Puget Sound Occupational and Environmental Medicine Grand Rounds - Seattle, WA

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Registration fee: $50.00, register by April 11
Bring a friend who has never been to a Grand Rounds: $45.00 per person

Thursday, April 17, 2008

Noah Seixas, PhD, CIH
Director, Northwest Center for Occupational Health & Safety; Professor, DEOHS, SPHCM, UW, Seattle, WA

Precarious Employment: Health and Safety for Day Laborers and Other Contingent Workers

• Learning Objectives:  Understand who day laborers are and what type of work 
   hazards they encounter
•  Understand the differences between contingent workers 
  and the traditionally employed work force in terms of health
  and safety
•  Consider alternative strategies for addressing the needs of
  contingent workers

May 15, 2008, register by May 9

Janice Camp, RN, MN, MSPH, CIH, COHN-S
Senior Lecturer and Director, Field Research and Consultation Group, DEOHS, SPHCM, UW, Seattle, WA

Gerry Croteau, CIH
Research Industrial Hygienist, DEOHS, SPHCM, UW,  Seattle, WA

Occupational Hazards in Metal and Glass—The Fine Art of Exposure Assessment

Learning Objectives:

• 
   Identify common occupational hazards in the fine arts
• 
   Understand methods for exposure characterization
• 
   Describe the related health effects
• 
   Review options for worker protection

Puget Sound Occupational and Environmental Medicine Grand Rounds is a series of evening dinner and lecture sessions which focus on issues facing the occupational and environmental medicine community. They begin with a no-host bar at 6:00 pm to allow time for networking. Dinner is served at 6:45 pm, followed by a lecture from 7:30-8:30 pm.  Latecomers who arrive after 7:00 may or may not be served dinner based on availability.

Location
Puget Sound Occupational and Environmental Medicine Grand Rounds takes places at the Univeristy of Washington club, located on the Seattle Campus. Click here for directions and parking information.

Registration
$50 includes dinner and lecture. Enrollment is limited. Advance registration is required four business days prior to the session to guarantee dinner reservations. Cancellation policy: participants may cancel up to one week prior to the event. After this date, fees will be forfeit. Substitutions will be accepted with written notice one week prior to the event.

General Learning Objectives

• Identify new developments in occupational and environmental medicine practice, including application of scientific discoveries in genetics, molecular biology, and epidemiology
• Identify best practices and means for evaluating them in occupational and environmental medicine
• Discuss current trends in evolving occupational and environmental medicine practice, including manpower and training needs, and future issues that will need OEM attention

Accreditation

The Puget Sound Occupational and Environmental Medicine Grand Rounds are jointly sponsored by the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (ACOEM) and the Northwest Association of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (NAOEM).

This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the Essential Areas and Policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education through the joint sponsorship of the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine and NAOEM. The American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

The American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine designates this educational activity for a maximum of 1 category 1 credit toward the AMA Physician’s Recognition Award. Each physician should claim only those credits that he/she actually spent in the activity.

More information regarding the location and directions to the facility will be included in the confirmation letter mailed approximately 2 weeks prior to the course date.

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