Marshfield Clinic Announces New Director of National Farm Medicine Center
Tuesday, February 26th, 2019 -- 8:00 AM
(Wisconsin Ag Connection) -The Marshfield Clinic announced it has hired from within in choosing the next director of the National Farm Medicine Center.Casper 'Cap' Bendixsen, Ph.D., a research scientist specializing in social-cultural anthropology, will assume the new responsibilities, effective March 3. Dr. Bendixsen joined the NFMC in 2013. He received his Ph.D. in social-cultural anthropology in 2014 from Rice University in Houston, Texas, and earned bachelor's degrees in anthropology and philosophy from the University of Idaho. His current projects include the Wisconsin Infant Study Cohort, conducted with the University of Wisconsin, which is investigating why children who grow up on farms have stronger immune systems.
Cap is also a national leader in working with rural firefighters to deliver agricultural safety and health information to their communities. And he was an executive committee member of the 2018 Wisconsin Farm Technology Days. Bendixsen takes over the duties of long-time director Barbara Lee, Ph.D., who will continue her research program as the Dean Emanuel Endowed Chair, and as director of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health-funded National Children's Center for Rural and Agricultural Health and Safety.
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