College of Nursing Professor Receives Excellence in Teamwork Award
College of Nursing Professor Deborah Reed, PhD, MSPH, RN, FAAOHN, FAAN, accepted the first pace in Excellence in Teamwork Award alongside Rita Stewart, FCS Agent for Lincoln Country, UK College of Agriculture, Food and Environment, as well as Jill Harris, president of the Kentucky Extension Association of Family Consumer Sciences (KEAFCS).
Dr. Reed received her BSN, MSN, MSPH, and PhD all from UK. She holds a joint appointment in the Department of Preventive Medicine in the UK College of Public Health. Dr. Reed is the Director of the newly funded Occupational Health Nurse PhD Training Program, funded by the National Institute for Occupational Health and Safety (NIOSH) as part of the Central Appalachian Educational Research Center.
Her dissertation research on the occupational rehabilitation of farmers who have suffered an amputation was funded by a Nursing Research Service Award from the National Institutes of Health. She also received the 1997 International Dissertation Award from Sigma Theta Tau. In 2005, she received the Nan Hilt Research Writers Award from Orthopaedic Nursing for her manuscript based on this work, “Understanding and Meeting the Needs of Farmers with Amputations.” Her gerontology research gained her the Southern Nursing Research Society's John A. Hartford Geriatric Research Award in 2009. Dr. Reed was named a UK Provost’s Distinguished Service Professor in 2011 in recognition of her service to the university and the Commonwealth. She was appointed to the Good Samaritan Foundation Chair in Community Health Nursing in 2012.
Dr. Reed came to the college from UK's Southeast Center for Agricultural Health and Injury Prevention. Her interest in agricultural health issues is reflected in her program of research, which has included grants to study youth equestrian safety, community coalitions of farm women to address health and safety issues of farm families, education of high school youth about the risks of disabilities from agricultural injuries, sustained work of older farmers, vocational rehabilitation of migrant farm workers, evaluation of community-based farm safety day camps, agricultural health education for nurses, and issues of aging and farm work.
Dr. Reed has worked with many organizations, including Agrability, the National Farm Bureau Federation, the Kentucky Department of Agriculture, the Kentucky Farm and Home Safety Council, the Kentucky Migrant Farm Worker Health Program, and the Progressive Agriculture Foundation. She currently serves on the Scientific Advisory Board of the National Children's Center for Rural and Agricultural Health and Safety and the Board of Directors of the International Society for Agricultural Safety and Health.
She is on the editorial boards of the Journal of Agromedicine and Workplace Health and Safety, and is a regular reviewer for the American Journal of Industrial Medicine, Journal; of Agricultural Safety and Health, and the National Agricultural Safety Database. In 1999, in recognition of her efforts in agricultural health and safety, Dr. Reed was named honorary Kentucky Commissioner of Agriculture. In 2006, she was chosen as the U.S. representative to the Canadian Agricultural Safety Association. Also in 2006, she received the College of Nursing Alumni Association Outstanding Researcher Award. In 2007 she received an honorary state FFA degree from the Kentucky FFA Organization (formerly the Future Farmers of America).
