Presentations and Workshops by Webility’s President, Jennifer Christian MD MPH - 2013 November 21-22, 2013 National Workers’ Compensation & Disability Conference Audience: Employer-based and insurer-based professionals involved in workers’ compensation and their vendors. “New Ideas for Your Worst Claims: Addressing Hidden Issues That Cause Poor Outcomes”
Las Vegas, NV November 9, 2013 Association for Public Policy Analysis & Management Fall Research Conference “Power of the Past – Force for the Future” Audience: Public policy scholars, practitioners and policymakers. Panel session: “Federal Disability Is Work Good for Your Health? From Explosive Growth to New Directions for Reform” Washington, DC October 19, 2013 WorkSafe BC Annual Provider Conference Audience: Community/provincial treating physicians and other healthcare providers “Preventing Needless Work Disability: Tips for Physicians Practicing on a Rainy Friday Afternoon in Lumby, BC.” Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada September 23-24, 2013 Workers’ Compensation Board of Alberta – Meredith Lectures Audience: Staff of the province’s workers’ compensation board “Implementing the Work Disability Prevention Model in Workers’ Compensation” Edmonton and Calgary, Alberta, Canada August 20, 2013 Disability Management Employer Coalition Annual Conference Audience: Employers and their vendors in their absence management, disability benefits and workers’ compensation programs “Missed Opportunities in High Cost Cases: Field Research on Who Fails to Recover – and Why?” Atlanta, Georgia June 16, 2013 US HealthWorks Unity Medical Symposium (provider conference) Audience: Occupational medicine physicians and mid-level providers “Tough Cases: The Multi-Dimensional Care Model” Dana Point, CA May 30, 2013 Self-Insurance Institute of America – Workers’ Compensation Executive Forum Audience: Employers, self-insurance fund administrators and third party administrators “What can Self-Insured Workers’ Comp Payers Learn from the Self-Insured Group Health World?” (panel presentation) St. Louis, Missouri May 2, 2013 American Occupational Health Conference (annual conference of the American College of Occupational & Environmental Medicine) Audience: Occupational medicine physicians and mid-level practitioners, psychologists, nurses Full-Day course: “Work Disability Prevention for Clinicians: Mastering Your Role in the SAW/RTW Process” Orlando, Florida March 16, 2013 Mid-South Occupational & Environmental Medical Association Annual Conference Audience: Occupational medicine physicians, orthopedists, and nurses “Evidence-Based Clinical Decision-Making and Tough Issues in SAW/RTW”
Biloxi, MS April 12, 2013 (with brief reprise April 19) Conference co-sponsored by American Enterprise Institute, Brookings Institute and Secretary’s Innovation Group: Disability: Inherent Problems, Practical Solutions and Action for Reform Audience: Congressional staffers, federal agency staff, disability policy researchers and consultants, disability advocacy organizations. “How to Create or Avert Needless Work Disability: Implications of New Models for Practice, Policy & Research” Washington, DC February 27, 2013 National Institute for Disability & Rehabilitation Research – A NIDRR Presents Event (live presentation and webinar) Audience: Institute staff, disability policy researchers and advocacy groups, congressional staff, 60 Summits leadership “Preventing Needless Work Disability: Implications for Research, Policy, and Practice” Washington DC (and remote attendees) Dr. Jennifer Christian: Speaker Information |