Description

Rural health is heavily influenced by agriculture, with factors like exposure to pesticides, physical labor, limited healthcare access, and social isolation contributing to lower life expectancy and higher rates of chronic disease. This session will focus on recognizing and managing the health effects of pesticide exposure and silo-filler’s disease. Learners will gain the skills to identify the toxidromes associated with various pesticide classes, select appropriate antidotes, and apply effective management strategies.

Objectives: 

1. Learners will be able to recognize the toxidromes associated with different classes of pesticide exposure.
2. Learners will be able to choose the antidote and appropriate management of these pesticide exposures.
3. Learners will be able to recognize and treat silo-filler’s disease.

Speaker: Dr. S. Eliza Lockwood

Dr. S. Eliza Lockwood is an emergency medicine physician and medical toxicologist with a long-standing interest in global health and tropical medicine.  

After completing her toxicology fellowship at NYU in 2006, Dr. Lockwood returned to Washington University in St. Louis and started an ACGME accredited fellowship in Medical Toxicology.    

Over the following ten years, Dr. Lockwood became increasingly involved with global health and humanitarian relief projects.  She organized a relief mission to Haiti after the 2010 earthquake, started the scholar track in Global Health for the Washington University Division of Emergency Medicine, and was one of the inaugural Global Health Scholars for the Department of Internal Medicine.   

Over the years, Dr. Lockwood began to realize that in order to have a sustainable impact in global health, there needed to be an effort to focus on creative ways of addressing malnutrition and insect-borne illness, two of the most commonly encountered public health problems in developing countries.  With that in mind, Dr. Lockwood started working as the Medical Affairs Lead for Bayer, a global seed and chemical company with innovative technology that has great potential to remediate malnutrition.  

Dr. Lockwood has lectured nationally and internationally on a diverse range of topics in medical toxicology and global health.

Continuing Education Credits

Des Moines University Medicine and Health Sciences is the accredited provider and has approved this activity for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™, American Osteopathic Association credit, and continuing education contact hours. The speaker(s) will disclose if any pharmaceuticals, medical procedures, or devices discussed are investigational or unapproved for use by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The activity director is responsible for determining educational content and selecting speakers. No ineligible company provided financial support for this continuing education activity. If you have questions regarding continuing education credit, please email cme@dmu.edu.