Ralph S. Bovard, MD
Program Director, Occupational Medicine Residency
About

Specialty:聽Occupational Medicine, Preventive Medicine

Title:聽Program Director, Occupational Medicine Residency

Faculty Appointment: Adjunct Assistant Professor, University聽of Minnesota Department of Public Health

Education and Training:聽Medical School 鈥� University of Minnesota Medical School

Interests Specific to Education:

  • Optimal Aging
  • Industrial Athlete
  • Body Composition
  • The Problem with BMI
  • New Strategies in Evaluating Bone Density
  • The Health of the Nation
  • Why Fitness Matters

Types of Learners Preferred:聽

  • Residents
  • MPH students from University of Minnesota
Affiliation
positions
  • Program Director, Occupational Medicine Residency, Worksite and occupational health
    • Publications While At 开云体育
    selected publications
    Journal Article
  • Retrospective quality review of Department of Transportation (DOT) commercial drivers medical examination forms. 
    American Journal of Industrial Medicine. 2024
  • Detection of a clavicular osteolytic lesion associated with work injury. 
    American Journal of Medicine. 2023
  • Using advanced racial and ethnic identity demographics to improve surveillance of work-related conditions in an occupational clinic setting. 
    American Journal of Industrial Medicine. 2022
  • Cardiorespiratory fitness of firefighters: initial results of a multi-phased study. 
    Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine. 2021
  • Occupational medicine clinical practice data reveal increased injury rates among Hispanic workers. 
    American Journal of Industrial Medicine. 2019
  • An uncommon mechanism of work-related partial-thickness triceps tear
    2017
  • Health status and health behaviors among citizen endurance Nordic skiers in the United States. 
    BMC Research Notes. 2017
  • Occupational medicine considerations in the management of low back pain injuries. 
    MetroDoctors. 2017
  • A survey of social support for exercise and its relationship to health behaviours and health status among endurance Nordic skiers. 
    BMJ open. 2016
  • ACSM clinician profile. 
    Current Sports Medicine Reports. 2008
    • Chapter
  • Wilderness orthopaedics. 
    Wilderness medicine. 2012
    • Conference Poster
  • Initial phase results of Firefighter Cardiorespiratory Fitness Pilot Study [poster]
    2019
  • The composition of a contemporary occupational medicine practice [poster]
    2017
  • The composition of a contemporary occupational medicine practice [poster]
    2017
    • Review
  • Risk behaviors in high school and college sport [meta-analysis, review]. 
    Current Sports Medicine Reports. 2008
    • presentations
    Teaching
    teaching overview

  • Specialty:聽Occupational Medicine, Preventive Medicine

    Title:聽Program Director, Occupational Medicine Residency

    Faculty Appointment聽Adjunct Assistant Professor, University聽of Minnesota Department of Public Health

    Education and Training:聽

    Medical School 鈥� University of Minnesota Medical School

    Interests Specific to Education:

    Optimal Aging

    Industrial Athlete

    Body Composition

    The Problem with BMI

    New Strategies in Evaluating Bone Density

    The Health of the Nation

    Why Fitness Matters

    Types of Learners Preferred聽

    Residents

    MPH students from University of Minnesota


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    Publications in the past 10 years based solely on publications while at 开云体育. Publications in prior years appear in grey.
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