Thomas Arcury, PhD, MA

Adjunct Professor Contact tarcury@wfubmc.edu 336.716.9438 (tel) 336.716.3206 (fax) Professor and Research Director Department of Family and Community Medicine Wake Forest University School of Medicine Medical Center Boulevard Winston-Salem, North Carolina 27157-1084 Link to CV Research Interests Dr. Arcury’s research program lies in the areas of rural and minority health, rural and minority aging, and occupational and environmental health.  Specific research interests include (1) the occupational and environmental health of farmworkers and poultry processing workers, and (2) the prevention and self-management of chronic disease among older adults living in rural communities.  Current projects focus on skin disease among farmworkers, pesticide exposure among farmworkers, occupational injury prevention among poultry workers, prostate and colorectal cancer screening among African American and White men, diabetes self-management among rural older adults, oral health of rural older adults, and the use of complementary medicine of rural older adults. Research Classification Aging Cancer Prevention and Control Chronic Disease Coping and Management Community-Based Participatory Research Environment – General Health Behavior Injury Prevention and Control Minority Health and Eliminating Disparities Obesity and Diabetes Occupational Health Rural Health Tobacco Use Prevention and Control Educational Background NRSA Postdoctoral Fellow, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research, 1994 - 1996 PhD, University of Kentucky Anthropology, 1983 MA, University of Kentucky Anthropology, 1978

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