Empowering Employers to
Build an Inclusive Workforce

• Post-Secondary Education to Employment
• Understanding Real-Life Barriers to Implementing Disability Policies in the Workplace
• Interplay of the ADA, FMLA, and Workers' Compensation
• How to Handle Psychiatric Disabilities in the Workplace: Balancing Issues of Behavior, Direct Threat, and Reasonable Accommodation
• Focus on Assistive Technology: Motor Impairments
• AT on the Job: Choosing Assistive Technology as a Job Accommodation
• Ergonomics in the Workplace
• Accommodating Returning Service Members
• Accommodating Employees with Hidden Disabilities
• Webtacular Design
• Legal Update 2007
• Legal, Policy, and Practical Aspects of Reasonable Accommodation
• Medical Inquiries and the ADA
• Performance and Conduct Issues
• Shaping Your Corporate Culture to be Inclusive of People with Disabilities
• U.S. Business Leadership Network Forum
• Disability Employment 101
• Emergency Evacuation

A plenary session will include a panel of experts from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), who will be available to address your ADA and reasonable accommodation questions.

The JAN Conference unites JAN consultants with invited presenters who have expertise in employment law, innovative employment practices, and disability issues. The developing list of confirmed concurrent session presenters includes:

JAN Presenters

• Beth Loy, Ph.D., Job Accommodation Network
• Linda Carter Batiste, J.D., Job Accommodation Network
• Suzanne Gosden Kitchen, ABD, Job Accommodation Network
• John Greer, M.S., Job Accommodation Network
• Kendra Duckworth, M.S., Job Accommodation Network
• Tracie DeFreitas Saab, M.S., Job Accommodation Network

• S. Antonio Ruiz-Quintanilla, DBTAC-Northeast ADA Center, Employment and Disability Institute, Cornell University
• Christopher Carlson, Recruiting Manager, Booz Allen Hamilton
• Lori Briel, Virginia Commonwealth University
• Hannah Rudstam, DBTAC-Northeast ADA Center, Employment and Disability Institute, Cornell University
• Beth Butler, Wachovia Corp.
• Erin Riehle, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital
• Sharon Terrell-Lindsay, Computer/Electronic Accommodations Program (CAP), U.S. Department of Defense
• Dinah Cohen, Director, Computer/Electronic Accommodations Program (CAP), U.S. Department of Defense
• Peter A. Susser, J.D., Littler Mendelson, P.C.
• Christopher Kuczynski, J.D., Assistant Legal Counsel, Director of the ADA Policy Division, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
• Naomi Levin, Senior Attorney, Special Assistant to Commissioner Leslie Silverman of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
• Jane Rath, Program Director, Employer Assistance & Recruiting Network (EARN)
• Jeanne Goldberg, J.D., Senior Attorney Advisor, ADA Policy Division, Office of Legal Counsel, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
• Katherine McCary, President, US Business Leadership Network (USBLN), and Vice President and Manager of Accessing Community Talent and Disability Resource Center, SunTrust Banks, Inc.
• Marian Vessels, Director, DBTAC: Mid-Atlantic ADA Center
• Peg Blechman, Compliance Specialist, Access Board
• Sharon Terrell-Lindsay, Dexterity Team Leader, Computer/Electronic Accommodations Program (CAP), U.S. Department of Defense
• Sharon Rennert, Senior Attorney Advisor, ADA Policy Division, Office of Legal Counsel, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
• Steven Nissen, Director, Operation Job Match National Multiple Sclerosis Society