About WORKSAFE IOWA
Our Mission: Providing comprehensive, cost-effective, state of the art solutions
to occupational health problems for businesses and individuals throughout
Iowa and the Midwest.
WORKSAFE IOWA offers affordable occupational
health services through a team of health and safety specialists that include
educators, ergonomists, industrial hygienists, occupational medicine physicians
and nurses, and safety specialists. Our home—within the Department
of Occupational and Environmental Health at the University of Iowa College
of Public Health—uniquely places us in an environment that allows
access to ongoing research and the latest technologies in exposure assessment,
hazard control, and occupational medicine.
WORKSAFE IOWA was established in 1987 with
startup funding provided by the Kellogg Foundation. Since then, we have
become a self-supporting nonprofit organization within the College of
Public Health serving the state of Iowa and the surrounding Midwest region.
Our service areas have grown from industrial hygiene, occupational medicine,
and education to include product safety and ergonomics.
Personnel:
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Peter Thorne, MS, PhD
Dr. Thorne is the WORKSAFE IOWA Director, as well as the Director of the Environmental Health Sciences Research Center and He has lead complex population-based epidemiologic studies that embrace community engagement in the research. Dr. Thorne has extensive experience in translating science to the lay public which includes providing student laboratory experiences, speaking to community groups, working with diverse and underserved populations, interacting with government officials and delivering educational resources such as public radio shows, videos and podcasts, written materials for widespread distribution, and reports.
Email: peter-thorne@uiowa.edu Phone: (319) 335-4216 |
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Brenda Buikema, MD, MPH
Dr. Buikema is the medical director of WORKSAFE IOWA. She is an assistant clinical professor both in the College of Public Health (Department of Occupational and Environmental Health) and in the Carver College of Medicine (Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Occupational Medicine). She is an associate program director for the occupational medicine residency training program as well as a staff physician at the UI Occupational Health Clinic in North Liberty.
Email: brenda-buikema@uiowa.edu Phone: 319-356-3335 |
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Nathan Fethke, PhD, CPE
Dr. Fethke is an Associate Professor in the
Department of Occupational and Environmental Health
at the UI College of Public Health. His expertise and research interests include:
- Musculoskeletal Disorders
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Ergonomics
- Exposure Assessment
- Product/Intervention Test & Evaluation
- Electromyography
- Data Acquisition & Signal Processing
Email:nathan-fethke@uiowa.edu Phone: (319) 467-4563
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Tammi Goerdt
Director of Continuing Education & Outreach
Email: tammi-goerdt@uiowa.edu Phone: (319) 335-4423
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Mike Meginnis
Continuing Education & Outreach Coordinator
Email: michael-meginnis@uiowa.edu Phone: (319) 335-4684
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Stephanie Leonard, MS
Ms. Leonard is an industrial hygienist who has been active in WORKSAFE IOWA consultation and education activities since its inception
in 1987. She also serves as an industrial hygiene consultant on research
and surveillance projects involving Iowa pesticide application exposures
and the Iowa Army Ammunition Plant former worker programs. Prior to
joining WORKSAFE IOWA, Ms. Leonard coordinated
research studies at the UI involving
agricultural workers’ occupational exposures. She is originally
from Holstein, Iowa.
Email: stephanie-leonard@uiowa.edu Phone: (319) 335-4432
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