Engaging, Empowering, Enlightening
The World of Rehab
MINNESOTA REHABILITATION ASSOCIATION
2014 Spring Conference
May 15th & 16th
Mystic Lake Casino Hotel, Prior Lake
THURSDAY, MAY 15th
Professional Development Institutes
7:30 a.m. to 8:30 a.m.
Conference Registration and Continental Breakfast
7:30 a.m. to 8:30 a.m.
Board Meeting –All conference participants are invited to
attend, bring your breakfast!
7:30a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Vendor Booths Open
8:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Understanding the Vocational Impact of Mental Health
Disorders & Personality Disorders -- Philip Sarff, Ph.D.,
Licensed Psychologist with Gary L. Fischler & Associates, PA.
Learn how you can best assist your consumers who have mental
health disorders and personality disorders through:
8:30a.m. to 10:00am
Part 1: Understanding the Vocational Impact of Mental Health
Disorders & Personality Disorders: Changes in the Fifth Edition
Diagnostic & Statistical Manual (DSM-5)
OR
8:30 a.m. to 10:00 a.m.
Promoting and Supporting Evidence –Based Rehabilitation
Practice via Knowledge Translation (KT) – John Lui, Ph.D.,
MBA, CRC, PVE, Executive Director, Stout Vocational
Rehabilitation Institute, UW-Stout
This interactive presentation will explore the challenges and
opportunities of incorporating evidence-based information into
rehabilitation practice, and the concept and function of Knowledge
Translation (KT). Findings from research studies conducted by the
RRTC on Evidence-Based Practice in Vocational Rehabilitation
(RRTC-EBP VR) will be shared to underscore the dynamic
discussion.
BREAK 10:00-10:15
10:15 a.m. to 11:45 a.m.
Part 2: Understanding the Vocational Impact of Mental Health
Disorders & Personality Disorders: Method and framework for
understanding and hypothesizing specific vocational impairments
OR
10:15 a.m. to 11:45 a.m.
Record Keeping: Ethical Issues?! – John Lui, Ph.D., MBA, CRC,
PVE, Executive Director, Stout Vocational Rehabilitation Institute,
UW-Stout.
This interactive presentation will provide the participants with an
awareness of the ethical issues that surround the day to day
routines in the business side of rehabilitation practices (private and
public sectors), specifically “RECORDKEEPING”; and in
identifying applicable ethical guidelines/standards for ethical
business practice.
LUNCH 11:45-12:45
12:45 p.m. to 2:15 p.m.
Part 3: Understanding the Vocational Impact of Mental Health
Disorders & Personality Disorders: Basic characteristics of
common psychiatric disorders, vocational impacts, and
accommodations
OR
12:45 p.m. to 2:15 p.m.
Complex Regional Pain Syndrome –Keith Bengtson, MD,
Assistant Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Mayo
Clinic.
What is it? How/Why does it develop? How do we treat it? What
are the implications for return to ADL’s and work? What are
Minnesota’s rules for impairment rating?
BREAK 2:15-2:30
2:30 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Part 4: Understanding the Vocational Impact of Mental Health
Disorders & Personality Disorders: Basic characteristics of
personality disorders, vocational impacts, and accommodations
OR
2:30 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Injured Worker Rehabilitation. Oh the Joy. Oh the Challenge
Kris Hallenberg, OTR/L, Site Coordinator, Courage Kenny
Rehabilitation Institute. Learning Objectives: The participant will
be able to understand and describe the role of the industrial
rehabilitation therapist with the injured worker. Participants will
understand and be skilled at accessing rehabilitation treatment
options to facilitate return to work for injured workers. Participants
will become knowledgeable about industrial rehabilitation
interventions through a review of case studies.
4:15 p.m. to 5:15 p.m.
Division Meetings
4:45 p.m. to 6:15 p.m.
Presidents Networking Reception- All conference participants
are invited to attend, hors devours provided
6:45 p.m.
Dinner
FRIDAY, MAY 16th
7:30 a.m. to 8:30 a.m.
Registration and Continental Breakfast
7:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Vendor Booths open
8:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Relationship to Family: Working Together
-- Patricia Gill, Senior Program Associate, National
Collaborative Disability for Youth
Learn about engaging families and helping families understand the
impact of home activities on outcomes. Talk about how to “get
families on board” and support them in implementing activities at
home to build workforce skills.
8:30 a.m. to 10:00 a.m.
Part 1: Relationship to Family: Working Together: Assessing
Program Capacity to Effectively Involve Families and Caregivers:
OR
8:30a.m. to 10:00a.m.
QRC Practice Pointers: Expert Witness, Billing/Payment
Issues DeAnna M. McCashin, Attorney, Schoep & McCashin, Chtd
The program will present pointers to QRC’s to improve
effectiveness as a vocational expert witness at worker’s
compensation hearings. Further pointers on how to negotiate fees
in disputed/settled cases and what is needed to win a ParkerLindberg hearing
BREAK 10:00-10:15
10:15 a.m. to 11:45 a.m.
Part 2: Relationship to Family: Working Together : Service
professionals need to understand the different family situations that
consumers experience and explore their own perceptions of what it
means to involve families in programming. They must develop
strategies for working with challenging or non-involved families
and expand their knowledge about the impact of culture and
disability on family engagement.
OR
10:15 a.m. to 11:45a.m.
More Bang for your Buck – Effective Placement under
176.102 from a Petitioner Lawyer’s Perspective - Jerry Sisk,
Worker’s Compensation Lawyer, Law Office of Thomas Mottaz.
Job development services have been curtailed by recent changes to
the workers’ compensation statute. Mr. Sisk will explain the most
recent changes, how these will impact QRCs and JPS and how to
most effectively proceed with a rehabilitation plan.
LUNCH 11:45-12:45
12:45 p.m. to 2:15 p.m.
Part 3: Relationship to Family: Working Together : Families
as Partners in Improving Outcomes for Youth: An effective:
OR
12:45 p.m. to 2:15 p.m.
Traumatic Brain Injury and the Rehabilitation Process –Gail
Summerville, MSN, CNS with HCMC Traumatic Brain Injury
Center
I will discuss the Traumatic Brain Injury Center at HCMC and the
rehabilitation process. Challenges and helpful hints regarding return to
work for clients with a TBI will also be addressed. I will also touch on
how medial providers and QRC’s can work together through the
rehabilitation process to provide seamless service for all parties involved.
BREAK 2:15-2:30
2:30 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Part 4: Relationship to Family: Working Together : A service
professional is able to create an environment within their program
that is welcoming to families by using flexible meeting times,
transportation, translated program materials and opportunities for
families to guide program structure. They must recognize the
influence families can play in finding employment opportunities
and in building work readiness skills in youth. Service
professionals need to embrace the responsibility of understanding
the wide variety of family advocacy, community-based and
disability-specific organizations available and know how to
connect families to these resources. Finally, families need to be
made aware of strategies to help develop leadership skills and
opportunities to engage in community service.
Speaker Biography’s
Dr. Phil Sarff earned his doctorate in Clinical Psychology from the Graduate School of
Psychology, Fuller Theological Seminary. He specializes in psychological assessment and has
been with Gary Fischler & Associates, PA, Consulting and Forensic Psychologists, for more than
20 years. He has completed several thousand disability-oriented diagnostic psychological
evaluations over the years, including examinations for Disability Determination Services (DDS)
and Vocational Rehabilitation Services, as well as compensation and pension disability
examinations for veterans through the VA system. He has a particular interest in
neuropsychological issues and he enjoys training students in psychological assessment from a
variety of graduate programs in the Twin Cities area.
John W. Lui, Ph.D., MBA, CRC, PVE is the Executive Director of University of Wisconsin –
Stout Vocational Rehabilitation Institute. Its Centers provide research, training, rehabilitation
technology and various rehabilitation and employment services. He is currently the Co-PI of the
RRTC-Evidence-based Practice in Vocational Rehabilitation Service Delivery. He is also an
adjunct faculty member with UW-Stout Dept. of Rehabilitation and Counseling and was an
adjunct professor of Assumption College's Master Degree Program in Rehabilitation Counseling.
He has presented nationally and internationally, and published extensively in the areas of
Benefits Counseling, Managed Care, Case Management, Ethics, Disability Management,
Absence Management, Health and Productivity Management, Aging and Work-Life Planning.
He was also a member of the Advisory Panel on Outreach and Education (APOE) with Center
for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Department of Health and Human Services. He has had
many leadership roles with the National Rehabilitation Association (NRA) and its Professional
Divisions; the Foundation of Rehabilitation Education and Research (FRER), and the Certified
Disability Management Specialist Commission (CDMSC).
Ph.D. University of Northern Colorado
MBA Southern New Hampshire University
C.A.G.S. Northeastern University
M.S. University of Wisconsin - Stout
B.S. University of Wisconsin - Stout
Dr. Keith Bengtson was born in Bemidji, Minnesota. After graduating high school, he attended Carleton
College, followed by the University of Minnesota Medical School, Georgetown University for surgical
internship, and Mayo Graduate School of Medicine at Mayo Clinic-Rochester for his Physcial Medicine
and Rehabilitation residency. He joined Mayo Clinic staff in 1993 and has been the Hand Clinic Director
since 1997. He has presented at several national and international conferences with varying topics of
CRPS, brachial plexus injuries, as well as overuse injuries of musicians. His clinical and research interests
include TNF alpha blockers for CRPS.
Kris Hallenberg, OTR/L, is the Occupational Therapist Program Lead, Workplace Health and
Rehabilitation Services at Courage Kenny Rehabilitation Institute part of Allina Health. She has
advanced training in industrial rehabilitation, ergonomics, job analysis, functional capacity
evaluations, physical performance testing for disability, and mental health.
Patricia Gill Senior Program Associate, National Collaborative Disability for Youth
DeAnna McCashin is a former workers’ compensation judge and now is a practicing workers’
compensation attorney.
Jerry Sisk is a graduate of the University of Minnesota Law School and has been practicing in the area of
workers' compensation since 2003. Jerry started his legal career on the defense side of workers' comp
before switching to the petitioners' side and representing injured workers. Jerry is currently with the Law
Office of Thomas Mottaz in Coon Rapids where he has worked since 2009.
Gail Summerville is an RN, MSN, CNS, provider at HCMC TBI.