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This is the finest continuing education available on the topic of independent medical evaluations. The dynamic and diverse faculty includes a distinguished IME physician, a workers’ compensation hearing officer, plaintiff and defense lawyers, an IME company executive and an innovative IME office manager. The learning methodology utilized will identify and solve the most pressing problems facing the Summit participants. Participants will be involved in a series of unique interactive learning experiences including mock direct and cross-examinations and demonstrations. Pre-Summit task assignments are utilized. Registration is strictly limited. Participants will be able to achieve markedly enhanced success in performing independent medical evaluations. Breakfast and lunch with faculty will be provided each day. A special bonus resource is provided for early registrants*. Past Summit participants have substantially increased the success of their IME practices, have been able to raise their fees and have vastly increased their IME practices.

What you will accomplish by attending:
Following the completion of the pre-summit assignments, participation in the seminar, and implementation of the solutions presented in the IME Summit you will be able to:

• Write more persuasive, defensible and valuable IME Reports
• Reduce your legal risks
• Improve the efficiency and profitability of your IME practice
• Obtain additional high-quality clients with repeatable business
• Effectively deal with the most difficult ethical problems associated with IMEs
• Solve most or all of your IME problems
• Build a premier IME practice with built-in sustainability

• Improve the efficiency of your evaluation process,
• Discuss advanced approaches to detecting symptom magnification,
• Explain how to minimize legal risks involved in performing IMEs,
• Implement professional approaches to marketing IME services,
• Deal with over/mistreatment by the attending physician,
• Deal with problems associated with the examinee’s medical records,
• Write a better report,
• Be a more persuasive, valuable expert witness,
• Identify and deal with the leading ethical issues facing evaluators,
• Explain how to deal with requests for "corrections" to your report, and
• Re-evaluate your fee setting, billing, and collections procedures.
 

Faculty:
Steven Babitsky, Esquire is the President of SEAK, Inc. He was a personal injury trial attorney for twenty years and specialized in representing injured workers. He is the former managing partner of the firm Kistin, Babitsky, Latimer & Beitman. He is the seminar leader for the Annual National Expert Witness and Litigation Conference. Attorney Babitsky is the co-author of the texts, Writing and Defending Your IME Report, Litigating Stress Cases in Workers’ Compensation, and Understanding the AMA Guides in Workers’ Compensation. Attorney Babitsky is the co-developer and trainer for the videos How to Be an Effective Medical Witness and The Expert Medical Deposition: How To Be An Effective and Ethical Witness.

Anthony J. Dorto, MD, FAADEP is the Medical Director of the Disability Assessment Center in Miami, Florida, which performs Independent Medical Evaluations, second opinions, functional capacity, and vocational and earning capacity assessments. Dr. Dorto is certified by the American Board of Independent Medical Examiners, is a Fellow of the American Academy of Disability Evaluation Physicians, and is Board Certified in Physical Medicine, and Rehabilitation. Dr. Dorto has lectured and written extensively on IMEs, symptom magnification and malingering, disability evaluation, and impairment rating.

Deborah Eagan, RN is the office manager of the Orthopaedic and Wellness Center in Gloversville, NY. She supervises the facility on a daily basis, which offers orthopedic care, physical therapy as well as neurology and orthotic services. She also supervises the independent medical examination portion of the practice. Debbie oversees the complex task of arranging IME’s at the main and satellite offices. She is a registered nurse and was head nurse in the post coronary care unit as well as nurse for the cardiac resuscitation team at Albany Medical Center. Debbie has expertise in the complex area of scheduling examinations and court testimony for an active orthopedic surgeon. The challenge of juggling this complex task in a busy orthopedic practice involves dealing with and building rapport with many legal offices. She also has extensive experience in dealing with billing matters for IMEs, record reviews and court appearances.

Thomas D. Johnson is the Vice President of WMCI, a national IME company headquartered in Portland, Oregon. He is responsible for implementing new customer service capabilities to improve client satisfaction and loyalty. Mr. Johnson has led all new business initiatives for WMCI. Mr. Johnson has a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Oregon State University and an MBA from the University of Oxford, England.

Steven L. Sterner is a District Hearing Officer at the Industrial Commission of Ohio. He received his BA from Washington and Jefferson College and his JD from Cleveland Marshall College of Law. Hearing Officer Sterner was previously an Assistant Attorney General for the State of Ohio in the Workers’ Compensation Division and a personal injury and Workers’ Compensation trial attorney. He has been a District Hearing Officer since 1996.

Vincent M. Tentindo, Esquire is the Managing Partner of the Boston Defense law firm of Tentindo, Kendall, Canniff & Keefe, LLP. The law firm specializes in workers’ compensation, employment, and general liability litigation. He was formerly a Partner at Peabody & Arnold, LLP from 1990 to 1995 and was a member and Co-Chair of the Litigation Group and Chairman of the Workers’ Compensation Group. From 1978-1995, Attorney Tentindo was an Associate and in 1981 a Partner at Parker, Coulter, Daley & White, a firm which specialized in litigation for the business and insurance industry. Attorney Tentindo received his BA from Boston College and his JD from Suffolk University Law School. Attorney Tentindo is also an Adjunct Professor of Law for the New England School of Law in Boston and teaches the course on Workers’ Compensation Practice and Procedures.

Saturday, August 20, 2005