MCOHS Advisory Board
Lynn Ayers, MPH, RN
Director
Ridgeview Business Health
Linda Bruemmer, MS, MPA
Manager
Minnesota Department of Health
Jim Craig, MD, MPH
Consultant
Steve Kirkhorn, MD, MPH
Medical Director, National Farm Medicine Center
Editor, Journal of Agromedicine
Paul Liemandt
Manager, Agronomy and Plant Protection Division
Minnesota Department of Agriculture
John Mulhausen, PhD, CIH
Corporate Industrial Hygiene
Env. Tech & Safety Services
3M Company
Gary Olmstead, PhD, CIH, CSP
Safety and Environmental Management
General Mills, Inc.
LaMoine Olson
Manager of Respiratory Care and Pulmonary Function
Fairview Lakes Health Care System
Vince Opat
Director, Compensation, Benefits and Occupational Health
The Valspar Corporation
Jim Picha
Laborer’s Local 132
Carpenter’s Local 1644
Richard A. Pollock, CSP
President
Comprehensive Loss Management, Inc.
Peter Rachleff, PhD
Professor of History
US Labor, Immigration, and African American History
Macalester College
David Zanick, MD
Medical Director
Airport Medical Clinic
Larry Zobel, MD, MPH
Medical Director
3M
Faculty & Staff Contacts
(See key to abbreviations at end of list)
Susan Goodwin Gerberich, PhD
Center Director
Co-Director, OIPRTP and
Mayo Professor, EnHS
Email: gerbe001@umn.edu
Patricia M. McGovern, PhD
Center Deputy Director
Director, OEHN, Co-Director, OHSRP and
Professor, EnHS
Email: pmcg@umn.edu
Bruce H. Alexander, PhD
Co-Director OIPRPT and
Associate Professor, EnHS
Email: balex@umn.edu
Lisa Brosseau, ScD
Co-Technical Director HST-CE
Associate Professor, EnHS
Email: brosseau@umn.edu
Bryan Dowd, PhD
Co-Director, OHSRP and
Professor, Health Policy and Management
Email: dowdx001@umn.edu
Paula Geiger
OEM Program Assistant
Email: Paula.A.Geiger@HealthPartners.com
Debb Grove
Fiscal Officer, EnHS, MCOHS
Email: grove020@umn.edu
Jeffrey H Mandel, MD, MPH
Program Director, Occupational and Environmental Medicine
Associate Professor, University of Minnesota School of Public Health
Email: mand0125@umn.edu
Nancy Nachreiner, PhD, MPH, RN
Director, Outreach
Center Co- Coordinator and
Assistant Professor, EnHS
Email: nachr001@umn.edu
Gurumurthy Ramachandran, PhD
Director IH and
Professor, ENHS
Email: ramac002@umn.edu
Ruth Rasmussen, MPH
CE and HST Director, ASH-CE Coordinator
Email: rasmu048@umn.edu
Pete Raynor, PhD
Director HSAT and Co-Technical Director HST-CE
Assistant Professor, ENHS
Email: praynor@umn.edu
Andrew D. Ryan
Research Fellow
Email: ryanx029@umn.edu
Key to abbreviations:
ASH=Agricultural Safety and Health
CE=Continuing Education
EnHS=Division of Environmental Health Sciences
HSAT=Hazardous Substances Academic Training
HST-CE=Hazardous Substances Training Continuing Education
IH=Industrial Hygiene
OEHN=Occupational and Environmental Health Nursing
OHSRP=Occupational Health Services Research and Policy
OIPRTP=Occupational Injury Prevention Research Training Program
OEM=Occupational and Environmental Medicine