The Annual Conference is the primary activity of TSOMA. Each fall TSOMA gathers for updates across Occupational and Environmental, focusing on issues of special significance to providers in Ohio, Western Pennsylvania, and West Virginia. This year we will be having a joint conference with the Ohio Association of Occupational Health Nurses. It is the responsibility of the attendee to make sure that they complete the attendance verification process within a week of each session to receive CME credit.
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2026 Annual Education Conference
Tri-State Occupational Medicine Association
Jointly with:
Ohio Association of Occupational Health Nurses
Cincinnati, Ohio
When: Friday October 16 & Saturday October 17, 2026
Where: University of Cincinnati Kettering Laboratory
160 Panzeca Way, Cincinnati, OH 45267
Format: In-Person and Virtual Attendance will be Available
Conference Registration Deadline:
For in-person attendees - Saturday October 10, 11:55pm
Virtual Attendees - Wednesday October 14, 11:55pm
Accommodations: The Graduate Hotel is within walking distance. There are a variety of local hotels available. You can use the conference address in your favorite travel website to locate a hotel.
PROGRAM OVERVIEW:
Friday October 16 (8am- 5:45pm)
7:30 - 8:00: Registration, Light Breakfast, Welcome and Safety Briefing
8:00 - 9:15: Total Worker Health for Small Business: The Spring Grove Cemetery and Arboretum Experience
FRIDAY MORNING OPTION A - SITE VISIT AT SPRING GROVE
9:15 - 9:30 - Load bus and transport to Spring Grove
9:30 - 11:30 - On-Site visit as Spring Grove (3 stops)
11:30 - 11:45 - Bus transport back to Kettering
FRIDAY MORNING OPTION B - INDUSTRIAL HYGEINE LAB
9:15 - 9:30 - Break / Visit Exhibitors
9:30 - 11:30 - Update on Industrial Hygiene Measurements and Instruments including on-site learning laboratory in Kettering Laboratory
11:30 - 11:45 - Break / Visit Exhibitors
11:45 - 12:30: Lunch / Visit Exhibitors
12:30 - 14:00: Workplace Violence
14:00 - 14:15: Break / Visit Exhibitors
14:15 - 15:45: Heat: Truth or Consequences
15:45 - 17:15: Plastics Pollution and Effects on Human Health
17:15 - 17:45: Resident Presentations (2)
17:45 - 19:00: Networking / Hors d’oeuvres / Dinner / Exhibitors
(Friday - Total 7.5 Hours CME)
Friday Evening Social Event
We hope that all attendees will join us for the buffet dinner following the conclusion of the program on Friday at Kettering. The dinner/reception is planned to start at 5:15pm. TSOMA plans to have our business meeting starting at 6:30, which will include a visit with the ACOEM president.
The social event is included in the registration fees, with additional guests available for $40. Guests are welcome. Registration is via the regular conference registration system. [Non-CME Event]
Saturday October 17 (8am - 4pm)
7:30 - 8:00: Networking / Light Breakfast / Exhibitors
8:00 - 9:30: Low Back Pain: Evidence-based Triage and Early Intervention by Entry-Point Practitioners
9:30-9:45: Break / Visit Exhibitors
9:45 - 11:15: Lessons from 50 years of Coal Workers’ Pneumoconiosis Applied to Current Occupational Lung Disease
11:15 - 11:30: Break / Visit Exhibitors
11:30 - 13:00: TWH: Serving the Occupational Primary Care Needs of Workers Without Insurance
13:00 - 13:30: Lunch / Visit Exhibitors
13:30 - 14:30: Misaligned Incentives Involving All Stakeholders in Workers’ Compensation in the US
14:30 - 16:00: PTSD, Cardiovascular Disease, and Occupational Exposures
16:00 - 16:30: Evaluations, Conclusion, Visit Exhibitors
(Saturday Total: 7.0 CME Hours)
Details for On-Site Participants:
There will be a two options for Friday morning - there will be an Details will be provided as we get closer to the date of the conference.
Friday Light breakfast, Friday Lunch, Friday Evening Social Event, Saturday Light Breakfast, and Saturday Lunch will be provided
SOCIAL EVENT: There will be a catered dinner and networking opportunity on Friday Evening in the Kettering Laboratory Commons
Educational (CME/CEU) credits will not be available for breaks, meals or social events.
Details for Virtual Attendees
Details for connecting to the virtual sessions will be sent out to all virtual registrants a few days before the meeting. Please be certain to register using an email that you monitor and “whitelist” tristateoma@gmail.com in your email program.
For the Friday morning program, the 8am TWH lecture and the 9:30 Industrial Hygiene lectures will be broadcast. The on-site experiences will not be broadcast, so there will be a period between roughly 10:30 and 12:30 which will not be broadcast or available for CME credit for virtual attendees - thus virtual attendees will be limited to earning 13.5 hours of CME.
Continuing Education Details
Both Physician and Nursing continuing education credit available for this meeting. Attendees are asked to register with the organization that offers the type of credits that they would like. It is NOT possible to get nursing and physician credit for the same hour, but it is possible to get different types of credit for the different days (i.e. request physician CME for Friday and nursing CEU for Saturday). If you wish such a “hybrid” registration, please register with the organization offering the greater number of hours (most likely Friday), and email the registration email (TristateOMA@gmail.com) with your request. The registration cost is the same regardless of the type of credits you request.
American Board of Preventive Medicine Continuing Certification: The American Board of Preventive Medicine requires Preventive Medicine CME hours or continuing certification - Our entire program should be considered Preventive Medicine CME hours.
CME Accreditation Statement - NOTE: This is the 2025 statement - 2026 statement will be posted as soon as received
The AAFP has reviewed 2025 Occupational Health Conference and deemed it acceptable for up to 14.25 Live AAFP Prescribed credit(s). Term of Approval is from 11/07/2025 to 11/08/2025. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
AMA Credit Equivalency Statement
AAFP Prescribed credit is accepted by the American Medical Association as equivalent to AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s)™ toward the AMA Physician's Recognition Award. When applying for the AMA PRA, Prescribed credit earned must be reported as Prescribed, not as Category 1.
TSOMA 2026 Conference Organizing Committee:
Arch “Chip” Carson, MD, PhD
Kathy Hagan, MD, MPH
Julie McKibben, MD, MS
Beth Mease, MD, MBA
Ed McVay, MD, MPH
Carl Werntz, DO, MPH
Victoria Wulsin, MD
2025 Annual Meeting - Columbus, Ohio
2023 Annual Meeting - Cincinnati, Ohio
2022 Annual Meeting - Cranberry, PA
2021 - Annual Meeting - Cleveland, OH
2020 - Virtual Meeting 5 Saturdays - 2 hours each
TSOMA meets the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic and held a virtual conference spanning the fall of 2020, with 10 amazing hours of category I CME.
2019 - Pittsburgh Area, PA
An excellent program included 15 hours CME hours, including site visits to ATI High-Speed Roller Mill and US Steel Edgar Thompson Braddock Plant. Friday evening we held a reception in honor of our 50th Anniversary at the Heinz History Center.
2018 - Dublin, Ohio
TSOMA has partnered with a new CME partner for the 2018 conference. Physicians will receive AAFP CME hours (equivalent to AMA Category 1 CME credit) and ABPM MOC credits will be available for the conference. Please click on "2018 program information" to access program information and register for the 2018 conference.
2017 - Dublin, Ohio
An excellent educational conference was held in Dublin, Ohio.
2016 - Dublin, Ohio
Meeting near Columbus we visited the Police Training Academy.
2015 - Akron, Ohio
Meeting in Akron, we visited the University of Akron's National Polymer Innovation Center.
2014
There was no Conference in 2014
2013 - Akron, Ohio
Meeting in Akron, we were fortunate to tour the First-Energy high-voltage lineman training center
Speaker's Packet
Obtaining Continuing Medical Education and Maintenance of Certification credit requires completion of several documents by each speaker. If you are a speaker, please click on the link below for a list of needed materials and to complete these forms.