Associate Professor

Department of Environmental, Agricultural and Occupational Health
University of Nebraska Medical Center
College of Public Health

Professional Summary

• 2020-present, Associate Professor, Department of Environmental, Agricultural and Occupational Health, College of Public Health, University of Nebraska Medical Center
• 2010-2020, Affiliate Faculty, Psychology Department, Colorado State University
• 2007-2009, Assistant Professor, Epidemiology and Department of Environmental, Agricultural and Occupational Health, College of Public Health, University of Nebraska Medical Center
• 2007-2013,  Adjunct Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, New York State Psychiatric Institute, Columbia University, New York, NY
• 2006-2007,  Research scientist, Clinical Phenomenology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University and the New York State Psychiatric Institute.
• 2006-2007:  Post-doctoral fellow in the Division of Statistical Genetics, Department of Biostatistics, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University
• 2005-2006: Post-doctoral scholar at the Institute of Behavioral Genetics, Department of Psychiatry, University of California, 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.
• Bubak AN, Beseler C, Como CN, Tyring SK, Haley C, Mescher T, Potter H, Nagel MA. 2020. Acute zoster plasma contains elevated amyloid, correlating with Aβ42 and amylin levels, and is amyloidogenic. Journal of NeuroVirology..26:422-428.
• Frohe T, Beseler CL, Mendoza AM, Cottler LB, Leeman RF. 2019. Perceived health, medical and psychiatric conditions in individual and dual-use of marijuana and opioids. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology.  87(10):859-871.
• Beseler C, Vollmer T, Graner M, Yu X. 2017. The complex relationship between oligoclonal bands, lymphocytes in the cerebrospinal fluid, and immunoglobulin G antibodies in multiple sclerosis: Indication of serum contribution.  PLOS ONE 12(10): e0186842.4
• Stallones L, Beseler C.L. 2016. Assessing the connection between organophosphate exposure and mental health:  A comparison of neuropsychological symptoms from clinical observations, animal models and epidemiological studies.  74:405-416.
• Beseler CL, Chavez EL.  2015.  The impact of living-learning communities on college algebra. Learning Communities Journal.  7:5-24