Promising and Best Practices in Total Worker Health Workshop Summary (2014) / Chapter Skim
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Appendix B: Speaker and Moderator Biographical Sketches
Appendix B: Speaker and Moderator Biographical Sketches
Pages 63-76
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During his 24 years with Dow, Dr. Carson has published numerous studies assessing employee health, and has provided strategic and implementation direction for Dow's health strategy involving Total Worker Health integrating safety, wellness, and clinical care to optimize employee health outcomes in a healthy workplace culture.
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He leads a team of nurses and mid-level practitioners who provide occupational medicine services to Smithsonian employees working across the nation and around the world. Over the past 8 years, he and his team created a clinical wellness program that has significantly enhanced employee health and productivity while also decreasing sick leave utilization.
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for a project sponsored by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute focused on obesity prevention at the workplace. He was PI for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Senior Risk Reduction Demonstration, New Opportunities for Healthy Aging in Medicare initiatives, and other demonstrations focused on cancer prevention and treatment for ethnic and racial minorities, chiropractic care, vision rehabilitation, and health improvement incentive structures for Medicaid beneficiaries.
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Health plan and insurance company collaborators include Blue Cross Blue Shield Federal Employee Program, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan, Blue Shield of California, Highmark, American Specialty Health, Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, Mayo Clinic, and Kaiser Permanente.
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Pamela Ann Hymel, M.D., M.P.H., is Senior Director of Integrated Health and Chief Medical Officer for Walt Disney Parks and Resorts. Previously she was Director of Integrated Health and Corporate Medical Director at Cisco Systems, where she was responsible for the strategy and design of Cisco's HealthConnections program, a health and produc
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Hymel worked as a Senior Vice President at Sedgwick Claims Management Services and as Vice President of Human Resources, Medical Services, and HR Systems for Hughes Electronics. Her work at Hughes was recognized with an ACOEM Corporate Health Achievement Award and a C
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He also serves as Medical Director of Live Well/Work Well, a comprehensive, integrated health promotion and health protection program for Dartmouth-Hitchcock's employees and their families. He is a past president of the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, as well as the New England College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine.
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Her formal research interests have included depleted uranium in Persian Gulf Veterans, occupational lead exposure in construction, workplace violence prevention in mental health and addictions settings, bloodborne pathogen interventions in home health care, coworker conflict in public employees and occupational health, and safety and health needs of the aging health care workforce.
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Newman's research and teaching in his role in academia. He is co-founder and Co-Director of Health Links™, a nonprofit initiative of the Center for Worker Health and Environment to promote worksite wellness and safety, especially in small businesses by providing certification, advising, training of community advisors, and linkage to resources and vetted vendors that can assist enterprises in managing health promotion and health protection.
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Over the years, she has held several different positions, including Corporate Director of Recruitment and Assistant Vice President. Her responsibilities included recruitment, community education, quality, ambulatory surgery, pharmacy, employee health, medical staff office, and service excellence.
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He holds both a master's degree in business administration and a master's in education/exercise physiology. Glorian Sorensen, Ph.D., M.P.H., is Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences in the Harvard School of Public Health, and Faculty Vice President for Faculty Development at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, where she also directs the Center for Community-Based Research.
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He is a physician executive with 27 years experience in population health care management, medical data infrastructure, and occupational and preventive medicine. In addition, he has published numerous peer-reviewed articles in occupational medicine and toxicology, including the benchmark textbook Physical and Biological Hazards of the Workplace.
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She has worked with several union-management committees on health and safety issues, including United Auto Workers-Boeing, the American Association of Railroads-United Transportation Union, and the Sheet Metal Occupational Health Trust, the labor-management trust of the sheet metal industry. She frequently provides occupational medicine expertise to the AFL-CIO.
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