MOEMA    From the President . . .















Fellow MOEMA Members:

I hope everyone is enjoying the spring.   The Michigan Occupational Health Conference
(MOHC) Planning Committee has been working diligently to ensure that Michigan and other
regional Occupational Health physicians and nurses have quality CME near to home.    

MOHC will be held this year on Friday & Saturday September 23 and 24th In Bay City,
Michigan at the Doubletree Riverfront Hotel.  This is a fantastic venue right on the Saginaw
River in the heart of historic downtown Bay City.  If you want to bring your significant other and
make a weekend of it, Thursday night September 22nd right in Downtown is Bay City’s
annual Wine Walk.  The description on the website reads: “Enjoy and stroll with friends old
and new while tasting some of the best in vintages throughout pubs and specialty shops in
Downtown Bay City.”  The Doubletree will be the perfect spot from which to enjoy this event.
For the second year, we are being joined by the Michigan Association of Occupational Health
Nurses for the fall conference.  Last year’s inauguration of this event, planned by Dr. Peter
Metropoulos in conjunction with the nurses, was successful, allowing for much-needed
interaction between occupational health practitioners in the state.  We are pleased that the
nurses have chosen to join forces with us again this year.

Our meeting has been approved by ACOEM, thanks to efforts by Dr. Saima Siddiqui, for 13
hours of CME.  The meeting is also approved for MOC credits by the American Board of
Preventive Medicine.  Providers should note that starting in August 2011, all ABMS member
boards (including ABPM) will be required to report the MOC participation status of all
diplomates, including those with lifetime certificates.  This is your opportunity to obtain these
credits close to home.

For this year’s meeting we are taking a new tack with ½ days themes.  We are excited to be
bringing in many national experts for this year’s meeting.  Topics for the meeting include:

1.        Work-Related Upper Extremity Conditions: Etiology, Diagnosis, Treatment, Causation
Determination, and Application of the ACOEM Practice Guidelines.  Dr. Tony Burton is the
course director. We are thrilled that Dr. Kurt Hegemann, Editor-In-Chief of ACOEM's
Occupational Medicine Practice Guidelines will be speaking.

2.        Current Topics in Environmental Health. This will include our Carey-Pratt-McCord
Lecture, planned by Dr. James Blessman.  The speaker will be Industrial Hygienist Roger
Wabeke, who will give his talk on Hobby Poisons. Other session topics will include Urban
Gardening and Dioxin.

3.        First Responders. Speakers will included Dr. Fabrice Czarnecki, one of the authors of
the newly published ACOEM Guidance for the Medical Evaluation of Law Enforcement
Officers.  Additional speaker will be Jerold James, Chief of EMS for the City of Detroit.

As part of the meeting, ACOEM will be sponsoring a Faculty Series entitled Shift Work and
Sleep –Optimizing Health, Safety, and Performance.  ACOEM will be bringing in Dr. Phyllis
Zee- Associate Director, Center for Sleep & Circadian Biology at Northwestern University- to
present this program.  A separate flyer for this program will be sent to you with the conference
brochure. No separate registration is needed.

In addition to the MOHC, MOEMA will again be sponsoring a half-day session at the
Michigan State Medical Society Annual Scientific Meeting on October 26, 2011.  Dr. Patrick
Stover is planning this meeting and has excellent speakers planned.  More information to
follow.    

We are anticipating a large turnout at MOHC this year and hope each of you will be there to
share in this exciting event.

We look forward to seeing you all in Bay City!

Deborah S. Heaney, MD, MPH, FACOEM
MOEMA President
Spring 2011

FROM THE PRESIDENT

Deborah S. Heaney, MD, MPH, FACOEM
MOEMA President