Massachusetts Association of Occupational Health Nurses New England College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine Annual Conference

Vision for Occupational Health:

Looking Back and into the Future December 2*, December 3 and 4

Virtual and Interactive

Conference Chair:

Thomas Luna, MD, MPH, FACOEM, FAsMA Northern Light Work Health, Portland, Maine Dr. Tom Luna is board certified in both aerospace medicine and occupational medicine. He has been in active practice in both specialties for 30 years – most of that on active duty in the US Air Force. He is a fellow of ACOEM and the Aerospace Medical Association (AsMA). He is a founding member of the American Society of Aerospace Medicine Specialists and a

member of the Space Medicine Association. Dr. Luna served as medical director of the occupational medicine, aerospace medicine, and public health/preventive medicine programs at three US Air Force bases and coordinated the medical and human factors investigations of more than 100 aircraft accidents. Dr. Luna directed the largest aerospace medicine residency program in the United States and then served as Associate Dean of Aerospace Medicine and Director of Medical Education/Graduate Medical Education for the US Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine. Dr. Luna was AsMA’s 2012 Eric Liljencrantz Award winner as outstanding educator in aerospace medicine. Dr. Luna currently divides his time between clinical occupational and aerospace medicine practice with Northern Light’s Work Health, independent consulting in aerospace and occupational medicine, directing pastoral music, and charitable work with the refugee and homeless populations in Portland, Maine, and other Catholic ministries. He serves on the NECOEM Board of Directors and has represented NECOEM in the ACOEM House of Delegates.

Deputy Conference Chair: Jacqueline M. Cook, MD, MPH, FACP, FACOEM is the Medical Advisor for the Office of Occupational Health and Safety for the Veterans Health Administration (VHA). She has been working with the VHA Office of Occupational Health in Central Office in 2017, and assumed the role of Medical Advisor for Occupational Safety and Health in 2019. Dr. Cook previously served as the Chief of Occupational Health Services at the VA Connecticut Healthcare System from 2015 to 2019. Dr. Cook completed her undergraduate medical education at New York Medical College, earning her medical degree, and moved to New Haven, Connecticut after

graduating from medical school for residency training. She trained at the Yale-New Haven Hospital/Yale University School of Medicine for both internal medicine residency and occupational and environmental medicine fellowship. She holds board certification in the specialties of Internal Medicine and Preventive Medicine/Occupational and Environmental Medicine, and she maintains an Assistant Professor faculty appointment at the Yale University School of Medicine. Dr. Cook holds positions on the Board of Directors for the American College

of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (ACOEM) and the Board of Directors for the New

England College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (NECOEM), and serves as a

delegate for NECOEM on the ACOEM House of Delegates.

Faculty:

Queenie Abad, MD Occupational and Environmental Medicine Program E.S. Harkness Building A, 2nd Floor 367 Cedar Street New Haven, CT 06510 Queenie Abad completed medical school at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School in Dallas, Texas. Her interest in social determinants of health and community health led her to the Yale Internal Medicine/Primary Care Program where she completed her residency. She is board certified in Internal Medicine. During

residency, the extent of which she saw how occupation, upstream factors, and the built environment contributed to the health of her patients motivated her to pursue a fellowship at the Yale Occupational and Environmental Medicine Program where she is now a second year Clinical Fellow. Her clinical and academic interests include the occupational health and safety of vulnerable workers, community advocacy and workers’ rights, heavy metal exposures, and how the built environment- where we live, work, play, learn, and rest affects our physical and mental well-being. In her free time, she enjoys spending time with her husband, dog, and cat. She can be seen biking around New Haven, hiking, and canoeing. She loves to cook.

Richard Abitria, MD, MPH CHA Occupational Health 5 Middlesex Ave Somerville, MA 02145

Richard R. Abitria, MD (MPH ’20, OEMR ’21) is a native of San Diego, CA and a graduate of the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences medical school in Bethesda, MD. He attended the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) with an undergraduate degree in Biochemistry. Dr. Abitria is currently a

Lieutenant Commander in the United States Navy and he previously served as a Flight Surgeon

for 3 years. Prior to beginning his medical career, LCDR Abitria served as a United States Navy Helicopter pilot flying the SH-60B and MH-60R airframes.

Maria-Lisa Abundo Regional Industrial Hygienist USDOL – OSHA, Region 1, EPTS JFK Federal Building, Room E-340 Boston MA 02203 Phone: 617-565-9850 Email: Abundo.maria-lisa@dol.gov Ms. Abundo has been with OSHA since 1994. She started as a

compliance officer in the Braintree Area Office and then managed an interdisciplinary team of safety and health compliance officers for 17 years. The team performed enforcement inspections in a variety of industries from hospitals to factories to constructions sites to offices to prisons to food processing facilities. The team has conducted four WPV inspections. She has conducted three WPV inspections of which two are ongoing and in the trial preparation stage. Currently, she is working for the enforcement division as a regional Industrial hygiene resource, assisting Area Office with novel cases such as COVID, fatality cases, significant cases over a monetary threshold and industrial hygiene issues. Prior to her career at OSHA she worked in Silicon Valley for Advanced Micro Devices as a Product Marketing Engineer (1986-1988) and Digital Test Engineer (1988-1990). She completed a Master of Science Degree in Industrial Hygiene in June 1994, at the Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA. As part of the program, she was an Industrial Hygiene Intern at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health from June to December 1993. She completed a Bachelor of Science Degree in Electrical Engineering in June 1985, at the University of California at Davis, Davis, California. Ms. Abundo is a Certified Industrial Hygienist and received her certification from the American Board of Industrial Hygiene in 1999.

Paul D. Biddinger, MD, FACEP Director of the Center for Disaster Medicine, Vice Chairman for Emergency Preparedness, Department of Emergency Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital Director for Emergency Preparedness at Mass General Brigham. Director of the Emergency Preparedness Research, Evaluation and Practice (EPREP) Program at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health

Dr. Paul Biddinger holds the Ann L. Prestipino MPH Endowed Chair in Emergency Preparedness and is the Director of the Center for Disaster Medicine, and Vice Chairman for Emergency Preparedness in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) in Boston. He is also the Director for Emergency Preparedness at Mass General Brigham. Dr. Biddinger additionally serves as the Director of the Emergency Preparedness Research, Evaluation and Practice (EPREP) Program at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, and

holds appointments at Harvard Medical School and at the Chan School. Dr. Biddinger serves as a special advisor to the Massachusetts Medical Society’s Committee on Preparedness and serves as a medical officer for the MA-1 Disaster Medical Assistance Team (DMAT) in the National Disaster Medical System (NDMS) in the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Dr. Biddinger is an active researcher in the field of emergency preparedness and has lectured nationally and internationally on topics of preparedness and disaster medicine. He has authored numerous articles and book chapters on multiple topics related to emergency medical services and disaster medicine. He completed his undergraduate study in international relations at Princeton University, attended medical school at Vanderbilt University, and completed residency training in emergency medicine at Harvard.

John Burress, MD, MPH, FACOEM OccMed Consulting and Injury Care, LLC Medical Director, AIM Vantage 10 Hawthorne Pl #114, Boston, MA 02114

Dr. Burress is first and foremost a clinician deliberately electing to focus on treating the injured worker. In addition, for 25+ years, has provided disability management consultation to a number of organizations, government agencies, and insurance carriers. Dr. Burress frequently interacts with Human Resource and Labor Attorney Professionals

regarding difficult cases. His input as an evaluator is highly sought. He performs disability evaluations for the New Hampshire Retirement Services and consults for the Massachusetts Public Employment Retirement Administration Commission (PERAC). Dr. Burress serves on MA Dept of Industrial Accidents Health Care Services Board as Co-Chair of the Guideline Development Committee.

Glen Cheng, MD, JD, MPH CHA Occupational Health 5 Middlesex Ave Somerville, MA 02145

Glen Cheng is a resident physician in the Harvard Occupational & Environmental Medicine Residency, a consultant at biomedical informatics startup nference, and a co-founder of digital health consulting firm acceleromics. He previously served as regulatory counsel with the FDA, intellectual property attorney at two global law

firms, and law clerk to two federal judges. Dr. Cheng obtained his MD and JD from Rutgers and his MPH from Harvard

David C. Christiani, MD, MPH, SM Elkan Blout Professor of Environmental Genetics Director, Environmental and Occupational Medicine and Epidemiology Program Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Professor of Medicine Harvard Medical School 665 Huntington Ave. Boston, MA 02115

Dr. David Christiani is Professor of Medicine at the Harvard Medical School and senior Physician, Pulmonary and Critical Care Unit at MGH. He is the Director of the Environmental and Occupational Medicine and Epidemiology Program, and the Elkan Blout Professor of Environmental Genetics at the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health. His is also a senior physician in the Pulmonary and Critical Care Division of the Massachusetts General Hospital. His research interests include environmental and molecular epidemiology of lung disease. He has led several major research projects, including projects on molecular studies of obstructive lung disease, lung cancer, as well as acute lung injury and occupational exposures to airborne hazards. He is a leader in research on gene-environment interactions. In addition, he has developed extensive cooperative ties with industrializing countries in Asia, Africa, and Central America since the early of 1980s, and has led and conducted studies on environmental and occupational health in these countries. Dr. Christiani directs the Harvard Education and Research Center for Occupational Safety and Health.

Ron Blum, MD, FAAFP, FACOEM Milliken Medical Center 17 Founders Street Patten, ME 04765

Ron Blum MD FACOEM FAAFP is a rural solo practitioner in northern Maine. He conducts fitness examinations for corporate and local drivers, including owner-operators and school bus drivers. He has lectured on various Occupational Medicine topics for ACOEM and the Maine Academy of Family Physicians, including as faculty on the DOT Examination courses initiated at AOHC by Dr. Natalie Hartenbaum. Dr.

Blum is a past President of the New England College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine. He organized and has taught the Certified Medical Examiner training offered by NECOEM since its inception in 2012.

Alan S. Curtis, MD Boston Sports and Shoulder Center 840 Winter St. Waltham, MA 02451 After completing the Southern California Sports Medicine (SCOI) Fellowship, Dr. Curtis developed a lasting commitment to the advancement of arthroscopic shoulder surgery. He has focused his research on disorders of the shoulder, particularly rotator cuff repairs.

Dr. Curtis is committed to physician education. He is a Clinical Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at Tufts University and serves as Medical Director of the New England Baptist Hospital Bioskills Center. He is the founder and chairman of the annual Boston Sports Medicine Symposium. He serves as a board member for the Arthroscopy Association of North America (AANA) and is a member of the American Shoulder and Elbow Surgeons (ASES). He is widely published and lectures nationally on disorders of the shoulder. Dr. Curtis served as team physician for Northeastern University from 1996 to 2004 and continues to serve as a team physician for the Boston Celtics since 1994. Dr. Curtis specializes in all arthroscopic shoulder surgeries with a particular interest in complex and revision rotator cuff repairs

Debra Dyleski-Najjar, Esq. Najjar Employment Law Group, PC One Boston Place, Suite 2600 Boston, MA 02108 Najjar Employment Law Group, PC 869 Turnpike Street, Suite 209-211 North Andover, MA 01845 Debra Dyleski-Najjar, Esq., is president and founder of the Najjar

Employment Law Group, P.C. and has practiced employment law for

over thirty-seven (37) years. In 2008, she founded NELGPC as a

labor, employment and benefits boutique law firm to provide

strategic legal advice, backed by litigation expertise, for employers.

Ms. Najjar is AV Preeminent rated by Martindale-Hubbell, a significant rating and testament to the

fact that her peers rank her at the highest level of professional excellence. Before establishing

NELGPC, she was an equity partner in the Boston office of a 250-attorney regional law firm, with

offices in Boston, Providence and Concord. In addition to defending employers in litigation before

state, federal and agencies, she is a recognized thought leader, frequent author and lecturer, trusted

counselor, trainer on workplace issues and workplace investigator. Over the years, her practice has

run the gamut of labor and employment, as well as ERISA, matters, and she is known to have both

wide and deep experience as a labor, employment and benefits attorney. Due to Ms. Najjar’s

significant professional accomplishments, in 2007, she was nominated by her peers and inducted

as a Fellow of the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers and serves as Chair of the First

Circuit Credentialing Committee. For over fifteen consecutive years, she has been recognized as

a Super Lawyer, a recognition bestowed on the top 5% of attorneys, and recognized in Marquis’

Who’s Who Among US Executives and Professionals, Who’s Who in the World, Who’s Who in

America, Who's Who in American Law and Who's Who of American Women. She is also

recognized in BEST Lawyers in America.

She serves as the Government Affairs Director for the Massachusetts State Council of the Society

for Human Resource Management (SHRM), and as the Legislative Director of the Greater

Merrimack Valley Human Resource Association. As an active member of her community, she is

an Advisory Board Member and Chair of the Pathways Committee of the Lawrence Partnership,

and a member of the Boys & Girls Club of Lawrence Advisory Board. She also has served on the

Governance Committee of the Board of Directors of the Greater Lawrence Family Health Center

(2015-2017), the Corporate Board of the Merrimack Valley YMCA (2018-2019), the Board of

Directors for VNA Hospice Care Inc. (2005-2013), and, at the request of the mayor, the Zoning

Board of Appeals for the City of Lawrence (1999-2000). Professionally, she is an active member

of the New Hampshire Bar Association moderating the annual Labor and Employment Update for

the past eighteen years, serving on the CLE committee, and past chair of the Labor and Employment

Section, as well as a member of the ABA Labor and Employment Section and the Massachusetts

Bar Association.

She is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Wellesley College, magna cum laude Durant Scholar, and

Boston University School of Law, summa cum laude, third in her class and an Editor of the Law

Review. She is admitted to practice before the state and federal courts of Massachusetts, New

Hampshire and Maine, as well as the United States Supreme Court, and is a credentialed member

of the American Society of Pension Professionals and Actuaries (ASPPA).

Gabe Gaviola, MD, MPH CHA Occupational Health 5 Middlesex Ave Somerville, MA 02145 Gabe Gaviola, MD, MPH is a final-year resident in the Harvard Occupational & Environmental Medicine Residency Program. He completed his undergraduate and medical education at Georgetown University. Prior to residency he studied the eastern philosophy of Vedanta and operated an occupational health clinic in rural India for four years. He previously served as the Associate Medical Director at

PWNHealth where he currently serves as an advisor.

Natalie Hartenbaum, MD, MPH, FACOEM President and Chief Medical Officer, OccuMedix, Inc. PO Box 197 Dresher, PA 19025

Dr. Hartenbaum is certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine and the American Board of Preventive Medicine in

Occupational Medicine and has a Master of Public Health in Occupational Medicine. She has extensive experience in the clinical, corporate, and academic settings and is a nationally recognized expert in occupational fitness for duty with a special focus on transportation.

Dr. Hartenbaum is President and Chief Medical Officer of OccuMedix, Inc, an occupational medicine consulting firm located in Dresher, PA. She is the editor of The DOT Medical Examination: An Unofficial Guide to Commercial Driver Medical Certification, with the seventh edition and CDME Review, a quarterly newsletter for commercial driver medical examiners. She has published and lectured nationally on various issues of fitness evaluations in the workplace and is the course director for ACOEM’s National Registry of Certified Medical Examiner training program.

Dr. Hartenbaum is on both the clinical and teaching faculty of the University of Pennsylvania and serves as the Medical Director for several companies.

She is Past-President of the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine and a former member of the Board of Trustees of the American Board of Preventive Medicine.

Ashish K. Jha, MD, MPH Dean, Brown University School of Public Health 121 South Main Street Providence, Rhode Island 02903 https://www.brown.edu/academics/public-health/

Former Faculty Director, Harvard Global Health Institute K. T. Li Professor of Global Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School 42 Church Street Cambridge, MA 02138

Ashish K. Jha, M.D., M.P.H., is the K.T. Li Professor of Global Health at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Director of the Harvard Global Health Institute (HGHI). He is a practicing General Internist and is also Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Jha received his MD from Harvard Medical School and trained in Internal Medicine at the

University of California in San Francisco. He completed his General Medicine fellowship at Brigham & Women’s Hospital and received his MPH from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Dr. Jha is a member of the Institute of Medicine at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. In September, Dr. Jha will begin work as the Dean of the Brown University School of Public Health. Dr. Jha’s research focuses on improving the quality and costs of healthcare systems with a specialized focus on the impact of policies. He has published over two hundred papers in prestigious journals such as the New England Journal of Medicine, and the BMJ, and heads a personal blog on using statistical data research to improve health quality. He has led groundbreaking research around Ebola and is now on the frontlines of the COVID-19 response. Dr. Jha leads national analysis of key issues around the COVID-19 pandemic, advising policy makers and elected officials at the state and federal level and appearing frequently on national television news outlets such as CNN, MSNBC, and Fox, and in written coverage from national newspapers including the NY Times and the Washington Post. HGHI is providing critical analysis and data on national and state by state testing with Dr. Jha, a vocal advocate for increased testing and contact tracing who has written extensively on the subject. His work has appeared in the New England Journal of Medicine, Health Affairs, the Atlantic, the Wall Street Journal, and Stat News among others. Twitter: @ashishkjha

Howard Jones, MD, MPH

Medical Director

Work Health, LLC

A Division of Northern Light Health

885 Union Street, Suite 215

Bangor, ME 04401

Dr. Howard Jones has been with Northern Light Health since 2012 and has been with Work Health since its inception. Dr. Jones attended medical and undergraduate school at University of South Florida in

Tampa, and residency at Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York where he also obtained a Master's in Public Health. He is also board certified in both Internal and Occupational Medicine. He moved to Maine in 1998, where he practiced Internal Medicine in Stockton Springs until he joined Northern Light Health. He serves as an internist, occupational medicine physician, and Aerospace medicine specialist in the Maine Air National Guard. Dr. Jones is a certified course director with NIOSH for spirometry, and a Medical Review Officer (MRO). He is also certified in Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS), Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS), and Wilderness medicine. He likes to do anything outside, particularly if it involves the water. It doesn't matter if the water is liquid or frozen, sailing in the summer and skiing in the winter. He also loves to take very long walks as well as play the drums in several bands.

Stephen Kasteler, MD, MPH CHA Occupational Health 5 Middlesex Ave Somerville, MA 02145 Stephen D. Kasteler, MD, MPH is chief resident at the Harvard T.H. Chan OEM residency program and a Major in the US Air Force. He hails from Salt Lake City, where graduated from the University of Utah with an HBS in Biology. He taught high school for two years as part of Teach For America before completing his medical degree at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. Prior to residency, he served for four years as the flight surgeon in an F-22

squadron. He is happily married and has three children.

Hervey L. Kimball, MD Boston Sports and Shoulder Center 840 Winter St. Waltham, MA 02451 Dr. Kimball is an Orthopaedic Surgeon at New England Baptist Hospital, specializing in treating the hand, wrist, forearm and elbow, as well as some shoulder problems. In addition to his work

at NEBH, he holds an academic appointment as Assistant Clinical Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at Tufts University School of Medicine. He serves as diplomat for the American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery (ABOS) and is a fellow for both the American Society for Surgery of the Hand (ASSH) and the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgery (AAOS). He is also a member of several professional societies including the American Medical Association.

DEBORAH G. KOHL Partner at Law Offices of Deborah G. Kohl 191 Bedford St. #301 Fall River, MA 02720 Deborah G. Kohl is an attorney concentrating in the areas of workers’ compensation and disability law. She has been in practice for over 30 years with an office in Fall River, MA. She is a graduate of the University of Rhode Island and Northeastern University School of Law. She is a frequent lecturer and author on workers’ compensation law. She is the editor of MA. Workers’ Compensation

Sourcebook and Citator (2013,2014). She is the co-editor of Lexis Nexis Practice Guide: Massachusetts Workers’ Compensation. She is a fellow and past President of the College of Workers’ Compensation Lawyers and has been elected as a member of NASI (National Academy of Social Insurance.) She has served as Chair of the AAJ Lawyer’s Workers’ Compensation Section and as President of Workers Injury Law and Advocacy Group (WILG). She currently serves as a member of the WILG board and as a Vice President of the TIPS WC Section. She is on the Board of MATA and is the chair of the MBA WC Section.

Dr. James P. Malley, Jr. Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering University of New Hampshire Room 344 Gregg Hall, 35 Colovos Road Durham, NH 03824 Email: jim.malley@unh.edu

Jim holds a BS Degree in Environmental Chemistry from Rutgers University, a second BS in Civil Engineering, and his MS and PhD Degrees in Civil/Environmental Engineering from UMASS/Amherst. Jim is a Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the

University of New Hampshire (UNH) and has provided teaching, research, consulting, and professional service in the areas of public health and disinfection for the past 40 years. Jim has authored or co-authored over 350 professional publications. Jim has worked on applications of Ultraviolet (UV) disinfection and/or ozone systems to reduce healthcare acquired infections (HAIs) for the past 10 years. Since March 2020, Jim and his students have been working on testing and improving UV devices that treat PPE and disinfect surfaces in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The latter is the topic of today’s presentation.

Lee Okurowski, MD, MPH, MBA Chief Executive Officer, Chief Financial Officer and Principal Partner Occupational and Environmental Health Network (OEHN) www.oehn.net A physician leader with a strong business acumen, Dr. Okurowski co-founded OEHN with Dr. Winters in 2004. In addition to providing executive oversight of OEHN, Dr. Okurowski provides Medical Direction for several Massachusetts hospital Employee Health Departments. He is also Chief of Occupational Medicine and Medical Director for New

England Baptist Hospital’s Occupational Health Center and Employee Health Department. Additionally, Dr. Okurowski serves as Medical Consultant for a labor union in Rhode Island, and reviewer/consultant for a Massachusetts State Agency Division. He also consults for various other companies, including corporations and manufacturers and insurers.

Dr. Okurowski has extensive background in prevention and disability research, including identification of risk prediction models for work-related back pain to improve quality of care and reduce costs. Dr. Okurowski is a visiting lecturer for the Harvard School of Public Health and is a clinical preceptor for residents during their clinical rotations at the Harvard School of Public Health Occupational and Environmental Medicine Residency Program. In 2016, he was the recipient of the Outstanding Clinical Faculty Award for his “unruffled demeanor, recognizing resident’s varied backgrounds and playing on their strengths while working on weaknesses and for inspiring enthusiasm for teaching and learning.”

Alan S. Pierce, ESQ. Pierce, Pierce & Napolitano Shetland Office Park 27 Congress St Ste 301 Salem, MA 01970 Alan Pierce is a principal in Pierce, Pierce & Napolitano a Salem Mass.

workers compensation law firm representing injured workers before the Department of Industrial Accidents. He has been practicing law since 1974 and was a workers compensation claims representative for Liberty Mutual from 1969-1974. Alan is a past chair of the workers’ compensation sections of the American Bar Association, the Massachusetts Bar Association and the Massachusetts Academy of Trial Attorneys where he served as President in 2004-2005. He is a past member of the Massachusetts Workers’ Compensation Advisory Council, past editor and contributor to the Journal of Workers’ Compensation and currently hosts a podcast Workers Comp Matters on the Legal Talk Network. He is past president for WILG the Workers Injury Law and Advocacy Group and is a frequent lecturer before various continuing legal education and other organizations. In 2007 Alan was inducted as a Fellow in the ABA’S College of Workers’ Compensation Lawyers.”

Carrie A. Redlich, MD, MPH Professor of Medicine Director, Yale Occupational and Environmental Medicine Program Pulmonary Section & Occupational and Environmental Medicine Yale School of Medicine Professor of Epidemiology, Dept of Environmental Health Sciences Yale School of Public Health YOEMP 367 Cedar St ESHA 2nd Floor New Haven, CT 06510 Dr. Redlich, a graduate of Williams College and Yale University School of Medicine, is a Professor of Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, and Director of the Yale Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Program. She is trained in internal medicine, pulmonary medicine, and occupational and environmental medicine. Her clinical practice and research interests focus on the recognition and prevention of work and environmental lung diseases, in particular work-related asthma. Dr. Redlich has received numerous research grants from the CDC-NIOSH, NIH, and private foundations, and published over 150 manuscripts and articles. She has served in a number of advisory and leadership positions, including with the National Academy of Sciences, NIH, CDC-NIOSH, EPA, US Dept of Labor, US Veterans Affairs, and the American Thoracic Society.

Kenji Saito, MD, JD Chief Medical and Science Officer MedLaw, LLC

Kenji Saito is Chief Medical and Science Officer at MedLaw LLC and is Board Certified in Preventive Medicine with specialty training in Occupational and Environmental Medicine (OEM). He was elected by his peers to the Board of Directors for the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (ACOEM). Dr. Saito is also

on the Board of Directors and President-elect for the New England College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine and is Chair to its Education Committee in partnership with the Harvard School of Public Health. He also provides Occupational Ophthalmology consultation to ACOEM’s Practice Guideline Expert Panel for the Eye and sits on the Guideline Priorities Committee where he contributes to MDGuidelines.com. He is past chair of the Pharmaceutical section, RRG section and founder and past chair of the Health Informatics section at ACOEM. During his spare time, Dr. Saito enjoys running MedLawPractice.com and locally, is one of the founding Board Member of Kids’ Chance of Maine, a foundation offering educational scholarship to children of injured workers. Growing up as a Sushi Chef in a family owned business provided him the employer’s perspective of running a business and was the beginning of his interest in the concept of lifestyle and culinary medicine. As an employee at a global pharmaceutical company, working on bioethics and policy as well as spending time in HR Wellness benefits provided him a different vantage point. The amalgamate of these experiences is what led him to help start the

internal track residency program as the former Chief Resident in OEM at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine. He was based at the Philadelphia Veterans’ Affair Medical Center where he interned at OSHA, NIOSH and the EPA with projects at the US Surgeon General’s office and the Pentagon. Dr. Saito enjoys continuing his academic activities as an adjunct faculty at UPenn, Clinical Assistant Professor at Dartmouth College and UNE, teaching OEM residents, medical students and undergraduates in pursuing medico-legal and occupational ophthalmic endeavors and engaging population health and promoting prevention through wellness and health programs. Dr. Saito currently is expanding the utilization of the teaching kitchen at a community hospital and how it impacts various workforce throughout Maine and beyond. For this work, he was instrumental in leading the institution to national recognition for the 2018 C Everett Koop National Health Award. He continues to champion healthcare professional burnout, resiliency and advocating to bring back the joy in medicine. Dr. Saito graduated from the University of Pennsylvania where he founded the Penn Bioethics Society and received the Presidential Student Service Award for leadership and scholarship. He went on to complete a six-year medical and law dual degree program and was the recipient of the American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics Award as well as the Bureau of National Affairs Award for Excellence in the Study of Health Law.

Robert L. Sheridan, MD

Professor of Surgery Massachusetts General Hospital Shriners' Burn Institute Rm. 930 51 Blossom St Boston MA 02114 Rob Sheridan graduated from Boston University’s six-year medical program Summa Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa and Alpha Omega Alpha. He attended school with a military

scholarship, completed training in general surgery at Walter Reed, and served as a general surgeon in Honduras, Germany, and Colorado. He then trained in burns, trauma, and critical care at the Army Institute of Surgical Research (the Army Burn Unit) in San Antonio and subsequently served in Germany as triage officer at the Landstuhl trauma center in support of Operation Desert Storm. Upon completion of his active duty military obligation, he joined the Massachusetts General Hospital Burn and Trauma Services and Shriners Hospital for Children where he has been active in burns, trauma, and surgical critical care. He transitioned into the Army Reserve where assignments included humanitarian surgical missions as well as deployments with Forward Surgical Teams in Afghanistan. He has several active clinical research projects with funding from Shriners Hospitals for Children, foundation, and industry and has published over 250 papers, book chapters, editorials, and online resources. Dr. Sheridan was a finalist for the Schwartz Center Compassionate Caregiver Award and Medal of Honor Foundation’s Citizen Service Award and received the American Academy of Chest Physician’s Governors Community Service Award. He is certified in surgery and in surgical critical care and is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons, the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma, and the American Academy of Pediatrics. Dr. Sheridan is the medical

director of the burn service and interim chief of staff at the Boston Shriners Hospital for Children and is an attending surgeon in the Massachusetts General Hospital burn unit. He is recent past president of the American Burn Association, a Colonel (ret) in the US Army, and a Professor of Surgery at the Harvard Medical School. Dr. Sheridan has a number of active clinical research projects with funding from Shriners Hospitals, foundation and industry. He serves as the director of the clinical research core facility at the Boston Shriners Hospital. His Shriners Hospitals-funded project is a multicenter application of prior research on measuring burn outcomes in children.

Dr. Sheridan’s active research is clinical, including several translational projects involving determination of burn depth and wound healing, wound sterilization, accurate operative blood loss measurement, examination of non-pharmacologic comfort management techniques, and creation of a program in which granular scored burn outcomes information can be used in real-time individual clinical care.

Dr. Sheridan has published over 250 papers, book chapters, editorials and online resources with an h-index of 49. Top-tier publications have appeared in the Journal of the American Medical Association, New England Journal of Medicine, Annals of Surgery, Journal of Burn Care, and Journal of Trauma. He has been funded by Shriners Hospitals for Children, Euro-Pro Foundation and several industry groups.

Anne-Marie L. Storey, Esquire Rudman Winchell The Graham Building – 84 Harlow Street P.O. Box 1401 – Bangor, Maine 04402

Anne-Marie L. Storey, Attorney at Law, practices employment law, including general advising of employers, litigation, administrative

actions, trainings, and workers’ compensation. Anne- Marie is a frequent speaker to human resource professionals and other groups on employment related topics, including the Northern New England Law Publishers Comp Summit, which focuses on workers’ compensation in Maine, and the Maine HR Convention, Maine’s largest human resources convention. She is also a repeat presenter for the Maine State Bar Association’s Bridging the Gap and Legal Year in Review programs. She is a member of the Personnel Committee for the Bangor Humane Society Board of Directors and is a recipient of the Volunteer of the Year award from the Bangor Region Chamber of Commerce. She is a graduate of Middlebury College, after which she served as a U.S. Peace Corps volunteer in Thailand. Anne-Marie then graduated cum laude from Vermont Law School, where she was a notes editor for the Vermont Law Review. She is a past president of the Maine State Bar Association and is a member of the Maine Board of Overseers of the Bar Professional Ethics Commission. Anne-Marie has received a Notable rating from Martindale and is recognized as a Best Lawyer in America.

Elizabeth Talbot, MD Professor of Medicine Infectious Disease and International Health Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center One Medical Center Drive Lebanon, NH 03756

Dr. Elizabeth Talbot received her MD from Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, University of Medicine and Dentistry of NJ, followed by residency and ID and Global Health fellowship at Duke University Medical Center. She subsequently was with the CDC for five years, first

in the Epidemic Intelligence Service and then as the Team Leader for TB/HIV, International Activities, Div. of TB Elimination) and internationally as the Associate Director for TB/HIV Research in Botswana. She was seconded to the WHO for policy development for the Global Fund Against AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, and then came to D-H in 2003. Dr. Talbot is currently an Associate Professor of Medicine, and has served as the Deputy State Epidemiologist (DSE) for the State of New Hampshire DHHS. Since July 2007, Dr. Talbot became a consultant for the Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics (FIND) in Geneva. Her work at DHMC includes consultation on general infectious diseases with a focus on mycobacterial and tropical infections, as medical director of the Global Health and Travel Clinic. She has extensive international experience in tuberculosis, including work with PEPFAR in Haiti, PATH in Democratic Republic of Congo, Fogarty in Tanzania, and USAID in eSwatini. She has been on the Scientific Committee for the NIH research network, IMPAACT, representing pediatric TB research. Her research activities are primarily on tuberculosis (focused on diagnostics), but she continues to engage in outbreak and epidemiologic investigations both domestically and internationally such as coordinating training for healthcare workers responding to the West Africa Ebola epidemic. Examples of ongoing research include operations research of isoniazid preventive therapy in eSwatini; improving latent tuberculosis infection diagnosis; and point of care active TB testing among people living with HIV.

Tony Tannoury, MD Chief of Spine Surgery, The Center for Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery, Boston Medical Center Assistant Professor, Boston University School of Medicine 725 Albany Street, 4th floor, Suite 4B Boston, MA 02118

Dr. Tannoury is Chief of Orthopedic Spine Surgery at Boston Medical Center and Boston

University School of Medicine in Boston, MA. He is internationally recognized for diagnosing

and treating complex spinal deformities and developing and patenting Minimal Invasive (MIS)

techniques and implants that are used worldwide. His work focuses on developing techniques

and tools that preserve spinal muscles, normal structures, and proper spine biomechanics. This

approach, leading to faster functional recovery, shorter hospital stay, less postoperative pain, has

informed his interest in working with injured workers, occupational health professionals, and

employers throughout New England to develop clinically successful and cost-saving protocols

and business practices to get employees back to work more quickly and in manner that respects

the injured worker. He is an acclaimed spine educator; he runs a highly attended surgeons’

visitation program through which he has hosted and proctored more than 375 surgeons and

professors from major universities and medical centers in the United States and around the

world. He is also the founder of S.P.I.N.E, a non-profit international organization that educates

and trains hundreds of surgeons annually in all aspects of musculoskeletal orthopedic and

neurosurgical disorders, and is the Program Chair of the Work-Related Injuries Workshop, an

annual conference to facilitate cross-disciplinary communication and education among diverse

occupational health professionals to improve care for injured workers. In addition to his

compassion dedication to his patients, Dr. Tannoury is a devoted husband and father, and

nothing is more important to him than his wife Viviane and their three kids, Jasmine, Tamara and

Mark.

Linda Thompson, MBA Senior Vice President, Human Resources and Service Excellence New England Baptist Hospital 125 Parker Hill Avenue, Boston, MA 02120 Linda Thompson serves as the Senior Vice President for Human Resources and Service Excellence, a position she began in April 2000. Linda has over 28 years of experience and expertise in all

facets of human resource strategic planning and administration. As VP of Human Resources and Service Excellence, Linda is responsible for overseeing all HR functional areas, including compensation, benefits, talent management and acquisition, succession planning, employee/labor relations, training/organizational development, HRIS, strategic management, volunteer and student services, amenities, physician recruitment, physician practice management and service excellence. Linda is one of the driving forces behind New England Baptist Hospital’s Legendary Service initiative and is known for developing and implementing creative recruitment and retention initiatives. Her professional associations include the Society for Human Resources Management (SHRM), American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE). Massachusetts Healthcare Human Resources Association and American Society for Healthcare Human Resources Administration (ASHHRA). She served on the Board of Directors, Morgan Memorial Goodwill Industries from 2009-2018 and has just been elected to the ASHHRA Board of Directors. Linda received her Master’s in Business Administration with a Certificate in Health Care Administration from New Hampshire College (Southern New Hampshire University) and a Bachelor of Art in Business from Simmons College. In addition, she has a Certificate of Achievement in Human Resources Management, Certificate in Strategic Organizational Leadership and a Certificate in Mastering Human Resources Organizational Effectiveness from

Villanova University and a Certificate of Strategic HR leadership from Cornell University ILR school.