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|Georgia Occupational and Environmental Medicine Symposium 2012 |

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|Georgia Chapter, American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine |

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|Saturday, February 11, 2012 |

|Sheraton Gateway Hotel - Atlanta Airport |

|1900 Sullivan Road |

|College Park, GA 30337 |

|770-997-1100 |

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|Featured Speaker: |

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|Natalie Hartenbaum, MD, MPH, FACOEM. |

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|Current Issues and Challenging Topics in Commercial Driver Medical Certification |

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|Approved for a maximum of 6.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)TM. |

|Approved for up to 6.25 ABPM MOC credits. |

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|Registration Fees |

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|Physician GA ACOEM members $150 |

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|Physician non GA ACOEM members $175 |

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|Non physician $125 |

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|Please go to for complete program, hotel, and registration information. |

We welcome Natalie Hartenbaum, MD, MPH, FACOEM, Past President of ACOEM and author of The DOT Medical Examination: A Guide to Commercial Drivers' Medical Certification. Dr. Hartenbaum’s presentation, Current Issues and Challenging Topics in Commercial Driver Medical Certification, will enlighten us on pending changes in the commercial driver certification program. Her emphases will be on sleep apnea and the National Registry of Certified Medical Examiners. This is a critically important presentation for those engaged in the certification of commercial drivers.

Aristides Iatridis, MD, is the Medical Director of the Sleep Disorders Center at Georgia Lung Associates. He is board certified in Internal Medicine with subspecialties in Pulmonary, Sleep Medicine and Critical Care. Dr. Iatridis has a long history of having worked with the Georgia Motor Trucking Association and Delta Airlines in the development of sleep disorder screening processes. Dr. Iatridis will discuss Sleep Disorders that Adversely Affect Health and Safe Driving. This presentation will dovetail with the regulatory discussion provided by Dr. Hartenbaum.

“IBM’s Watson Wins Jeopardy” Who remembers this headline from PC Magazine on July 16, 2011? IBM built “Watson” for one purpose – to win Jeopardy. Watson is powered by 90 POWER7 IBM servers with 2880 cores and 15,000 Gigabytes of memory giving it the ability to access over 65 million pages of data per second. Having taken the Jeopardy prize, IBM has since diverted Watson technology to medical informatics. Physicians will soon be working side by side with Watson as an aid to diagnosis and clinical decision making. The wonders of Watson will be told to us by Josko Silobrcic, MD, MPH, MS, Senior Medical Scientist with IBM Research. Dr. Silobrcic, who has an extensive background in clinical practice, education, and research, will present IBM Watson for HealthCare, a captivating seminar on cutting edge information technology.

From Emory University School of Medicine comes Tamara Espinoza M.D.,

Neuroscience Research Fellow in the Department of Emergency Medicine. One of the greatest challenges in out-patient medicine is management of the minor acute head injury. Occupational Medicine physicians are more likely than others to treat mild concussions in workers. To assist us in this regard, Dr. Espinoza will present “Mild” Traumatic Brain Injury: Definition, Diagnosis, and Disposition.

Patrick O’Neal, MD, is Director of Health Protection in the Georgia Department of Public Health. Dr. O’Neal will present Emergency Preparedness Planning at the State Level by Public Health. This important seminar addresses how the Georgia Public Health planners have developed a coordinated response for all types of emergencies and what we can do to support this work.

Matthew Parker, MS, CIH, CSP, ARM, is a Senior Industrial Hygienist with ATC Associates, a nationwide engineering and environmental services company. Mr. Parker has over twenty years experience in Industrial Hygiene and risk management. Mr. Parker will provide an enlightening discussion of benzene, benzene dose reconstruction, and beryllium exposure in his presentation, Case Studies in Toxicology.

The meeting will be held at the Sheraton Gateway Hotel, Atlanta Airport, 1900 Sullivan Road, Atlanta, Georgia 30037. For those who wish to stay overnight, the room rate will be $79.00 a night. Please call the Sheraton Gateway Hotel and announce your association with Georgia ACOEM to qualify for that rate. Call 770 997-1100.

If you’re flying in …

a complimentary shuttle is available from Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport (ATL) to the Sheraton Gateway Atlanta.  To meet the shuttle, follow signs to Ground Transportation / Airport Area Hotel Pick-up.  The shuttle will pick-up between rows 20-24, every 20 minutes on the hour, 24 hours a day.  Taxis are also available for approximately $5.00 one-way.

If you’re driving…

Driving directions are available on the hotel website.  atlantaairport

Please bring your Sheraton parking ticket to the conference administration table to be stamped for a reduced parking rate.

Registration will begin at 7:30 am, in the area immediately outside our meeting room.

There will be a registration fee for this symposium, which includes a seated luncheon. The fee structure is as follows:

Physician GA ACOEM Members $150.00

Physician Non-GA ACOEM Members $175.00

Non-physicians $125.00

All registrations are being taken online. Please go to

For any questions, please contact Daniel Wolens, MD, MSPH, FACOEM at dw@.

“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 the Georgia Component of the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine. The American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.”

“The American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine designates this live activity for a maximum of 6.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)TM. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.”

This activity has been approved for 6.25 MOC credits.

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