Davis, California – The Pesticide Educational Resources Collaborative–Medical (PERC-med) has appointed Steve Kirkhorn, MD, MPH to its Advisory Board. He is currently the Medical Director of the Agrisafe Network. Most recently, Dr. Kirkhorn was the Director/Section Chief of Occupational Health at the Minneapolis Veterans Administration Health Care System; Director of the Occupational and Environmental Medicine Academic Program; Director/Section Chief of Occupational Health; and Assistant Professor at the University of Minnesota.

Dr. Kirkhorn is a Fellow of the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine; was the Medical Director of the National Farm Medicine Center and the NIOSH National Children’s Center for Rural and Agricultural Safety and Health; and was the Executive Editor of the Journal of Agromedicine.

Some of his clinical interests are in rural occupational and environmental health, agricultural medicine, and environmental exposures in veterans. Dr. Kirkhorn joins other members of the Consejo Asesor de PERC-med, including:

• Fred Berman de la Universidad de Ciencias y Salud de Oregón
• Aidan Black of the U.S. EPA
• Kaci Buhl de la Universidad Estatal de Oregón
• Suzanne Forsyth de UC Davis
• Jeff Jenkins de la Universidad Estatal de Oregón
• Catherine Karr de la Universidad de Washington
• Ouahiba Laribi of the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment for the State of California
• Jennifer Park de la EPA de EE. UU.
• James Roberts de la Universidad Médica de Carolina del Sur
• Diane Rohlman of University of Iowa
• David Vearrier of University of Mississippi Medical Center
• Michael Yeh of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention