This website is designed to aid educators by offering quality teaching materials related to pesticides.
All resources can be used and modified free of charge. Educational tools have been developed by a team of faculty, staff, and students in the medical fields to meet the curricular needs of a wide variety of medical and nursing programs. These teaching materials are based on actual cases of pesticide poisonings identified through the Washington State Pesticide Incident Reporting and Tracking (PIRT) program and the published literature.
This website was created through a partnership between the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the National Environmental Educational Foundation, the Pacific Northwest Agricultural Safety and Health Center at the University of Washington School of Public Health and Community Medicine and the National Farm Medicine Center.
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Faculty & Student Champions & Contributors:
Sincere thanks are extended to partners who served as champions in the development of pesticide education curricula and integration strategies for various physicians, nurses, and physician assistant programs in Washington State and across the nation. Students advanced aims by research and fleshing out specific cases supporting the progress of the study. Specific contributions are listed below.
• Ruth Ballweg, Director, MEDEX Northwest, University of Washington
• Patricia Butterfield, Dean and Professor, WSU
Student: Allyson Ochsner – BSN Curriculum insertion points, adapted cases from Washington State Pesticide
Program, website links for the in-depth Occupational and Environmental Health History
• Annie Bruck, Assistant Director, Continuing Education, Northwest Center, University of Washington
• Linda Dale, Regional Representative, MEDEX Northwest, Physician Assistant Program, University of Washington
• Mary Ann Draye, Assistant Professor, Psychosocial & Community Health, University of Washington
Student: Tamsin Sarich – preliminary work on the in-depth Occupational and Environmental Health History
Student: Jolene Beitz – A Farmworker Toddler - Assessing Pesticide Exposure Risk
• Laura Hahn, Clinical Assistant Professor, Nursing Program, Washington State University, Yakima
Student: Sheryl DiPietro and Peggy O’Neil – project contributors
• Stacey Holland, Graphic Designer/Web Developer, Pacific Northwest Agricultural Safety and Health Center,
University of Washington
• Matthew Keifer, Dean Emanuel Endowed Chair, Senior Research Scientist, Co-Investigator of the Upper Midwest Agricultural Safety and Health Center and Editor, Journal of Agromedicine, National Farm Medicine Center
Student:David Shoaf: Oral Herbicide (Diquat) Exposure
Student: Wei-Wen Wu: A Poisoning in Taiwan from Contaminated Food
• Amy Leibman, Director, Environmental and Occupational Health, Migrant Clinicians Network
The Big 3 Screening Questions, contributor: Migrant Worker.ppt
• Sharon Moses, MEDEX Northwest, Maternal & Child Health, Behavioral Medicine, University of Washington
• Helen Murphy-Robinson, Director of Outreach, Pacific Northwest Agricultural Safety and Health Center,
University of Washington
Student: Stephen Willis: Oral Herbicide (Diquat) Exposure
Student: Chris Rieman: A Pesticide Suicide Attempt and A Pyrethroid Inhalation from a Crop Duster
• Robin Russell, Project Coordinator, Pacific Northwest Agricultural Safety and Health Center, University of Washington
• Kathy Stetz, Professor, School of Health Sciences, Seattle Pacific University
Student: Julia Muench - Clinical Site Harmful Substance Evaluation
Student: Lisa De Groot – Home Environmental Health Survey
• Mary Salazar, Professor Emeritus, Psychosocial & Community Health, University of Washington
Student: Brooke Casipit - Paresthesias - Is it Diabetes?
Student: Kristy Ivicek - A Community Case Study: Farmworker Housing and Exposure
Student: Jeaneasse Miller – slide show Preventing Nosocomial Pesticide Poisonings - Decontaminating Patients.ppt
• Sandy Wells, Heritage University
Contribute to the Site: If you have materials to contribute to this database of pesticide-related environmental and occupational health teaching materials please contact us at: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Terms of Use: The original materials provided on this website were developed using public funds and are free to use for educational purposes with proper reference citations. Documents linked to this site that were not developed by this faculty, students and contributors may be subject to other terms of use.
