March 2, 2015 Announcements Inside this Issue:  Announcements  Upcoming Talks  Publications  Presentations  Clinic & Services  The Occ Med/EHS has moved to its new location. We are now located in the new Outpatient Pavilion, on the UCONN Health Campus. OccMed/EHS clinic is located on the 2nd floor and the Academic Offices are located on the 7th floor.  The next CICATS OSH CIG Trends in Occupational Health meeting will be held on Wednesday, March 25th from 12:00pm-1:30pm. Location: Outpatient Pavilion, 2nd floor, Large Conference Room. This month’s topic will be Indoor Health. To RSVP, please email Jennifer Garza ([email protected]) or Mazen El Ghaziri ([email protected]).  Save the date! The semi-annual UMass Lowell/UConn Sturbridge Research Retreat will be held on Thursday May 21, 2015. Details to follow. UPCOMING TALKS Our next invited guest speaker for our Colloquium series is: Robert Swotinsky, M.D., MPH Robert Swotinsky, MD, MPH, is a Board Certified occupational medicine physician, certified MRO and Substance Abuse Professional (SAP), and a workplace drug testing expert from Sudbury MA. Dr. Swotinsky is affiliated with the University of Massachusetts after practicing clinical medicine at Reliant Medical Group in Worcester, Mass., where he chaired their occupational health department for 11 years. He is currently in consulting practice with a mix of clinical and administrative roles. Dr. Swotinsky was appointed by the federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) and Federal Motor Carriers Safety Administration (FMCSA) to committees to refine and develop workplace drug testing procedures and the commercial motor vehicle (CMV) examination process. He served on FMCSA's Schedule II Medications Panel (2006), and FMCSA's Office of Medical Programs Work Group (2009 - 2010). Dr. Swotinsky is on the Medical Review Officer Certification Council's Examination Development Committee and also serves on the faculty for ACOEM's MRO training courses. Dr. Swotinsky has lectured and written widely about workplace drug testing, is the author of The Medical Review Officer's Manual and co-editor of the ACOEM MRO Update. He will be presenting a seminar on Wednesday, March 4, 2015, 12:00pm-1:00pm; Title of Talk: MRO (Medical Review Officer) without a net. Uncertainties in MRO practices regarding prescription medications. Location: The Outpatient Pavilion, 2nd floor, Large Conference Room. Lunch is provided, sponsored by CICATS and the Occupational Health and Safety Core Interest Group; to RSVP please email Miriam at [email protected] Page 2 of 2 PUBLICATIONS Kamath, J., Wakai, S., Zhang, W., Kesten, K., Shelton, D., Trestman, R.L. (2015). Adaptation of the Texas Implementation Medication Algorithm for Bipolar Disorder in Adult Female Offenders. International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, In press. Fan T, Fang SC, Cavallari JM, Barnett IJ, Wang Z, Su L, Byun HM, Lin X, Baccarelli AA, Christiani DC. Heart rate variability and DNA methylation levels are altered after short-term metal fume exposure among occupational welders: a repeated-measures panel study. BMC Public Health. 2014 Dec 16;14:1279. PMC4302115. PRESENTATIONS Drs. Fitzpatrick and Erdil presented at Connecticut Institute for Primary Care Innovation, in the Primary Care Educational Series on Disability Assessments at St. Francis Hospital. Hartford CT., on Feb 25, 2015. CLINIC & SERVICES No Updates ***Next DOEM Newsletter will be distributed April 3, 2015***