medicine in Canada

Jalees Razavi and Aaron Thompson

Dr. Jalees K. Razavi, MBBS, DPHC, DIH, FACOEM, FACPM, FRCPC, is a Specialist Physician in Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Adjunct Professor of Occupational Medicine at the University of Alberta, President-Elect of the Occupational Medicine Specialists of Canada (OMSOC), and former Chair of the Royal College Specialty Committee in Occupational Medicine. He previously served as Chief of Preventive Medicine at Saudi Aramco and Executive Director at Imperial Oil and ExxonMobil Canada. With over 30 years of international experience, he is a recipient of two 2023 Lifetime Achievement Awards from the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (ACOEM) and the Society of Occupational Medicine (SOM), United Kingdom.

Dr. Aaron Thompson, MD, MPH, FRCPC, is an Occupational Medicine Specialist Physician, Associate Professor in the Temerty Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto, Chair of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada Specialty Committee in Occupational Medicine, Chief Medical Officer at the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB), and Staff Physician at North York General Hospital in the Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine.

AI in Occupational and Environmental Medicine: Challenging the Current Paradigm

Ismail Nabeel

Dr. Ismail Nabeel is a professor specializing in Internal Medicine, Occupational and Environmental Medicine, and Clinical Informatics, whose research integrates artificial intelligence, machine learning, and large language models to investigate the impacts of environmental exposures on human health. He has led the development of innovative clinical informatics tools and AI-driven approaches to electronic health record data and currently leads a NIEHS-funded study using generative AI to investigate associations between fine particulate matter (PM2.5) exposure and pathway-specific stroke risks. His broader research also focuses on improving occupational health and safety among vulnerable worker populations through technology-driven interventions, including Pocket Ark, a NIEHS-supported mobile learning platform for construction workers in flood-prone environments.

Preventing Mental Ill Health in Workers
Sebastian Straube


Dr. 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.

From Consensus to Impact: Lessons from Developing a Position Paper in a Small Specialty Society  

Michael Schweigert


Dr. Michael Schweigert is a specialist in occupational medicine with a 27-year practice in the Greater Toronto Area. With extensive experience advising large employers and unions on workplace accommodation and disability issues, he brings a “hands on” clinical perspective to today’s complex workplace return to work and accommodation challenges.   He is a medical advisor to two large law enforcement agencies in Ontario and currently performs assessments in the Greater Toronto Area.

Independent, Not Immune: Medicolegal Pitfalls in the IME

Renée Gagnon and Ana Catuneanu


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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 US

Occupational Medicine Specialists of Canada

E-mail: omsoc@secretariatcentral.com

Telephone: 905-415-3917 

Toll Free: 1-855-415-3917
Fax: 905-415-0071

Address: 20 Crown Steel Dr. Unit #6,

Markham ON, L3R 9X9



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