Overview of occupational and environmental medicine
Session details
Date:
Time:
12:00pm - 1:30pm (Toronto time)
Location:
Zoom videoconferencing
Didactic presentation by:
Anil Adisesh
Session objectives
At the end of the session, participants should be able to:
- Describe the roles and functions of an occupational health team and those of occupational physicians
- Recognize the common categories of occupational medical conditions
- Explain the relationship between the occupational and environmental aspects of OEM
Session resources
Durand-Moreau, Quentin MD; Galarneau, Jean-Michel PhD. Mental Health Status of Canadian Funeral Service Workers at the Beginning of the COVID-19 Pandemic. Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine: June 2021 - Volume 63 - Issue 6 - p e330-e334. doi: 10.1097/JOM.0000000000002204
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.
Case presentations
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