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July 2010 Unmasking the Sophisticated Malingerer and Misattributer in Workers’ Compensation Claims

July 19, 2010: Hyannis, MA

Executive Summary: This unique pre-conference will provide occupational health professionals with the tools, strategies,
and insights to deal with the sophisticated workers’ compensation malingerer and misattributer. Attendees will participate
in open and frank discussions and analysis of common problems and solutions. Attendees will take away the elements
needed to properly recognize, evaluate, and defend against workers’ compensation malingerers.

Learning Objectives: At the completion of the pre-conference you will be able to:
• Understand when claimants may be suspected of malingering or misattributing,
• Identify frameworks for evaluation,
• Develop and use checklists for the identification of suspected malingerers and misattributers,
• Understand the key data to look for,
• Have specific recommendations for finding the data to be evaluated, recommendations for development and use of
supplementary data, and the proper use of evaluation of psychological testing.

Distinguished Faculty: Harold J. Bursztajn, MD is Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and
Co-Founder of the Program in Psychiatry and the Law in the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Department of Psychiatry of Harvard Medical School. He has a longstanding special interest in the
pitfalls of forensic psychiatric and medical diagnosis. Dr. Bursztajn has more than 25 years’ experience
in clinical and forensic practice in psychiatry, including consultations and evaluations in civil and
criminal matters. He has taught and published extensively on how to differentiate impairments caused
by mood, thought, and post-traumatic disorders from those cased by personality traits, developmental or adjustment
problems, symptom misattribution, exaggeration, lack of motivation, primary or secondary gain, faking, or malingering.
Dr. Bursztajn teaches and consults nationally to psychiatrists and other mental health professional, as well as to physicians
across the primary and specialty medical care spectrum. He has served as faculty for the Harvard Medical School Psychiatric
Intensive Diagnostic Interviewing Preparatory Course for the Board of Psychiatry & Neurology certification examinations,
cofounded the Harvard Medical School Program in Psychiatry and the Law at the Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital,
and his many clinical and teaching distinctions include being recognized as a practicing “doctor’s doctor” by being named
Principal Mentor at Harvard Medical School and being awarded the A. Clifford Barger Excellence in Mentoring Award as well as being the first physician/forensic psychiatrist in Harvard Medical School’s history to be appointed as the representative of the Harvard Medical School Alumni Board of Directors to the Harvard University Alumni Board. He continues to publish and present workshops nationally and internationally on a variety of special interest topics in medicine and in general and forensic neuropsychiatry.

Price: $395.00