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Stuart Glassman, MD is a board certified physiatrist and Medical Director for the Occupational Health Program at Concord Hospital, NH. He is president of Granite Physitary, PLLC, a medical group based in Concord. Dr. Glassman holds an academic appointment as Adjunct Assistant Professor at Dartmouth Medical School's Department of Community and Family Medicine. He also serves as Clinical Instructor for the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Tufts University School of Medicine. You may follow Dr. Glassman's handouts as you listen to his lecture.

James B. Talmage, MD, FAADEP is an orthopedic surgeon who currently serves as President of the American Academy of Disability Evlauating Physicians (AADEP). He chairs the Spine Group to continously update the ACOEM Occupational Medicine Practice Guidelines. He is a peer reviewer for the Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, The Spine Journal, the Jorunal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, and the American Family Physician. He is an Adjunct Associate Professor for Occupational Medicine in the Department of Family and Community Medicine of Meharry Medical College in Nashville, TN. Since 1992, he has given over 500 lectures to physician audiences on orthopedic, worker's compensation, disability, and occupational medicine topics. You may refer to his handout as you listen to his lecture.

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Herbert Besion, MD delivered the 2011 William B. Patterson Memorial Lecture. He is the Director Emeritus of the Benson-Henry Institute and is an Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He has authored or co-authroed more than 180 scientific publications and twelve books including The Relaxation Response (1975 and 2000),  Timeless Healing: The Power and Biology of Belief (1996), and Relaxation Revolution (2010). He is a pioneer in midn/body medicine and is one of the first western physicians to bring spirituality and healing into medicine. In his 35+ years career, he has defined the relaxation response and continues to lead teaching and research into its efficacy in counteracting the harmful effects of stress. Please refer to his handout as you listen to his lecture.

James B. Talmage, MD, FAADEP is an orthopedic surgeon who currently serves as President of the American Academy of Disability Evlauating Physicians (AADEP). He chairs the Spine Group to continously update the ACOEM Occupational Medicine Practice Guidelines. He is a peer reviewer for the Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, The Spine Journal, the Jorunal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, and the American Family Physician. He is an Adjunct Associate Professor for Occupational Medicine in the Department of Family and Community Medicine of Meharry Medical College in Nashville, TN. Since 1992, he has given over 500 lectures to physician audiences on orthopedic, worker's compensation, disability, and occupational medicine topics. You may refer to his handout as you listen to his lecture.

Gregg M. Stave, MD, MPH, JD is a consultant in occupational medicine and corporate health and is also Assistant Professor in the Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, NC.  He spent 15 years as corporate medical director for GlaxoSmithKline based in Research Triangle Park, NC. He is the co-author if Physical and Biologiical Hazards of the Workplace, now in its second edition and a basic core text in the ACOEM recommended library. He also co-edited the State of the Arts Review in Occupational Medicine on the Pharmaceutical Industry. He is the author of numerous book chapters and peer-reviewed articles. Please refer to his handout as you follow his lecture.

Daniel Ward, MD is a board certified orthopedic surgeon affiliated with the New England Baptist Hospital, Boston, MA and has performed hundreds of knee and hip joint replacements for many years. He is joined in the panel by James Montana, PT who manages his physical therapy private practice, Precision Health Studio's LLC based in Guilford, CT. He also works as the physical therapy director of St. Francis Occupational Health in Torrington, CT. Laura Sorafine, JD currently serves as labor and employement counsel in addition to being manager for Employee Relations for Boston Medical Center. The panel reviews mutiple medical and legal factors involved in return to work issues for employees following hip and knee replacement surgery. You may refer to the handout as you listen to the panel discussion. The discussion is moderated by Dr. John Buress.

Carolyn Langer, MD, JD, MPH is medical director of Medical Management and Policy at Harvard Pilgram Health Care. In this role, she provides medical leadership for utilization, medical policy, new technology assessment, quaility and other related functions. Dr. Langer is an Instructor at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH)  where she teaches a graduate course on Occupational Health Law, Policy and Administration and sits on the HSPH Occupational Medicine Residency Advisory Committee. She serves as an Adjunct Instructor in Public Health and Family Medicine at the Tufts University School of Medicine. She has lectured extensively and written a book chapter on the American with Disabilities Act. She is also a retired colonel and former flight surgeon in the Army National Gaurd. You may refer to her handouts as you listen to her lecture. 

Our panel consists of the following speakers: 1. Alan Rodgers, MD:  provides physician services and medical directorship for multiple occupational health and employee health clinics in Eastern Massachusetts. The various health care delivery settings he has been involved with inlcude urgent care and occupational health clinics, episodic primary care and urgent care clinics, chronic disease management, health coaching and preventive wellness services. Dr. Rodger currently provides services for Concentra Healthcare Services. 2. Rich Haugen, COHN-S: certfied occupational health nurse working at Proctor and Gamble/Gillete Compnay and is also the Health Service Manager of the Vibrant Living Health Center located with the World Shaving Headquarters in South Boston, MA. 3. Greg Salguiero, RD, LDN:  Wellness Manager for Acushnet Company. He is a registered and licensed dietician and has experience in corporate and hospital based fitness/wellnes programs. You may refer to his handouts as you listen to his lecture. The panel discussion is moderated by Dr. Stefanos Kales.

Paul Hunter is the Director of the Department of Public Health's Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Program based in Boston, MA. He is repsonsible for all aspects of program management including regulatory development, case management, environmental intervention and data analysis. He has more that twenty years experience in lead poisoning prevention and child health. He has worked closely with DOHCD and Mass Housing on the implementation of state and federally funded lead abatement programs. He has published academic research on both lead poisoning and childhood injury prevention.

Peter Lowe, JD is a partner with the law firm of Brann and Isaacson. He provides advise and counsel to clients on labor and employment law as well as education law. He serves as lead labor counsel for some premier companies in Maine, including L.L.Bean, Inc. David Ciullo is President of Career Management Associates based in Portland, ME and has been an executive for some of the largest retail corporations in teh United States, including American Eagle Outfitters, Pacific Sunwear, and Levi Struass. You may refer to their handouts as they discuss workplace safety issues in relation to medical marijuana use in the US today. 

Mr. Tom Shedlosky has over forty years of experience in the nulcear industry. While employed by the Nuclear Regulatory commission, he assisted formulating regulatory policy and contributed to developing portions of its reactor safety review program. He has a broad background that includes reactor operations, maintenance, power plant design and construction, root-cause analysis and risk analysis. He has recently focused on developing methods of risk reduction and formulating startegies to reduce the consequences of severe reactor accidents. You may refer to his handouts as you listen to his recorded lecture.

Joseph Albanese, PhD currently serves as Assistant Professor of Therapeutic Radiology and Pharmacology for Yale New Haven Health. He established and currently supervises the State of Connecticut Biodosimetry Laboratory which provides radiation dose estimates for medical triage and diagnoses in the event of a large scale radiological casualty incident. He received his PhD in Experimental Medicine from McGill University and completed a post-doctoral fellowship at Yale University, where he focused on understanding the effects of ionizing radiation on intracellular communication and gene expression. He has provided subject matter expertise and oversight for the development of clinical and response guidelines for radiation emergencies intended to provide clinicians in healthcare delivery facilities with a startegy for responding to large scale emergencies involving catastrophic radiological incidents. Please refer to his handouts as you listen to his recorded podcast lecture.

Phyllis C. Zee, MD, PhD is Professor of Neurology, Neurobiology, and Physiology as well as the Director of the Sleep Disorders Center at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago, IL. She has published more than 120 articles and chapters in the area of sleep medicine and neuroscience. Her reserach has focused on the effects of age on sleep and circadian rhythms, genetic regulation of circadian sleep disorders, behavioral interventions to improve sleep and performance, and the relationship between sleep and metabolic and cardiovascular disease. In her lecture, she explains the effects of sleep restriction on overall health and occupational perfromance and safety while reviewoing the complex pathophysiology of sleep and circadian rhythm. She also discusses the prevelance and health ramifications of shift work sleep disorders (SWSD). You may refer to her handout as you listen to her recorded podcast lecture.