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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH

Patricia G. Butterfield
Professor

EDUCATION

1994 - Postdoctoral Fellow
Oregon Health Sciences University, Portland 
Occupational and Environmental Health

1992 - PhD 
Oregon Health Sciences University, Portland 
Health Protection Nursing

1980 - MS
University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver 
Community Health Nursing

1976 - BS
Loretto Heights College, Denver 
Nursing

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2001-present Professor, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT

1994-2001 Associate Professor, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT

1992-1994 Assistant Professor, Oregon Health Sciences University, Portland, OR

1987-1992 Graduate Research Assistant, Oregon Health Sciences University, Portland, OR

1983-1988 Assistant Professor, Boise State University, Boise, ID

1981-1982 Patient Care Coordinator, Hospice, Mountain States Tumor Institute, Boise, ID

1980-1981 Assistant Professor, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT

1979-1980 Public Health Nurse, Denver Visiting Nurse Service, Denver, CO

1977-1978 Staff Nurse, St. Peter?s Hospital, Helena, MT

 

AFFILIATE APPOINTMENTS

1997-Present Affiliate Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of Washington.

1996-Present Adjunct Faculty, School of Nursing, Oregon Health Sciences University, Portland, OR.

 

HONORS

1999 Robert Wood Johnson Executive Nurse Fellow, University of California at San Francisco, Center for the Health Professions.

1996 Senator Norman M. Paterson Visiting Professorship, Centre for Agricultural Medicine, University of Saskatchewan.

1990 Beta Psi Research Award, Sigma Theta Tau.

1989 Doctoral Student Scholarship, Oregon Health Sciences University Alumni Association.

1980 Sigma Theta Tau: International Honor Society of Nursing, Inducted into Alpha Kappa Chapter.

1976 Graduated with Distinction, Loretto Heights College, 1976.

 

REVIEW PANELS AND WORKGROUPS

September 2001 Invited Member, Children?s Health Protection Advisory Committee, EPA.

September 1999 Invited Member, Committee on the Environmental Health Nursing Initiative, Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, CDC.

June 1998 Temporary Member, Health Promotion & Disease Prevention Initial Review Group, Nursing Research Study

June & October 1997 Section, NIH.

April 1997, April 1999 Member, Special Emphasis Panel, Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR), NIH.

September 1995 Invited Member, Environmental Health Sciences Workgroup, National Institute of Nursing Research, NIH and National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences.

PUBLICATIONS

Butterfield, P.G., Spencer, P.S., & Yates, S. (1999). Back pain related absenteeism: Differences between small and large companies. Journal of Agricultural Safety and Health, 5, 215-225.

Butterfield, P.G. (1999). Integrating environmental health education into clinical nursing activities: Upstream ideas supporting healthy clients and a healthy planet. Journal of the New York State Nurses Association.

Nyman, C., Butterfield, P.G., & Shreffler, J. (In press). Environmental health. In Nursing and the Community: Continuity of Care of Individuals, Families, and Populations. Sudbury, MA: Jones and Bartlett.

Butterfield, P.G., Spencer, P.S., Redmond, N., Feldstein, A., & Perrin, N. (1998). Low-back pain: Predictors of absenteeism, residual symptoms, functional impairment, and medical costs in Oregon workers? compensation recipients. American Journal of Industrial Medicine, 34, 559-567.

Butterfield, P.G. (Spring, 1998). Upstream anecdotes for public health nursing and environmental health (Solicited editorial). American Public Health Association, Public Health Nursing Section Newsletter.

Butterfield, P.G., Redmond, N., Spencer, P.S., Zirkle, D.F., & Strukel, R. (1997). Clinical and employment outcomes of work-related carpal tunnel syndrome. Journal of Occupational Rehabilitation, 7, 61-73.

Zahm, S.H., Blair, A., and the Farmworker Epidemiology Research Group. (1997). Cancer feasibility studies among migrant farmworkers. American Journal of Industrial Medicine, 32, 301-302.

Butterfield, P.G. (1996). Environment: Seeking clues to Parkinson?s disease. Reflections, 22, 14-15.

Henson, D., Chafey, K., & Butterfield, P.G. (1997). Rural Health. In J. Swanson & M. Albrecht (Eds.), Community Health Nursing: Promoting the Health Aggregates, (2nd ed.). Philadelphia: W.B. Saunders.

Butterfield, P.G. (1996). Thinking upstream: Nurturing a conceptual understanding of the societal context of health care. In J.W. Kenney (Ed.), Philosophical and Theoretical Perspectives for Advanced Practice Nursing (pp. 141-147). Sudbury, MA: Jones and Bartlett. (Reprinted from Advances in Nursing Science, 12, 1-8.).

Butterfield, P.G., Lindeman, C.A., Valanis, G.B., & Spencer, P.S. (1995). Design of a questionnaire addressing occupational and environmental risks for Parkinson?s disease. American Association of Occupational Health Nursing Journal, 43, 197-202.

Butterfield, P.G., Redmond, N., & Spencer, P.S. (1995). Work-related injuries: predictors of health and employment outcomes (abstract). Communicating nursing research: Innovation and collaboration: Responses to health care needs, 28, 232.

Spencer, P.S., & Butterfield, P.G. (1995). Environmental agents and Parkinson?s Disease. In J. Ellenberg, W.C. Koller, & J.W. Langston (Eds.), Etiology of Parkinson?s Disease. New York: Marcel Dekker.

Butterfield, P.G., Redmond, N., Spencer, P.S., Zirkle, D., & Strukel, R. (1994). Self-reported occupational activities of workers with carpal tunnel syndrome (Abstract). Abstracts of the 122nd Annual Meeting of the American Public Health Association, 225.

Butterfield, P.G., Valanis, B.G., Spencer, P.S., Lindman, C.A., & Nutt, J.G. (1993). Environmental correlates of Parkinson?s disease: Multivariate analyses (Abstract). Communicating Nursing Research: Western Institute of Nursing, 26, p. 143.

Butterfield, P.G., Lindeman, C.A., Valanis, B.G., & Spencer, P.S. (1993). Environmental correlates of Parkinson?s disease: Multivariate analyses (Abstract). Communicating nursing research: Scholarship in practice, 26, 143.

Butterfield, P.G. (1993). Thinking upstream: Conceptualizing health from a population perspective. In J. Swanson (Ed.), Community Health Nursing: Promoting the Health of Aggregates. Philadelphia: W.B. Saunders.

Butterfield, P.G. (1992). Occupational and environmental antecedents of young-onset Parkinson?s disease. Unpublished doctoral dissertation. Oregon Health Sciences University, Portland.

Butterfield, P.G. (1991). Thinking upstream: Nurturing a conceptual understanding of the societal context of health care. In Saucier, K. (Ed.), Perspectives in Family and Community Health. Hanover, MD: Mosby-Year Book, Inc.

Kirschling, J., Tilden, V.P., & Butterfield, P.G. (1990). Social support: The experiences of hospice family caregivers. The Hospice Journal, 6, 75-93.

Butterfield, P.G. (1990). Thinking upstream: Nurturing a conceptual understanding of the societal context of health care. Advances in Nursing Science, 12, 1-8.

Butterfield, P., Edmundson, E., LaCava, J., & Penner, J. (1989). Woodstoves and indoor air: The effects on preschoolers? upper respiratory systems. Journal of Environmental Health, 52, 172-73.

Butterfield, P.G. (1988). Nominal group process as an instructional method with novice community health nursing students. Public Health Nursing, 5, 12-15.

GRANTS/CONTRACTS SUPPORT

Principal Investigator. Bunker Hill Medical Management Program: MSU Services. Contract with Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services, 5/15/00-3/31/00, ($288.873).

Fellowship Award. RWJ Executive Nurse Fellows Program. University of California at San Francisco, Center for the Health Professions, 7/1/99-6/30/02, ($45,000).

Co-investigator. Human Interface with Environmentally Responsible Workspaces: Health, Learning, Productivity and Satisfaction. Montana State University EPICenter. 5/1/99-12/31/99, ($100,000).

Principal Investigator. Reducing Occupational Disability in Rural Workers. 1 R29 NR04450-01, National Institutes of Health, NINR, 7/1/97-6/30/02, ($485,657).

Principal Investigator. Epidemiology of Breast and Cervical Cancer in Montana. Contract with Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services, ($47,836).

Principal Investigator. Incidence and Geographic Distribution of Work-related Injuries in Montana. Sigma Theta Tau, Zeta Upsilon Chapter, ($977).

Principal Investigator. Epidemiology of Breast and Cervical Cancer in Montana. Contract with Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services, ($23,307), 1995.

Principal Investigator. Farmworker Epidemiology Research Group. Field Team: Montana State University and Montana Migrant Council. Procurement with National Cancer Institute, ($10,941), 1995.

Principal Investigator. Incidence and Prevalence of Medically-diagnosed Alzheimer?s Disease in Rural Oregon: Geographic Distribution of Disease. Alzheimer?s Disease Center of Oregon, ($12,078), 1994.

Co-principal Investigator. Outcome analysis of Prevalent Workers? Compensation Conditions. Peter S. Spencer, Co-Principal Investigator. Contract with SAIF Corporation, ($250,000), 1992-1993.

Principal Investigator. Occupational Antecedents of Neurodegenerative Diseases. NIH, National Center for Nursing Research. Individual National Research Service award, #1 F31 NR06431-01A1, ($18,750), 1990-1991.

This study was made possible through a grant from the National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Nursing Research, 1 R01 NR05062-01A

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