The founder of Rimedicon is Dr. William Milliken. He is the son of an Air Force fighter pilot and after living throughout the United States and the world, he pursued his love of science and the outdoors by earning a Bachelor of Science in Environmental Science. Unknown to Dr. Milliken at the time, his effort to pay for college by working as a logger, construction worker, field hand, researcher, teacher, store clerk, mover, farmer, janitor, dock worker, hospital orderly, and dishwasher would someday comprise an important part of his "education".

Life experience! After completing medical school on a Navy scholarship, Dr. Milliken served as a General Medical Officer and Flight Surgeon with the United States Navy and Marine Corps for eight years. He practiced occupational and aerospace medicine in countless locations and challenging environments, and it was this experience which led to a decision to pursue residency, board certification, and a career in occupational medicine. During his residency training, he realized that some 15 years of "blue collar" work experience and service as a Naval Officer would be an invaluable asset in his chosen career of service to the American workforce. In addition to his formal residency training, Dr. Milliken had worked in and closely observed many of the trades he would later be required to understand and serve. Not only was he residency trained in a multidisciplinary approach to problem solving, as a military officer and Navy doctor, he learned and applied this strategy. 

Professional experience! Since leaving active military service in 1998, Dr. Milliken has practiced the full scope of occupational medicine. In 2004, Dr. Milliken started a small consulting firm which focused on approaching occupational health problems in a different way.

A new way of doing things! Instead of a high volume profit driven model, Dr. Milliken envisioned a low volume client relationship approach to occupational health with a focus on early risk management via provision of cost effective support to all those involved in the process.

In the US, the responsibility for Occupational Medicine falls to the family doctor, and the average preparatory training is 1-2 weeks... Nearly all Occupational Medicine practitioners are NOT board certified in the specialty.

There are fewer than 3,500 physicians in the United States that are board certified in the specialty of Occupational Medicine, therefore most providers are untrained in the difficult specialty they are in such high demand to practice. Yet these dedicated doctors provide occupational health services to their communities and the need for such services is always in higher and higher demand. In almost all communities across the United States, it is the local family doctor that faces the difficult task of serving the American workforce.

Occupational Medicine is a three year residency program followed by Board Certification, but with only 3500 such doctors in the United States, it is rare to find clinical facilities that are staffed by doctors trained in and board certified in Occupational Medicine. Although generally much more effective full service providers as compared to facilities providing limited services on a part-time basis, even these Occupational Health/Medicine services are volume driven and often lack the time or expertise necessary to avoid the same common problems and pitfalls faced by their non-residency trained colleagues:

- incorrect causation analysis

- non-work related injuries misclassified

- poor case documentation

- ineffective interface between doctor and workplace

- non-practical work restrictions

- volume based, ineffective pre-employment screening

- sub-standard fitness for duty assessments

- non-compliance with OSHA medical surveillance requirements

- ineffective medical surveillance

- incorrect assessment of MMI and impairment

- unskilled case management

- unclear and poorly defined case closure parameters 

- inexperienced in toxicology and occupational disease 

So how is Rimedicon different???   Rimedicon physicians are all residency trained and board certified in the specialty of Occupational Medicine, but do not practice traditional Occupational Medicine. We are not volume driven and we do not compete for management of the injured or ill worker. Our focus is the provision of practical expert support of those who serve the workforce at ground level.

Our mission is to provide support to the thousands of physicians practicing primary occupational medicine, and the many clients they serve. By enhancing the quality of care provided through innovative methods of lifelong physician training, effective guidance, early consultation, and superior multidisciplinary case management, we deliver improved outcomes at lower cost.

Rimedicon is different...   We are a research oriented, evidence based, multidisciplinary support organization which delivers practical solutions in support of our greatest national asset; the American worker.

Rimedicon is more than just Occupational Medicine Physicians... We develop a multidisciplinary solution to the problem at hand. Doctors, nurses, industrial hygienists, epidemiologists, causation experts, impairment experts, toxicologists, psychologists, therapists and you. Our team approach is fundamental to your success.