Iowa FACE Staff Biographies

Principal Investigator: Craig Zwerling, MD, PhD, MPH

Dr. Zwerling is Professor and Head Department of Occupational and Environmental Health. He has extensive experience in the design and evaluation of injury preventions, having worked with the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health as well as Kaiser Permanenete Health Maintenance Organization in this area. His primary interest is injury epidemiology, with emphasis on the area of occupational injuries. Other current interests include a analysis of occupational injuries among older workers. Dr. Zwerling has responsibility for overall direction and supervision for the FACE project.

Co-Investigator: Risto Rautiainen, PhD

Risto Rautiainen is deputy director for the Great Plains Center for Agricultural Health within the Department of Occupational and Environmental Health. He has a doctoral degree in occupational and environmental health and a masters degree in agriculture/agricultural engineering. He has experience in agricultural health and safety education and intervention effectiveness research.

Rautiainen cooperates with the primary FACE investigator in surveillance and investigations, especially in agricultural machinery related incidents. He also serves as a back-up investigator and is a co-author in many investigation reports and educational publications.

Coordinator: John Lundell, MA

John has a background in injury-related program coordination and public administration and policy-making. Mr. Lundell is Coordinator of the University of Iowa Injury Prevention Research Center and involved in several on-going research initiatives. He is responsible for the day-to-day management of the Iowa FACE Program and the preparation of all reports and grant applications. Mr. Lundell’s effort in the FACE program will be 10%.

Trauma Investigator: Murray Madsen, MBA

Murray serves as the primary incident investigator in the field for the Iowa FACE program. Mr. Madsen joined the Great Plains Center for Agricultural Health with the University of Iowa 's Occupational and Environmental Health Department as a program consultant at the beginning of 2002. His primary interests are agricultural equipment safety and injury prevention.

Murray is responsible for tracking down occupational fatalities, and for collecting fatality information according to established protocols. He organizes incident investigations, prepares summary information, and writes the detailed reports of Iowa work fatalities for NIOSH. Murray also maintains the Iowa FACE website, provides information for prevention programming, and coordinates dissemination of FACE information.