Ralph S. Bovard, MD
Program Director, Occupational Medicine Residency
About

Specialty: Occupational Medicine, Preventive Medicine

Title: Program Director, Occupational Medicine Residency

Faculty Appointment: Adjunct Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota Department of Public Health

Education and Training: Medical School – University of Minnesota Medical School

Interests Specific to Education:

  • Optimal Aging
  • Industrial Athlete
  • Body Composition
  • The Problem with BMI
  • New Strategies in Evaluating Bone Density
  • The Health of the Nation
  • Why Fitness Matters

Types of Learners Preferred: 

  • Residents
  • MPH students from University of Minnesota
Affiliation
positions
  • Program Director, Occupational Medicine Residency, Worksite and occupational health
    • Publications While At HealthPartners
    selected publications
    Journal Article
  • Detection of a clavicular osteolytic lesion associated with work injury. 
    American Journal of Medicine. 2023
  • 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
  • Cardiorespiratory fitness of firefighters: initial results of a multi-phased study. 
    Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine. 2021
  • Occupational medicine clinical practice data reveal increased injury rates among Hispanic workers. 
    American Journal of Industrial Medicine. 2019
  • An uncommon mechanism of work-related partial-thickness triceps tear
    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
  • A survey of social support for exercise and its relationship to health behaviours and health status among endurance Nordic skiers. 
    BMJ open. 2016
  • ACSM clinician profile. 
    Current Sports Medicine Reports. 2008
    • Chapter
  • Wilderness orthopaedics. 
    Wilderness medicine. 2012
    • Conference Poster
  • Initial phase results of Firefighter Cardiorespiratory Fitness Pilot Study [poster]
    2019
  • The composition of a contemporary occupational medicine practice [poster]
    2017
  • The composition of a contemporary occupational medicine practice [poster]
    2017
    • Review
  • Risk behaviors in high school and college sport [review, meta-analysis]. 
    Current Sports Medicine Reports. 2008
    • presentations
    Teaching
    teaching overview

  • Specialty: Occupational Medicine, Preventive Medicine

    Title: Program Director, Occupational Medicine Residency

    Faculty Appointment Adjunct Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota Department of Public Health

    Education and Training: 

    Medical School – University of Minnesota Medical School

    Interests Specific to Education:

    Optimal Aging

    Industrial Athlete

    Body Composition

    The Problem with BMI

    New Strategies in Evaluating Bone Density

    The Health of the Nation

    Why Fitness Matters

    Types of Learners Preferred 

    Residents

    MPH students from University of Minnesota


       
                     
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  • Ralph S. Bovard, MD
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