Hand Arm Vibration Syndrome (HAVS) assessment and management

Описание: Dr. Thompson’s keynote address of CROSHCon 2025 is both a primer and update on current best HAVS practice. He reviews the pathophysiology of HAVS and how the condition is diagnosed and managed.

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This keynote presentation is presented as part of the Leo Gerard Lecture Series on Workplace and Labour Studies.

Presented by Aaron Thompson, MD, MPH, FRCPC
Associate Professor, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto
Staff Physician, St. Michael's Hospital / Unity Health
Chief Medical Officer, Workplace Safety and Insurance Board

About Dr. Thompson:
Dr. Thompson is an occupational medicine specialist and Associate Professor of Medicine at University of Toronto. Dr. Thompson also serves as the Chief Medical Officer of the Ontario Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB). He is former director of the Occupational Medicine Residency Training Program at the University of Toronto. His clinical practice is based at St. Michael’s Hospital, where he is a staff physician in the Department of Occupational and Environmental Health.

Dr. Thompson conducts research in both clinical occupational medicine and disability management, with a focus on improving return-to-work (RTW) programs. He brings specialized expertise by providing a clinical perspective on the needs/gaps in existing communication and accommodation tools, and by providing input on how to optimize tools to facilitate effective and sustained work/RTW through effective accommodations that minimize and prevent disability. Dr. Thompson has published extensively on the topic of hand-arm vibration syndrome including publication on its assessment, disability experience and its prevention, and co-authored the 2018 International consensus criteria for diagnosing and staging hand–arm vibration syndrome.