Policyholder Services

OMIC Offering Several Courses During AAO 2014 Annual Meeting in Chicago

Please join us on Sunday, October 19th from 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. in Chicago at McCormick Place, Room S406B for the second annual Bruce E. Spivey, MD, Lecture on Risk Management & Patient Safety followed by the OMIC Forum (SPE15). You may earn a risk management premium discount by attending both the lecture and the OMIC Forum.

Ajit Sachdeva, MD, FRCSC, FACS, Director of the Division of Education at the American College of Surgeons, will provide the 2014 Bruce Spivey Risk Management lecture “Transitions, Vulnerabilities, and Patient Safety”.

The OMIC Forum will be presented by:

Steven V.L. Brown, MD, Chair, OMIC Underwriting Committee
Michael C. Tigani, MD, Member, OMIC Risk Management and Underwriting Committees
Daniel B. Mills, Esq., Partner, Pretzel & Stouffer, Chicago, Illinois
Timothy J. Padovese, OMIC President/CEO
Paul Weber, JD, OMIC Vice President Risk Management Legal Department

The OMIC Forum will address how to handle litigation and pre-litigation issues that arise in an insured’s practice.

OMIC offers three additional ways to earn your discount at this meeting:

Pediatric Subspecialty Day-25 Years of Liability in Pediatric Ophthalmology & Strabismus and Lessons to Learn: Pearls from Individual Cases on Saturday, October 18th, at 3:42 pm-4:42 pm, in Room S406A, at McCormick Place.

Identifying & Managing Unhappy Patients (AAO Instruction Course #237) on Sunday, October 19th, at 4:30 pm-5:30 pm, in RoomS106B, at McCormick Place.

Why Take the Risk? How to Create An Effective Risk Management Strategy with Patient Education and Informed Consent Documents (AAO Course #SYM 34) on Monday, October 20th, at 12:45 pm-1:45 pm, in Room S403B, at McCormick Place.

For your Nurses and Technicians:

ASORN offers Identifying & Managing Unhappy Patients (Course #105) on Friday, October 17th from 11:10 am to 11:40 am, in Room S102ABC, at McCormick Place.

JCAHPO offers Identifying & Managing Unhappy Patients (Course #O4SUI) on Sunday, October 19th from 8:00 am-8:50 am, at the Hilton Chicago.

Visit the OMIC Calendar to download courses and events to your personal calendar.

We invite you to visit us at the OMIC Booth # 1004, in South Building, Level 3, Hall A. Staff members are available whenever the exhibit hall is open to answer underwriting and risk management questions.
We look forward to seeing you at the meeting!