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Jeff Bender Presents Needlestick Prevention Webinar

UMASH Center Co-Director, Dr. Jeff Bender, presented “Don’t Get Stuck! Preventing Needlestick Injuries in Agricultural Settings” as a noontime webinar hosted by the AgriSafe Network on Wednesday, March 30, 2016. Needlestick injuries in agriculture are common although not as recognized as those in human clinical settings. Farmers, ranchers, …

Russ Daly Published in Zoonoses and Public Health

Russ Daly, DVM, DACVPM, was the Principal Investigator on a 2012 UMASH (Upper Midwest Agricultural Safety and Health) Center Pilot Project, Characterization of Shiga-toxin Producing E. coli Infections and Cryptosporidia in South Dakota with Respect to Agricultural Exposures and Other Risk Factors. Dr. Daly is an Extension Veterinarian and Associate …

Peter Davies Published in Health Talk

Peter Davies, PhD, UMASH Research Scientist and a professor in the University of Minnesota College of Veterinary Medicine, in partnership with scientists from the USDA National Animal Disease Center and the Iowa State University College of Veterinary Medicine, conducted two studies on MRSA in relation to US pigs and the people who work with them. Dr. …

Research Paper from UMASH Pilot Project Published in Journal of Applied Communications

An original research paper, “Fitting Farm Safety into Risk Communications Teaching, Research and Practice,” appears in the current issue of Journal of Applied Communications. Authors Jim Evans, University of Illinois, and Scott Heiberger, National Farm Medicine Center, examined the potential for strengthening skills in farm safety communications …

Bryan Weichelt Presents Poster at APHA 2015

Bryan Weichelt presented a poster at the American Public Health Association (APHA) annual meeting in Chicago in November 2015. The title of the poster was “Nuance to Numbers: Transforming Unstructured Physical Therapist Field Data to Structured Farm Task Data for an Injured/Ill Return to Work Software Application.”  The abstract and poster …

UMASH Research Featured in AgriView.com Article on Asthma and Allergies

UMASH Co-Director Matthew Keiffer, MD, MPH has been quoted in a recent AgriView.com publication. In the article, entitled ‘Farms linked to less asthma, allergies’, Dr. Keiffer states that “he hopes researchers will be able to use the study’s findings to develop a therapy to prevent asthma and allergies.” The UMASH 2012 funded Pilot …

Peter Davies Appointed to National Presidential Advisory Council

Peter Davies B.V.Sc., Ph.D., professor of Swine Health and Production, and UMASH Principal Investigator on the MRSA Colonization and Infection in Swine Veterinarians project, has recently been appointed one of only four veterinarians in the nation to the Presidential Advisory Council on Combating Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria. This advisory council …

SPOTLIGHT: Responding to Emerging Issues – HPAI Outbreak

SEPTEMBER 2015 Joni M. Scheftel, DVM, MPH, DACVPM State Public Health Veterinarian, Minnesota Department of Health Kirk Smith, DVM, PhD Foodborne, Waterborne, Vectorborne, and Zoonotic Diseases Section, Minnesota Department of Health In spring 2015, the U.S. experienced a devastating outbreak caused by highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) H5N2, …

NFMC 2015 Summer Interns

Katherine Ziekle and Elizabeth Steiner were 2015 summer interns with the National Farm Medicine Center (NFMC) at Marshfield Clinic through the Occupational Health Internship Program (OHIP), which is a national program that links interns to various organizations working on emerging occupational health and safety issues throughout the U.S. Katherine and …