Matthew C. Keifer

{{Short description|American medical administrator}}

Matthew C. Keifer (born 1954) is the director of the VA Occupational Health and the Specialty Medicine Service Line at the VA Puget Sound in Seattle, Washington.{{Cite web|url=https://gim.uw.edu/news/dr-keifer-appointed-director-occupational-health-hospital-and-specialty-medicine-service-line|title=Dr. Keifer Appointed Director of Occupational Health in the Hospital and Specialty Medicine Service Line at VA Puget Sound {{!}} Division of General Internal Medicine {{!}} University of Washington|website=gim.uw.edu|language=en|access-date=2017-04-13}} Keifer served as director of the National Farm Medicine Center (NFMC) from 2012 to 2016,{{Cite web|title = Marshfield Clinic Research Foundation - Staff|url = http://www.marshfieldresearch.org/nfmc/staff|website = www.marshfieldresearch.org|access-date = February 18, 2016}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.migrantclinician.org/announcement/dr.-matt-keifer-serve-director-national-farm-medicine-center.html|title=Dr. Matt Keifer to serve as Director of the National Farm Medicine Center|date=2014-09-24|website=www.migrantclinician.org|access-date=2016-05-11}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.hubcitytimes.com/2015/04/29/national-farm-medicine-center-director-ghana-presidents-malaria-initiative-pesticide/|title=National Farm Medicine Center director travels to Ghana as part of President's Malaria Initiative|website=Hub City Times|date=29 April 2015 |access-date=2016-05-11}} and is currently a co-director of the Upper Midwest Agricultural Safety and Health Center,{{Cite web|title = Upper Midwest Agricultural Safety and Health Center – Researchers and Staff|url = http://umash.umn.edu/researchers-and-staff/|website = umash.umn.edu|access-date = February 18, 2016|first = Joy|last = Archibald| date=16 July 2015 }} and a project PI within the National Children's Center for Rural and Agricultural Health and Safety.{{Cite web|url=http://www.marshfieldresearch.org/nccrahs|title=Marshfield Clinic Research Foundation - National Children's Center for Rural and Agricultural Health and Safety|website=www.marshfieldresearch.org|access-date=2016-05-11}} He is an occupational physician and internist who also practiced occupational medicine at the Marshfield Clinic in Marshfield, Wisconsin during his time as the director of NFMC.{{Cite web|title = Doctors|url = https://www.marshfieldclinic.org/Doctors/Matthew-C-Keifer-MD-MPH|website = www.marshfieldclinic.org|access-date = February 18, 2016}} He is an affiliate professor at the University of Washington School of Public Health, where he was on the active faculty and served as founding co-director of the Pacific Northwest Agricultural Safety and Health Center until 2010.{{Citation needed|date=February 2016}} His research areas include pesticide health effects, injuries and illness in agriculture, and clinical occupational injury management.{{Cite web|title = Marshfield Clinic Research Foundation|url = http://www.marshfieldresearch.org/profiles/1037|website = www.marshfieldresearch.org|access-date = February 18, 2016|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160224122530/http://www.marshfieldresearch.org/profiles/1037|archive-date = February 24, 2016|url-status = dead}}