Matthew S. Thiese
Matthew S. Thiese
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Email: matt.thiese@hsc.utah.edu
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Dr. Thiese is an Occupational Epidemiologist and his work focuses on the overlap between a person’s job and their health. This includes everything from musculoskeletal disorders like Low Back Pain or Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, to motor vehicle crashes, to COVID-19, to mental well-being. He is interested in identification of potential risk factors, interventions to prevent injury or illness, evidence-based practice for both treatment and prevention, and assessments of worker health and safety fitness-for-duty. Dr. Thiese has coauthored 140 articles, 34 practice guidelines and 10 book chapters. He has mentored 24 PhD and Masters Students, and teaches 4 courses and has extensive experience in designing and conducting both epidemiologic and interventional research. He has worked with first responders, healthcare providers, manufacturing, hotel housekeepers, construction and transportation workers, including research-analyzing relationships between driver health and subsequent crashes in a retrospective cohort of 90,000 drivers. He has been part of multiple large prospective cohort studies evaluating relationships between musculoskeletal disorders and both job and personal factors.
