Sixth Edition of the AMA Guides to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment – Part 2

                               Take a detailed look at the new Sixth Edition of the AMA Guides to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment with Senior Contributing Editor and noted expert Dr. Christopher R. Brigham. In the second of a two part interview, Dr. Brigham shares with the audience a detailed look at the new Guides.



For more information you may visit www.sixthedition.com.

Part 1 of this interview was released on January 3, 2008, and is available here.

About Dr. Brigham:
Christopher R. Brigham, MD is the Founder and President of Brigham and Associates, Inc. (www.impairment.com). He serves on the Guides Advisory Committee, and was a contributor / author for several chapters, including Upper Extremities, Lower Extremities and Spine. With the Fifth Edition he served on the Advisory Committee and as a contributor. Dr. Brigham is Board-Certified in Occupational Medicine (ABPM), Founding Director of the American Board of Independent Medical Examiners (ABIME), a Certified Independent Medical Examiner (CIME), a Certified Impairment Rater (CIR), a Fellow of the American Academy of Disability Evaluating Physicians (FAADEP) with Certification in Evaluation of Disability and Impairment Rating (CEDIR), and a Fellow of the American College of Occupational Environmental Medicine (FACOEM), and a graduate of the Washington University School of Medicine – St. Louis. He is the Editor of the AMA publications Guides Newsletter and the Guides Casebook. He is co-author of the text Understanding the AMA Guides in Workers Compensation, has written over one hundred published articles on impairment and disability evaluation and other texts, is featured in several video, audio and web-based productions in the medicolegal field, and has trained thousands of physicians, attorneys, claims professionals and fact-finders, throughout the US, Canada and internationally. He is an experienced professional speaker. As a clinician with over twenty five years experience, he has performed several thousand independent medical and impairment evaluations, providing him with excellent insight to the complexities of human potential, impairment and disability.