Advisory Board

Maria DelMuto is a graduate of Simmons College with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Physical Therapy. After spending over 15 years practicing as an orthopedic clinical specialist and occupational rehab specialist, she transitioned to the workers’ compensation arena to specialize in utilization review and medical case management of the injured worker. In 1999, Maria was responsible for the development and implementation of the Utilization Review and Medical Case Management Services Program for Northern General Services. As a certified case manager, Maria was the managed care supervisor for the third party administrator, FutureComp for over 10 years. During that period, she was actively involved in new client presentations while providing case management services to multiple self insured groups, individual clients, and municipalities. Currently with 20 years experience in the field, she is a clinical case manager in the workers’ compensation division of Partners Healthcare System where she interacts daily with injured employees from multiple entities.

Dr. Dean Hashimoto is the Chief Medical Officer of the Occupational Health Services for the Mass General Brigham and also oversees its workers compensation insurance division.  He is the chair of the Health Care Services Board of the Massachusetts DIA and has academic appointments at Boston College Law School, Harvard Medical School, and the Harvard School of Public Health. He is a graduate of the University of California, San Francisco, Medical School and is board-certified in occupational medicine. He also received his law degree from the Yale Law School, served as law clerk for Justice Brennan at the U.S. Supreme Court, and was an attorney for the Ropes & Gray law firm before becoming a law professor at Boston College. He is the coauthor of two large empirical studies of opioid utilization in 24 states at the Workers Compensation Research Institute and a co-investigator at the Harvard Center for Health, Wellness, and Wellbeing.

Dr. Huyck, is an Associate Professor of Medicine at Dartmouth in the Section of Occupational and Environmental Medicine and the Medical Director of VT RETAIN (Retaining Talent After Injury/Illness Network), a state early-intervention work disability prevention program through the Vermont Department of Labor and funded by the U.S Department of Labor. She is a former American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine Occupational Physician Scholar and former Howard Hughes Predoctoral Fellow in the Biological Sciences. She completed her residency and MPH at the Harvard School of Public Health and received her PhD in Cellular and Molecular Biology from the University of Vermont. Prior to her position at Dartmouth, she worked in diverse OEM settings in the Boston area, including as a staff physician, researcher, disability review consultant, impartial medical examiner, and expert witness. Her current clinical and research interests include equitable access to occupational medicine best practices and evidence-based stay-at-work/return-to-work services to support the physical and mental health of workers in their communities. 

Dr. Larsen is a clinical psychologist in the Department of Medicine at New England Baptist Hospital. He is also in private practice with offices at Pro Sports Orthopedics in Brighton, MA. For the past twenty-five years he has utilized innovative treatment approaches in caring for patients suffering from catastrophic occupational injuries and workplace violence, as well as in the management of chronic pain. For many years he has also been involved in sport psychology as the Baptist has often provided medical management of elite athletes who visit Boston for world cup events including the Boston Marathon. For fifteen years he was on the medical team for the Boston Celtics, and a clinical instructor in the Department of Medicine at the Harvard Medical School. He is past member of the Board of Directors of the Massachusetts Psychological Association, past chair of the NEBH Integrative Medicine Council, and present co-chair of NEBH’s Institutional Review Board. He did his undergraduate work at New York University, completed master’s studies in theology and received a Doctorate in Analytical Psychology & Clinical Studies at Andover-Newton, including advanced studies at the CG Jung Institute in Zurich, Switzerland. He completed residencies at Abbott Northwestern Hospital in Minneapolis, and Danvers State Hospital in Massachusetts. His doctoral dissertation in medical hypnosis was entitled: “Eidetic Memory Reprocessing – An Investigation of the Neurobiology and Clinical Application of the ‘Trauma Theatre’ with Workers Suffering Co-Morbid PTSD.” He was the recipient of the DLIN/Fischer Clinical Research Award for “A Double Blind, Randomized, Placebo-Controlled Study of Peri-Operative Administration of Olanzapine to Prevent Post-Operative Delirium in Joint Replacements” from the Academy of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry. And the recipient of the Lewis Millender MD Golden Rose Award. 

Nancy is a founding partner of Occupational Resource Network. She earned her Master’s Degree in Rehabilitation Counseling, with specialized training in vocational evaluation, from Assumption College. She is a nationally Certified Rehabilitation Counselor and Certified Case Manager who has been providing vocational evaluation, counseling, and rehabilitation services for 30 years on behalf of adults who have sustained injuries or illnesses that impact employment. She also utilizes her vocational expertise to assist employers who are concerned with effectively managing disability issues in the workplace. Since 2002, she has served as an expert vocational witness in various court systems where her training, experience, and specialized knowledge of employment issues have been called upon. Nancy is presently on the board of directors for the New England Chapter of the International Association of Rehabilitation Professionals as well as Kids Chance of Massachusetts.