2010 American Occupational Health Conference to be held in Orlando

The Nation's largest occupational and environmental medicine conference, the 2010 American Occupational Health Conference (AOHC®) will be held May 2-5 at Rosen Shingle Creek in Orlando, Fla. AOHC is the annual meeting of the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (ACOEM), an international medical society of more 4,000 occupational and environmental physicians and other health care professionals.

AOHC® 2010, the College's 95th annual meeting, is targeted toward physicians and non-physician health care professionals who practice or have an interest in occupational and environmental medicine (OEM). OEM is the medical specialty devoted to the prevention and management of occupational and environmental injury, illness, and disability, and the promotion of health and productivity of workers, their families, and communities.

The Conference is organized around 5 CME educational tracks which address OEM Clinical Practice; Management and Administration in OEM; OEM Education and Scientific Research; Environmental Health and Risk Management; and Regulatory, Legal, Military, and Governmental OEM Practice. Conference participants can earn up to 26.5 AMA PRA Category 1 CME.

A highlight of AOHC® 2010 is the Opening Session Sappington Lecture. The 2010 lecturer will be Michael Grunwald, an award-winning journalist and author of The Swamp: The Everglades, Florida and the Politics of Paradise, the dramatic story of the Everglades which is now the focus of the largest environmental restoration project in history.