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Medical Review Officer (MRO)


A Medical Review Officer is a medical doctor who has a vital role in  the overall drug-testing process. The MRO helps protect both the rights of the participant being tested and the employer requiring the testing. MRO reviews include the interpretation of urinalysis test results reported by the testing lab to ensure a scientifically valid result. The MRO will determine whether a legitimate medical explanation will account for any "confirmed positive" result reported by the  laboratory. This duty is fulfilled through telephone or in-person  interview with the specimen donor and by giving the the donor an opportunity - through their doctor or pharmacist - to provide evidence  of legally-prescribed drug-use that may have caused the positive result  which greatly enhances the validity and reliability of the overall drug-testing process. They also help ensure fairness to the donor and offer more protection to the employer in any case of later litigation  due to a "positive" drug test where the employee has been suspended or fired.

Certatrust partners with Dr. David Greenberg and Dr. Michel Sucher to provide experienced MRO services.

                                                           

Michel Sucher, M.D., FASAM FACEP President, PTS

         

Dr.  Sucher was educated at Wayne State University where he received a  Bachelor of Science Degree in 1968 and a Medical Degree in 1972. Dr.  Sucher’s internship was at Sinai Hospital of Detroit in Detroit,  Michigan and he underwent residency training at Indiana University  Medical Center in Indianapolis, Indiana. From 1974 through 1994 Dr.  Sucher practiced emergency medicine and served as emergency department  director at both Scottsdale Healthcare Hospital facilities. He served  as President of the Medical Staff of Scottsdale Healthcare Osborn  during 1994.
             
            He practices addiction  medicine and serves as the medical director of the monitored aftercare  programs for the Arizona Medical Board, the Arizona State Board of  Dental Examiners and the State Bar of Arizona. He serves a consultant  in addiction medicine to most other healthcare regulatory boards in  Arizona.

       

He recently served as the Acting  Medical Director of the Division of Behavioral Health at the Department  of Health Services, State of Arizona. He holds teaching positions  throughout the greater Phoenix metropolitan area.

       

Dr.  Sucher is a Fellow of the American College of Emergency Physicians and  a Fellow of the American Society of Addiction Medicine. He is also  certified as a Medical Review Officer by ASAM. Additionally, he is  President of the Arizona Society of Addiction Medicine. He is a  nationally known speaker on addiction medicine and professional health  issues.

       

Until July, 2001 Dr. Sucher served  as Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer of Rural/Metro  Corporation. He currently serves as the corporate medical review  officer and as Chief Compliance Officer of the corporation. Rural/Metro  Corporation is a $ 600 Million revenue national ambulance and fire  protection company based in Scottsdale, Arizona.
       

 

David Greenberg, M.D., MPH

         

Dr.  Greenberg’s great grandparents settled in California’s Central Valley  around the late 1800’s. He was born and raised in San Francisco,  graduating from George Washington P.H.S. in 1970. Dr. Greenberg then  moved east to matriculate at U.C. Berkeley, and in 1975 graduated from  U.C. Berkeley’s College of Agriculture. Still pursuing an eastern  education, Dr. Greenberg attended the U.C. Davis School of Medicine and  graduated in 1979. He then joined the Army for five years where he  served as an intern, resident, psychiatric ward officer and two years  as an infantry brigade surgeon. Dr. Greenberg received his ASAM  certification in 1987 and he is currently certified in addiction  medicine. Dr. Greenberg’s 1999 MPH internship project involved a  comparison between U. S. and Canadian physician competency assessment  programs and their impact on the activities of physicians and risk  management.

       

Since the mid-1980’s, Dr.  Greenberg has practiced in the areas of addiction medicine, chronic  pain medicine, and occupational medicine. He has served on physicians’  health and well being committees for various healthcare organizations.  Dr. Greenberg also acted as the department chair for the mental health  and addiction services for a large Arizona based staff model/HMO, in  addition to serving as the medical director for its EAP operations.  From 1986 to 1990, Dr. Greenberg worked as an investigator for the  Arizona Medical Board and subsequently served as its chief medical  investigator, and assistant executive director. For the past 15 years,  Dr. Greenberg and Dr. Sucher have been awarded the Arizona Medical  Board’s Monitored Aftercare Program contract. This program serves MD  and PA participants who are recovering from chemical dependency and  other associated diagnoses.

       

Dr. Greenberg  has developed a special interest in the evaluation and monitoring of  high risk workers returning to the workplace after medical, surgical,  mental health, or substance abuse related events. In addition to  healthcare workers, Dr. Greenberg has also been responsible for the  evaluation and monitoring of other high risk workers in fields as  diverse as mining, commercial fishing, logging, manufacturing,  smelting, transportation workers, and construction, to include civilian  nuclear facility construction workers, as well as assisting in the  military’s nuclear clearance process.

       

Dr.  Greenberg believes that the time has come for occupational medicine to  address the special needs and challenges of physicians working in the  U.S. and Canada. He plans to sit for his preventive medicine and  occupational medicine board exams in 2009.