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Cheryl Beseler, PhD

Associate Professor, UNMC Department of Environmental, Agricultural and Occupational Health
Evaluation Director, Central States Center for Agricultural Safety and Health at UNMC

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Phone: 402-552-7240

Cheryl Beseler, PhD, joined UNMC in 2020 and is an associate professor in the Department of Environmental, Agricultural & Occupational Health in the College of Public Health. She also serves as evaluation director for the Central States Center for Agricultural Safety and Health at UNMC.

Dr. Beseler also had a prior faculty appointment in the UNMC College of Public Health as an assistant professor before becoming an affiliate faculty member of the Colorado State University Psychology Department.

She has served as an adjunct assistant professor of clinical psychiatry in the New York State Psychiatric Institute of Columbia University in New York, New York, and as a research scientist of clinical phenomenology in the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University and the psychiatric institute.

Dr. Beseler was a postdoctoral fellow in the Division of Statistical Genetics of the Department of Biostatistics at Columbia University, and a postdoctoral scholar at the Institute of Behavioral Genetics in the Department of Psychiatry of the University of California at San Diego.

Education

2005, PhD Environmental Health, Epidemiology, Colorado State University
2018, MAS Statistics, Colorado State University
2000, MS Environmental Health, Colorado State University
2000, MS Biochemistry, Colorado State University
1990, BS Decision Sciences, University of Oregon

Research Interests

Dr. Beseler’s research has primarily focused on the association of pesticide exposure on mental health in farmers and risk factors for substance use disorders. She has worked on various projects in environmental and public health epidemiology, including a large air-manganese study and the impacts of exposure to gun violence in youth. She has extensive experience in evaluation and has conducted research on increasing diversity in STEM.

Selected Publications

Beseler CL, Keeney AJ, Garrett R, Wertheimer A, Stallones, L. Assessing connections in an agricultural community using Social Network Analysis. Journal of Agromedicine. (in press).
Bubak AN, Beseler C, Como, CN, Coughlan CM, Johnson, NR, Hassell, Jr.,JE, Burnet, AM, Mescher, T, Schmid, DS, Coleman, C, Mahalingam, R, Cohrs RJ, Boyd TD, Potter, H, Ali H. Shilleh, AH, Russ HA, Nagel MA. Amylin, A42, and amyloid in VZV vasculopathy cerebrospinal fluid and infected vascular cells. Journal of Infectious Diseases (in press).
Roark C, Beseler C, Wiley L, Case D, Folzenlogen Z, Hosokawa P, Seinfeld J. 2020. Predictors of 90-day readmission rate after unruptured intracranial aneurysm repair. World Neurosurgery. 141:e728-e735.
Beseler CL, Stallones L. 2020. Using a neural network analysis to assess stressors in the farming community. Safety 6, 21.
Beseler CL, Mitchell KJ, Jones LM, Turner HA, Hamby S, Wade Jr. R. The Youth Firearms Risk and Safety Tool (Youth-FiRST): Psychometrics and validation of a gun attitudes and violence exposure assessment tool. Violence and Victims. 35(5):635-655.