Presley Reed, MD Invited to Be Keynote Speaker for University of Kentucky Public Health Grand Rounds
Posted on: Monday, 22 January 2007, 12:01 CST
WESTMINSTER, Colo., Jan. 22 /PRNewswire/ -- Dr. Presley Reed has been invited to return to the University of Kentucky (his under-graduate alma mater) to participate in the UK's College of Public Health, Grand Rounds session on January 24, 2007. Dr. Reed will be the keynote speaker for this meeting to be held in the Commons Room of Wethington Building at 12 o'clock pm. He will address the topic of "Age, Gender, Job Type, and Co-morbidities: Impact on Disability Duration Experience in Various Conditions" to the invited audience, as well as to an even larger audience of public health practitioners, health professionals, educators, and students across the Commonwealth of Kentucky in a real-time telecast presentation. Dr. Reed received his Bachelor of Science degree in Medical Arts from the University of Kentucky in 1969.
"I am honored to be invited to present during a Grand Rounds session at the University of Kentucky, College of Public Health. The time I spent at UK was highly influential on my long-term career in medicine. The University of Kentucky has an excellent national reputation for its outstanding curriculum and training programs. Through personal experience, I can attest that my UK education was exceptional; it established a necessary foundation for me to accomplish my professional goals, while making contributions in the occupational health and disability management fields," states Dr. Reed.
Dr. Reed is Founder, Chairman and Chief Medical Officer of Reed Group, a company specializing in return-to-work solutions and services. Dr. Reed is the Editor-in-Chief of The Medical Disability Advisor: Workplace Guidelines for Disability Duration, an industry standard used throughout the US and in 38 other countries to establish appropriate periods of recovery and return to work for injured or ill workers. Dr. Reed is an internationally recognized expert on disability management, workplace absence and productivity, workers' compensation, and occupational health. He is a Fellow of the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine and is a former chair of its Committee on Occupational Mental Health. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Disability Evaluating Physicians. He served as Chairman of the American Board of Independent Medical Examiners and is a Certified Independent Medical Examiner.
Located in Lexington, Kentucky, the University of Kentucky is a public, research-extensive, land grant university dedicated to improving people's lives through excellence in teaching, research, health care, cultural enrichment, and economic development. The UK College of Medicine houses 14 clinical departments whose faculty and staff provide medical care to the community and support the University Hospital. The clinical faculty members also teach critical components of the medical school curriculum and supervise medical students and residents on clinical rotations. Many of the research programs are ranked in the top 20 in NIH funding to public medical schools.
About Reed Group:
Dr. Presley Reed founded Reed Group in 1981 to address workplace productivity and employee absenteeism issues in the corporate environment. Reed Group maintains four key lines of business: Guidelines, Service, Data Analytics, and Education. In addition to providing integrated clinical case management service for non-occupational and occupational leaves, Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA) and other leave of absence administrative services to employers, Reed Group publishes the industry-standard disability duration guidelines, The Medical Disability Advisor (textbook, Windows software, and Internet and data integration versions), now in its Fifth Edition. For more information, call 866.889.4449, or visit http://www.reedgroup.com/.
Reed Group
CONTACT: Jane Merritt of Reed Group, +1-720-279-2126,jmerritt@reedgroup.com
Web site: http://www.reedgroup.com/
Source: PRNewswire
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