Diagnosis and management of work-related injuries and illnesses

Session details

Date:

Time:

Location:

Zoom videoconferencing

Didactic presentation by:

Anil Adisesh

Session objectives

At the end of this session, participants should be able to:

1. Define occupational illness and occupational injury
2. Evaluate a patient for a suspected occupational or environmental illness/injury
3. Outline a return-to-work plan

Session resources

Didactic presentation: Diagnosis and management of work-related injuries and illnesses
In this presentation, Dr. Anil Adisesh discusses how to define an occupational illness and occupational injury, evaluate a patient for a suspected occupational or environmental illness/injury, and outline a return-to-work plan
Download the PDF(280.35 KB)
Occupational History Recording Tool (OHRT)
This tool is being developed by the ECHO OEM research team. We encourage you to use it with your patients/clients and would appreciate your feedback echooem@iwh.on.ca.
WSIB Operational Policy: Chronic Mental Stress
The purpose of this policy is to provide entitlement guidelines for claims for chronic mental stress. Source: Workplace Safety and Insurance Board
WSIB Operational Policy: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in First Responders and Other Designated Workers
The purpose of this policy is to outline the circumstances under which PTSD in first responders and other designated workers is presumed to be work-related. Source: Workplace Safety and Insurance Board

About presenter

Dr. Anil Adisesh received his medical degrees at the University of Liverpool, UK. He is UK trained in general medicine, with UK accreditation in family medicine and UK specialty accreditation in occupational medicine. 

Adisesh worked as Deputy Chief Medical Officer at the UK Health and Safety Executive national laboratory, Buxton. He was subsequently appointed the inaugural JD Irving Limited, Research Chair in Occupational Medicine at Dalhousie University, and was later Associate Professor and Division Director of Occupational Medicine in the Department of Medicine at the University of Toronto. He was also Head of the Division of Occupational Medicine at St. Michael’s Hospital Toronto.

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