Program Chair and Presenter:
Thomas M. Domer
Domer Law, S.C.
Milwaukee
Presenters:
Alfred M. Habel, MD
Pulmonary Associates
Kenosha
Thomas A. Hammeke, PhD
Professor Emeritus, Dept. of Psychiatry & Behavioral Medicine
Medical College of Wisconsin
Milwaukee
Malcolm K. Hatfield, MD, FACR
MH Imaging
Milwaukee
Mary Beth Hughes
Husch Blackwell LLP
Milwaukee
David Kornreich, DO
Ascension
Milwaukee
ALJ Sherman C. Mitchell
Chief Administrative Law Judge
OWCH Milwaukee and Appleton Hearings Offices
Milwaukee
James A. Pitts
Schoone, Leuck, Kelley, Pitts & Pitts, S.C.
Racine
Karl A. VanDeHey
Borgelt, Powell, Peterson & Frauen, S.C.
Milwaukee
8:00 a.m. : Registration
8:30 a.m. : Less Invasive Approach to Hip Replacement Surgery
- Criteria for hip replacement surgery
- Advantages of less invasive direct anterior surgery
- Likely healing period and recommended permanent restrictions
- Traumatic vs occupational work-related causation
Thomas M. Domer, David Kornreich, DO
9:25 a.m. : Administrative Law Judge Reaction
ALJ Sherman C. Mitchell
9:30 a.m. : Traumatic Brain Injury and Residual Disability?
- Criteria for TBI diagnosis
- Treatment and projected healing period for TBI
- Traumatic aggravation of pre-existing conditions
- Residual permanency and work restrictions
Thomas A. Hammeke, PhD, Mary Beth Hughes
10:25 a.m. : Administrative Law Judge Reaction
10:30 a.m. : Break
10:45 a.m. : Neurological and Legal Issues of Cervical Spine Injuries
- Diagnoses and treatment
- Etiology and the criteria for a spine surgeon to attribute causation to occupational exposure
- How claimants’ attorneys can assist the treating neurosurgeon in rebutting an IME
11:40 a.m. : Administrative Law Judge Reaction
11:45 a.m. : Occupational Lung Diseases: Diagnosis, Etiology, Treatment and Impairment
- An overview of the most common environmental and occupational lung diseases
- Discussion of diagnosis, causation and available treatment plans
- Factors relevant to assessing permanent work restrictions and permanent partial disability
Alfred M. Habel, MD, Karl A. VanDeHey
12:40 p.m. : Administrative Law Judge Reaction
12:45 p.m. : Program Concludes
Following program start times, webcast replay schedule will vary slightly from above listed times.
- Hear perspectives from doctors, experienced attorneys, and an Administrative Law Judge
- Know the ins and outs of residual disability from traumatic brain injuries
- Explore a less invasive approach to hip replacement surgery and how it can affect your claim
- Understand the diagnosis, etiology, treatment and impairment with occupational lung diseases
- Learn neurological and legal issues of cervical spine injuries
- Worker’s compensation attorneys
- Personal injury lawyers
- Medical malpractice attorneys
- Employment/labor law practitioners
- Insurance law attorneys
- General practitioners
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