PD Ratings CV

Luis Pérez-Cordero is an AMA Guides Impairment & California Disability Rating
Specialist certified by the American College of Disability Medicine & American
Board of Independent Medical Examiners.

Presenter & Instructor to Physicians, Claims & Legal Professionals on three
California Permanent Disability Rating Schedules (88PDRS, 97PDRS, 05PDRS)
& the AMA Guides, 5th Edition.

Serving California's Workers' Compensation Community for more than 30 years
as a Certified Self-Insured Claims Administrator, State of California Disability
Rater, Expert Witness & Independent Disability Rating Consultant since 1995.

Graduate of the University of Connecticut with a Masters Degree in Education.

Presenter: Seminars on the 2005 California PD Rating Schedule and the New Evaluation
Methodology based on the AMA Guides, 5th edition.

Speaker: Insurance Claims Associations of the South Bay, Diablo Valley and Bay Area,
California Chiropractic Association, Palmer College of Chiropractic West and Contra
Costa Valley School District.

Consultant: Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau of California on the
Schedule for Rating Permanent Disabilities.

Articles: Rating Permanent Disability In The Upper Extremities: Measurable Impairment
& Objective/Subjective Factors of Disability – Part Two of a Three Part Series,
Occupational Injury & Illness’ Perspectives, Volume 4 / Issue 2 (March-April 2001)

Upper Extremities: Impairment Evaluation & Disability Ratings, Occupational Injury &
Illness’ Perspectives, Volume 4 / Issue 1 (January-February 2001).

The Doctors’ Dilemma: Describing Disability & Work Functional Loss, co-author with Dr.
Steven Feinberg, MD. (California Workers Compensation Enquirer, October 1997).

Web-Articles:

AMA Guides & Impairment Determinations - A Rater's Point of View
- WorkCompCentral.Com (03-2010)

Limited Scope of Independent Medical Examiners (IME) Expert Reports
in the California Workers Compensation System - WorkCompCentral.Com (06-06)

Consistency of AMA Impairment Evaluation & Reporting: Calculating & Reporting
California Impairment & The AMA Guides - 3 part series regarding the Upper
Extremities, Lower Extremities & Spine - PDRatings.Com (12-05)

Keeping Apportionment A Medical Issue: Some Guidelines for P&S Reports -
PDRatings.Com (09-05)

Changes Affecting the Evaluation, Indemnity & Determination of Permanent
Disability – WorkCompCentral (02-05)

The 2005 Schedule for Rating Permanent Disabilities – Adjusting World (10-04)

The ACOEM Occupational Medicine Practice Guidelines – Adjusting World (02-04)

Publications: Manual, Back To Basics II: A Companion to The Schedule for
Permanent Disabilities for Injuries after 4/1/97 (January 1997). Manual, Back To
Basics: A Companion to The Schedule for Permanent Disabilities (December 1994).

2009

Bradford & Barhel, LLP: B&B University - The Battle Continues Against PD Inflation
/ Almaraz/Guzman II (Newport Beach 10-09) Don Barthel, Esq.

The State Bar of California: Almaraz/Guzman - Point/Counter-Point
(San Francisco 05-09)

CWCI: Case Law Seminar - 2009 Update (San Francisco 05-09)

Laughlin, Falbo, Levy & Moresi, LLP: Five Years Later - The Legacy of SB899
(Oakland 05-09)

Bradford & Barthel, LLP: Almaraz/Guzman & Olgilvie (Oakland 04-09)
Don Barthel, Esq.

CAAA: Almaraz/Guzman Seminar (Los Angeles 03-09) Lawrence Silver, Esq.; Alan
Sanders, MD; Jeffrey Hirsch, MD; Tom Martin, Esq.

2008

The State Bar of California: Workers' Compensation Fall Symposium
(San Diego 10-08) Colleen S. Casey; AD Carrie Nevans; Annalisa Faina; Phil Walker,
Esq.; Clifford Levy; Ray Correio; Joseph Patrico

California Self-Insurers Association: CSIA Fall Educational Conference
(SF 10-08) Philip Millhollon, Executive Director

The State Bar of California: Workers' Compensation Spring Symposium
(Concord 03-08). Linda Cocchiarella, MD, Saul Allweiss, Esq., Annalisa Faina, Barry
Knight, Esq.

15th Annual DWC Educational Conference (LA & Oakland 03-08).

California Applicants' Attorneys Association: Winter Convention
Real World Application of the AMA Guides (Rancho Mirage 01-08)
Honorable Paige Levy, Tom Martin, Esq., Todd McFarren, Esq.,
Charles R. Rondeau, Esq.

2007

The State Bar of California: 80th Annual Meeting - Anatomy of an AMA Guides Case /
Rating an AMA Guides Case (Anaheim 09-07). T. Blair Megowan, Manager, Disability
Evaluation Unit.

Texas DWC: Designated Doctor and Physician Impairment Training Course - AMA
Guides, 4th Edition (Houston 09-07) www.aadep.org

UC Regents / CHSWC: Carve-Outs / Alternative Dispute Resolution
(Emeryville 08-07) Kristen Schwenkmeyer, Chair; Christine Baker, Exec. Officer.

The State Bar of California: A Day with the Raters (Concord 07-07)
PWCJ Ken Peterson; T. Blair Megowan, Manager, Disability Evaluation Unit.

CAAA 2007 Summer Convention: Rating Under the AMA Guides (SF 06-07) Charles
Rondeau, Esq.; Linda Cocchiarella, MD; Mark Hyman, MD; Todd McFarren, Esq.

ABIME: AMA Guides and California PD - Managing the AMAs / An Expert Resource
for the Users of the AMA Guides (Irvine 05-07) Mohammed Ranavaya, MD; T. Blair
Megowan, DEU Manager; Jesse Rosen, Esq.; Robert Rassp, Esq.;
Judge Lachlan Taylor, Moderator.

Certified, AMA Guides to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment, 5th Ed.
American College of Disability Medicine & American Board of Independent Medical
Examiners (Irvine 05-30-07). Certificate No. 07-018   www.abime.org

CWCI: California Workers Compensation Case Law: 2007 Update (SF 04-07)
Saul Allweiss, Esq; Richard Jacobsmeyer, Esq; Michael Marks, Esq; Michael McClain,
General Counsel.

State Bar of California: Tactical Tips / Practical Plays: How to Survive in a Post-
SB899 World (San Jose 04-07) WCAB Chairman Joseph Miller; Commissioner James
Cuneo; Acting AD Carrie Nevans.

Mullen & Filippi: Permanent Disability and Apportionment - Who's on First and Which
Base Do We Run to Now? (SF 03-07).

CICA: New Directions in Health Care and Workers' Compensation for Employers
(Burlingame 03-07) Steve Poizner, Ins. Comm., Herb Schultz, Sr Health Care Policy
Advisor to the Governor, Tom Rankin, Scott Hauge, Mark Webb.

2006

CAAA: 2006 Annual Rating Seminar (Costa Mesa 12-06) Robert Havens, Esq.; Adam
Domchick, Esq.; David Dugan, Esq.; David Friedman, MD; Lawrence Richman, MD;
Jeffery Hersch, MD; Philip Sobol, MD; Blair Megowan, DEU Manager.

CWCI: Update 2006 - Spotlighting Return to Work & Other New California Workers'
Comp Regulations (San Francisco 11-06) Allan Leno, President; Richard Jacobsmeyer,
Esq., Michael McClain, GC; Brenda Ramirez, Claims & Med Director; Alex Swedlow,
Research Director; Marie Wardell, Claims & Leg. Research Specialist.

Adelson, Testan & Brundo: AMA Guides Made Simple: Basic to Advanced in One Day
(San Francisco 10-06) Phil Walker, Esq.

Mullen & Filippi LLP: The New AMA Guidelines - Maximizing Fair Impairment
Assessment (San Francisco 10-06) Revels M. Cayton, MD.

California Applicants' Attorneys Association: It's the Whole Body___! Recognizing the
Whole Person and Whole Person Impairment (Berkeley 10-06)
Charles Rondeau, Esq.; Melissa Brown, Esq.; Clifford Straehley, MD; Paul Kaplan, MD;
Adam Duhan, MD; Ira Fishman, MD.

National Academy of Social Insurance: Health and Income Security for Injured Workers
- Key Policy Issues / A Policy Research Symposium
(Washington D.C. / National Press Club 10-06) Christine Baker, Executive Officer,
California Commission on Health and Safety and Workers' Compensation; Edward M.
Welch, Director, Workers' Compensation Center, Michigan State University.

M&F: Workers' Compensation and The Americans with Disability Act
(San Francisco Hyatt Regency 09-06)

The State Bar of California WC Section: A Day With The Raters - How to Use the AMA
Guides and the New PD Schedule (Burlingame 06-06)
Blair McGowan, DEU Manager; Annalisa Faina, DEU Unit Supervisor (Northern
California); Tess Snaer, DEU Supervisor (Southern California); Barry Knight, Disability
Evaluator (Bakersfield); Joe Miller, WCAB Chair.

LawWorm.Com: SB 899 Current Legal Issues
(Oakland 04-06) Jake Jacobsmeyer, Esq.; Sean Gleason, Esq.; Jeremy Pasternak, Esq.

WorkCompCentral: Demistifying the AMA Guides
(Woodland Hills 04-06) Bruce Hector, MD; Tom Hascall, MD; Parthenia Medical Group

13th Annual DWC Educational Conference (Oakland 03-06)

2005

The Newton Medical Group Seminar: The Mental Health Alphabet in 2005 (Oakland 11-
05); Presenter: Fredric H. Newton, MD

Tufts University School of Medicine & AAEME: Survival Guide to Impairment Ratings
(Burlingame 06-05) Co-Presenters: Charles R. Crane, MD, Medical Director, AAEME;
Kenneth Polivy, MD, Chief of Orthopedic Surgery

CAAA: Mastering the AMA Guides (Concord 04-05 & 05-05); Linda Cocchiarella,
MD, MSc, AMA Medical Editor, Guides to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment,
5th Edition

State of California Division of Workers’ Compensation 12th Annual Education Conference
(SF 02-05)

CWCI: PD Rating 102: Practical & Legal Aspects of Implementing California’s New
PD Rating Schedule (02-05) Christopher R. Brigham, MD, Saul Allweiss, Esq., Richard
Jacobsmeyer, Esq., Michael Marks, Esq., Michael, McClain, Esq., & Phil Walker, Esq.

2004

American Medical Association: AMA Guides in Workers' Compensation (Anaheim & SF
11-04) Alan K. Novick, MD, Richard T. Katz, MD, Marjorie Eskay-Auerback, MD, JD,
Blair Megowan (DEU)

COA: AMA Guides to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment, 5th Edition
(Oakland 11-04) J. Mark, Melhorn, MD, Robert H. Haralson, MD, James B. Talmage,
MD ·

CMRS: AMA Guides to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment, 5th Edition (San
Diego 07-04) Christopher R. Brigham, MD·

ACOEM: Evaluating Impairment – Use of the AMA Guides, 5th Edition
(Boston 07-04) Christopher R. Brigham, MD