The IMET program is a 90-day outpatient program that aims to help employees return to work after experiencing mental health issues. It uses an interdisciplinary team including psychiatrists, physicians, nurses, and psychologists to create a customized treatment plan for each patient. The team takes a holistic and integrated approach, combining different clinical perspectives and treatments. The program begins with an assessment and then involves weekly therapy sessions and medical check-ins over 12 weeks before completing with a final report. The goal is to see improvements within 6-8 weeks and get patients back to being productive members of the workforce.

1. IMET™
Program Overview / July 2015

2. IMET™
Program Overview

3. Our Mission Statement
The IMET™ program is about success, for both employer and employee. At the core of the IMET is an
operating principle and conviction that the optimization of an employee’s well-being starts with a healthy,
productive workplace. Bringing forth a collaborative, holistic perspective, we at the Chokka Center for
Integrative Health are equipped to deal with multiple facets of job-related mental health issues, such
as improving communication between employee and employer and addressing psychological issues.
A 90-day out-patient return-to-work treatment plan, the IMET protocol uses a customized medical
approach to get your employees back to being productive, contributing members of your workforce.
Clinical Interdisciplinary /
Integrative Medical Approach
At the Chokka Center for Integrative Health we approach clients through an interdisciplinary, integrative
medical model as embodied in our IMET program. The members of our medical practitioner team include
psychiatrists, family physicians, clinical psychiatric nurses and clinical psychologists who all function
at a high interdisciplinary specialist level. Our team collaboratively combines their diagnostic powers
from a number of different clinical perspectives in order to generate a comprehensive treatment plan
that ensures successful outcomes for the client. Not only is our team cross-platform trained in all of the
attending medical approaches at our Center (i.e. our psychologists and family physicians are trained in
DSM-IV and DSM-5 diagnoses with a working knowledge of pharmacotherapy medications and Cognitive
Behavioural Therapy) but our team is continually cross-consulting during the entire treatment process.
This ensures close interdisciplinary treatment monitoring, which encourages the likelihood of successful
patient outcomes.
IMET™ Program Overview / Prepared July 2015
THE IMET DIFFERENCE

4. IMET Overview
The program will begin with an IMET assessment and treatment evaluation. This assessment is crucial
to the 90-day program because it provides our practitioners with the current status of the patient since
the last time they were seen by a health professional, identifying current symptomatology and clarifying
diagnosis in light of our Integrative Team’s approach to generating treatment plans. You will receive a
copy of the initial assessment once completed, as well as a schedule of treatment. We will remit 30 and
60 day reports on progress, and a 90 day final discharge report, and updated compliance reports assuring
that the patient is attending all appointments. Regarding an employee’s treatment progress, we usually
would expect to see signals of clinical efficacy within 2 to 4 weeks. However, we would anticipate a more
robust response to pharmacotherapy and psychotherapy closer to the 6 to 8 week mark, as these clinical
strategies, taken together, emerge and build upon each other over time. In every instance, any adverse
events or patient non-compliance would be reported immediately.
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5. Treatment Schedule Overview
Week 1
• IMET intake and assessment seen by psychiatrist, family physician, psychologist
and psychiatric clinical nurse (RPN)
Week 2
• Session #1 CBT with psychologist
Week 4
• Follow-up with family physician
• Session #2 CBT with psychologist
• 30 day progress report
Week 6
• Follow-up appointment with psychiatrist
• Session #3 CBT with psychologist, RPN and psychiatrist Follow-up with rating scales
Week 8
• Session #4 CBT with psychologist.
• 5-6pm follow-up with family physician, Dr. Ahmed
• 60 day progress report
Week 10
• Session #5 CBT with psychologist
Week 12
• Session #6 CBT with psychologist and RPN with final rating scales
• Case Conference with psychiatrist, psychologist, family physician and RPN, inclusive of all
letters, dictations, transcriptions and IMET Case Conference report, inclusive of discharge report
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6. IMET™ Program Overview / Prepared July 2015
IMET Team Bios
Executive Medical Director–Psychiatrist:
Dr. Pratap R. Chokka FRCPC
I am a fully qualified and licensed psychiatrist in the province of Alberta and a Fellow of the Royal College
of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada. I am currently Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the University of
Alberta and an attending psychiatrist and consultant at the Grey Nuns Hospital, Edmonton, Alberta.
I have been a licensed practitioner of medicine in the province of Alberta since January 1993, and a
specialist psychiatrist since July 1995. My main areas of interest in psychiatry include mood and anxiety
disorders, specifically bipolar disorder, ADHD, and reproductive psychiatry.
In addition to being a clinician, I have been involved in clinical research for 18 years and have widely
published in and peer reviewed for medical journals. I have sat on various provincial and national
committees, more recently on the Canadian Anxiety Committee Guidelines. At a provincial level, I
have both been a member of and chairman of the Workers’ Compensation Board Medical Panel. I have
conducted several independent medical evaluations, and have provided expert evidence in my areas of
specialty in court.
My detailed curriculum vitae is available for you upon request.
Family Physician with Subspecialty in Psychiatric Health:
Dr. Ghalib Ahmed CCFP
I am a fully qualified and licensed physician in the province of Alberta and a member of the Canadian
College of Family Physicians. I am currently Associate Clinical Professor, Department of Family Practice,
Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry of medicine at the University of Alberta.
I have been a licensed practitioner of medicine in the province of Alberta since 1998. My areas of interest
and practice lay in addictions (Methadone License obtained 2003), sexual health (member of Member of
Alberta Council of Professionals in Sexual Health ACPSH), ADHD, Chronic Pain (member Edmonton Pain
Interest Committee EPIC) and Major Depressive Disorder. I have also been involved in Phase II, III and IV
Pharmaceutical Clinical Trials involving a new molecule.
My detailed curriculum vitae is available for you upon request.
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7. IMET Team Bios
Clinical Psychologist:
Farrel Greenspan
I am a provisional clinical psychologist in the province of Alberta and am registered in good standing
with the College of Alberta Psychologists. My areas of therapeutic specialty include trauma therapy
and complex PTSD. I use various psychological modalities in the clinical setting including CBT, forms
of DBT, but also integrate facets of Mindfulness approaches to my counseling techniques. I also
lead psychological groups dealing with ADHD and other mental health disorders using primarily CBT
approaches. I also am trained in the medical psychiatric model of DSM IV and DSM V Axix/Multiaxial
diagnosis and have a working clinical knowledge of pharmacotherapy.
My detailed curriculum vitae is available for you upon request.
Clinical Psychiatric Nurse (RPN):
Cheryl Seitz
I am a Clinical Psychiatric nurse in the province of Alberta and am registered in good standing with
the Registered Psychiatric Nurses Association of Alberta. I have been a licensed psychiatric nurse
since 1981. I have extensive experience in the capacity as coordinator overseeing every facet for many
clinical human trials investigating new pharmacological molecules (Phase 11-IV). My other clinical areas
of specialty include the psychiatric assessment and screening of patients especially in the areas of
depression, anxiety. With training in and a working knowledge of DSM IV and V axis/multiaxial diagnoses,
I maintained a patient caseload at Alberta Mental Health and was responsible for prescreening,
assessment and treatment outcome measures.
My detailed curriculum vitae is available for you upon request.
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8. dr. pratap r. chokka, MD FRCPC
Executive Medical Director
pratapchokka@chokkacenter.com
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floyd b. dunphy
Director of Business Development
fdunphy@chokkacenter.com
imet Integrative Medical Evaluation Treatment
P 780 465 5749 imet.ca