Current Newsletter & Archive

Issue #56

Fall 2019

Current Issue

• The Other MD
  
• Neuro Optometry
  
• MeetUp Sep 24
• Truck Stop or Go
  

Issue #55

Summer 2019

• Visual Sequelae of Concussion
• New Protocol/Lyme Dx
• AOHC New Fellows
• Colors of OEM Quiz

Issue #54

Spring 2019

• Interview with ACOEM President
• Interview with ACOEM Executive Director
• RETAIN_Pilot_in_CT
• Truck Stop, or Go?

Issue #53

Fall 2018

• OM/Johnson Space Center
• Truck Stop and Go
• Are You Ready for the Future? Annual Conference Report
• Occupational Illness Reporting in Connecticut

Issue #52

Summer 2018

• Return to Work after Brain Injury
• The Impact of Climate Change on Tick-borne Diseases
• Truck Stop and Go
• Snapshots: AOHC

Issue #51

Spring 2018

• Climate and Health
• Truck Stop and Go
• MeetUp: MCS
• Snapshots: AC 2017

Issue #50

Fall 2017

• Maine Comp Summit
• Truck Stop and Go
• Mediterranean Diet
• Guide to MD Eating

Issue #49

Summer 2017

• Risk of Lentivirus Exposures in the Research Lab
• Ron and Jay’s Truck Stop, or Go? Part II
• Board Member Profile: Diane Chen
• Around the Town, ACOEM Denver

Issue #48

Spring 2017

• Legalized Recreational Marijuana and Safety
• CDME Case Presentations
• President’s Column By Ron Blum
• SALAMI BRUSHER’S DISEASE: A Case Study

Issue #47

Fall 2016

• Do No Harm
• Workplace Cotinine/Nicotine Testing
• Out of This World Exposures
• Integrating OEM in the Workplace and Beyond

Issue #46

Summer 2016

• The Integrated Disability Prevention (IDP) Approach
• Haiti: An Occupational Doctor Steps Out Of His Comfort Zone
• Snapshots AOHC 2016
• New England Residents’ Research Represented at AOHC
• Answer to last issue’s WHAT IS IT?

Issue #45

Spring 2016

• Doctors on the Edge: The Physician Burnout Epidemic:
• You Gotta Be Crazy: Tales of my Practice in Rural Maine
• NECOEM’s Quest Laboratories Tour
• Three in One: Occ Doc, Attorney and …Sushi Chef
• International Conference on Physician Health

• Opioids: From Scourge to a Big Dig-Like Solution
• The Pregnant Worker: Safety and Health in the Workplace
• The Pregnant Worker: Legal Aspects of Workplace Reproductive Hazards
• 2015 NECOEM and MaAOHN Annual Conference
• NECOEM Welcomes Four to the Board
• ACOEM’s Idea Marketplace™

Issue #43
Summer 2015

• A Visit to the Animal Refuge League of Greater Portland: Cat and Dog Bites and Compassion Fatigue
• Ice Pick to the Face on an Airplane: Demystifying Sinus Barotrauma
• The Aging Workforce
• NECOEM Member Spotlight: HSPH OEM Fellows
• ACOEM Fellows – Class of 2015
• More from AOHC 2015….!

Issue #42
Spring 2015

• Medical Marijuana and the Workplace
• Complementary Alternative Medicine: Acupuncture. A Consideration for Your OEM Practice?
• SEMINAR HIGHLIGHTS: WIND ENERGY, AN OCCUPATIONAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL MEDICINE REVIEW
• NECOEM Member Spotlight: Yale OEM Fellows

Issue #41
October 2014

• Assessment of Psychiatric Disability
• Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery: How, when, why and why not?
• 2014 NECOEM/MAAOHN ANNUAL CONFERENCE
• IN MEMORIAM – MEHRDAD O. HAMEDANI, MD
• Occupational Physicians Gain Stature in Vermont and Influence the Legislative Process

Issue #40
June 2014

• MANAGING CHRONIC HEALTH PROBLEMS AT WORK
• Where Occupational Medicine Goes, So Goes the Nation’s Health
• Summary: NECOEM NRCME training courses
• MEET NECOEM’S NEW BOARD OF DIRECTORS MEMBERS
• NECOEM announces new mini-fellowship program

Issue #39
March 2014

• Safe Patient Handling and Mobility: Identifying and Resolving Barriers to Use. What still needs to happen?
• Demystifying Minimally Invasive Surgery: First in a Series
• NECOEM Member Spotlight: Yale OM Fellows
• NECOEM’s Dr. Neil Haas Spearheads Our Specialty’s Involvement in Vermont Medical Society
• 2013 Alice Hamilton Awardee: Letitia “Tish” Davis

Issue #38
November 2013

• Industrial Wind Turbines, Human Variability, and Adverse Health Effects
• NECOEM NRCME: training course update
• Rhode Island Occupational/Environmental Happenings
• NECOEM Sponsors an OHIP Intern
• New Member Spotlight: Erin Teeple, MD

Issue #37
June 2013

• You’re the Occ Doc!
• Unconventional Gas Extraction- Part 3: Social Impacts
• Welcome Message from Our NECOEM President: Dr. Phil Lerner
• “It’s a Wonderful Life” in Occupational Medicine?
• Caring for Families of Fallen Workers
• ACOEM’s 2013 Kehoe Award Winner: Dr. Stefanos Kales
• Heavy Metal

Issue #36
Winter 2013

• Unconventional Gas Extraction – Part 2: Worker Exposures
• Pemberton Mill Collapse
• FMCSA Training
• NYOEMA Snapshot
• Wood Biomass for Heat and Power: Addressing Public Health Impacts

• An Aerospace Medicine Morning
• Unconventional Gas Extraction-Part 1 – Threats to the Environmental
• A Medical Mission to the Chaco
• Obesity and Work: a MassCOSH Report

• Technological Health Care Solutions
• Noise and Hearing Loss: The Role of the Occupational Clinician
• Professionals Health Program – A Fitness for Duty Process
• Hair straightening with health risks

• Unexpected Exposure on a Farm
• Temporary Worker Effect
• Occupational Happenings
• Bread and Roses Centennial

• Barriers to the use of Workers’ Compensation:
  Experience in Community Health Centers
• ISOCYANATES:
  ARE YOU MISSING THE PROBLEM?
• Radiation Medicine and Safety
• Got OM Board Certification?

• Evaluating a Patient Exposed to Mold
• WORKPLACE VIOLENCE: Can It Be Prevented?
• President’s Column: A welcome
  message from new NECOEM
  President, Dr. Phil Adamo
• Medical Marijuana – “As Maine goes,
• Action Needed To Avoid Elimination of the ERCs in 2012!

• Surveillance of Healthcare Workers for Latent
  M. tuberculosis Infection
• Chilean Mine
• Elements to be considered for Occupational and Environmental Health
  Services in the Industry
• Does Age Matter?

• What Occupational and Environmental Medicine Providers
  Need to Know When Responding to a Disaster
• The Dizzy Patient in the Occupational Medicine Practice
• 2009 Moore Medical Scholar

• The Lead-Exposed Worker:
  New Challenges for the Occupational Physician
• What’s new in Hernia Repair?
• In Memoriam: NECOEM Member Lisa Woody

• OEMAC/NECOEM Merger
• H1N1
• Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA)

• OEM Delegation to China
• Wellness in the Workplace
• Traditional Patients and Alternative Medicine

• Solutions for the Future of OEM
• The New ADA
• Worker Comp Rate Increase