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I-CASH Home > 2025 MRASH Conference > 2025 MRASH Program

2025 MRASH Program

Thursday, November 13


8:00 – 10:00 a.m.  Registration, Exhibit and Poster Set-up.  Breakfast at your hotel.

10:00 a.m. – Noon  Keynote Session:  Cultivating Connections:  One Health Concepts Lead to New Partners. 

 

  • Keynote Speaker:  Jeff Bender, DVM, MS, DACVPM, University of Minnesota and Director of the Upper Midwest Agricultural Safety and Health Center
  • Keynote Panel moderated by Megan Hartwig of the Iowa Cancer Consortium.  Panel members include:
    • Glenda Dvorak, MS, DVM, MPH, DACVPM; Assistant Director and Lead Public Health Veterinarian; Center for Food Security and Public Health, Iowa State University, College of Veterinary Medicine
    • Jennifer Meece, PhD, Chief Research Officer and Executive Director, Marshfield Clinic Research Institute
    • Matt Nonnenman, PhD, CIH, Central States Center for Agricultural Safety and Health, University of Nebraska Medical Center

Noon – 1:00 p.m.  Choose between Student Networking Luncheon and regular Luncheon

1:00 – 2:30 p.m.  Cultivating Conversations small group mini-workshops on topics such as gas monitoring, citizen science, bioaerosols, stress, avian influenza, emergency preparedness, cancer screening, zoonotic disease vectors.  Attendees will sign up for 4 time slots at the registration table.  Each mini-workshop will be 20 minutes long and will include a handout.

2:30 – 3:00 p.m.  Break

3:00 – 4:30 p.m.  Mental Wellness Workout.  This session has two objectives 1) practice activities to build mental wellness for those in attendance  2) identify new tools to help clients and target audiences build their own mental wellness.  We will feature programs from Iowa, Illinois, Nebraska, Michigan, Montana and more.

4:30 – 6:00 p.m.  Poster Reception.  Eat delicious local food, network with colleagues, discuss with poster presenters, visit exhibitors, listen to good music, network with colleagues.  Cash bar will be available.

6:00 – ?? p.m.  Dinner on your own.  Please be aware that many of the restaurants in Amana close early this time of year.

Friday, November 14


7:30 – 8:30  a.m. Registration, visit exhibits and posters

8:30 – 9:30 a.m.  Breakout Session 1

Room A:

  • Tickborne Disease Education for Indigenous Bison Workers. Alexandrea Welch, MPH, University of Nebraska Medical Center
  • Chronic health conditions among cattle feedyard workers. Athena Ramos, PhD, MBA, MS, CPM, University of Nebraska Medical Center

Room B:

  • Locked and Loaded: Attitudes Regarding Firearm Storage Among Farming Parents in Iowa. Tyler Pollock, BS, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine
  • You Want to Know What?!—Farmer Parents’ Attitudes Regarding Healthcare Providers Discussing Firearm Storage and the Asking Saves Kids Program. Tyler Pollock, BS, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine.
  • Beyond Locks and Lectures: What Rural Parents Really Think About Firearm Safety Messaging. Kareem Shoukih, B.S., University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine

Room C:

  • Future Directions of Task Based Agricultural Respiratory Protection. Carolyn Sheridan, RN, BSN, Ag Health and Safety Alliance
  • Lung infection is enhanced by co-exposure to organic dust and alcohol. Todd A. Wyatt, PhD, CS-CASH, University of Nebraska Medical Center

9:30-9:45 a.m.  Break

9:45 – 10:45 a.m.  Breakout Session 2

Room A

  • Impact of Occupational Exposures on Environmental Allergies Among Farmers and Ranchers in Central United States.  Alexandrea Welch, MPH, University of Nebraska Medical Center
  • Who and What is Missing? A Qualitative Analysis of Agricultural Injury News Coverage. Ellen Duysen, MPH, University of Nebraska Medical Center, CS-CASH

Room B

  • Don’t Reinvent the Wheel: Collaborating with AgriSafe for your Mental Health Programming. Linda Emanuel, BSN, RN, AgriSafe Network
  • The North American One Health University Network (NAOHUN) and What it Means for Midwest Farmers’ Health and Safety.  Kathryn Dalton, PhD VMD MPH, University of Iowa

Room C

  • Preliminary Ergonomic and Performance Evaluation of Electric Walk-Behind Tillers. Felix Michael Oguche,  PhD Student, University of Missouri
  • Rural Iowa Adolescents’ Use, Knowledge and Attitudes Regarding ATVs/UTVs on Public Roads. Pam Hoogerwerf, BA, University of Iowa Stead Family Children’s Hospital

10:45 – 11:00 a.m. Break

11:00 – Noon.  Breakout Session 3

Room A

  • Teaching Storytelling in College Classrooms. Melissa Ploeckelman Brown, National Children’s Center for Rural and Agricultural Health and Safety
  • Sources of Farm Parent Safety Information: A Descriptive Study. Jakob Hanschu, MA, National Farm Medicine Center

Room B

  • Roundtable:Roundtable A Community Agency Response to Calamitous Rural Weather Events.  David N. Brown, PhD, LMFT, CFLE, Iowa State University (ISU), Tammy Jacobs, BS; Danielle Day, MA; both of ISU; Karen Hyatt, MA; Kaelee Otto both of Iowa Department of Health & Human Services

Room C

  • Real-time safety monitoring in public feed mills using computer vision. Elijah Bouwman, MS, Iowa State University
  • A GIS-Based Pilot Plan for Mapping and Assessing Grain Handling Hazards in Iowa. Yan Jiang, PhD, Iowa State University

12:00 – 1:00 p.m.  Awards Luncheon – Outstanding Ag Youth Grant Project

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