Assessment of fitness for work
Session details
Date:
Time:
12:00pm - 1:30pm (Toronto time)
Location:
Zoom videoconferencing
Didactic presentation by:
Anil Adisesh
Session objectives
At the end of this session, participants should be able to:
- Understand and explain the concept of “workability”
- Apply functional principles to facilitate “workability”
- Outline the types of barriers to return to work and the role of the physician in overcoming them
Session resources
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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