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2009 Speakers The 2009 speaker lineup will be posted as soon as it is available.
2008 Speakers Carla Aldarelli, Esq., Shareholder Steven G. Crawford, MD, CIME, Corporate Medical Director Edward M. Decter, MD, Orthopedic Surgeon Frank J. DelGaudio, Risk Manager Stephen T. Fannon, Esq., Shareholder Honorable Ray A. Farrington John H. Geaney, Esq., Shareholder John Kulin, DO, FACEP Regina Short Lampty, Claims Manager Steven M. Matarazzo, Esq., Partner Jeffrey D. Newby, Esq., Partner William R. Nortrup, Claims Manager Susan O'Malley, Eastern Regional Claims Manager Assembly Member David C. Russo Adam Sackstein, MD, Anesthesiologist Craig W. Summers, Esq., Partner Bryan Varallo, B.S., M.S., Managing Member Robert W. Wainwright, Founder and CEO, Physical Therapist Tracy A. Walsh, Esq., Partner Justin Wilkinson, Account Manager Carla Aldarelli, Esq. Ms. Aldarelli is a shareholder with Capehart & Scatchard, P.A. Her practice involves representation of employers, self-insured companies, third-party administrators and insurance carriers in workers' compensation. She is certified by the Supreme Court of New Jersey as a Workers' Compensation Law Trial Attorney specialist. Additionally, she frequently teaches classes and seminars on workers' compensation issues. Ms. Aldarelli is a member of the American Bar Association, the Monmouth County Bar Association, the New Jersey State Bar Association, the Ocean County Bar Association, the Phi Alpha Delta and the Young Lawyers Guild. She is a graduate of Catholic University of America, Columbus School of Law and Bryant College. Steven G. Crawford MD, CIME Steven G. Crawford, MD, CIME is the Corporate Medical Director of Meridian Occupational Health, West Long Branch, New Jersey. Meridian Occupational Health is a hospital-based occupational health program with six offices in Monmouth and Ocean Counties. Dr. Crawford has been practicing occupational medicine for 17 years at the Jersey Shore. He has been certified in internal medicine, sports medicine and addiction medicine. He is also a certified Independent Medical Examiner. He received his undergraduate degree from Springfield College in Massachusetts and attended Medical School in Palermo, Italy. He completed his residency in Internal Medicine at Jersey Shore University Medical Center in Neptune, New Jersey. He is an active member of the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, the American College of Physicians, and the American Board of Independent Medical Examiners. Frank J. DelGaudio Mr. Del Gaudio is a member of the County's senior management team appointed by Joseph N. DiVincenzo, Jr., Essex County Executive, May 2004. His responsibilities include the planning and coordination of programs intended to control financial risks, claims, and exposure for the County of Essex and the formulation, implementation and monitoring of procedural policies as they relate to insurance, safety, claims, and settlement of suits. In this role as Risk Manager, he has oversight of the self-insured liability and workers' compensation programs with over 800 claims annually. He reports to the County Administrator, Joyce Wilson Harley, Esq. Before joining the County of Essex, Mr. Del Gaudio was a Risk Control Specialist for the St. Paul Insurance Companies from 2002, where he provided accounts with advanced risk control consulting services and products for exposures including property, product liability, workers' compensation, builder's risk, inland marine, ocean marine, flood, and commercial fleet auto. He also developed and conducted all insurance/risk control specific training and mentoring programs for St. Paul's National Risk Control Advisor's Program. Responsibilities included completion of quality control audits for national staff on high exposure accounts, development of field risk control resources, and staff technical support focusing on the development of employee risk/exposure evaluation skills. He was also selected as Regional Hospitality Risk Control Specialist for St. Paul's National Hotel and Entertainment insurance programs and Regional Property, Healthcare, Food Safety, and Ergonomics Account Specialist. From June 1990 to January 2002, Mr. Del Gaudio was Loss Prevention Consultant and Project Coordinator for the Princeton Insurance Companies/Princeton Risk Protection. In these positions, he was responsible for the development and management of third party claims administration services and other alternative insurance risk financing programs. Clients included the Maryland Guarantee Fund and the New Jersey Hospital Trust for Workers' Compensation. Mr. Del Gaudio is a 1989 graduate of Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ. In July 2007, he received the American Society for Healthcare Engineering's Senior (SASHE) designation. Since 2001, he has served on the Education Committee (Committee Chair 2004, 2005 & 2006) of the American Society for Healthcare Engineering, American Hospital Association, Chicago, IL. Mr. Del Gaudio serves on Essex County's Kip's Castle Advisory Board and is a member of the New Jersey Shared Services Association. Stephen T. Fannon, Esq. Mr. Fannon is a shareholder with Capehart & Scatchard, P.A. His practice involves representation of employers, self-insured companies, third-party administrators and insurance carriers in workers' compensation. Additionally, he frequently teaches classes and seminars on workers' compensation issues. Mr. Fannon is a member of the American Bar Association, the Burlington County Bar Association, the Camden County Bar Association, the Defense Research Institute, the New Jersey State Bar Association and the Master, Justice James Coleman, Jr., New Jersey Workers' Compensation American Inn of Court. He is a graduate of Drake University School of Law and Rowan University. Honorable Ray A. Farrington Judge Ray A. Farrington was educated in New Jersey. He received his B.A., History from Seton Hall University in 1969. That year, he was designated a Distinguished Military Graduate and commissioned in June 1969, receiving an excess leave to attend Rutgers Law School-Newark. After receiving his J.D. in 1972, he passed the bar in New Jersey, Washington D.C., and Hawaii. He was placed on active duty, January 1973. He served as a Judge Advocate General for the 25th Infantry Division. He was granted Senior Trial Attorney status as well as serving as Chief of Military Justice. Judge Farrington tried over 100 BCD and general courts martial. He was certified as a Special Courts Martial Judge in 1975. In 1976, he was a prosecutor for the West Point Cheating Scandal. Following his active duty, Judge Farrington served in the New Jersey National Guard 50th Armored Division until November 1993, retiring as Lieutenant Colonel and the last Staff Judge Advocate of that Division. After leaving active duty, Judge Farrington worked as a Deputy Attorney General and Assistant Prosecutor in Bergen County. There he tried more than 100 criminal cases to verdict. He tried the first case in New Jersey in which cameras were allowed back into the court room. Judge Farrington worked for the Prudential House Counsel for two years following his tenure at the Prosecutor's Office. During this time, he was also attorney for the Wyckoff Zoning Board of Adjustment. Judge Farrington served as a Workers' Compensation Judge from May 1987 to August 2007. During that time, he was appointed Supervising Judge in the Hackensack vicinage. Judge Farrington was an original founder and President for eight years of the Justice James H. Coleman, Jr. New Jersey Compensation American Inn of Court. This Inn is the only one in the United States dedicated to the practice of Workers' Compensation Law. John H. Geaney, Esq. Mr. Geaney is a Shareholder with Capehart & Scatchard, P.A. His practice involves representation of employers, self-insured companies, third-party administrators and insurance carriers in workers' compensation. He also represents employers with respect to the Americans with Disabilities Act and Family and Medical Leave Act. He is certified by the Supreme Court of New Jersey as a Workers' Compensation Law Trial Attorney specialist. Mr. Geaney has published numerous works primarily on workers' compensation subjects. Additionally, he frequently teaches classes and seminars on the ADA, FMLA and workers' compensation issues. Mr. Geaney is a member of the American Bar Association, the Burlington County Bar Association, and is on the board of directors for the New Jersey Bar Association. In addition, he serves as president for the National Council of Self-Insurers, is a committee member of the New Jersey Self Insurers Association, and is a member of the National Workers' Compensation Defense Network. He is a graduate of the Boston College Law School and Holy Cross College. John Kulin, DO, FACEP Dr John Kulin is President and Medical Director of Occupational Medicine South, P.C., in Manahawkin, New Jersey. He is also Medical Director for Atlanticare Occupational Medicine in Atlantic City and Egg Harbor Township, New Jersey. His professional interests in occupational medicine include acute care of workplace injuries and objective testing techniques for preemployment and fitness-for-duty examinations. Jeffrey D. Newby, Esq. Jeffrey D. Newby, Esquire is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame and of Wake Forest University School of Law. Mr. Newby is a member of both the New Jersey and Pennsylvania Bar Associations. As the managing attorney for the New Jersey office, he litigates workers' compensation matters in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. After graduating from law school, Mr. Newby was a public defender in Montgomery County before joining the Philadelphia law firm of German Gallagher & Murtagh, where he was an associate from 1986 to 1989. In 1989, he became associated with the law offices of Rawle & Henderson. He joined Weber Gallagher Simpson Stapleton Fires & Newby, LLP as an associate in January of 1992 when the firm was founded and became a partner of the firm in January 1995. Mr. Newby is managing partner of the Cherry Hill, New Jersey office. He has argued before the appellate courts in both Pennsylvania and New Jersey, as well as federal court. Mr. Newby frequently lectures on workers' compensation issues and has done so on behalf of the Pennsylvania Defense Institute, SEAK, Lorman Education Services, PESI and has appeared on Law Journal television regarding the polarity of workers' compensation cases in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. In 2007, he became a Certified Workers' Compensation Law Attorney by the New Jersey Supreme Court. William R. Nortrup Mr. Nortrup graduated from Seton Hall University in 1980 with a BS in Education. He has been with Rutgers The State University of New Jersey since January 1987. He started as the Risk Analyst and has been the Claims Manager for fifteen years. As Claims Manager he is responsible for the day-to-day operation of Rutgers Self Insured Workers' Compensation General Liability, Automobile Liability, Auto Physical Damage and Theft Programs. Mr. Nortrup started in claims with a small New Jersey third-party administrator where he was an outside claims representative, which included investigations of comp claims, general and auto liability claims. He also handled all the workers compensation informal hearings. He was there for five years. He was the claim supervisor for the last two years. Susan O'Malley Susan has been in the business of claims since 1980 specializing in the hospitality and casino industry. Currently, Susan is the Eastern Regional Claims Manager for Harrah's Entertainment, Inc. Her responsibilities include supervising all GL & WC claims for ten Harrah's properties in five states (New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Iowa, Indiana and Illinois). Susan manages all WC litigation in multijurisdictions consisting of over 25,000 employees. David C. Russo Assemblyman David C. Russo has been elected to eight terms in the General Assembly, where he has represented the 40th legislative district since 1990. In the Assembly, he serves on the Judiciary Committee, the Human Services Committee, the Housing and Local Government Committee, the Financial Institutions and Insurance Committee, and as a Member on the Joint Legislative Committee on Ethical Standards. He has been instrumental in passing workers' compensation legislation in New Jersey. Mr. Russo graduated with a B.A. in History from the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, in 1975 and received a J.D. from Seton Hall Law School in 1978. Assemblyman Russo was admitted to the bar in 1979 and is a partner in the Teaneck firm of Russo and Russo. He is a Member of New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Florida and District of Columbia Bars and Bar Associations. Mr. Russo served as Attorney for the Borough of Bergenfield from 2003-2005 and served as attorney for Bergenfield's Zoning Board of Adjustment from 1988-1989. He is a member of the New Jersey State Bar Association's Family Law Executive Committee, was the Municipal Prosecutor for the Township of Wyckoff from 1987-1988, and served as an attorney for the Bergen County Office on Aging from 1986-1987. Adam Sackstein, MD Dr. Sackstein was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. He received a BA in Biology from City University of NY, Brooklyn College and his Doctorate from the State University of NY at Downstate. He subsequently did an internal Medicine Internship at Staten Island University Hospital in NY. He completed his Anesthesiology Residency and Pain Medicine training at Yale New Haven Hospital in New Haven Connecticut in 1994. After two years as a Staff Anesthesiologist and Pain Management specialist at Cooper University Hospital in Camden, Dr. Sackstein entered private practice. Since October of 1996 Dr. Sackstein has dedicated his entire practice to the management of pain with an emphasis on the injured population. He is currently the Medical Director of The Pain Management Centers in Voorhees, in Camden County, and in Hamilton, in Mercer County. He performs the full range of Interventional Pain Management Procedures including the most advanced techniques. Craig W. Summers, Esq. Craig W. Summers is a partner of Hill Wallack LLP. He is a member of the firm's Litigation Division and Workers' Compensation Practice Group. He concentrates his practice in the defense of workers' compensation claims representing major self-insured corporations, insurance companies and clients of third-party administrators. Among his clients, Mr. Summers represents school districts, large box retailers, delivery companies, manufacturing companies and employers in the healthcare industry. He is a member of the New Jersey Self Insurers' Association and has presented numerous seminars to self-insured organizations on a myriad of workers' compensation issues including notice provisions and authorization of treating personnel. Mr. Summers earned his Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from Villanova University (1981), and his Juris Doctor degree from Southwestern University School of Law (1984). During his final year of law school, Mr. Summers clerked for the Presiding Judge of Workers' Compensation for Los Angeles County, California. He is an active member of the New Jersey State and Camden County Bar Associations. He is admitted to practice in New Jersey and before the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and the United States Supreme Court. Mr. Summers is certified by the Supreme Court of New Jersey as a Workers' Compensation Law Trial Attorney Specialist. Bryan Varallo, B.S., M.S. Mr. Varallo, who has sixteen years of investigative experience, is a Member of the CAPCON GROUP LLC, a licensed private investigative company in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. He and his staff of qualified investigators have extensive experience and knowledge in workers' compensation and disability claim investigations, criminal/civil litigation support services, surveillance operations and insurance fraud investigations. Mr. Varallo has worked closely with Insurance Companies, Third Party Administrators (TPA's), Self-Insured's, Defense Attorneys, and various corporations operating within different industries. He also has extensive knowledge involving the procedures, techniques and responsibilities related to the management of investigative operations with a particular expertise in conducting full-length insurance claim investigations and surveillances. His primary focus continues to be the supervision of fraud investigations and insurance claim's due diligence reviews. He is a graduate of Saint Joseph's University, B.S. and M.S., and is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, The Wharton School, Business Management Studies. Robert W. Wainwright Robert Wainwright is the founder and CEO of Kinematic Consultants, Inc.. He has been involved in the field of physical therapy for the past 38 years. As founder of Kinematic Consultants, Inc., Mr. Wainwright has pioneered the use of 3D motion analysis, kinematic and kinetic technologies for objective test and measurement in Functional Capacity Evaluations. His current consultant assignments include the Olympic Sports Performance Center in Cannes, France, and the Mid-Atlantic Tactical Officers Association. Mr. Wainwright received his physical therapy education from Columbia University, School of Medicine, New York. Tracy A. Walsh, Esq. Tracy A. Walsh is a partner at the Philadelphia office of Weber Gallagher Simpson Stapleton Fires & Newby, LLP where she is a member of the Employment Practices Group. Ms. Walsh is admitted to practice in both Pennsylvania and New Jersey. She represents employers in all phases of employment law, including Title VII, ADA, ADEA, the New Jersey Law Against Discrimination, race, national origin, religion, gender, sexual harassment, disability, age, retaliation, and wrongful discharge actions. Her practice includes representing employers in administrative proceedings and litigation in state and federal courts in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Ms. Walsh also counsels employers in employment-related matters. She is admitted to practice in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey, and the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. Ms. Walsh is a graduate of Pennsylvania State University and Temple University School of Law. Justin Wilkinson Justin Wilkinson is an Account Manager for PMA Management Corp., a premiere provider of workers' compensation, auto and liability claims handling services. Justin began his career with PMAMC in 1997 as an account claims representative, handling workers' compensation claims for a number of self-insured clients in New Jersey and New York. He was promoted to the position of Senior Account Claims Representative in 2001, and to the position of Claims Service Manager in 2003. In his current role, Justin provides account level services to all of PMA Management Corp's self insured clients in New Jersey, New York, and Eastern Pennsylvania. Justin is a graduate of Rider University with a Bachelor's degree in Actuarial Science.
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