| Thomas Arcury, PhD | Professor and Vice Chair for Research
Department of Family & Community Medicine
 “With my children out of the house, I enjoy my time with my wife. We spend time together pursuing our hobbies of cooking, traveling, walking, reading and following the area’s college and minor league athletic teams.” | | Interests | Rural Health, Minority Health, Immigrant Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Community-Based Research | | Education | 1975 | Duquesne University
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
B.A. Degree, Sociology | 1978 | University of Kentucky
Lexington, Kentucky
M.A. Degree, Anthropology | 1983 | University of Kentucky
Lexington, Kentucky
Ph.D. Degree, Anthropology
Dissertation: Household Structure and Economic Change in a Rural Community: 1900 to 1980 | | Postdoctoral Training | 1994 – 1996 | NRSA Postdoctoral Fellow
Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | | Academic Career | 1994 | Assistant Research Professor
Department of Preventive Medicine and Environmental Health
University of Kentucky | 1993 – 1994 | Research Coordinator for Rural Health
College of Medicine
University of Kentucky | 1996 – 1999 | Senior Research Associate
Center for Urban and Regional Studies
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | 1999 – 2002 | Associate Professor and Research Director
Department of Family and Community Medicine
Wake Forest University School of Medicine | 2002 – 2008 | Professor and Research Director
Department of Family and Community Medicine
Wake Forest University School of Medicine | 2008 - present | Professor and Vice Chair for Research
Department of Family and Community Medicine
Wake Forest University School of Medicine | 2008 - present | Director
Center for Worker Health
Wake Forest University School of Medicine | | Current Projects | | Community Participatory Approach to Measuring Farmworker Pesticide Exposure: PACE3 | Source | National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
(R01 ES08739) | Funding | $1,893,592, | Role | Principal Investigator | | Occupational Skin Disease among Minority Farmworkers | Source | National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
(R01 ES012358) | Funding | $1,684,697 | Role | Principal Investigator | | A CBPR Approach to Biomedical & Behavioral Health Communication with Farmworkers | Source | National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
(R01 ES012358) | Funding | $62,257 | Role | Principal Investigator | | Ethnic Variation in CAM Use and Health Self Management among Rural Older Adults | Source | National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine
(R01 AT003635) | Funding | $1,604,598, | Role | Principal Investigator | | Selected Books | Arcury TA, Quandt SA, eds. Latino Farmworkers in the Eastern United States: Health, Safety, and Justice. New York: Springer, 2009. | | Selected Publications | Arcury TA, Marín A, Snively BM, Hernández-Pelletier M, Quandt SA. Reducing Farmworker Residential Pesticide Exposure: Evaluation of a Lay Health Advisor Intervention. Health Promotion Practice. In press. | Arcury TA, Bell RA, Anderson AM, Chen H, Savoca MR, Kohrman T, Quandt SA. Oral Health Self-Care Behaviors of Rural Older Adults. Journal of Public Health Dentistry. In press. | Feldman AR, Vallejos QM, Quandt SA, Fleischer AB, Jr., Rapp SR, Schulz MR, Arcury TA. Healthcare Utilization for Skin Disease in Migrant Latino Farmworkers: Skin Disease Is Common, But Formal Healthcare Utilization Is Not. Journal of Rural Health. In press. | Grzywacz JG, Rao P, Gentry A, Marín A, Arcury TA. Acculturation and Conflict in Mexican Immigrants’ Intimate Partnerships: The role of Women’s Labor Force Participation. Violence Against Women. In press. | Marín AJ, Grzywacz JG, Arcury TA, Carrillo L, Coates ML, Quandt SA. Power Relations in Poultry Processing Plants: Evidence for the Effects on Occupational Health and Safety among Latino Workers in North Carolina. American Journal of Industrial Medicine. In press. | Marín A, Carrillo L, Arcury TA, Grzywacz JG, Coates ML, Quandt SA. Ethnographic Evaluation of a Lay Health Promoter Program to Reduce Occupational Injuries among Latino Poultry Processing Workers. Public Health Reports. In press. | Vallejos QM, Quandt SA, Feldman SR, Fleischer AB Jr., Brooks T, Cabral G, Heck J, Schulz MR, Verma A, Whalley LE, Arcury TA. Teledermatology Consultations Provide Specialty Care for Farmworkers in Rural Clinics. Journal of Rural Health. In press. | Arcury TA, Vallejos QM, Schulz MR, Feldman SR, Fleischer AB, Verma A, Quandt SA. Green Tobacco Sickness and Skin Conditions among Migrant Latino Farmworkers. American Journal of Industrial Medicine. 2008;51:195-203. | Cathcart S, Feldman SR,Vallejos Q, Whalley LE, Quandt SA, Cabral G, Brooks T, Earp P, Fleischer AB, Jr., Schulz MR, Arcury TA. Self-treatment of Contact Dermatitis with Bleach in a Latino Farmworker. Dermatitis. 2008;9:102-104. | Grzywacz JG, Quandt SA, Neiberg R, Lang W, Bell RA, Arcury TA. Age-Related Differences in the Conventional Health Care - Complementary and Alternative Medicine Link. American Journal of Health Behavior. 2008; 32:650-663. | Grzywacz JG, Quandt SA, Arcury TA. Immigrant Farmworkers’ Health-Related Quality of Life: An Application of the Job Demands-Control Model. Journal of Agricultural Safety and Health. 2008;14:79-92. | Hiott AE, Grzywacz JG, Davis SW, Quandt SA, Arcury TA. Migrant Farmworker Stress: Mental Health Implications. Journal of Rural Health 2008; 24:32-39. | Quandt, SA, Schulz MR, Vallejos QM, Feldman JS, Arcury TA. Skin-Related Quality of Life among Migrant Farmworkers. Journal of Cutaneous Medicine and Surgery 2008;12:1-7. | Quandt SA, Schulz MR, Vallejos QM, Feldman SR, Verma A, Fleischer AB, Rapp SR, Arcury TA. The Association of Dermatologist-Diagnosed and Self-Reported Skin Diseases with Skin-Related Quality of Life among Latino Migrant Farmworkers. International Journal of Dermatology 2008;47:236-241. | Quandt SA, Feldman SR, Vallejos QM, Schulz MR, Verma A, Fleischer AB, Arcury TA. Vision Problems, Eye Care History, and Ocular Protective Behaviors of Migrant Farmworkers. Archives of Environmental and Occupational Health 2008 63(1):13-6. | Vallejos QM, Schulz MR, Quandt SA, Feldman SR, Galvan L, Verma A, Fleischer AB, Rapp SR, Arcury TA. Self Report of Skin Problems among Farmworkers in North Carolina. American Journal of Industrial Medicine 2008;51:204-212. | Winterich J, Quandt SA, Grzywacz JG, Clark PE, Miller DP, Acuña J, Arcury TA. Masculinity and the Body: How African American and White Men Experience Cancer Screening Exams involving the Rectum. American Journal of Men’s Health, published online July 22, 2008 | | | | |
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