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IHPM announces new faculty member for Academy for Health and Productivity Management IHPM is pleased to announce the addition of Rick Bellingham to the faculty of the IHPM Third Annual, First International Pre-Conference Event: AHPM II- Next Steps in Productivity Measurement and Design on Oct. 6th. Rick is the CEO of iobility, a company specializing in change management and organizational learning with Fortune 500 companies and the author of Corporate Culture Change and Corporate Culture Sourcebook. He will speak on the measurement of organizational health as part of the expanded Academy approach of building the case for HPM from the multiple perspectives of the four original centers of inquiry.
Dr. Ron Kessler joins the faculty for AHPM II
on October 6th in Phoenix
Dr. Ron Kessler from the Harvard
Medical School, who is building a very large HPM survey database
from his field work with multiple large employers, and who is
delivering the opening keynote address to the conference
on Tuesday morning, Oct. 7th, also will join the faculty for the
Academy on Oct. 6th. (Some of his published findings have been
featured in earlier magazines as Academy
Briefs.)
Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas to present
at HPM 101
Bob Queyrouze from the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, a featured speaker at last year's conference, will present a case study of how to build an HPM project (in this instance, on musculoskeletal conditions) as part of HPM 101, another pre-conference event on Oct. 6th under the direction of Dr. Spencer Borden and his colleague Christine Turner of Integrity Consulting.
Novartis joins Comerica at Breakout
Session
Vicki Barghout,
Outcomes Research Manager, from Novartis will join Dave Groves,
VP, Corporate Health Management, of Comerica to present at the
breakout session on IBS in the workplace (BO11 on Wed. Oct 8th at 8
am) She will present an ROI model for treating IBS, developed
at the request of a national steering committee of employers who
provided input to Novartis during a series of advisory board
meetings held across the U.S.
Arthritis is a Workforce
Issue
Economic Impact
of Arthritis: The Ripple Effect Treatment of
Arthritis
Arthritis in the Workplace is the focal point in the first "Special Issue" of Health & Productivity Management and will be available to members the week after Labor Day. It opens with the graphic observation that this leading cause of disability in the workforce is an important target for employer efforts at better disease management to keep these vital workers active and productive. IHPM's own survey - featured in an earlier regular issue (Vol. 1, No. 3) identified musculoskeletal conditions, mostly low back pain and osteoarthritis, as the leading health-related reason for lost productivity. Co-edited by Sean Sullivan, JD, President & CEO of IHPM and Wendy Lynch, PhD, President, Lynch Consulting, Ltd., the special issue features articles from an extensive interview with Dr. Joseph Golbus, a leading clinical expert on arthritis and head of the division of Rheumatology at Evanston Northwestern Health Care, as well as Associate Professor at Northwestern University Medical School and a powerful new research piece by Lamont Muchmore, MBA, from Options and Choices (OCI), a leading national data analysis firm. We want to thank Pfizer for making possible this comprehensive and up-to-date look at the prevalence, diagnosis and appropriate treatment of this significant disease for the working population. Look for future Special Issues focusing on other diseases that have major impacts on total health-related costs -- including lost productivity.
New Affiliate Members bring Occupational Health Nurses
and Preventive Medicine Physicians into the HPM
movement
IHPM is pleased to announce the
addition of the American Association of Occupational Health Nurses
(AAOHN) and the American College of Preventive Medicine
(ACPM) to its Affiliate membership. Representatives are
Jennifer McDuffee, Director of External Affairs for the GA based
AAOHN and Dr. Robert Orford of the Mayo Clinic in Scottsdale and
President of the ACPM.
Addition to Business Leadership Council
Welcome Dr. Alberto Colombi, Global
Medical Director of PPG Industries! Dr. Colombi has won
national recognition for his work on depression -- some of which he
will share with readers of Health and Productivity
Management magazine in the final issue of this
year.
IHPM's Weekly Internet Radio Show This week's show (Friday, August 22, 10:00 am Pacific and 1:00 pm Eastern) will come from Intermountain Health Care in Salt Lake City, where IHPM is conducting a big HPM study on diabetes supported by Aventis and now Abbott Labs. This show will feature an interview with Dr. Brent James, who directs Intermountain's Institute for Health Care Delivery Research. Dr. James is an international leader in health care quality improvement and now is part of the health and productivity movement. To tune in on August 22nd, log onto www.voiceamerica.com and be sure RealPlayer is installed on your computer before the program begins. If you are unable to tune in live, the show will re-broadcast 12 hours later, 10:00 pm Pacific and 1:00 am Eastern. Each show is also added to IHPM's website the following week after the original broadcast. To listen to our past shows, please click here. |
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