About

We address policies, programs and practices that combine protection from work-related safety and health hazards with promotion of injury and illness prevention to improve worker well-being. Studies address a range of topics including health behaviors and employee productivity, physical and emotional health benefits of reducing prolonged sitting at work, and the use of measurement tools aimed at integrating employee safety and health
Affiliation
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Faculty Position
  • Anderson, Paul J. II, MD, HP OEM Regional Occupational Medicine Director
  • Bejan, Anca, MS, COHC, CIH, VA Medical Center & OEM Teaching Faculty
  • Bovard, Ralph S., MD, Program Director, Occupational Medicine Residency
  • Doss, Manoj A., OEM Core Faculty 2020 -
  • Funk, Edwin, MD, OEM Core Faculty
  • Kirkhorn, Steve, Emertius Faculty
  • McKinney, Zeke, MD, MHI, MPH, Research Investigator
  • Montoya-Barthelemy, Andre G., MD, Research Investigator
  • Sellman, Jonathan S., MD, MPH, EE Health Medical Director
    • Publications
    selected publications
    Journal Article
  • Comparing pharmacist-led telehealth care and clinic-based care for uncontrolled high blood pressure: the Hyperlink 3 pragmatic cluster-randomized trial. 
    Hypertension (Dallas, Tex.. 2022
  • Comparison of explanatory and pragmatic design choices in a cluster-randomized hypertension trial: effects on enrollment, participant characteristics, and adherence. 
    Trials. 2022
  • Introducing mass communications strategies to medical students: a novel short session for fourth-year students. 
    Academic Medicine. 2022
  • Law enforcement violence in the black community: a catalyst for clinician engagement in social justice. 
    American Journal of Preventive Medicine. 2022
  • Using advanced racial and ethnic identity demographics to improve surveillance of work-related conditions in an occupational clinic setting. 
    American Journal of Industrial Medicine. 2022
  • A mini-epidemic of suspected contact dermatitis to Delta Airlines uniforms. 
    Dermatitis. 2021
  • Building capacity for integrated occupational safety, health, and well-being initiatives using guidelines for Total Worker Health® approaches. 
    Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine. 2021
  • Cardiorespiratory fitness of firefighters: initial results of a multi-phased study. 
    Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine. 2021
  • Shots in shops: dispelling COVID-19 misinformation in underrepresented communities. 
    ACOEM (American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine) Quarterly. 2021
  • A national survey of health and safety knowledge and beliefs among technical vocational faculty in autobody collision repair technology. 
    Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine. 2020
  • COVID-19 and the correctional environment: the American prison as a focal point for public health. 
    American Journal of Preventive Medicine. 2020
  • COVID-19 trials protect human rights. 
    Minnesota Spokesman Recorder. 2020
  • Design of a pragmatic cluster-randomized trial comparing telehealth care and best practice clinic-based care for uncontrolled high blood pressure. 
    Contemporary Clinical Trials. 2020
  • Institutional racism in medicine: from institutional to personal. 
    Minn Physician. 2020
  • Outcomes of a safety and health educational intervention in auto body and machine tool technologies vocational college programs: the Technical Education Curricula for Health and Safety (TECHS) Study. 
    Annals of work exposures and health. 2020
  • Occupational medicine clinical practice data reveal increased injury rates among Hispanic workers. 
    American Journal of Industrial Medicine. 2019
  • Relationship of activity patterns to acute mountain sickness in south pole workers. 
    International Journal of Sports Medicine. 2019
  • Spotlight on safety: Votechsafety.net
    2019
  • Spotlight on safety: free educational materials for vocational instructors
    2019
  • Blockchain technology: a data framework to improve validity, trust, and accountability of information exchange in health professions education. 
    Academic Medicine. 2018
  • Health and safety education in auto body collision and machine tool technology programs in vocational colleges: challenges and opportunities. 
    Annals of work exposures and health. 2018
  • An uncommon mechanism for work-related total achilles tendon rupture
    2017
  • An uncommon mechanism of work-related partial-thickness triceps tear
    2017
  • Case report: initially missed diagnosis of quadriceps partial tendon rupture
    2017
  • Health status and health behaviors among citizen endurance Nordic skiers in the United States. 
    BMC Research Notes. 2017
  • Occupational medicine considerations in the management of low back pain injuries. 
    MetroDoctors. 2017
  • Remarkable case of uncorrected type IC tricuspid atresia with adaptive pulmonary trunk dilatation to allow prolonged survival: case report and CT fly-through
    2017
  • The merits of MIIC: Minnesota's immunization information system excels at population health surveillance. 
    Minnesota Medicine. 2017
  • Use of clinical decision support to increase premedication regimen homogeneity. 
    Journal of the American College of Radiology. 2017
  • A survey of social support for exercise and its relationship to health behaviours and health status among endurance Nordic skiers. 
    BMJ open. 2016
  • Analysis of workers' compensation claims data for machine-related injuries in metal fabrication businesses. 
    American Journal of Industrial Medicine. 2016
  • Diabetic ketoacidosis critical care pathway implementation: incorporation into EMR significantly decreases length of stay. 
    Endocrine Practice. 2016
  • Diagnostic delay and antibiotic overuse in acute pulmonary blastomycosis. 
    Open forum infectious diseases. 2016
  • Measurement tools for integrated worker health protection and promotion: lessons learned from the SafeWell Project. 
    Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine. 2016
  • Utility and significance of gadolinium-based contrast enhancement in posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome. 
    AJNR: American Journal of Neuroradiology. 2016
  • Electronic medical record-based performance improvement project to document and reduce excessive cardiac troponin testing. 
    Clinical Chemistry. 2015
  • Improving red blood cell orders, utilization, and management with point-of-care clinical decision support. 
    Transfusion. 2015
  • The Collision Auto Repair Safety Study (CARSS): a health and safety intervention. 
    American Journal of Industrial Medicine. 2015
  • Two-year follow-up of the Collision Auto Repair Safety Study (CARSS). 
    Annals of Occupational Hygiene. 2015
  • Understanding safety climate in small automobile collision repair shops. 
    American Journal of Industrial Medicine. 2014
  • Workplace safety and health programs, practices, and conditions in auto collision repair businesses. 
    Journal of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene. 2014
  • A comparison of owner and expert evaluation of health and safety in small collision repair shops: a pilot study. 
    International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health. 2013
  • A qualitative evaluation of owner and worker health and safety beliefs in small auto collision repair shops. 
    American Journal of Industrial Medicine. 2012
  • Exposure assessment in auto collision repair shops. 
    Journal of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene. 2011
  • Incidence and symptoms of high altitude illness in south pole workers: Antarctic Study of Altitude Physiology (ASAP). 
    Clinical Medicine Insights: Circulatory, Respiratory and Pulmonary Medicine. 2011
  • Risk behaviors in high school and college sport. 
    Current Sports Medicine Reports. 2008
  • Biliary liver flukes (Opisthorchiasis and Clonorchiasis) in immigrants in the United States: often subtle and diagnosed years after arrival. 
    Journal of Travel Medicine. 2004
    • Editorial Article
  • Get a doctor to avoid going to the doctor. 
    MinnesotaSpokesmanRecorder.  2022
  • Bearing bad news: walking with patients [editorial]. 
    Minnesota Medicine.  104. 2021
  • Black MN doctors on COVID-19 vaccine: 'the benefits outweigh the risks'. 
    MinnesotaSpokesmanRecorder.  2021
  • Combating fear of the unknown in healthcare worker COVID vaccination [editorial]. 
    Minnesota Medicine.  104. 2021
  • Invest in tobacco prevention to improve health, ease health disparities [editorial]. 
    MinnPost.  2021
  • Shifting the culture of working while ill [editorial]. 
    Minnesota Medicine.  104. 2021
  • Sickle cell trait: an unsound cause of death [editorial]. 
    Lancet (London, England).  398. 2021
  • To protect Black lives, ban menthol tobacco products [editorial]
    2021
  • Toward the quadruple aim: caring for oneself [editorial]. 
    Minnesota Medicine.  104. 2021
  • Which COVID-19 vaccine to choose [editorial]. 
    Minnesota Medicine.  104. 2021
  • Community partnership in clinical research [editorial]. 
    Minnesota Medicine.  103. 2020
  • Engaging the community, one physician at a time [editorial]. 
    Minnesota Medicine.  103. 2020
  • Pursuing justice for our black patients and communities [editorial]. 
    Minnesota Medicine.  103. 2020
  • The anxiety of underrepresentation [editorial]. 
    Minnesota Medicine.  103. 2020
  • The challenges of team-based care [editorial]. 
    Minnesota Medicine.  103. 2020
  • The importance of patient trust [editorial]. 
    Minnesota Medicine.  103. 2020
  • Maintaining a culture of humanism in medicine [editorial]. 
    Minnesota Medicine.  102. 2019
  • Mind the gap: where quality measures fall down [editorial]. 
    Minnesota Medicine.  102. 2019
  • Overcoming identity differences to meet the needs of the medically underserved [editorial]. 
    Minnesota Medicine.  102. 2019
  • Patients simply want to be heard [editorial]. 
    Minnesota Medicine.  102. 2019
  • Proceeding carefully with medical cannabis [editorial]. 
    Minnesota Medicine.  102. 2019
  • The occupational health of prison inmates: an ignored population and an opportunity [editorial]. 
    Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine.  61. 2019
  • The problem(s) with board exams [editorial]. 
    Minnesota Medicine.  102. 2019
  • Looking to the future [editorial]. 
    Minnesota Medicine.  101. 2018
  • Cardiac troponin testing is overused after the rule-in or rule-out of myocardial infarction [editorial]. 
    Clinical Chemistry.  61. 2015
  • Supplemental personal noise sampling data [editorial]. 
    Journal of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene.  8. 2011
    • Chapter
  • Wilderness orthopaedics. 
    Wilderness medicine. 2012
    • Conference Poster
  • Bringing safety and health expertise into the classroom. Lessons from the TECHS study 2014-2018 [poster]
    2019
  • Initial phase results of Firefighter Cardiorespiratory Fitness Pilot Study [poster]
    2019
  • Analytic evaluation of immunization overutilization rates in Minnesota [poster]
    2017
  • The composition of a contemporary occupational medicine practice [poster]
    2017
  • The composition of a contemporary occupational medicine practice [poster]
    2017
  • Vocational colleges - unique opportunities to enhance safety and health in small businesses: findings from the Technical Education Curricula for Health and Safety (TECHS) Study [poster]
    2017
  • DKA (diabetic ketoacidosis) critical care pathway [poster]
    2015
  • Effects of taconite mining silica and respirable dust exposure on an inflammatory DNA adduct biomarker, M1dG [poster]
    2015
  • Effects of taconite mining silica and respirable dust exposure on an inflammatory DNA adduct biomarker, M1dG [poster]
    2015
  • Improving packed red blood cell orders, utilization, and management with point-of-care clinical decision support [poster]
    2015
  • The use of electronic health record alerts to improve postoperative hand therapy protocol compliance following peripheral nerve repair [poster]
    2015
  • The use of order-based CDS alerting to increase the homogeneity of premedication regimens in patients with known contrast allergies [poster]
    2015
  • Usage and engagement of a collaborative Wiki for occupational and environmental medicine residents [poster]
    2015
  • Usage and engagement of a collaborative Wiki for occupational and environmental medicine residents [poster]
    2015
  • Improving packed red blood cell orders, utilization, and management with point-of-care clinical decision support [poster]
    2014
    • Report
  • Auto body collision technology: safety and health curriculum for CTE instructors
    2018
  • Machine tool technology: safety and health curriculum for CTE instructors
    2018
    • Case Conference
  • Clinician Case Conference - Leading during crisis, occupational exposure in COVID19
    2020
    • Grand Rounds
  • Law Enforcement Violence in the Black Community as a Catalyst for Clinician Engagement in Social Justice
    2021
  • Occupational Infectious Diseases
    2021
  • Occupational and Environmental Hazards of Correctional Settings: A Scoping Literature Review from an ACOEM Presidential Task Force
    2021
    • RED Fund
  • Using a Lifestyle Medicine Approach to Address Chronic Back and Neck Pain: A Simple and Affordable Platform to Meet the Quadruple Aim
    2021
    • Abstract
  • Succimer chelation vs. removal from lead exposure in three symptomatic phone cable recycling workers: a case series [abstract]. 
    Clinical Toxicology (Philadelphia, Pa.). 2009
    • Audio Document
  • Equity and education in the community
    2022
    • Quick Info