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2024 Inside Track Series Webinar: How to Use Duration Guidelines for Better Absence Management

Wednesday, Aug. 28
9:00 am PT | 12:00 pm ET

Does your absence program consider or employ return-to-activity best practices? Your case managers don’t have medical degrees – and they don’t have to. What they need is reliable duration information for estimating optimal return-to-work timing and training on prevalent conditions and accommodations. Three experts from MDGuidelines and Alight will delve into the data underlying the duration information and discuss how to establish best practices that help support better outcomes for your employees. Learn how to use duration guidelines to support decisions by your case managers and anyone else who is responsible for managing employee leaves of absence.

Learning Objectives

  • Explain the benefits of using duration guidelines to help guide your organization’s absence management program.
  • Understand and apply best practices for return-to-activity planning, communication, and accommodation for employees with common or complex conditions.
  • Refer to actual examples of how employers can achieve optimal absence durations, based on case studies from Alight’s practice.

Our Presenters

Vice President of Claims Operations
Alight
Director of Value Engineering
Alight
Epidemiologist
MDGuidelines

This session Qualifies for the following CEUs:

1 ADMS, 1 CDMS, 1 CLMS, 1 PHR, and 1 SHRM

To qualify for CMS

  • You must attend the full duration of the webinar. Following the webinar and once attendance has been confirmed, you will receive an email with CEU reporting information.
  • You must register for and watch the webinar individually. Group participation does not qualify for CEU credit.

Exclusively offered by DMEC, the Certified Leave Management Specialist (CLMS) program is the only professional designation of its kind that provides interactive, hands-on training to ensure your programs effectively comply with state and federal leave laws. Learn more about the CLMS program.

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Lauren Carey
Lauren Carey
Vice President of Claims Operations
Alight

Lauren Carey is the VP of Claims Operations at Alight, with oversight over the company’s US and Canadian claims organizations she has been professionally involved with disability for 20 years. Lauren spent 16 years with Lincoln Financial Group within the disability and absence management space, starting as a case manager and progressing through leadership roles. Most recently before joining Alight, Lauren was AVP Claims Operations at Lincoln Financial.

Keemia Vaghef, PhD
Keemia Vaghef, PhD
Director of Value Engineering
Alight

Keemia Vaghef is the Director of Value Engineering at Alight where she specializes in analyzing absence management trends and consult on value realization outcomes for client-specific leave solutions. Keemia has over twelve years of experience analyzing data, summarizing key trends, and presenting important metrics to a variety of companies and industries. With her doctorate (PhD) in Industrial-Organizational Psychology, she leverages quantitative and qualitative data analysis and links relevant statistical findings to significant contextual workplace drivers. Keemia has experience in complex data analysis and predictive modeling for both public and private sectors. She recently received the industry’s Emerging Leader Award from Disability Management Employer Coalition (DMEC) as she drives thought leadership on behalf of Alight. Additionally, she has extensively published research with a focus on workplace factors that impact productivity through best practice.

Keemia and her team are dedicated to identifying any challenges in getting healthy employees back to work in a timely manner. She uses her expertise in data-driven decision making to support organizations in their effort to reduce absenteeism and improve productivity. She leads a team that focuses on data sensemaking to consult our clients on their absence program metrics.

On her time off, Keemia loves picking fruits and vegetables from her garden, kayaking with her husband, walking trails with her dog, and going to brunch with her friends.

Kerri Wizner, MPH, CPH
Kerri Wizner, MPH, CPH
Epidemiologist
MDGuidelines

Kerri Wizner is the Head of Epidemiology at MDGuidelines, a company that provides evidence-based guidelines for medical systems and clinicians. She oversees data analytics to address injury and illness trends for best-practice care for injured workers. She has over 14 years of public health research in academic, industry, and government settings and has published widely. She has a Master of Public Health degree and is certified in public health by the National Board of Public Health Examiners. She is on the Research Committee at the Council for Disability Awareness, a journal Editorial Board Member at Health Science Reports and Frontiers, and the Chair elect for the Occupational Health and Safety section of the American Public Health Association.

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Lindsay Lueken

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Seth Turner, Chief Strategy Officer
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Chief Strategy Officer

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Lauren Carey
Lauren Carey
Vice President of Claims Operations
Alight

Lauren Carey is the VP of Claims Operations at Alight, with oversight over the company’s US and Canadian claims organizations she has been professionally involved with disability for 20 years. Lauren spent 16 years with Lincoln Financial Group within the disability and absence management space, starting as a case manager and progressing through leadership roles. Most recently before joining Alight, Lauren was AVP Claims Operations at Lincoln Financial.