Faculty & Staff
Bradley Evanoff, MD, MPH
Richard and Elizabeth Henby Sutter Professor of Occupational and Environmental Medicine
Dr. Evanoff graduated from Washington University School of Medicine and did his residency in Internal Medicine at Barnes-Jewish Hospital. He trained in occupational disease epidemiology at the Karolinska Hospital in Stockholm, Sweden and was a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar at the University of Washington in Seattle, where he also completed a fellowship in Occupational and Environmental Medicine. He returned to St. Louis in 1994 to start a new program in Occupational Safety and Health Research at Washington University. Dr. Evanoff’s research has focused primarily on preventing injuries and musculoskeletal disorders among health care workers and construction workers. His work on injury prevention among health care workers has won several national awards and has helped to shape national safety practices. Dr. Evanoff is a Professor of Medicine at Washington University, where he is active as a teacher, researcher, and treating physician. He believes that most work injuries can be avoided, the workplace can be used to promote healthy behaviors, and employers can improve their bottom lines through increased attention to worker health and safety.
View a selection of Dr. Evanoff’s recent publications.
Ryan Lindsay, MSW, LCSW
Professor of Practice
Ryan Lindsay’s career has focused on training new and experienced providers in various evidence-based treatments, consulting with organizations on how to implement evidence-based programs, and aiding organizations in program development utilizing evidence-based principles.
Lindsay is interested in suicide prevention and professional training in suicide interventions; and, in task shifting approaches to mental health prevention and interventions. Particularly, he is interested in school systems and their contexts for implementing suicide prevention policies and practices. He studies how to adapt existing mental health interventions to enhance the spread of interventions in communities and populations, which are unlikely to access traditional office-based services.
At the Brown School, he chairs, teaches and advises students within the Mental Health concentration in the Master of Social Work program. Lindsay completed a post-master’s fellowship in the Department of Psychiatry and Social Work within the University of Michigan Health System. As a result, he developed specialties in several evidence-based treatments. Currently, he is a Certified Dialectical Behavior Therapist by the Linehan Board of Certification, an expert in the application of Prolonged Exposure Therapy for complicated PTSD, and a trainer in Motivational Interviewing.
Sami Tayeb, MA
Clinical Research Coordinator II
Sami Tayeb is a Clinical Research Coordinator in the Division of General Medicine and Geriatrics. Prior to joining the division, he was a clinical research coordinator at the Program in Occupational Therapy working on research related to medication adherence and health equity. He is also a lecturer in American Culture Studies and teaches at the Danforth Campus.
He earned his MA in Middle East Studies from the American University of Beirut and has a BA in Political Science from the University of Minnesota. He has articles in the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, Middle East Report, American Journal of Occupational Therapy, and Health Equity.
Samy Hamdan, MSOT
PhD Student