Program
CBOM Pre-Conference
Sunday, September 23
8:00 am – 8:45 am | Registration and Breakfast |
8:45 am – 9:00 am | CBOM Conference Opening Remarks |
9:00 am – 9:45 am | Teaching Occupational Medicine to Family Practice Medicine Residents at UBC – Doug Hamm & Alfredo Tura |
9:45 am – 10:30 am | Common Neuromusculoskeletal Disorders in the Workplace – Shane Journeay |
10:30 am – 10:45 am | Break |
10:45 am – 11:30 am | Pain Management Principles with a Review of Function and the impact of Opioids and Cannabis – David Elias |
11:30 am – 12:15 pm | PTSD and Management from an Occupational Medicine Perspective – Ward Yuzda |
12:15 pm – 1:15 pm | Lunch |
1:15 pm – 2:00 pm | Is it High Time for Medical Cannabinoids? Doubee-ous Evidence or Smokin’ Results? – Adrienne Lindblad |
2:00 pm – 2:15 pm | Occupational Hazard – A Basic Overview for Family Physicians – Itua Iriogbe |
2:15 pm – 2:45 pm | The Effects of Shiftwork – Aquaeno Ekanem and Itua Iriogbe |
2:45 pm – 3:00 pm | Break |
3:00 pm – 3:45 pm | Workers’ Health and the Economics of Workers’ Health – Tyler Amell |
3:45 pm – 4:30 pm | Principles of Administrative Law: Professional Medicine and Medical Jurisprudence – Melody Mladineo |
7:00 pm – 9:00 pm | Welcome Reception and Poster Presentations |
Main Conference: The Evolution of Occupational Medicine – Then, Now and the Future
Monday, September 24
7:30 am – 8:15 am | Registration and Breakfast |
8:15 am – 8:30 am | OEMAC Conference Opening Remarks |
8:30 am – 10:30 am | Cannabinoids in the Workplace – Introducing a Position Paper for OEMAC – Charl Els, Paul Farnan, Sebastian Straube |
10:30 am – 11:00 am | Break and Network with Exhibitors |
11:00 am – 11:45 am | New Medications – Matt Lauzon |
11:45 am – 12:15 pm | Panel Discussion with Charl Els, Paul Farnan, Matt Lauzon, Sebastian Straube |
12:15 pm – 1:15 pm | Lunch and CBOM AGM (Members only) |
1:15 pm – 2:15 pm | CBOM Memorial Lecture – Vernon Lappi |
2:15 pm – 3:15 pm | OHS Review – Speaker TBC |
3:15 pm – 3:45 pm | Break and Network with Exhibitors |
3:45 pm – 4:15 pm | Fentanyl Exposure & First Responders / Naloxone Kits – Sidney Siu |
4:15 pm – 6:00 pm | Offsite Educational Tours – WestJet or Cargill Foods |
6:30 pm – 7:30 pm | Cocktails |
7:30 pm – 10:00 pm | OEMAC Annual Dinner and Awards Banquet |
Tuesday, September 25
7:15 am – 8:00 am | Registration and Breakfast |
8:00 am – 8:15 am | Second Day Opening Remarks |
8:15 am – 9:55 am | Independent Medical Examination – Charl Els, Cherie Langlois-Klassen, Mat Milen, Chris Stewart-Patterson |
9:55 am – 10:15 am | Panel with Charl Els, Cherie Langlois-Klassen, Mat Milen, Chris Stewart-Patterson |
10:15 am – 10:45 am | Break and Network with Exhibitors |
10:45 am – 11:45 am | Diagnostic and Treatment Challenges in mTBI (Concussion) – David Elias |
11:45 am – 12:45 pm | Audiometric Testing – Xiangning Fan |
12:45 pm – 1:45 pm | Lunch and OEMAC AGM (Members only) |
1:45 pm – 2:45 pm | Pearls and Pitfalls in the Practice of Occupational and Environmental Medicine – Jonathan Davids, Howard Hamer, Sidney Siu |
2:45 pm – 3:45 pm | Travel-Related Illnesses – Stephen Vaughan |
3:45 pm – 4:00 pm | Closing Remarks |