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”
and
“Embracing the “F” Word (Function) in Workers’ Compensation”

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”
and
“Tough Cases: Multi-Dimensional Disability Management”

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)

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