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2012 Annual Meeting
"Managing Employees at Risk: A Partnership Between Business and Psychiatry"
April 14-15, 2012 — University Club of Chicago, Chicago, IL

Program Agenda

Saturday, April 14, 2012

7:30 – 8:00 a.m. Continental Breakfast

8:00 – 8:15 a.m. Introduction—Daven Morrison, MD

8:15 – 10:00 a.m. The Role of Leadership in Making a Safe Work Environment: Lessons from the Oil Industry—Halina Caravello, PhD

10:00 – 10:15 a.m. Break

10:15 a.m. – Noon Managing Threats from a Distributed Environment: Working within and Beyond an International Consulting Agency—Jerry Post, MD, and Tim Weir (Accenture)

Noon – 1:30 p.m. Lunch (on your own)

1:30 – 3:30 p.m. Assessing Violence—Phil Resnick, MD

3:30 – 3:45 p.m. Break

3:45 – 5:15 p.m. Panel: How Do Professionals Advise Senior Leaders of an Organization About Safety and the Workplace? — Halina Caravello, Jerry Post, Phil Resnick, and Tim Weir

5:15 – 6:30 p.m. Break

6:30 – 7:30 p.m. Cocktails and Hors d’ouvres: Meet the Presenters and the Participants

7:30 – 9:00 p.m. Dinner Session: The Future of OOP Practice: Insights from AOOP Leaders Panelists: Sandra Cohen, MD, C. Donald Williams, MD, Stephen Heidel, MD Sunday, April 15, 2012

7:45 – 8:00 a.m. Continental Breakfast

8:00– 9:45 a.m. Lessons from the C-Suite: What is on the Mind of the CEO—Kerry Sulkowicz, MD

9:45 – 10:00 a.m. Break

10:00 a.m. – Noon The OOP Challenge of Understanding a Vague Term: "Stress"—Andy Brown, MD

Noon Meeting Adjourns

PURPOSE

This program will provide current information on selected organizational and occupational psy-chiatry topics and provide important resources and networking opportunities necessary for keeping current in organizational and occupational psychiatry.

INTENDED AUDIENCE

This program is intended for organizational and occupational psychiatrists and others interest-ed in organizational and occupational psychiatry.

EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES

Following the program, participants should be able to:

  • Give clinical reasoning for a safe work environment.

  •  Define the impact of leadership attitudes on safety in the workplace.

  • Describe how an organization cares for a diverse and widespread employee population when threatened.

  • Recognize factors that correlate to threats of violence.

  • Implement methods and prepare recommendations for an organization concerned about violence.

  • Identify historical challenges in organizational and occupational psychiatry to inform new ideas for the future of the profession

  • Clinically assess the highest ranking officer in a for-profit organization.

  • Diagnose and build treatment plans for "work stress."

2012 Program Committee

Greg Couser, M.D.

Frederic Gerr, M.D.

Brandy Huseman, B.S.

Decisions related to educational content of this activity and speaker selection are responsibili-ties of the program committee. Companies providing financial support did not have input into these areas.

DISCLOSURE POLICY: Everyone in a position to control the content of this educational activity will disclose to the CME provider (University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine) and to partici-pants all relevant financial relationships with any commercial interests. They will also disclose if any pharmaceuticals or medical procedures and devices discussed are investigational or unap-proved for use by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

PROGRAM FACULTY

Andy Brown, MD, Consulting Psychiatrist, Boston, MA

Halina Caravello, PhD, Vice President, EH&S, Tyco International, New York, NY.

Sandra Kopit Cohen, MD, Clinical Asst. Professor of Psychiatry, Cornell University Medical College, New York, NY.

Stephen Heidel, MD, MBA, President, Heidel & Associates, La Jolla, CA.

Daven Morrison, MD, Morrison Associates, Ltd, Palatine, IL.

Jerry Post, MD, Professor of Psychiatry, Political Psychology and International Affairs and Director of the Political Psychology Program at The George Washington University, Washington, D.C.

Phil Resnick, MD, Professor of Psychiatry, Director, Division of Forensic Psychiatry, Case Western Reserve Univer-sity School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH.

Kerry Sulkowicz, MD, Founder and Managing Principal, The Boswell Group, LLC, New York, NY.

Tim Weir, B.S., Director of Global Asset Protection, Accenture, Washington, DC.

C. Donald Williams, MD, PS, CGP, Yakima, WA.

CONTINUING EDUCATION CREDITS

Physician Credit

This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the Essential Areas and Policies of the Accredita-tion Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint sponsorship of The University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine and The University of Iowa College of Public Health. The Carver College of Medicine is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

The University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine designates this live activity for a maximum of 12.25 AMA PRA Cate-gory 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activi-ty.

Participants attending on April 14 only will be awarded 8.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ Participants attending on April 15 only will be awarded 3.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™

REGISTRATION FEES

$790 – Saturday & Sunday, April 14 & 15, 2012 (includes AOOP membership) Register before January 1, 2012, and receive $100 off (pay only $690)

Registration fees apply to all registrants and include association membership, all presentations, course materials, and continental breakfasts. For more information about registration including discounted fees for certain membership classes, visit www.aoop.org or call 509-457-4611.

ACCOMODATIONS

A room block has been reserved at University Club Chicago. Please call the Club at 312-726-2840. Indicate you are attending the Academy of Organizational & Occupational Psychiatry 23rd Annual Meeting to receive the dis-counted rate.

If you make your reservation through the University Club Chicago Website enter AOOP as the code to obtain the discount. You can obtain the same rate by calling the Club directly as noted above.

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The complexities and stresses of the modern workplace create new opportunities for psychiatrists. As consultants or clinicians, psychiatrists address a wide variety of organizational, clinical, and medical-legal problems that arise at work.  

 To join AOOP contact AOOP, 402 E Yakima Ave #330, Yakima,  WA 98901. FAX 509-454-3295. Phone 509-457-4611 [Identify yourself as calling on AOOP business]

 Sandra Gabel-Onkels is Administrator: Phone 509-457-4611, or email us at cdonald@aol.com.

If you encounter difficulty making contact, contact the webmaster at cdonald@aol.com and be sure to include "AOOP Membership" in the header.

For more information about the University Club Chicago, please see their website at www.ucco.com or call them at 312-726-2840.

The 2011 Annual Meeting is concluded

Up in the Air: Navigating Uncertainty in the Workplace

April 16 & 17, 2011 at University Club of Chicago, Chicago, IL

 (Titles with links connect to presentation)

Saturday April 16

7:15 – 7:45 a.m.        Continental Breakfast

7:45 – 8:15 a.m.        Introduction and Program Overview:

Physical & Psychological Impact of Job Loss and Uncertainty in the Workplace

Josh Gibson, MD

8:15 – 9:05 a.m.       

The Culture of Risk: Diminished Loyalty and the Dangerous Insider

Jerrold M. Post, MD

9:05 – 9:55 a.m.       

Beware Geeks Bearing Gifts: Information Technology Saboteurs

Tim Weir, BS and Armando Lara, BA

9:55 – 10:15 a.m.     

Q&A with Post, Weir and Lara

10:15 – 10:30 a.m.    Break

10:30 – 11:15 a.m.   

Support Employees in Distress

Stephen Heidel, MD

11:15 a.m. – Noon   

Postal Service Criteria for Assessing Risk for Violence

David McCann, MD

Noon – 1:30 p.m.      Lunch (on your own)

1:30 – 3:00 p.m.       

Uncovering the Differences Between Surviving and Thriving

David Morrison, MD

3:00 – 3:15 p.m.        Break

3:15 – 4:15 p.m.       

Uncovering the Differences Between Surviving and Thriving (continued)

David Morrison, MD

4:15 – 4:30 p.m.       

Where Are They Now? Updates from Cases and Presentations from 2010 Conference

David Morrison, MD, Daven Morrison, MD, Josh Gibson, MD

4:30 – 6:00 p.m.       

Threat Response Team: Designing, Implementing and Executing a Process to Keep Employees Safe at Work

Don Albert, BA, BD and Virginia Hebard, MSN, RN, COHN-S/CM, CWCP

6:00 – 6:30 p.m.        Break

6:30 – 9:30 p.m.       

Dinner and a Movie: Up in the Air

Josh Gibson, MD

Sunday April 17

7:45 – 8:00 a.m.        Continental Breakfast

8:00 – 9:30 a.m.       

Organizational Response to Stress and Distress: The Department of Defense Perspective

Paul Hammer, MD

9:30 – 10:30 a.m.     

Psychotic or Subversive: A Fitness for Duty Assessment at a High Security Job

Julia Reade, MD

10:30 – 10:45 a.m.    Break

10:45 a.m. – Noon   

Flying from Shame

Sandra Kopit Cohen, MD, David Morrison MD

Noon                           Meeting Adjourns

 

PURPOSE

This program will provide current information on selected organizational and occupational psychiatry topics and provide important resources and networking opportunities necessary for keeping current in organizational and occupational psychiatry.

Intended Audience

 

This program is intended for organizational and occupational psychiatrists and others interested in organizational and occupational psychiatry.

 

Educational Objectives

Following the program, participants should be able to:

·       Describe physical effects of job loss

·       Define how the changing global workplace has affected loyalty between employer and employee

·       List properties of programs that can be institutionalized to diminish risk of betrayal

·       Identify the psychological characteristics of the dangerous IT insider

·       Summarize the topics discussed during the question and answer session

·       Identify two things a supervisor should do when talking to an employee in distress

·       List the standard issues to be addressed for U.S. Postal Service Fitness for Duty evaluations

·       Assess risk for violence according to U.S. Postal Service criteria for independent examiners

·       Identify assessment tools for evaluation healthy executives and managers

·       Distinguish executives who thrive from those who fail from psychological testing data

·       Distinguish executives who thrive from those who fail from psychiatric interview data

·       Define how executive success relates to emotional resilience

·       Identify longitudinal changes from occupational psychiatry interventions

·       Assess when a threat response team is an appropriate intervention

·       Identify specific ways a threat response team can intervene to provide for patient, family and organizational safety

·       Explain the emotional perspective of workers with regard to job loss

·       Summarize best practices for employers when downsizing

·       Describe appropriate organizational responses to stress

·       Describe a complex fitness for duty case

·       Expand his or her understanding of fitness for duty evaluations

·       Identify dysfunctional work behaviors that result from the employee’s feelings of shame

·       Work with organizations to minimize the use of shame as a mode for influencing employee behavior.



 

CME Credits

Day One    10.25 hours

Day Two      3.75 hours

Total         14.00 hours


Registration fees apply to all membership, all presentations, course materials, and continental breakfasts.  Register on-line at www.aoop.org or call 509-457-4611.

ACCOMODATIONS

A room block has been reserved at University Club Chicago.

Please call the Club at 312-726-2840.  Indicate you are attending the Academy of Organizational & Occupational Psychiatry 20th Annual Meeting to receive the discounted rate.

If you make your reservation through the University Club Chicago Website enter AOOP as the code to obtain the discount. You can obtain the same rate by calling the Club directly as noted above.

 


Concluded

2009 Academy of Organizational & Occupational Psychiatry 20th Annual Meeting

“Organizational Change and Chicanery”

University Club of Chicago; Chicago, IL

 

Saturday, April 4, 2009

 

7:30-8:00 am                    Continental Breakfast

 

8:00-8:10                         Introduction

                                       Daven Morrison, MD

 

8:10 -10:00                      The Psychiatrist as Leader: Case Stories of a Shrink in Charge

                                        Steven Pflanz, MD, Lt Col, USAF, MC, FS

 

10:00-10:15                      Break

 

10:15-11:30                      Bringing Freud to Fraud: Understanding the Mind of the White Collar Criminal

                                        Sridhar Ramamoorti, PhD, CFE, CPA

Joseph Koletar, DPA, CFE

Daven Morrison, MD

 

11:30 am-1:00 pm              Lunch (on your own)

 

1:00-2:30                         The Culture of Risk, Diminished Loyalty and the Dangerous Insider

                                       Jerrold M. Post, MD

 

2:30-2:40                          Break

 

2:40-4:10                          Case Series of Embezzlers

                                       Julia M. Reade, MD

 

4:10-4:20                          Break

 

4:20-5:20                         Panel Discussion: Change and Chicanery - What’s the Role for an Occupational Psychiatrist: The Traps and Opportunities

                                        Julia M. Reade, MD

Jerrold M. Post MD

Sridhar Ramamoorti, PhD, CFE, CPA

Daven Morrison, MD

 

6:30-9:30                                20th Anniversary Special – Movie Discussion “Catch Me if You Can”

                                                Joseph Koletar, DPA, CFE

Daven Morrison, MD

 

Sunday, April 5, 2009

 

7:30-8:00 am                    Continental Breakfast

 

8:00-9:00                         What Organizations Should Know about Snakes in Suits: An Introduction to Psychopathy

                                       Stephan Carlson, MD

 

9:00-9:15                          Break

 

9:15-11:00                        How Executives Put Organizations at Risk

                                       David Morrison, MD

 

11:00-11:10                       Break

 

11:10 am-12:30 pm             How Executives Put Organizations at Risk

                                       David Morrison, MD

 

12:30                                Adjourn
 

PURPOSE

This program will provide current information on selected organizational and occupational psychiatry topics and provide important resources and networking opportunities necessary for keeping current in organizational and occupational psychiatry.

Intended Audience

This program is intended for organizational and occupational psychiatrists and others interested in organizational and occupational psychiatry.

Educational Objectives

Following the program, participants should be able to:

·         Explain how a psychiatrist's experience and skill set influences the practice of leadership in organizational settings

·         Describe the challenges and advantages for psychiatrists who assume leadership positions

·         Present an overview of the study of fraud to highlight the absence of the behavioral sciences

·         Discuss how fraud is perceived by organizations and how an occupational psychiatrist can help address the problem

·         Illustrate the financial impact of fraud when perpetrated by employees at various levels of the organization including by senior level “C-Suite” executives

·         Demonstrate the various motivations of senior executives

·         Explain the strengths and weaknesses of applying the concept of “psychopathy” (e.g. the well-known text “Snakes in Suits”)

·         Summarize the manner in which the online world is associated with diminished employee loyalty and the threat of sabotage, espionage, and fraud

·         List the common psychological characteristics found in a case series of embezzlers

·         Discuss how change can open the door for problems as well as services from occupational and organizational psychiatrists

·         Summarize how an occupational psychiatrist can help address the problems of change and chicanery

·         Integrate the common patterns in motivation to harm the company from embezzlers, senior level fraudsters, and those who sabotage the IT (information technology) function

·         Discuss the film of an accomplished check counterfeiter and general “chameleon” based on a true story

·         Review and highlight the challenges in arresting an individual like the main character from the perspective of a former senior officer of the FBI

·         Outline the elements of the main character’s personality as highlighted by the film

·         Integrate the common patterns in motivation to harm the company from embezzlers, senior level fraudsters, and those who sabotage the IT (information technology) function

·         Define the concept of psychopathy and describe how psychopaths operate in organizations

·         Identify situations and organizations that are more at risk for psychopathy and identify when to consider using the Psychopathy Checklist-Revised (PCL-R) and the Psychopathy Checklist: Screening Version

·         State personality characteristics that make an executive vulnerable to damaging his or her organization, define the relevant human factors that put organizations at risk and describe the forces which contribute to organizational disaster.

2009 Program Committee

Daven Morrison, MD

Craig Zwerling, MD, PhD, MPH

Colleen A. Gross-Advani, BBA

Decisions related to educational content of this activity and speaker selection are responsibilities of the program committee. Companies providing financial support did not have input into these areas. 

DISCLOSURE POLICY: Everyone in a position to control the content of this educational activity will disclose to the CME provider (University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine) and to participants all relevant financial relationships with any commercial interests. They will also disclose if any pharmaceuticals or medical procedures and devices discussed are investigational or unapproved for use by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

PROGRAM FACULTY

Stephan Carlson, MD, Assistant Professor, Louisiana State University Health Science Center, New Orleans, LA.

Joseph Koletar, DPA, CFE, Consultant, Bolivia, NC.

Daven Morrison, MD, Morrison Associates, Ltd, Palatine, IL.

David Morrison, MD, President, Morrison Associates, Ltd, Palatine, IL.

Steven Pflanz, MD, Lt Col, USAF, MC, FS, Commander, 579th Medical Operations Squadron, Bolling AFB, Washington, DC.

Jerrold M. Post, MD, Professor of Psychiatry, Political Psychology and International Affairs, Director of the Political Psychology Program, The Elliott School of International Affairs, The George Washington University, Washington, DC.

Sridhar Ramamoorti, PhD, CFE, CPA, Partner, Corporate Governance, Grant Thornton LLP, Chicago, IL.

Julia M. Reade, MD, Instructor in Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School; Clinical Assistant in Psychiatry, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center; Private Practice, Forensic Psychiatry, Newtonville, MA.

Continuing Education Credits

Physician Credit

This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the Essential Areas and Policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint sponsorship of The University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine and The University of Iowa College of Public Health. The Carver College of Medicine is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

The University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine designates this educational activity for a maximum of 14.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Participants attending on April 4, 2009 only will be awarded 10.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Participants attending on April 5, 2009 only will be awarded 4.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™.

 

2008 Academy of Organizational & Occupational Psychiatry 19th Annual Meeting

Trauma, PTSD, and Organizational Culture

University Club of Chicago, IL

Saturday, March 15, 2008

7:30-8:00 a.m.         Continental Breakfast

8:00-8:10 a.m.         Introduction

Greg Couser, M.D.

8:10 -10:00 a.m.      Changing the Culture of a Large Retail Organization – Part 1

David E. Morrison, M.D.

10:00-10:15 a.m.     Break

10:15-11:30 a.m.     Changing the Culture of a Large Retail Organization – Part 2

David E. Morrison, M.D.

11:30-1:00 p.m.       Lunch (on your own)

1:00--2:30 p.m.       Challenges in Transforming an Organization's Approach to Mental Health

Paul Hammer, M.D.

2:30-2:40 p.m.         Break

2:40-4:10 p.m.        Organizational Approaches to the Management, Treatment, and Prevention of PTSD

                             Steve Pflanz, M.D.

4:10-4:20 p.m.         Break

4:20-5:20 p.m.         Case Series of Three Robberies with differing PTSD responses

Julia Reade, M.D.

 

Sunday, March 16, 2008

8:00-8:30 a.m.        Continental Breakfast

8:30-10:00 a.m.       Treating Occupational PTSD to Resolution. Building a Traumatic Incident Intervention Program with Industry

David McCann, M.D.

10:00-10:15 a.m.     Break

10:15-11:45 a.m.     The “Complete” IME: Integrating the file review with literature references, interview findings, the MMPI-2, and the SIRS, or what I have learned from 31 years of mistakes

C. Donald Williams, MD CGP

11:45 a.m.              Conference Concludes


AOOP 18th Annual Meeting

Co-sponsored by ACOEM--10 Category 1 CME credits

Saturday, April 14, 2007

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7:30-8:00 a.m.             Continental Breakfast

8:00-8:05 a.m.             Introduction—Greg Couser

8:05 -10:00a.m.            Psychiatry’s Role in the Stay-at-Work/Return-to-Work Process—           Jennifer Christian, Greg Couser, Don Williams

10:00-10:15 a.m.          Break

10:15-11:45 a.m.          Combat and Operational Stress Control in Iraq:  Extreme OOP—Paul Hammer

11:45 a.m.-1:15 p.m.     Lunch 

1:15-2:30 p.m.             Toxic Leadership—Vineeth John

2:30-2:45 p.m.             Break

2:45-4:00 p.m.             Engagement and the Role of the Manager:  Finding Common Ground Where the Hard Science of Psychiatry can Support the Basic Needs of Management and an Organization—Daven Morrison, Don Albert

4:00-5:00 p.m.             Panel Discussion—Organizational & Occupational Psychiatry:  Who are we?

Sunday, April 15, 2007

8:00-8:30 a.m.             Continental Breakfast

8:30-10:00 a.m.           Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Conversion Disorder: Determination of Cause in the Context of Injury Claims—David McCann

10:00-10:15 a.m.          Break

10:15-11:45 a.m.          Work Overload, Burnout, and Empathy: The Struggle to Maintain Work-Life Balance in Psychiatric Practice—Steven Pflanz 

11:45 a.m.                  Conference Concludes

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