Grand Rounds
URMC Occupational and Environmental Medicine Grand Rounds aim to present clinically relevant state-of-the-art lectures to practicing physicians, residents, and students who maintain an interest in this branch of medicine. The overall goal is to deliver a high quality program which will enhance the practitioners’ understanding and knowledge of the principles and practice of Occupational and Environmental Medicine.
To gain access to the lecture/get the password, please email Brenda Herrmann.
2024
March 7, 2024
URMC Occupational and Environmental Medicine Grand Rounds: The Intersection of Occupational Health & Recovery Ready Workplaces: A Social Work Perspective
Speaker: Kristen Chalmers, LMSW, Education Specialist & Social Worker, Finger Lakes Occupational Health Services
2023
January 5, 2023
URMC Occupational and Environmental Medicine Grand Rounds: Coffee Roasting and the Risk of Severe Respiratory Tract Infections
Speaker: Matthew McGraw, MD, Assistant Professor, URMC Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pulmonary Medicine
Video
February 9, 2023
URMC Occupational and Environmental Medicine Grand Rounds: Likely Environmental Causes of Parkinson’s Disease
Speaker: Ray Dorsey, MD, David M. Levy Professor of Neurology, Author, Ending Parkinson’s Disease, Center for Health + Technology (CHeT), University of Rochester
Video
March 9, 2023
URMC Occupational and Environmental Medicine Grand Rounds: Workplace Bullying: A Preventable Occupational Health Hazard
Speaker: Kristen Chalmers, LMSW, Education Specialist & Social Worker, Finger Lakes Occupational Health Services
Video
April 6, 2023
URMC Occupational and Environmental Medicine Grand Rounds: Occupational Health Hazards in Wastewater Treatment Facilities
Speaker: Anna Mehrotra, PhD PE (she/her), Director, Wastewater Surveillance Program, Water Environment Federation
Video
May 4, 2023
URMC Occupational and Environmental Medicine Grand Rounds: Let’s Talk about PFAS
Speaker: Nicholas E. Nacca, MD FAACT,
Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine
Director of Medical Toxicology
Department of Emergency Medicine
University of Rochester Medical Center
Video
November 2, 2023
URMC Occupational and Environmental Medicine Grand Rounds: World Trade Center Health Program: Entering the Third Decade
Speaker: Jacqueline M Moline, MD, MSc,
Professor and Chair
Senior Vice President
Occupational Medicine, Epidemiology and Prevention
Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell
Occupational and Environmental Medicine of Long Island
Northwell Queens WTC Clinical Center
2022
April 7, 2022
URMC Occupational and Environmental Medicine Grand Rounds Topic: Opioids and the Workplace
Speaker: Jonathan Rosen, MS. CIH, FAIHA, National Clearinghouse for Worker Safety and Health Training
Video
March 3, 2022
URMC Occupational and Environmental Medicine Grand Rounds Topic: Occupational health of sign language interpreters during the COVID-19 pandemic
Speaker: Gretchen Roman, PT, DPT, PhD, Postdoctoral Associate with Community Outreach & Engagement in the Wilmot Cancer Institute and in the Department of Public Health Sciences
Sign Language Interpretation Provided
Video
2021
November 4, 2021
Occupational and Environmental Medicine Grand Rounds: Coding Evaluation and Management Encounters for Workers’ Compensation: the case for a paradigm shift
Speaker: Cristina Demian, MD, MPH, FACOEM, Associate Professor, URMC Department of Environmental Medicine, Medical Director, Finger Lakes Occupational Health Services
Video
October 7, 2021
Occupational and Environmental Medicine Grand Rounds: Work Related Long COVID-19 and the Impact of Workers’ Compensation Benefits on Long Term Patient Care
Speakers: Winston Kwa, MD, MPH, Associate Professor, Mount Sinai School of Medicine Selikoff Centers for Occupational Health
Yelena Globina, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor, Mount Sinai School of Medicine Selikoff Centers for Occupational Health
Sharon Lee, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor, Mount Sinai School of Medicine Selikoff Centers for Occupational Health
September 9, 2021
Occupational and Environmental Medicine Grand Rounds: Too Hot to Work: Climate Change and Outdoor Workers’ Health
Speaker: Brenda Ekwurzel, PhD, Director of Climate Science and Senior Climate Scientist and at the Union of Concerned Scientists
Video
May 13, 2021
Annual Kenneth V. Dodgson, M.D. Lectureship: Is this patient’s cancer work-related? Determination of work-related causation of cancer in an individual patient
Speaker: George Friedman-Jimenez, MD, DrPH; Director, Bellevue / NYU Occupational Environmental Medicine Clinic; Assistant Professor of Population Health, Medicine and Environmental Medicine, Bellevue Hospital Center, NYU School of Medicine
Video
April 1, 2021
Overview of Spine Surgery
Speaker: Brian Gordon, MD, National Director for Musculoskeletal Care, ChenMed
March 4, 2021
Marijuana in New York State: an update
Speaker: Karl Auerbach MD, MS, MBA, FACOEM, Board Certified Occupational Medicine, Staff Physician, OEHC of Eastern NY
Video
February 4, 2021
Managing the Workforce During the Pandemic
Speaker: Michael J. Apostolakos, MD, FCCP, Chief Medical Officer, Vice President, University of Rochester Medical Center, Professor of Medicine and Public Health Sciences
Video
January 7, 2021
Workplace Stress and Resilience Training in Health Care
Speaker: Kristen Chalmers, LMSW, Social Worker, Finger Lakes Occupational Health Services, University of Rochester Medical Center
PDF
2020
December 3, 2020
Riding the Perfect Storm: COVID-19 at the Confluence of Community and Occupational Health
Speaker: Dr. Jennifer L. Schneider, CIH, Principal, Collaboratory for Resiliency & Recovery, Eugene H. Fram Chair in Applied Critical Thinking, Office of the Provost, Rochester Institute of Technology
Video
November 5, 2020
The Power of Language: Managing Spine Related Disorders with Telemedicine
Speaker: Brian Justice, DC, Medical Director Pathway Development and Spine Care, Excellus BlueCross BlueShield
Video
October 1, 2020
Telehealth at URMC: An Overview and Potential Applications to Occupational Medicine Practice
Speaker: Dr. Adam Kelly, Associate Professor, URMC Neurology
Video
September 3, 2020
New York State Workers Compensation Drug Formulary and Prior Authorization System
Speaker: Steven R. Smith, Deputy Executive Director, NYS WCB
Video