AOCOPM 2024 Midyear Educational Conference

HYBRID: Online via Zoom and in Person, Conroe, TX, March 21-24

Agenda 

Program Chair:  Kris Belland, DO, MPH, MBA, MSS, CPE, FAsHFA, FAsMA

 

Thursday, March 21, 2024

Hyatt Regency, Birch Room

8:00-9:00

Current Insights and Updates in Military Occ Med

Patrick Birchfield, DO, MPH, MSS, FAOCOPM, FAsMA

9:00 - 10:00

Loren Hatch Memorial Lecture:  Toxicology Hot Topics Part I: Smoke Odor Fumes (SOF) / Fume Smoke Events (FuSE)

Richard Pleus, PhD, MS

10:00 - 11:00

Toxicology Hot Topics Part II: Textiles / Uniforms

Richard Pleus, PhD, MS

11:00 - 11:50

Jet Fuel Contamination of a Hawaii Drinking Water System: Red Hill Fuel Depot

Alan Philippi, DO, MS

12:00-1:00 -

SHSU room 115

Lunch/Q&A with SHSUCOM students:  Careers in AM/OM/PM

(We will be walking across the street to SHSU-COM)

Kris Belland, DO, MPH, MBA, President-Elect
Jennifer A. Benincasa, DO, MPH, MSHCA, Vice-President Aerospace Medicine
Elizabeth Clark, DO, MPH&TM
Luzan Phillpotts, DO, MPH, Vice President, Public Health/Preventive Medicine
Charles Werntz, III, DO, MPH, Vice President, Occupational Medicine
Naomi Wriston, DO, MS, Immediate Past President

1:00 - 5:00

Texas Correctional System Tours

 Rules and Procedures for participants

The last day to sign up for the tour is March 17th.

6:00 - 7:30

Welcome Reception and Fellow Convocation

Catered by Mezze at The Perfect Round, and you can expect to hear bagpipes.  

Friday, March 22, 2024

SHSUCOM room 210

8:00 - 9:00

DoD Firefighter Per- and Polyfluorinated Alkylated Substances (PFAS) Blood Testing Results 2020-21

Alan Philippi, DO, MS

9:00 - 10:00

Psychiatric Issues in Military Drone Operators

Brent Sanderlin, DO, FACOFP, FAAFP

10:00 - 11:00

EKG in Aerospace Medicine

Warren Silberman, DO, MPH, FAOCOPM

11:00 - 1:00

Commercial Airline Emergency Kits/FAA Update on Kits and Scenarios and Hands-On IFMK Practice Scenarios

Patrick Birchfield, DO, MPH, MSS, FAOCOPM, FAsMA

1:00 - 2:00

John Cahill Memorial Lecture:  Gender Experience and Aviation Mental Health Standards

Chris Flynn, MD

2:00 - 3:00

Women in Aviation

Did you know that March is Women's History Month?

Elizabeth Clark, DO, MPH&TM, FAOCOPM

3:00 - 4:00

Human Factors Analysis and Classification System (HFACS)

Luis R. Rivero, MD, MPH, Colonel, Medical Corps

4:00 - 5:00

W. Kenneth Riland Memorial Lecture:  Case Report of a Cervical Spine Herniated Nucleus Pulposus on the International Space Station: Diagnosis, Treatment, and Operational Impacts

Rick Scheuring, DO, MS, RMSK, FAsMA, FAAFP COL, MC, SFS, USAR

 

Saturday, March 23, 2024

SHSUCOM room 210

8:00 - 9:00

Artificial Intelligence & Large Language Models in Occupational Medicine: A Practice Update

David Shumway, DO, Capt, USAF

 9:00 - 10:00

Alzheimer's Disease: The Epidemiology of a Generational Concern

Ouida Collins, MD

10:00 - 11:00

Murray Goldstein Commemorative Lecture:  Obesity Expert - New Injectables’ Implications and Use

Nicholas Pennings, DO, FOMA, FACOFP

11:00 - 12:00

Pearls in Clinical Preventive Medicine:  Current USPSTF and Healthy People 2030 Guidelines

Lisa Klatka, DO, MS, FAOCOPM

12:00 - 2:00

Lumbar, Pelvis, Sacrum OMT Review and Hands-On Didactic Experience 

Dennis C Rau Jr, DO

2:00 - 3:00

Introduction and Overview of the Texas Correctional System
John Mills Commemorative Lecture:  Comprehensive Review of UTMB Correctional Managed Health Care
Lannette Linthicum, MD
Olugbenga B. Ojo, MD

3:00 - 4:00

Correctional Medicine Training Opportunities, Panel Discussion

Phillip M Eskew, DO, JD, MBA
Lannette Linthicum, MD
John G Mills, DO, MPH
Olugbenga B. Ojo, MD
Keith Proctor, DO, MSPH

4:00 - 5:00

Industrial Hygiene and Safety

Charles Werntz, III, DO, MPH, FAOCOPM

Sunday, March 24, 2024

SHSUCOM room 210

8:00 - 9:00

Alcohol Use Disorder and Other Common Addictions in the Elderly

David Best, DO, MS, ABAM (virtual, live - not pre-recorded)

Howard Teitelbaum, DO, PHD, MPH, FAOCOPM(d) (introduction and moderation in person)

 9:00 - 10:00

Introduction to Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis with Application to Occupational Medicine

Howard Teitelbaum, DO, PHD, MPH, FAOCOPM(d)

10:00 - 11:00

HHS/DOT Substance Testing Updates

Jim Ferguson, DO (virtual, live - not pre-recorded)

11:00 - 12:00

High Potency Cannabis and Implications to Employers and Regulations

Mike Dekker, DO