CSOEMA President, Francine Katz DO, MPH, MROCC, CCME FACOEM , dipABLM  & Program Co-Chairs: Greg Couser MD MPH and Isabel Pereira DO MPH MSA

Dr. Greg Couser is a former CSOEMA president and has formal residency training and board certification both in psychiatry and in occupational medicine. All training was at the University of Iowa. Since 2006, he has been medical director of the Mayo Clinic Employee Assistance Program in Rochester, Minnesota, USA, which provides counseling services and advice for over 40,000 employees. Dr. Couser helps healthcare professionals navigate preventive mental health and work challenges.

Dr. Greg Couser is a former CSOEMA president and has formal residency training and board certification both in psychiatry and in occupational medicine. All training was at the University of Iowa. Since 2006, he has been medical director of the Mayo Clinic Employee Assistance Program in Rochester, Minnesota, USA, which provides counseling services and advice for over 40,000 employees. Dr. Couser helps healthcare professionals navigate preventive mental health and work challenges.

David Evan “Daven” Morrison MD
Morrison Associates, Ltd. Palatine, IL

Dr. Daven Morrison is the President of Morrison Associates, Ltd an executive advising firm based out of metro-Chicago. He completed medical school at the University of Illinois and residency at Case Western University Hospitals of Cleveland. His practice covers the support and development of leaders. His academic work is based at Chicago Medical School where he volunteers as an Associate Clinical Professor. Daven is the past President of the Academy of Occupational and Organizational Psychiatry, and a member of the Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry. Papers and books authored include taking a work history, burnout, psychiatric workplace dysfunction, judgment, COVID and job loss, fraud and more. He’s married, has two grown children, and enjoys gardening and soccer.

Sandra Kopit Cohen MD

In 1981-82 as a 4th year psychiatry resident at NY Presbyterian Hospital/Cornell Medical School, I used a half-time elective in community psychiatry to study occupational and organizational psychiatry mentored by Alan McLean MD, medical director at IBM. I spent half my time at IBM and half at the Port Authority of NY and NJ which ran the World Trade Center, Port of Elizabeth NJ, the PATH transit system, the Lincoln Tunnel and the George Washington bridge. My first assignment was to discover why the toll collectors at the bridge were more unhappy than those at the tunnel, despite working conditions being better at the bridge than the tunnel. I completed psychoanalytic training at The NY Psychoanalytic Institute. I am in private psychiatric practice in NYC and enjoy occupational and organizational consulting.

Susan Dornstein, D.O, R.D, DipABLM
WorkCare, Anaheim, CA

Pre-recorded panel interview followed by live Q&A with Dr. Dornstein

Dr. Susan Dornstein, D.O, R.D, DipABLM is a physician specializing in internal, lifestyle, and occupational medicine. She is currently the Associate Medical Director at WorkCare, where she helped companies navigate workplace safety throughout the pandemic. She now provides telehealth services throughout the United States, assists with medical surveillance, and completes FFD exams. She also assists with WorkCare’s incident intervention, managing work-related injuries and illnesses. Dr. Dornstein joined WorkCare in 2020 after serving as a Medical Director for WorkNet Occupational Health Services for 18 years. She is a member of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine and a Registered Dietician and gives lectures and mentors students around the country on methods in lifestyle medicine, including the Lifestyle Intervention Program and CHIP Method. She currently runs a teaching kitchen at her synagogue, Keneseth Israel, to provide wellness programming for her community. Dr. Dornstein loves dogs and is a board member for Israel Guide Dog Center, an organization that trains guide dogs, PTSD service dogs, and emotional support dogs for people in need. She lives in the Philadelphia area with her husband, daughter, and dog. She is a graduate of the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine and Drexel University, and completed an internal medicine residency at Christiana Care Medical Center in Delaware.

Francine Katz, DO, MPH, FACOEM, DipABLM
Ford Motor Company. Chief Physician of Plant

Francine S. Katz, DO, MPH, MROCC, CCME FACOEM is residency trained and board certified in Occupational and Environmental Medicine and a Diplomat of the American Board of Lifestyle Medicine. She has worked in Occupational medicine to improve health and safety of workers since 2009.  Dr. Katz earned Bachelors degrees in Psychology, and in Nutritional Sciences in 1993 and 1999 respectively, at the University of Maryland.  She earned her medical degree from Chicago College of Osteopathic Medicine in 2003 and completed her residency training while earning her Master of Public Health through the Rutgers University School of Public Health and Robert Wood Johnson Medical School’s Environmental and Occupational Health and Safety Institute in New Brunswick, New Jersey.  She was inducted as a Fellow of the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (ACOEM) during its centennial anniversary in 2016 and is currently serving her fourth year on the Executive board and Year term as President for Central States Occupational and Environmental Medicine Association.

Dr. Katz serves as the Chief Physician of the Chicago Stamping Plant, Ford Motor Company. Her medical expertise and passion is in the management, intervention and prevention of workplace and built environments injuries, illnesses and exposures. Mission to engage and active each person to practice safe and healthy work and lifestyles with the vision of increasing number of the quality-of-life years lived.

Gaurava Agarwal MD
Northwestern Medicine and Northwestern University, Chicago, IL

Gaurava Agarwal, MD, is Associate Professor in both the Departments of Medical Education and Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine.  He serves as the VP, Chief Wellness Executive for Northwestern Medicine. He also serves as the Director of Faculty Wellness for Northwestern University.  Dr. Agarwal specializes in occupational and organizational psychiatry with an emphasis on workplace mental health. He is the co-founder and past chair of the Behavioral Health Section for ACOEM.