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Principal
Investigator: Craig
Zwerling, MD, PhD, MPH
Dr. Zwerling is Professor and Head of the 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. Dr.
Zwerling has responsibility for overall direction and supervision for
the FACE project.
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.
Trauma Investigator: Murray Madsen, MBA
Murray serves as the primary incident investigator in the field for the Iowa FACE program. He 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.
Co-Investigator: Wayne T. Sanderson, PhD
Wayne Sanderson is the Director of the Great Plains Center for Agricultural Health, which is a leading national Center for research and education on health and safety problems facing our nation’s rural residents He is also the Director of the Industrial Hygiene Training Program for the Heartland Center for Occupational Health and Safety where he teaches courses concerning epidemiology, occupational, and environmental health. Dr. Sanderson’s primary research focus is on agricultural health and safety. He serves as project advisor and IH incident co-investigator for the Iowa FACE program.
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