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Renowned expert on the effects of occupational and environmental exposures on the public's health to speak at YSN's Commencement
New Haven, CT — March 7, 2006
Patricia Butterfield, PhD, RN, FAAN, Professor and Chair of the Department of Psychosocial and Community Nursing and Director of Occupational & Environmental Health Nursing at the University of Washington will be the keynote speaker at the 2006 Commencement of the Yale School of Nursing. The program will take place on Monday, May 22 at the Shubert Theater in New Haven beginning at 12:30 p.m.
Dr. Butterfield has spent the past 18 years examining the effects of occupational and environmental exposures on the public's health. As a doctoral student, she worked with toxicologists, physicians, and psychometricians to study environmental antecedents of young-onset Parkinson's disease. Her postdoctoral work focused on developing models of delayed recovery following an occupational injury, examining the respective roles that organizational and economic factors play in recovery. Following her postdoctoral work, Dr. Butterfield returned to Montana, where she had worked as a staff nurse early in her career. In Montana, she focused on rural low-income families and the range of occupational health services available to workers in small businesses. Since coming to the University of Washington in Seattle, Dr. Butterfield's research has focused on examining household and take-home exposures to rural low-income children. This work, currently underway, examines children's exposures to several contaminants and the roles that social class and substandard housing play in these exposures.
She is the author of "Thinking Upstream," and "Upstream Reflections on Environmental Health," widely cited papers from Advances in Nursing Science. Her work has also been published in the American Journal of Industrial Medicine, Applied Nursing Research, and Neurology. In 1996, she was selected for a visiting professorship at the Centre for Agricultural Medicine at the University of Saskatchewan; the first nurse to receive this honor. In 1999, Dr. Butterfield became an RWJ Executive Nurse Fellow's Program; she was inducted into the American Academy of Nursing in 2003.
