The Essentials of Disabilit y Evaluation: A One-Day Seminar presented by Medisys Health Group

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1 The Essentials of Disabilit y Evaluation: A One-Day Seminar presented by Medisys Health Group Friday May 2, 2008

2 Please join us for The Essentials of Disability Evaluation, a comprehensive one-day seminar designed to shed light on the disability evaluation process. Presented free of charge by Medisys Health Group, this seminar will give you the tools you need to put together all the pieces of the disability puzzle. Lectures and case studies will be combined with role playing and group discussions as part of a dynamic learning environment. The goal of the seminar is to make you an even more knowledgeable and discerning user of independent assessments by providing education on: > When and why to order an Independent Medical Evaluation > The process of an Independent Medical Evaluation > Who can conduct an Independent Medical Evaluation or an Allied Health Evaluation > How to get the most out of the Independent Medical Evaluations you order The lectures to be delivered at this seminar are based a synthesis of the curriculum presented internationally by Dr. Stewart-Patterson. Dr. Stewart-Patterson lectures widely on medical disability evaluation, including speaking engagements at Harvard Medical School, American College of Occupational & Environmental Medicine, and Otago University s graduate course in Occupational Medicine. Specialized Knowledge Coherence Analysis The lectures and case studies to be presented in this seminar will explore Coherence Analysis, which involves a review of how the clinical evidence of impairment does (or does not) have a logical and consistent interrelation that provides an over all sense of fit. The following six themes constitute the 7 Cs of Coherence Analysis. They have been compiled from multiple sources, including clinical guidelines, medical and legal literature, and expert consensus. They make up the pieces of the disability evaluation puzzle: 1. Continuity of findings 2. Consistency of findings 3. Congruency of diagnosis and disability 4. Compliance with treatment 5. Comorbidity (impact of concurrent diagnoses) 6. Causation plausibility 7. Conclusion If you work in any of the following fields, The Essentials of Disability Evaluation will be an invaluable source of information: Human Resources > Human Resources Professionals Occupational Health & Safety > Health & Safety Professionals > Return-to-work Coordinators Disability & Auto Insurance (ICBC) > Claims Adjudicators > Case Managers > Claims Centre Directors Law > Insurance Defence Lawyers > Personal Injury Lawyers > Senior Paralegal Professionals Medicine > Physicians > Occupational Health Nurses > Allied Health Professionals

3 Workshop Schedule 7:00 am Registration and Continental Breakfast 8:00 am Opening Remarks 8:15 am Lecture 1: Essentials of Medical Disability Evaluation 9:15 am Lecture 2: Assessment of Functional Capacity 9:45 am Coffee Break 10:00 am Lecture 3: Psychiatric Disability Evaluation 10:30 am Small Group Exercise: Case study # 1 11:00 am Lecture 4: Evaluation of Complex Subjective States (Pain & Fatigue) 11:30 pm Buffet Lunch (provided) 12:30 pm Lecture 5: Evaluation of Truthfulness & Malingering 1:15 pm Small Group Exercise: Case study # 2 1:45 pm Lecture 6: Neuropsychological Assessment 2:15 pm Coffee Break 2:30 pm Lecture 7: Disability Evaluation of Safety Sensitive Work 3:00 pm Small Group Exercise: Case Study Role Play 4:00 pm Expert Panel 4:30 pm Wrap-up Where University of British Columbia Downtown Campus, Robson Square (on the south side of Vancouver Art Gallery) Executive Education Centre, C150 & C180 When Friday May 2, :00 am Registration & Breakfast 8:00 am Workshop 4:30 pm Wrap-up Workshop registration Return your registration by fax before March 31 at First Name : Last Name : Phone : Fax : Title or designation : Company name : Company address: Province : Postal code : For more information, please contact Erica Enstrom at , ext or erica.enstrom@medisys.ca.

4 Lead Presenter Chris Stewart-Patterson, MD, Occupational Health Consultant Since 1989, Dr. Stewart-Patterson has frequently provided fitness-to-work assessments and Independent Medical Evaluations. He has a specialized interest in fitness-to-work evaluations for safety sensitive occupations such as police, correctional officers, firefighters and railway personnel. He has clinical experience in general practice, emergency medicine, psychiatry and multidisciplinary pain programs. He has provided Occupational Medical Services to the City of Vancouver, BC Government Occupational Health Programs, Health Canada s Workplace Health, RCMP, BC Rail and Canadian Armed Forces, among other organizations. He has testified as an Occupational Medicine expert witness in the Supreme Court of British Columbia. Dr. Stewart-Patterson instructs for the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine lecturing on assessment of disability in workers. Dr. Stewart-Patterson is a clinical instructor in the Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia. He has a past appointment as a senior clinical lecturer in Occupational Medicine at Wellington School of Medicine, University of Otago, New Zealand, and has lectured at Harvard Medical School on the topic of disability evaluation. He is an independent consultant who is currently conducting independent medical and fitness-to-work assessments through Medisys Health Group and other third-party providers. Associate Presenter Bradley J. Hallam, Ph.D., R.Psych, Neuropsychology Consultant Dr. Hallam s experience includes six years of graduate training in an accredited clinical psychology program and neuropsychological studies at Fuller Graduate School of Psychology, a one-year internship in an accredited clinical psychology program at Vancouver General Hospital, and one year of postdoctoral training in the clinical neuropsychology program at the Memory and Aging Centre at the University of California at San Francisco Medical Center. He has attended continuing education courses in the field since completing his graduate education. Dr. Hallam has co-authored peerreviewed journal articles and has presented abstracts and papers at professional conferences in the fields of neurology and neuropsychology. He is currently a staff member at GF Strong Rehabilitation Centre, where he conducts neuropsychological assessments of inpatient and outpatient adults with traumatic brain injuries. He is also a Clinical Instructor in the Department of Medicine, Division of Neurology, at the University of British Columbia, where he conducts research funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, investigating earlyonset neurological disease. He routinely gives didactic seminars throughout the Lower Mainland for healthcare professionals on the assessment and treatment of neurological disease. He currently conducts neuropsychological assessments through his private practice at Medisys Health Group. Associate Presenter Erica Enstrom, BKin (Hons.), Functional Evaluator & Cost of Care Expert, Director of Business Development, Medisys Health Group Erica graduated from Lakehead University in 1998 with an Honours Bachelor of Kinesiology, and is a BCAK-registered kinesiologist. Erica has worked as a functional evaluator, performing upwards of 2500 functional capacity evaluations and impairment assessments for disability insurers, auto insurers, Workers Compensation Boards, employers and the medicallegal community. She has qualified as an expert witness for the courts as a kinesiologist, with special interest in functional testing. Erica has undertaken considerable coursework in the area of functional assessment and cost-of-care analysis, including a five-day Matheson Functional Capacity Evaluation residency program and a two-day Life Care Planning seminar. She is in the process of completing her Masters of Business Administration at the Sauder School of Business at the University of British Columbia. Erica currently conducts various assessments through Medisys Health Group.

5 > Medisys Health Group is Canada s premier provider of preventive and diagnostic healthcare services. Through a national network of facilities, which includes full-service health clinics in Montréal, Ottawa, Toronto, Calgary and Vancouver, Medisys corporate health services division delivers services to approximately 4,000 corporations. With 19 medical imaging centres (CT, MRI, nuclear medicine, ultrasound, conventional radiography), Medisys medical imaging operations service patient populations in both Ontario and Québec. Medisys insurance medical services division supports the national underwriting activities of more than 60 Canadian and U.S. life and health insurance companies.