International Forum on Disability Management 2010

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Monday September 20, 2010 (Please note: some presentations are linked by the speaker's name)

7:55- 8:50 Breakfast Briefings

• From the Ground up to Successful Impact- The Story of Two Successful Consulting Firms and Their Client Results (Scott)
• Maximizing Disability Management Through a Virtual "Community of All Practices" (Schlosser)
• Return on Investment on a World Class Disability Management Program (Scott)
• Job Rehab-Benefits of a Short- Term Stay-at-Work Program at Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles in Germany (Schriek)
• A Systems Approach to Building and Sustaining a Disability Management Program (Boucher)

9:30-10:30 Plenary Session

Advancing Awareness and Support for Effective Disability Management Outcomes and Best Practices (Black & Owens)

11:00-12:30 Plenary Session

Building Political Consensus to Advance Policy on Disability Management (Breuer, Duncan, Federko, Murray, White)

13:30-15:00 Breakout Sessions

Breakout I: Partnerships in Disability Management

• Bridging the Gap: Working Together to Improve Social Inclusion and Employment Participation(Frederick)
• Collaborative Partners at Kaiser Permanente Improve IDM: Physicians, Labor and Management (Smisko, Wiesner, Salama, Nagel)
• A Tailor-Made DM Policy Through the Involvement of Several Stakeholders (De Greef)
• Grass-Root Multi-Stakeholder Action for Positive Change: The 60 Summits Project (Christian)

 Breakout II: Integration into the Workforce

•  Transitional Work Can Protect the Productivity of the Workforce.  But How? (Tugman, Bimrose, Reymond)
• Strategies for Helping Adults with Disabilities Return to or Stay at Work (Concepcion and Steel-Lowney)
• A Systematic Review: The State of Employment of Persons with Disabilities (Harder)
• Entrepreneurship, Reality or Escapism, in Creating Work for People with Disabilities (Gratzer and Larsson)

 
Breakout III: Vocational Rehabilitation

• The Effects of Empowerment Methods of Vocational Rehabilitation on Service Quality and Satisfaction (Jeong, Na, and Park)
• Deterioration of Rehabilitation Rates in a Disability Insurance Scheme (Mustard)
•  Disability Management and Vocational Rehabilitation in Japan: Research into Practice (Yaeda) PAPER
• New Approaches to Rehabilitation Using the Facilites of Accident Insurance Hospital (Koehler)
• Occupational Data Use in Disability Determination and Rehabilitation in the United States (Karman, Barros-Bailey, and Fraser)

 
Breakout IV: Addressing Specific Problems During Medical Treatment

• Pain Management for Injured Workers: Balancing Research and Public Policy (Peplowski and Swedlow)
• Outcomes and Costs of Work-Related Calcaneal Fractures in Northern Germany (Grosser)
• Surviving Multiple Traumas- What Comes Next? The Rehabilitation of Seriously Injured Patients (Bühren) 
• Early Intervention in Psychosocial Risk Factors for Chronic Pain (Cox and Coupland)
• Assessing the Quality of Care Provided to Occupational Injuries (Nuckols)

15:30- 17:00 Breakout Sessions

Breakout I: The Importance of Coordination Among Stakeholders in the Return-to-Work Process

• A Collaborative Early Intervention Model Supporting Return to Work for Healthcare Workers(Dawson and Harder)
• The Reg Flags/ Green Lights Guide for Challenging Return-to-Work Situations (MacEachen) ABSTRACT
• Process Mapping: Integrating Theory and Practice to Promote Disability Managment (Randall)
•  Successful Return to Work by Collaboration Between Insurers (Schian)

Breakout II: An Overview of Government Programs in Disability Management

• Fast Track Strategies for Disability Programs Around the World (Rajnes) PAPER, Spreadsheet, References
• How the Government Can Help People with Intermittent Work Capacity Stay in Work (Cahill) PAPER
• Breaking the Barriers to Work, the Icelandic Organizational Model of Vocational Rehabilitation (Thorhallsdottir and Jonsdottir)
• The Disability Management Model in Taiwan and the Challenges it Faces (Wu)
• An Overview of Disability Policy in Taiwan: Social Inclusive Perspective (Yan and Chuang)

Breakout III: Employer Best Practices

• The Effect of Public and Private Efforts to Improve the Return to Work of Disabled Workers  (Seabury)
• Implementing Disability Mangement in Comanies (Geisen)
• Innovative Disability Mangement: Managing Resource Depletion Through Team Diversity and Collaboration (Kehoe)
• Major Factors Contributing to Successful Cases of Work Retention After Disability (Habeck and Feuerstein)

Breakout IV: How Medical Providers Can Improve Outcomes in Disability Management

• Improving Outcomes by Training Physicians to Manage the Process of Return to Work (Jurisic) PAPER
• Success at Last!  Getting Doctors Trained How to Prevent/ Reduce Needless Work Disability (Christian)
• How Physicians Should Determine an Individual's Current Work Ability/Disability (Talmage)
• Work as a Form of Medical Treatment (Nicholson, Letz, Wiesner, and Zhang)

 Tuesday September 21, 2010  

7:55- 8:50  Breakfast Briefings

• Disability Management on Pupils and Students in Fact of Global Demographic Develoment (Plönes)
• Implementing the International DM Certification and Traiing Programs in Australia and New Zealand (Clarke)
• Disability Managment: Transferring Research to Practice in Canadian Organizations (Gowan)
• Australia's Accident Compensation Framework: Quality Reform, Claimant Gaps or a National Scheme (West) PAPER
• Rebirth of Vocational Rehabilitation in the UK 1999-2009 (Frank)
• Private Healthcare Option:  Disability Management in Canada (Wagner)

11-12:30 IFDM Breakout I:  Employer Success Stories

• Planning for Success: Addressing Work Accomodation Needs During a Targeted Hiring Initiative (Weller and Gowan)
• Disability Management in the International Arena- The Virgin Blue Airline Experience (Taylor)
• Disability Management at Teck Highland Valley Copper Partnership (Droder and Boyce)
• Benchmarking Disability Management in the Healthcare Sector (Harvey)

Breakout II: Utilizing Research and Analysis to Evaluate Government Programs

• Success of a Return-to-Work/Disability Management Strategy (Cox) 
• Social and Cost Benefits of Return-to-Work Programme by the Malaysian Social Security Organisation (Azman)
• The Problem of Long Duration Work Injury Claims in Ontario, Canada (Hogg-Johnson and Mustard)
• Moderator:  Patricia Owens
• Panel Abstract

Breakout III: Examining the Competencies of Disability Management Practitioners

• Return-to-Work Coordinators' Competencies (Loisel)
• Competencies and task Areas of Disability Managment Professionals in Germany (Niehaus and Marfels) PAPER
• Disability Management: An Examination of Job Functions, Knowledge, and Competencies in Australia, Germany and the United States (Matthews, King, and Niehaus)
• The Added Value of Disability Case Management in Occupational Reintegration (De Greef)
• What Impact Had Legislation Had on Disability Management Experts' Practice? (Bernhard and  MacEachen)

13:30-15:00 Breakout Sessions
Breakout I: A Comprehensive Societal Disability Management Strategy (Zimmermann, McAnaney, and Harvey)

Breakout II: Integrating Young Adults with Disabilities into the Workforce

• Increasing Employment of Young Adults with Disabilities: Policy Innovation and Best Practices in the Netherlands (Van Lierop)
•  Disabled Youth in the Netherlands: Benefits and Employment (de Vos)
• Disability Management for Young Adults with Disabilities in the German Automobile Industry (Kaul and Niehaus) PAPER, ABSTRACT
• New Prospects of Disability Management for Teenagers with Learning Disability (Vater)
• Moderator:  Jose Hilgersom

Breakout III: Engaging Stakeholders: Government Programs

• Participation Through Integration- Effective Help Offered by German Federal Pension Insurance: Counseling, Service, Rehabilitation, Company-based Re-entry Management (Egner)(GERMANY)
• Managing Disability from the JAN Perspective: 1983-2010 (Hirsh)(UNITED STATES) PAPER
• "Superabile" is Information, Orientation, Companionship, Community Animation, Territorial Network and Participated Citizenship (Carletti)(ITALY)PAPER

Breakout IV: Linking Health, Wellness, and Productivy

• De- Medicalized Approach to Return to Work and Disability Management Practice (Baranowski), ABSTRACT
• How Wellness Initiatives Impact both Occupational and Non-Occupational Program Efficiencies and Effectiveness (Guyan, Brady, Brady extra resources, Peplowski, and Weir)
• Moving Wellness, Disability Management and Attendance Managment Programs Through Communication (Smith-Graham) PAPER
• Do We Accurately Identify Disability as Occupational?  Should We Bother Trying? (Neuhauser)

Breakout V: New Resources for Your Disability Management Toolkit

• Job Capacity Assessments: Australia's Efforts to Assess Capacity to Work (Brouwers)
• Desktop Review: AMA Guides to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment (6th Edition)(Bellamy)
• Duration Disability Guidelines: Tools for Disability Management (Jamieson, Seymour, Whelan) PAPER
• Core Set Development for Vocational Rehabilitation Using the ICF (Escorpizo)
• How to Identify the Right/Real Cases to Control Through Disability Management (Schulin) PAPER

15:30-17:00 Breakout Sessions

Breakout I: Demographics

• Demographic Effects: Global Trends, Local Impacts (Bogyo)
• How Obesity Increases the Risk of Disabling Workplace Injuries (Shuford)
• Differences in Return to Work Between Men and Women: Consequences for Return-to-Work Strategies (van Lierop)
• Aging and Disability- Do We Know What We Think We Know? (Mathur)

Breakout II: Mental Health, Challenges in Return to Work

• Depressive Symptomatology Following a Workplace Injury: A Prospective Cohort Study (Carnide)
• Applied Psychological Well- Being Toward a Contributive Future for Persons with (Williams)
• Return to Work of Mentally Ill Personnel in Germany: A Systematic Review (Friedrich-Gaertner) PAPER 
• Australia's JobAccess: New Dimensions in Mental Health Support (Campbell & Tuckwell)
• Using OMPQ to Reduce Risk of Prolonged Disability Workers' Compensation Cases (Margison)

Breakout III: Integration of Care

• Placing a Value on Lost Work Time: Connecting Treatment to Short-Term Disability (Jinnett) PAPER
• Concepts in Continuous Improvement for Clinical/Vocational Resources Supporting Disability Claims Professionals (Bibens and McGarry- Gregory)
• Evidence- Based Disability and Absence Management: A Maturational Approach and Guide to Practice (Lui and Rosenthal)

Breakout IV: Prevention: The Most Effective Disability Management Strategy

• Using Employer Incentives to Promote Workplace Safety.  Does Experience Rating Work? (Neuhauser)
• WOSHTEP: A Model for Prevention and Return to Work Thorugh Worker Leadership (Dewey), ABSTRACT
• Successful Prevention Strategies in the Hairdresser's Trade (Taddicken)

Breakout V: New Paradigms in Disability Management

• Crippling of America- Living Enabled or Living Disabled (Brigham and Aurbach)
• Converting Impairment to Disability- Why it Matters (Aurbach and Clayton) PAPER 

Wednesday, September 22, 2010

7:55- 8:30  Breakfast Briefings

• Experience of Electric Powered Indoor/ Outdoor Wheelchair (EPIOC) Provision in the UK NHS 1997-2009 (Frank)
• Disability Management: What Can We Learn From Professional Sports? (Froese), ABSTRACT 
• Let's Stay on at Work.  Supporting Persons with Severe Disabilities to Stay on in Employment (Hiltunen)
• Parenting a Child with Autism Spectrum Disorder: Parental Work Variables (Wagner)

8:30- 9:00 Wednesday Opening Remarks
Gina Elisabeth Lund 

9:00-10:30 IFDM/IAIABC Plenary Address
Fostering Labor and Management Collaboration in Formulating Return to Work Policies 

Speakers:  Hans-Joachim Wolff, Marina Schroder, Sean McNally, Tom Rankin

11:00- 12:00  Breakout Sessions

Breakout I: Job Retention and Return to Work in the Context of the UNCRPD (Sponsored by GLADNET)

• Speakers: Bruyere, McAnaney, Murray, Zeitzer, Olivier (United States, Ireland, Switzerland, Brazil, and Australia)