Research, teaching, and clinical practice fill the life of Brad Evanoff. His research specialty involves musculoskeletal disorders and occupational injuries.

As an associate professor in the Department of Internal Medicine at Washington University in St. Louis, he teaches medical students, residents, and fellows. “I find teaching to be stimulating and enjoyable,” as is mentoring junior faculty as they “develop into independent investigators.”

He also sees patients in an occupational health clinic and in the general medicine service in the hospital, and has administrative duties as chief of the Division of General Medical Sciences, a research group that performs outcomes research and clinical epidemiology.

Evanoff finds occupational health research exciting because “it offers the ability to combine clinical medicine with public health.” He acknowledges that “there is no shortage of controversies in our field, which will continue to have important social consequences and gen-erate interesting questions for academic research.” He has been involved, for example, in ergonomics regulation at the national level.

He received his clinical training at Washington University School of Medicine before entering the Occupational and Environmental Medicine program at UW. He returned to Washington University to start a new research and teaching program in occupational diseases.

He still relies on the training in epidemiology, industrial hygiene, and toxicology that he received at UW, either
in his own research or in teaching.

In Seattle, he found “an incredible group of faculty” who served as role models. He also learned from his peers, a diverse group of nurses, industrial hygienists, epidemiologists, and fellow physicians.

He encourages students to take advantage of these opportunities. “You are unlikely to again be in a setting where you
have such a talented group of people interested in occupational and environmental health and safety.”

He sees “great opportunities available in occupational medicine and occupational health,” both in academic research and its application in the real world.

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