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N.C. Workers' Compensation Educational Conference Presentations

Wednesday, October 5, 2016

Wednesday's presentations will be posted online, in PDF form, as soon as they are received.

Welcome

     Charlton L. Allen, Chairman, N.C. Industrial Commission, Raleigh, NC

Kids’ Chance of North Carolina, Inc.

     Dana P. Genheimer, Assistant Vice President of Marketing, Key Risk, Greensboro, NC; President, Kids’ Chance of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC; and Marketing Chair, Kids’ Chance of America, Pottstown, PA

Perspectives from the North Carolina Supreme Court

     Justice Robin E. Hudson, Raleigh NC

The CDC Opioid Guidelines: Where We Are Now and Where Do We Go from Here?

     Dr. David Zub, MD, Interventional Pain Management, EmergeOrtho, Wilmington, NC

Communications with Medical Providers Pursuant to N.C. Gen. Stat. § 97-25.6:
What’s Allowed and What’s Not

     Stewart Poisson, Poisson, Poisson & Bower, PLLC, Wilmington, NC

     Tonya Davis, Hedrick Gardner Kincheloe & Garofalo, LLP, Raleigh, NC

Workers’ Compensation Subrogation: A Practitioner’s Viewpoint
of N.C. Gen. Stat. § 97-10.2

     Roy Pettigrew, Cranfill, Sumner & Hartzog, LLP, Raleigh, NC
 

Thursday, October 6, 2016

Thursday's presentations will be posted online, in PDF form, as soon as they are received.

Industrial Injuries of the Hand: Mild to Mangled

     Christopher Chadderdon, MD, OrthoCarolina, Charlotte, NC

Tell Me More!: Ethical and Professionalism Issues in Discovery

     Gina Cammarano, Farah & Cammarano, PA, Raleigh, NC

     Lori Allen, Young Moore & Henderson, PA, Raleigh, NC

Shoulder Problems: Injury or Affliction?

     Louis C. Almekinders, MD, Managing Partner of North Carolina Orthopaedic Clinic
     and Professor, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Duke University Health System,
     Durham, NC

Issues with Handling Claims by Undocumented and/or Non-English Speaking
Workers: Perspectives from Plaintiff, Defendant, and the Industrial Commission

     Francisco Bricio, The Bricio Law Firm, PLLC, Cary NC

     Jack S. Holmes, McAngus Goudelock & Courie, LLC, Raleigh, NC

Rehabilitating Voc: Effects of the 2011 Amendments

     Victor Farah, Farah & Cammarano, PA, Raleigh NC

     Joy Brewer, Brewer Defense Group, Raleigh, NC

The Provider in the Middle: Cost Effective 7/365 Approach to WC in the UC space

     Stacey R. Gouzenne MD, FACEP, Chief Medical Officer, North Carolina,
     FastMed Urgent Care, Clayton, NC

Navigating the Ethics of Mediation and Settlement

     Hugh Bennett, Key Risk Management Services, Greensboro, NC

     Jacqueline R. Clare, Attorney at Law, Raleigh, NC

     Thomas M. Clare, Attorney at Law, Raleigh, NC

What You Don’t Know About Facebook (and Twitter and Instagram ...)
Could Hurt You

     Dan C. Pope, Jr., Brookes, Stevens & Pope, PA, Raleigh, NC

     Leto Copeley, Copeley Johnson & Groninger, PLLC, Durham, NC

Professional Ethics in Medical and Vocational Case Management

     Beverly Jeter, M.Ed., CRC, Case Management Supervisor at Genex Services, LLC,
     Charlotte, NC

     Caron Cross, Director, Medical Rehabilitation Nurses Section, N.C. Industrial Commission,
     Raleigh, NC

Substance Abuse Disorders and Recovery

     Amanda Blue, MSW, LCSW, LCAS Director of Specialized Services, Healing Transitions,
     Raleigh, NC

Take Five: A Review of N.C. Gen. Stat. § 97-2(5) and Recent Developments
on Average Weekly Wage

     Paul C. McKoy, Lewis & Roberts, PLLC, Raleigh, NC

     Barry C. Jennings, Law Offices of James Scott Farrin, PLLC, Durham, NC

Work Conditioning: Putting the Work Back into Rehabilitation

     Debra Lord, PT, President, Job Ready Services, Raleigh, NC
 

Friday, October 7, 2016

Friday's presentations will be posted online, in PDF form, as soon as they are received.

N.C. Industrial Commission Version.2016

     Meredith Henderson, Executive Secretary, N.C. Industrial Commission, Raleigh, NC

     William W. Peaslee, Chief Deputy Commissioner, N.C. Industrial Commission,
     Raleigh, NC

     Emily Baucom, Clerk, N.C. Industrial Commission, Raleigh, NC

     Bradley L. Hicks, Director, Employee Classification Section, N.C. Industrial Commission,
     Raleigh, NC

     Bryan Strickland, Director, Compliance and Fraud Investigative Division, Raleigh, NC

The Status of the Medicare Secondary Payer Act, Including
Regulatory and Legislative Developments

     Henry N. Patterson, Jr., Patterson, Harkavy, LLP, Chapel Hill, NC

     Tracey L. Jones, Teague Campbell Dennis & Gorham, LLP, Raleigh, NC

Case Law Update 2015-2016

     Bruce Hamilton, Teague Campbell Dennis & Gorham, LLP, Raleigh, NC

     Vernon Sumwalt, Sumwalt Law Firm, Charlotte, NC