Faculty

Bradley Evanoff, MD, MPH

Bradley Evanoff, MD, MPH is Chief of the Division of General Medical Sciences in the Department of Internal Medicine at Washington University. He also heads the Section of Occupational and Environmental Medicine and holds the Richard A. and Elizabeth Henby Sutter Chair in Occupational, Industrial, and Environmental Medicine. Dr. Evanoff's scholarly activities involve three main areas in occupational health: the epidemiology and prevention of work-related musculoskeletal disorders, work-related health problems in health-care workers, and the evaluation of occupational medical education. In addition to his academic duties, Dr. Evanoff is involved in many issues related to employee health and safety at BJC.

Dr. Evanoff received his undergraduate degree from Cornell University, and his medical degree from Washington University. Following a residency in Internal Medicine at Barnes Hospital, he completed a Fogarty post-doctoral fellowship at the Swedish National Institute of Occupational Health. He was then a fellow in the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program and the Occupational and Environmental Medicine Program at the University of Washington in Seattle, where he also received his Master's Degree in Public Health.

Dr. Evanoff's areas of expertise include occupational and environmental medicine, epidemiology, design and analysis of intervention studies, and the use of functional status measures.

Invited Publications

1. Silverstein B, Hughes R, Burt J, Kalat J, Kaufman J, Miller M, Moore D, Sebesta D, Evanoff B, Villacres N. Cumulative trauma disorders at two fish processing plants. One year follow-up survey, 1992, preliminary report. SHARP Report 18-2-1992, Safety and Health Applications and Research for Prevention Division. Olympia, WA: Washington State Department of labor and Industries.

2. Evanoff B, Rosenstock L. Pathophysiologic stressors and work organization. in Rosenstock L. and Cullen MR, eds. Textbook of Clinical Occupational and Environmental Medicine. Philadelphia: N.B. Saunders Co., 1994.

3. Evanoff, B Gustavsson, P Hogstedt C Dödsorsaker och cancerincidens bland svenska skorstensfejare1951-1990 : förlångd uppföljning av en kohortstudie. Report Yrkesmedicinska kliniken, Karolinska sjukhuset 1994:1.

4. Evanoff B, Rempel D. Epidemiological Aspects of Upper Extremity Disorders. in Karwowski W and Marris W, eds. The Industrial Ergonomics Handbook CRC Press, 1998.

5. Evanoff BA. Occupational and Environmental Health. in Clinician's Handbook of Preventive Services, 2nd ed. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, 1998.

6. Evanoff BA. Epidemiology: Physical Factors. in Work-Related Musculoskeletal Disorders: Report, Workshop Summary and Papers. National Research Council. Washington, DC: National Academy Press, 1999.

7. Evanoff BA. Work-related Low Back Pain. in Bowler R and Cone J, eds. Occupational Medicine Secrets. Philadelphia: Hanley & Belfus, 1999:241-243.

8. Evanoff BA, Button JH, Wolf LD. Effects of an Ergonomics Intervention Among Hospital Billing Department Employees. Proceedings of the IEA 2000/HFES 2000 Congress, vol 1, pp. 700-703. San Diego, CA.

9. Evanoff BA. Disability Evaluation in Lin and Rypkema, eds. Washington Manual of Ambulatory Therapeutics. Philadelphia: Lippincott Wiliams & Wilkins, 2004.

10. Evanoff B, Potter P, Wolf L, Grayson D, Boxerman S. Do Transient Working Conditions Trigger Medical Errors? Proceedings of the First Safety Across High-Consequence Industries Conference, Saint Louis University, St. Louis, MO, March 2004.

11. Evanoff B, Potter P, Wolf L, Grayson D, Boxerman S. Can We Talk? Priorities for Patient Care Differed Among Health Care Providers. Proceedings of the First Safety Across High-Consequence Industries Conference, Saint Louis University, St. Louis, MO, March 2004.

12. Evanoff BA. Back and Lower Extremity Disorders in Rosenstock, Cullen, Brodkin, and Redlich, eds. Textbook of Clinical Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 2nd edition. Philadelphia: Elsevier Saunders Co., 2005.

13. Rempel DM, Evanoff BA. Overall Approach to Managing Musculoskeletal Disorders in Rosenstock, Cullen, Brodkin, and Redlich, eds. Textbook of Clinical Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 2nd edition. Philadelphia: Elsevier Saunders Co., 2005.

14. Evanoff B. Reducing Bias in D. Schuster and W. Powers, eds. Clinical Science: Principles of Translational and Experimental Medicine. Philadelphia: Lippincott-Williams & Wilkins, 2005.

15. Evanoff B. Physical activity, psychological complaints, and occupational health. Occupational and Environmental Medicine 20006 Jan; 63(1):2-3.

16. Evanoff B, Leclerc A. Ergonomic intervention studies in nurses' aides. Documents pour le Medicine du Travail 2006; 106:187-194.

Division of General Medical Sciences
Department of Medicine
Washington University School of Medicine