IFDM 2010: Presentation Abstracts
September 20-22, 2010
Los Angeles, California, USA
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Monday September 20, 2010
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)
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 Partnerships at Kaiser Permanente Improve IDM: Physicians, Labor and Management (Smisko, Wiesner, Salama, Nagel) (Presentation Overview)
- 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)
- Strategies for Helping Adults with Disabilities Return to or Stay at Work (Concepcion and Steel-Lowney)
- Transitional Work Can Protect the Productivity of the Workforce. But How? (Tugman, Bimrose, Reymond)
- Entrepreneurship, Reality or Escapism, in Creating Work for People with Disabilities (Gratzer and Larsson)
- A Systematic Review: The State of Employment of Persons with Disabilities (Harder)
- 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)
- New Approaches to Rehabilitation Using the Facilities of Accident Insurance Hospital (Koehler)
- Occupational Data Use in Disability Determination and Rehabilitation in the United States (Karman, Barros-Bailey, and Fraser)
- 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)
- Assessing the Quality of Care Provided to Occupational Injuries (Nuckols)
- Early Intervention in Psychosocial Risk Factors for Chronic Pain (Cox and Coupland)
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) (Presentation Overview)
- The Reg Flags/ Green Lights Guide for Challenging Return-to-Work Situations (MacEachen)
- Process Mapping: Integrating Theory and Practice to Promote Disability Management (Randall) (Presentation Overview)
- Successful Return to Work by Collaboration Between Insurers (Schian)
- Fast Track Strategies for Disability Programs Around the World (Rajnes)
- How the Government Can Help People with Intermittent Work Capacity Stay in Work (Cahill)
- Breaking the Barriers to Work, the Icelandic Organizational Model of Vocational Rehabilitation (Thorhallsdottir and Jonsdottir)
- The Disability Management Model in Taiwan and Challenges it Faces (Wu)
- An Overview of Disability Policy in Taiwan: Social Inclusive Perspective (Yan and Chuang)
- The Effect of Public and Private Efforts to Improve the Return to Work of Disabled Workers (Seabury)
- Implementing Disability Management in Companies (Geisen)
- Innovative Disability Management: Managing Resource Depletion Through Team Diversity and Collaboration (Kehoe)
- Major Factors Contributing to Successful Cases of Work Retention After Disability (Habeck and Feuerstein)
- Improving Outcomes by Training Physicians to Manage the Process of Return to Work (Jurisic)
- 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 Management: Transferring Research to Practice in Canadian Organizations (Gowan)
- Australia's Accident Compensation Framework: Quality Reform, Claimant Gaps or a National Scheme (West)
- Rebirth of Vocational Rehabilitation in the UK 1999-2009 (Frank)
11:00- 12:30 Breakout Sessions
Breakout I: Employer Success Stories
- Disability Management at Teck Highland Valley Copper Partnership (Droder and Boyce)
- Planning for Success: Addressing Work Accommodation Needs During a Targeted Hiring Initiative (Weller and Gowan)
- Disability Management in the International Arena- The Virgin Blue Airline Experience (Taylor)
- Benchmarking Disability Management in the Healthcare Sector (Harvey)
- Success of a Return-to-Work/ Disability Management Strategy (Cox)
- Social and Cost Benefits of a 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)
- Return-to-Work Coordinators' Competencies (Loisel)
- Competencies and Task Areas of Disability Management Professionals in Germany (Niehaus and Marfels)
- 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
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)
- New Prospects of Disability Management for Teenagers with Learning Disability (Vater)
- Participation Through Integration- Effective Help Offered by German Federal Pension Insurance: Counseling, Servies, Rehabilitation, Company-based Re-entry Management (Egner)(GERMANY)
- Managing Disability from the JAN Perspective: 1983-2010 (Hirsh)(UNITED STATES)
- "Superabile" is Information, Orientation, Companionship, Community Animation, Territorial Network and Participated Citizenship (Carletti)(ITALY)
- De- Medicalized Approach to Return to Work and Disability Management Practice (Baranowski)
- How Wellness Initiatives Impact both Occupational and Non-Occupational Program Efficiencies and Effectiveness (Guyan, Brady, Peplowski, and Weir)
- Moving Wellness, Disability Management and Attendance Management Programs Through Communication (Smith-Graham)
- Do We Accurately Identify Disability as Occupational? Should We Bother Trying? (Neuhauser)
- 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 and Campbell)
- Duration Disability Guidelines: Tools for Disability Management (Jamieson, Seymour, Whelan)
- Core Set Development for Vocational Rehabilitation Using the ICF (Escorpizo)
- How to Identify the Right/Real Cases to Control Through Disability Management (Schulin)
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)
- Depressive Symptomatology Following a Workplace Injury: A Prospective Cohort Study (Carnide)
- Applied Psychological Well- Being Toward a Contributive Future for Persons with Disabilities (Williams)
- Return to work of Mentally Ill Personnel in Germany: A Systematic Review (Friedrich-Gaertner)
- Australia's JobAccess: New Dimensions in Mental Health Support (Tuckwell)
- Using OMPQ to Reduce Risk of Prolonged Disability Workers' Comensation Cases (Margison)
- Placing a Value on Lost Work Time: Connecting Treatment to Short- Term Disability (Jinnett)
- 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)
- 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)
- Successful Prevention Strategies in The Hairdresser's Trade (Taddicken)
- Crippling of America- Living Enabled or Living Disabled (Brigham and Aurbach)
- Converting Impairment to Disability- Why it Matters (Aurbach and Clayton)
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
7:55- 8:50 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)
- 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)
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)
- Who Profits from Return to Work (Breuer and Royle)
- The Value of Disability Management for Employers (Wolff)
- The Value of Disability Management for Workers (Schröder)
