Speaker: David Schwartz, Chair, Ohio Psychological Association Task Force on BWC reform, Hamilton Health Associates
Dr. Schwartz earned his doctorate in Clinical and Health Psychology from Vanderbilt University in 1982. He completed a postdoctoral fellowship in pain management at the University of Virginia medical Center, and has been on the medical school faculty at Vanderbilt, the University of Virginia, University of Rochester, and University of Cincinnati. He has published and presented extensively in the areas of pain management, health psychology, and industrial injury. He has been in private practice since 1995 specializing in complex medical/psychological injuries. He is a DEP evaluator for the Ohio BWC and the Industrial Commission of Ohio, and consults to several Ohio BWC MCOs. He currently chairs the Ohio Psychological Association Task Force on BWC reform and is the OPA on Ohio State Board of Psychology representative to the BWC’s healthcare quality assurance committee. His current interests focus on reform efforts in worker’s compensation aimed at better detection and intervention with behavioral co-morbidities in injury, and better recognition and treatment of traumatic brain injury in both industrial and sports injuries.
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