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Department of Family Medicine

Professor Ed Doyle, MD
Director of WVU Insititute of Occupational & Environmental Health
Adjunct to Family Medicine
Morgantown, WV

PRESENTATIONS

SELECTED REGIONAL AND NATIONAL LECTURES

  • “Pilot program implementation and evaluation for the West Virginia Workers’ Compensation Commission of a successful Canadian program of secondary disability prevention” at the Workers’ Compensation Research Group Fall Meeting, Hopkinton, MA, November 4, 2005.
  • “Use of an Insurance Database to Assess Asthma Incidence in a Select Population” at the WV Bureau of Public Health Asthma Education and Prevention Program, Morgantown, WV, Aug. 19, 2004.
  • “Negative Association of Chronic Opioid Therapy in the Functional Restoration of Back Injured Workers”, Workers’ Compensation Research Group, Fall Meeting, Boston, MA, October 24, 2004.
  • Lecture on “Ergonomics and the Workplace”, presented at a lecture to safety managers presented in the spring of 2001.
  • Lecture given to the National Conference of White Collar Crime Workers at Canaan Valley in 2000, “Optimizing Computer Work Station Design to Prevent Occupational Injuries”.
  • Lecture at the annual Workers’ Compensation Research group meeting March 1999, “A Preliminary Report on Adolescent Injuries in the State of West Virginia”.
  • Presentation on “Occupational Medicine in Primary Care” at the National Conference of the Southern Medical Association, New Orleans in October of 1998
  • Occupational Health lecture at the Greenbrier. “Making Workers’ Compensation Work”. At the annual State Medical Society Association meeting. Summer of 1997.
  • Lectures in 1996, 1997, 2000 at the annual Low–Back Pain Conference on “Low Back Pain and Workers’ Compensation”.
  • Lecture on “Upper Extremity Repetitive Trauma Disorders” at WVU School of Medicine Hal Wanger Family Medicine Conference, October 1996.

LOCAL

  • Lecture to MSII class on “Occupational and Environmental Medicine”, Spring 1999 and 2000.
  • Lectured the graduated student class “Occupational Therapist/Occupational Medicine Interface, Spring 1998, 1999, and Fall 2001.
  • Lectured to Family Medicine residents on the following topics. “Introduction to Workers’ Compensation”, “Making Workers Compensation Work, Upper Extremity Cumulative Trauma
    Disorders”, “Carpal Tunnel Syndrome”, “Department of Transportation Exams”, and “Occupational Asthma”.
  • Lectured to Occupational Medicine Residents on “Basic Workers’ Compensation”, “Craft and Art of Treating Injured Workers-intermediate”, “Carpal Tunnel Syndrome”, “Upper Extremity Cumulative Trauma”, and “Department of Transportation Certification Exams”.

PUBLICATIONS

  • Williams KA, Petronis, J, Smith, D., Goodrich, D, Wu, J., Ravi, N., Doyle, E.J., Juckett, G., Kolar, M.M., Gross, R., Steinberg, L. Effect of Iyengar yoga therapy for chronic low back pain. Pain, (115) 107-117, 2005.
  • Islam S, Edla S, Mujuru P, Doyle, E, Ducatman A. Risk Factors for Physical Assault: State: State-Managed Workers’ Compensation Experience American Journal of Preventive Medicine. 25 (1):31-37, 2003.
  • Freeman KM, LaFleur BJ, Booth J, Doyle EJ, Pugh WM. An actuarial method for estimating the long term, incidence-based costs of Navy civilian occupational injuries and illnesses. Journal of Safety Research, 32 (3) 289-297, 2001.
  • Freeman KM, LaFleur BJ, Booth J, Doyle EJ, Pugh WM. Why Federal Agencies Should Estimate Their Long-Term Occupational Injury and Illness Costs Journal of Safety Research, 32 (3) 277-287, 2001.
  • Islam S, Biswas R, Nambiar A, Syamlai G, Velilla A, Ducatman A, Doyle E. Incidence and risk of work-related fracture injuries: experience of a state-managed workers’ compensation system. Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine. 43 (2): 140-6, 2001.
  • Islam S, Nambiar A, Doyle E, Velilla A, Biswas R, Ducatman A. Epidemiology of work-related burn injuries: experience of a state managed workers’ compensation system. Journal of Trauma Injury, Infection, and Critical Care. 49(6): 1045-51, 2000.
  • Islam S, Velilla A, Doyle E, Ducatman A. Gender Differences in work-related injury/illness: analysis of workers’ compensation claim. American Journal of Industrial Medicine 39: 84-91, 2001.
  • Islam S, Doyle E, Velilla A, Martin CJ, Ducatman A. Epidemiology of compensable work-related ocular injuries and illnesses: incidence and risk factors, Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine 42(6): 575-581, 2000.
  • Simoyi P, Islam S, Haque A, Meyer J, Doyle E, Ducatman A. “Evaluation of occupational injury among young workers in West Virginia. Human and Ecological Risk Assessment 4(6): 1405-1415, 1998.
  • Garland F, Garland C, Doyle E, et al. “Carpal tunnel syndrome and occupation in the U.S. Navy enlisted personnel. Archives of Environmental Health 51: 395-407, 1996.