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A fellow of ACOEM, Dr Brownson is Corporate Medical Coordinator for the Dow Chemical Company in Indianapolis, Ind. He received his medical degree in 1967 from the University of Michigan Medical School and is certified in family practice by the American Board of Family Practice.
Dr Brownson is a member of ACOEM’s Noise and Hearing Conservation Committee. He also represents the College on the American National Standards Institute’s Committee on Noise and Committee on Bioacoustics. Dr Brownson is a member of the Central States Occupational Medical Association, one of ACOEM’s 31 component societies.
Paul J Nicholson, MBBS, has been elected President-Elect of the Society of Occupational Medicine, based in London. He will assume the Society’s presidency in November 2000.
Dr Nicholson is employed by Procter & Gamble UK, in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, England. He received his MBBS in 1981 from the University of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne.
A member of ACOEM since 1993, Dr. Nicholson is a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of London Faculty of Occupational Medicine. He also holds membership in the British Medical Association.
A three-day course on “Occupational Hearing Conservation” will be held Apr 10–12 in Washington, DC. The program is sponsored by the Washington Hearing and Speech Center and Washington Occupational Health Associates, Inc.
The course is intended for those seeking certification or recertification by the Council for Accreditation in Occupational Hearing Conservation. For more information, contact Judyth Tinsley, Washington Hearing and Speech Center, Sibley Memorial Hospital, Community Services Bldg, 5255 Loughboro Rd, NW, Washington, DC 200016; telephone: 202/244-4430; fax: 202/527-0169.
The Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society will hold its “2000 Annual Scientific Meeting,” June 18–22, in conjunction with the “Third Karolinska Postgraduate Course: Challenges in Maxillofacial Reconstructive Surgery.” The meetings will be held at the Stockholm Conference Center in Stockholm, Sweden.
The UHMS portion of the program will include symposia and poster sessions on regulation of the microcirculation in health and disease, reperfusion injury, and new aspects of oxygen toxicity, among other topics. The Karolinska course will deal with radiation effects on bone and soft tissue, the role of oxygen in problem wounds, evidence-based hyperbaric medicine in treatment and prophylaxis, and advances in molecular biology and nerve regeneration.
For those interested in diving physiology, a pre-conference course on “Acute Management of Decompression Accidents” will be held Jun 18–19. Immediately after the meeting, there will also be a four-day symposium on “Diving in Cold Waters,” held on an island near Trondheim, Norway.
For more information on any of the programs, contact Jane Dunne, UHMS, 10531 Metropolitan Ave, Kensington, MD 20985; telephone: 301/942-2980 ext 102; fax: 301/942-7804; Web site: http://www.uhms.org or http://www.ki.se/org/oxygen.
The Association for Health Services Research will hold its Annual Meeting Jun 25–27 at the Westin Bonaventure in Los Angeles, Calif. The theme of the meeting is “Research to Action: Shaping the Health System in the New Millennium.”
Conference topics will cover access/social determinants, behavioral health, managed care and markets, coverage and insurance, Medicare and care for the elderly, and the relationship between the health workforce and quality and outcomes.
For more information, contact AHSR, 1130 Connecticut Ave, NW, Ste 700, Washington, DC 20036; telephone: 202/223-2477.
“The 13th Annual Occupational Medicine Update” will be held Sep 22–23 in Destin, Fla. The program is sponsored by the Deep South Center for Occupational Health and Safety.
