Expert Details
Occupational and Environmental Medicine
ID: 726438
Missouri, USA
Aside from his position as a staff physician, Expert has years of experience in a medical administrative position. He has assisted in the new development and implementation of a workers’ compensation program to evaluate and treat injured workers. Additionally, he helped institute an ergonomics program that changed how local industry hired workers, matching the worker to the job requirement. The program was successful in profitability, injury management, and workplace injury reduction. Other administrative duties included reviewing and investigating new medical staff applicants and reappointments through primary source verification of credentials, data bank review, licensure review, and leading investigation of problem applicants. As a Medical Director he has helped design and develop an occupational medicine program in an environment of negative market conditions. The program is currently successful and growth continues
He has experience working with local physicians and law enforcement officials for purposes of establishing cause of death within a reasonable degree of medical certainty, balancing the public health perspective and the budgetary constraints of the county. As a physician he coordinates autopsies when indicated with the pathologist and file death certificates on all unattended and traumatic deaths within his county.
Education
| Year | Degree | Subject | Institution |
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| Year: 1986 | Degree: DO | Subject: Medicine | Institution: University of Health Sciences College of Osteo Medicine |
| Year: 1999 | Degree: Masters of Public Health | Subject: Public Health | Institution: Medical College of Wisconsin |
| Year: 1982 | Degree: BS | Subject: Chemistry | Institution: Missouri Western State University |
Work History
| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
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| Years: 2004 to Present | Employer: Undisclosed | Title: Medical Director | Department: Heartland Occupational Medicine |
Responsibilities:He was responsible for design and development of an occupational medicine program in an environment of negative market conditions. The program is currently successful and growth continues. |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 1987 to Present | Employer: Undisclosed | Title: Staff Physician | Department: |
Responsibilities: |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 2001 to 2004 | Employer: MedClinic, Inc | Title: Vice President of Medical Affairs; President/CEO | Department: |
Responsibilities:He was asked to assume leadership responsibilities and manage change of the relatively large (four locations, 125 employees, and 18 practitioners) medical group practice. This was an independent, employee owned medical group practice that was at the time under investigation by Medicare for allegations of fraud. This was to be a temporary position until the investigation was closed.It became clear that leadership in place prior to the start of the Medicare investigation could not continue in their positions. He was appointed by the Board of Directors to continue leading the group through this difficult time. The end result measures were strongly positive. The clinic system went from an authoritarian culture of negativity to one that embraced goal setting to meet a long term outcomes of financial success, individual accountability, and high ethical standards in accounting, billing and collections. Profits became stable and predictable. |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 1996 to 2004 | Employer: MedClinic, Inc | Title: Director of Occupational Medicine | Department: |
Responsibilities:Responsible for the new development and implementation of a workers’ compensation program to evaluate and treat injured workers. In addition we instituted an ergonomics program that changed how local industry hired workers, matching the worker to the job required. The program was successful in profitability, injury management, and workplace injury reduction. |
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Career Accomplishments
| Associations / Societies |
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| American Osteopathic Association; American College of Osteopathic Family Physicians; Missouri Society of the American College of Osteopathic Family Physicians; American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine; |
| Licenses / Certifications |
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| He is Board Certified by the American College of Osteopathic Family Physicians and the American Osteopathic Board of Preventive Medicine. He has the following licensures: Missouri State Board of Registration for the Healing Arts, Physician and Surgeon, Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), United States Department of Justice, Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs (BNDD), Missouri Department of Health. Other Certifications he has include: Impairment & Disability Evaluations, American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Medical Review Officer Certification, American Association of Medical Review Officers, Basic Life Support for Healthcare Providers, American Heart Association, Advanced Cardiac Life Support, and American Heart Association. |
| Professional Appointments |
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| Expert has held several professional appointments including Director of Occupational Medicine, as part of the Board of Directors, Vice President of Medical Affairs, Interim President and President/CEO at his last company. He also hold several positions at his current hospital institution as a Physician, Medical Director, Medical Examiner, Secretary and tTeasurer of Medical Staff. He has also been an active member of several committees including the Steering and Executive Committee, Board of Directors, Board of Examiners, Ethic Committee, Service and Quality Committee and has been chair and president-elect of several of the committees including the Credentials Committeee. |
| Medical / Professional |
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| He did his rotating internship at University of Health Sciences. |
Fields of Expertise
accident reduction, blood pressure, blood pressure monitor, blood pressure monitoring, blood safety, blood sampling, blood testing, breath alcohol level instrumentation, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, clinical medicine, Department of Transportation drug testing regulation, drug, drug abuse, drug screening, employee drug testing, examination, hair analysis, hypertension, medical analysis, medical diagnosis, medical diagnostic test, medical diagnostics, occupational health, occupational safety, oximeter, spirometry, urine sampling, workers compensation injury, x-ray examination, vision testing, active pharmaceutical ingredient, bioethics, hepatitis C virus, pulse oximetry, drug metabolite, urine control sample, drug monitoring, blood chemistry, drug toxicology, medical diagnostic imaging, biological drug level, drug testing statute, diagnostic test evaluation, blood alcohol level instrumentation, DOT natural-gas-operator drug testing regulation, electrocardiograph, septicemia, medical science, medical X-ray, heart disease, electrocardiography, diagnostics, antigen, antibody