• Bryan Weichelt PhD, MBA

  • Associate Scientist


    • MAR CL_MCRI-MCRI-National Farm Medicine
    • 1000 North Oak Ave. Marsh Melvin Laird > (30746) Mfd Laird 2 Natl Farm Med Marshfield, WI 54449

Education

2025:
Fellowship, Rural Health Fellows Leadership Program; Health Policy, National Rural Health Association, Washington DC
2021:
Certificate, Agricultural Health and Safety , University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE
2016:
Ph.D., Biomedical & Health Informatics, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI
2015:
Certificate, Agricultural Safety and Health, International Society of Agricultural Safety and Health, Bloomington, IL
2013:
M.B.A., Business Administration, University of Wisconsin - Whitewater, Whitewater, WI
2012:
Certificate, Project Management Professional (PMP), Project Management Institute, Newtown Square, PA
2011:
M.S., Information and Communication Technology, University of Wisconsin - Stout, Menomonie, WI
2006:
B.A., Criminal Justice, University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire, Eau Claire, WI
2006:
B.A., Psychology, University of Wisconsin - Stout, Menomonie, WI

Work Experience

2016 to Present:
Research Scientist, National Farm Medicine Center; Marshfield Clinic Research Institute, Marshfield, WI
1990 to Present:
General Laborer, Calf Caretaker, Equipment Operator, Weichelt Dairy Farm, Stratford, WI
2015 to 2016:
Project Manager, National Farm Medicine Center, Marshfield Clinic Research Foundation, Marshfield, WI
2014 to 2015:
Health Communications Manager, National Farm Medicine Center, Marshfield Clinic Research Foundation, Marshfield, WI
2012 to 2014:
I.S. Project Manager, Biomedical Informatics Research Center, Marshfield Clinic Research Foundation, Marshfield, WI
2010 to 2012:
Captain, Battalion Logistics Officer, 1-120th FA, Wisconsin Army National Guard, Wisconsin Rapids, WI
2004 to 2012:
Soldier, E3-O3, Wisconsin Army National Guard, Wisconsin
2009 to 2010:
First Lieutenant, Platoon Leader, Alpha Btry 1-120th FA, Wisconsin Army National Guard, Camp Cropper, Iraq

Statement

Dr. Bryan Weichelt is a Research Scientist with the Marshfield Clinic Research Institute's National Farm Medicine Center. His research program focuses on efforts to improve the lives of farmers and rural military Veterans and has been directing the AgInjuryNews program since its 2015 inception. He currently leads several military Veterans programs and projects within MCHS, and also chairs the MCHS Military Community Employee Resource Group. He earned his master’s in information technology, as well as his MBA prior to completing a PhD in biomedical and health informatics in 2016. Dr. Weichelt also graduated from the National Rural Health Association’s Rural Health Fellows Program in 2025. He maintains a “WOC” Research Scientist appointment with the Department of Veterans Affairs, and is the holder of the Marshfield Clinic Research Institute’s Steven J. Miller Distinguished Physician/Scientist Endowment in Rural and Agricultural Health and Safety Research.

Research Interests

Dr. Bryan Weichelt is a rural health researcher with eight years of service in the Wisconsin Army National Guard, including a 2009-2010 combat zone deployment in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Dr. Weichelt's commitment to this population's welfare will be further served by Dr. Weichelt's experience with effecting positive change through research, advocacy, and the advancement of evidence-based healthcare practices.

Dr. Weichelt has applied technologies in ways that promote agricultural health and safety, as demonstrated by numerous publications and Dr. Weichelt's leadership in multiple grants and initiatives. As Program Director for AgInjuryNews, for example, Dr. Weichelt helped create a national source for publicly available injury report data related to AFF injuries and fatalities. This database, which draws primarily from news media sources, facilitates the monitoring of trends and provision of safety messages for rural and agricultural populations. Other teams he has led included 1) the development of the award-winning heart health mobile application - the first public-facing mobile app at MCHS, 2) a software project facilitating a safe return to work for farmworkers after injury and 3) an augmented reality farm mapping tool to identify and mark agricultural hazards. In addition to driving these technology-based initiatives, Dr. Weichelt has led a series of mixed-methods studies describing how rural health care providers perceive and adopt mobile health (mHealth) technology in the care of their rural patients. Dr. Weichelt's range of leadership research activities demonstrates a familiarity with technology, but also an emphasis on the social dimension of its use—a fundamental human need for useful, beneficial information.

Rural Veterans' knowledge of benefits and barriers in access to healthcare are major gap opportunities in improving Veteran outcomes. Dr. Weichelt's passion for this field of study is rooted in Dr. Weichelt's own experiences as a VA patient (including VA Community Care through Marshfield Clinic), and through an understanding of the minutiae surrounding topics such as Veteran status, definitions, eligibility for organizations like the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) and the American Legion, accessin

Select Publications

  • Zhou Z, He M, Brilliant M, Brautbar A, Miller A, Weichelt B, Lin S. (2013 September). PS3-2: Informatics Challenges to Implement Pharmacogenetics to Clinical Practice. Clin Med Res. 11(3):147-148.
  • Iris Anne Reyes, Nancy Bellendorf, Tami Meehan, Ron Wenger, Christopher Kadolph, Shaun Halstead,...Matthew Keifer [including Andrea Mahnke, Bryan Weichelt, William Ray.] Facilitating Return to Work for Injured and Ill Animal Agriculture Workers. Journal of Agromedicine. 2014 April; 19(2):232. doi: 10.1080/1059924X.2014.892457.
  • Ray W, Finamore J, Rastegar-Mojarad M, Kadolph C, Ye Z, Bohne J,...Lin SM [including Xu Y, Burish D, Sondelski J, Easker M, Finnegan B, Bartkowiak B, Weichelt B.] (2016 March 2). MD-CTS: An integrated terminology reference of clinical and translational medicine. Comput Struct Biotechnol J. 14 :131-4.
    PubMed ID: 27069559
  • Tomás, CC, Oliveira, E, Sousa, D, Uba-Chupel, M, Furtado, G, Rocha, C,...Weichelt B. Leiria, Portugal. 6-7 May 2016. BMC Health Services Research. 2016 July;16(S3). doi: 10.1186/s12913-016-1423-5.
  • Weichelt B, Salzwedel M, Heiberger S, Lee BC. Establishing a publicly available national database of US news articles reporting agriculture-related injuries and fatalities. Am J Ind Med. 2018 May 24; doi: 10.1002/ajim.22860.
    PubMed ID: 29790197
  • Weichelt B, Yoder A, Bendixsen C, Pilz M, Minor G, Keifer M. Augmented Reality Farm MAPPER Development: Lessons Learned from an App Designed to Improve Rural Emergency Response. J Agromedicine. 23(3):284-296. doi: doi: 10.1080/1059924X.2018.1470051..
    PubMed ID: 30047852
  • Weichelt B, Bendixsen C. A Review of 2016-2017 Agricultural Youth Injuries Involving Skid Steers and a Call for Intervention and Translational Research. J Agromedicine. 2018 October;23(4):374-380. doi: 10.1080/1059924X.2018.1501455.
    PubMed ID: 30230430
  • Bryan Weichelt, Casper Bendixsen. A Review of 2016–2017 Agricultural Youth Injuries Involving Skid Steers and a Call for Intervention and Translational Research. Journal of Agromedicine. 2018 October; 23(4):374-380. doi: ttps://doi.org/10.1080/1059924X.2018.1501455.
  • Weichelt B, Gorucu S. Supplemental surveillance: a review of 2015 and 2016 agricultural injury data from news reports on AgInjuryNews.org. Inj Prev. 2019 June 25; doi: doi: 10.1136/injuryprev-2017-042671.
    PubMed ID: 29386372
  • Weichelt B, Heimonen T, Pilz M, Yoder A, Bendixsen C. An Argument Against Cross-Platform Development: Lessons From an Augmented Reality App Prototype for Rural Emergency Responders. JMIR Mhealth Uhealth. 2019 March 28;7(3):e12207. doi: 10.2196/12207. PMCID: PMC6458533.
    PubMed ID: 30920380
  • Weichelt B, Hooper E, Chow B. Infant identical triplets' presentation of human parechovirus Type 3. IDCases. 2019 January 24;15:e00494. doi: 10.1016/j.idcr.2019.e00494. PMCID: PMC6360838.
    PubMed ID: 30766797
  • Weichelt B, Bendixsen C, Keifer M. Farm Owners and Workers as Key Informants in User-Centered Occupational Health Prototype Development: A Stakeholder-Engaged Project. J. Med. Internet Res.. 2019 January 29;21(1):e9711. doi: 10.2196/jmir.9711. PMCID: PMC6371074.
    PubMed ID: 30694202
  • Murphy D, Gorucu S, Weichelt B, Scott E, Purschwitz M. Using multiple coding schemes for classification and coding of agricultural injury. Am J Ind Med. 2019 February; 62(2):87-98.
    PubMed ID: 30561026
  • Weichelt B, Pena AA, Joyce J, Keifer M. Economic Evaluation and Systematic Review of Publicly Available Workers' Compensation Practice Details and Mod Rate Calculators Applied to Upper Midwest Agriculture. [published online ahead of print 2019 April 2]. J Agromedicine. :1-13. doi: 10.1080/1059924X.2019.1593274.
    PubMed ID: 30940000
  • Weichelt B, Gorucu S, Murphy D, Pena AA, Salzwedel M, Lee BC. Agricultural Youth Injuries: A Review of 2015-2017 Cases from U.S. News Media Reports. J Agromedicine. 2019 July; 24(3):298-308.
    PubMed ID: 31130110
  • Weichelt B, Ray W, Keifer M. Development of an Occupational Health Safe Return to Work Prototype Application and Ergonomics Dataset for Agricultural Tasks. Safety. 2019 June 17;5(2):40. doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/safety5020040 .
  • Weichelt B, Heimonen T, Redmond E, Gorucu S, Vechinski J, Pflughoeft K,...Murphy DJ [including Bendixsen C, Salzwedel M.] Redesigning a Sentinel Surveillance System for Collecting and Disseminating Near Real-Time Agricultural Injury Reports: System Usability Study. JMIR Form Res. 2019 August 2;3(3):e13621. doi: 10.2196/13621. PMCID: PMC6696853.
    PubMed ID: 31376278
  • Weichelt B, Bendixsen C, Patrick T. A Model for Assessing Necessary Conditions for Rural Health Care’s Mobile Health Readiness: Qualitative Assessment of Clinician-Perceived Barriers. JMIR MHEALTH AND UHEALTH. 2019 November 8;7(11):11915. doi: 10.2196/11915. PMCID: 6874803.
    PubMed ID: 31702564
  • Bryan Weichelt, Elisabeth Hooper, Brian Chow. Infant identical triplets’ presentation of human parechovirus Type 3. IDCases. 2019 February; 15 :00494. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.idcr.2019.e00494.
  • Weichelt B, Alves Pena A, Joyce J, Keifer M. Economic Evaluation and Systematic Review of Publicly Available Workers’ Compensation Practice Details and Mod Rate Calculators Applied to Upper Midwest Agriculture. Journal of Agromedicine. 2020 January;25(1):38-51. doi: doi.org/10.1080/1059924X.2019.1593274 .
    PubMed ID: 30940000
  • Weichelt B, Gorucu S, Jennissen C, Denning G, Oesch S. Assessing the Emergent Public Health Concern of All-Terrain Vehicle Injuries in Rural and Agricultural Environments: Initial Review of Available National Datasets in the United States. JMIR Public Health Surveill. 2020 May 29;6(2):e15477. doi: 10.2196/15477. PMCID: PMC7293057.
    PubMed ID: 32469319
  • Meyer C, Becot F, Burke R, Weichelt B. Rural Telehealth Use during the COVID-19 Pandemic: How Long-term Infrastructure Commitment May Support Rural Health Care Systems Resilience. [published online ahead of print 2020 September 12]. Journal of Agromedicine. doi: doi.org/10.1080/1059924X.2020.1814921.
  • Weichelt B, Nambisan P, Burke R, Bendixsen C. Finding the Edges of Problems: Social Media as an Exploratory Research Tool. Journal of Agromedicine. 2020 October;25(4). doi: 10.1080/1059924X.2020.1815624. PMCID: PMC10777353.
    PubMed ID: 32894688
  • Meyer C, Becot F, Burke R, Weichelt B. Rural Telehealth Use during the COVID-19 Pandemic: How Long-term Infrastructure Commitment May Support Rural Health Care Systems Resilience. Journal of Agromedicine. 2020 October;25(4):362-366. doi: 10.1080/1059924X.2020.1814921.
    PubMed ID: 32921284
  • Gorucu S, Weichelt B, Redmond E, Murphy D. Coding agricultural injury: Factors affecting coder agreement. Journal of Safety Research. 2020 December; 75 doi: 10.1016/j.jsr.2020.08.006.
  • Swenson A, Ploeckelman M, Salzwedel M, Weichelt B. JA:2021-38. Assessing Facebook Advertising as a Recruitment Strategy for In-Person Workshops. Journal of Agromedicine. 2020 December;25(3):261-262. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/1059924X.2020.1765614.
  • Burke R, Pilz M, Redmond E, Sauer M, Weichelt B. JA:2021-3. Dissemination and Adoption of AgInjuryNews.org: A Publicly Available Collection of Agricultural Injury Media Reports. Journal of Agromedicine. 2020 December 6;25(3):232-233. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/1059924X.2020.1763725.
  • Matthew Pilz, Rick Burke, Emily Redmond, Megan Sauer, Bryan Weichelt. JA:2021-23. Ideal Tracking and Analytics: Incorporating Modern Toolsets to Enhance Analysis of User Acquisition and Behavior on AgInjuryNews.org. Journal of Agromedicine. 2020 December; 25(3):248-249. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/1059924X.2020.1765575.
  • Burke R, Pilz M, Redmond R, Gorucu S, Weichelt B. Stakeholders’ Consumption of Agricultural Injury Reports from News Media: A Six-Year Analysis of Website Usage and Visitor Analytics. Safety. 2021 June 15; 7(2)doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/safety7020048.
  • Gorucu S, Weichelt B, Diehl D, Galindo S. An Overview of Agricultural Injuries in Florida from 2015-2019. J Agric Saf Health. 2021 July 9; 27(3):135-146. doi: 10.13031/jash.1453.
    PubMed ID: 34350746
  • Weichelt B, Burke R, Redmond E, Shutske J. Farm Suicides in Wisconsin, 2017–2018: Preliminary Findings and a Call for Future Research. Safety. 2021 June 29; 7(3):51. doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/safety7030051 .
  • Weichelt B, VanWormer J, Xu Y, Kadolph C, Lin S. Lessons Learned from Development of a Mobile App for Cardiovascular Health Awareness. Sustainability. 2021 May 26; 13(11):5985. doi: 10.3390/su13115985 .
  • Burke RR, Weichelt BP, Namkoong K. Facebook Ads Manager as a Recruitment Tool for a Health and Safety Survey of Farm Mothers: Pilot Study. JMIR Form Res. 2021 April 7; 5(4):e19022. doi: 10.2196/19022. PMCID: PMC8060866.
    PubMed ID: 33825686
  • Gorucu S, Weichelt B, Burke B. Injuries and Fatalities Related to Skid Steers: 2015–2020. Safety. 2022 August 3; 8(3):56. doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/safety8030056.
  • Weichelt B, Scott E, Burke R, Shutske J, Gorucu S, Sanderson W,...Rautiainen R. What about the Rest of Them? Fatal Injuries Related to Production Agriculture Not Captured by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries (CFOI). J Agromedicine. 2022 January; 27(1):35-40. doi: 10.1080/1059924X.2021.1956663.
    PubMed ID: 34278984
  • Weichelt BP, Gorucu S, Burke R, Salzwedel MA, Murphy DJ, Lee BC. Agricultural youth injuries: An updated review of cases from U.S. news media reports, 2016–2021. Frontiers in Public Health. 2022 November 18; 10 :1045858. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2022.1045858. PMCID: PMC9716065.
    PubMed ID: 36466475
  • Scott E, Weichelt B, Lincoln J. The Future of U.S. Agricultural Injury Surveillance Needs Collaboration. Journal of Agromedicine. 2023 January 28; 28(1):11-13. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/1059924X.2022.2148032.
    PubMed ID: 36384403
  • Schofield S, Ramos A, Weichelt B, Bent B. Realities of Workers’ Compensation Coverage for Agricultural Workers: Before, during, and into the Future of the COVID-19 Pandemic. Journal of Agromedicine. 2023 January 28; 28(1):69-72. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/1059924X.2022.2147624.
    PubMed ID: 36396619
  • Schwebel DC, Hasan R, Weichelt BP. Could Wearables Protect Youth and Children on Farms? J Agromedicine. 2023 January; 28(1):77-80. doi: 10.1080/1059924X.2022.2140735. PMCID: PMC9805513.
    PubMed ID: 36284466
  • Namkoong K, Leach J, Chen J, Zhang J, Weichelt B. A feasibility study of Augmented Reality Intervention for Safety Education for farm parents and children. Frontiers in Public Health. 2023 January 9; 10 :903933. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2022.903933. PMCID: PMC9875325.
    PubMed ID: 36711325
  • Lee BC, Becot FA, Bendixsen C, Benny C, Lundqvist P, Swenson A,...Franklin RC [including Weichelt B.] Editorial: Safeguarding youth from agricultural injury and illness: international experiences. Frontiers in Public Health. 2023 August 18;11:1270578. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2023.1270578. PMCID: PMC10471958.
    PubMed ID: 37663839
  • Salzwedel M, Weichelt B, Burke R, Lee B. Needs assessment survey for enhancing United States child agricultural injury prevention capacity: Brief report. Frontiers in Public Health. 2023 March 27; 11 :1059024. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2023.1059024. PMCID: PMC10083427.
    PubMed ID: 37050951
  • Weichelt BP, Pilz M, Burke R, Puthoff D, Namkoong K. The Potential of AI and ChatGPT in Improving Agricultural Injury and Illness Surveillance Programming and Dissemination. [published online ahead of print 2023 December 5]. J Agromedicine. 1-5. doi: 10.1080/1059924X.2023.2284959.
    PubMed ID: 38050835
  • Burke R, Weichelt B, Namkoong K, Ploeckelman M. Recruiting farm parents for a 6-week online child safety survey study using paid Facebook advertisements. Frontiers in Communication. 2023 June 23;8. doi: 10.3389/fcomm.2023.1043690.
  • VanWormer JJ, Berg RL, Wieckhorst M, Burke RR, Weichelt BP. Medically Attended Suicidality in Youth Who Live on Farms. J Agromedicine. 2024 April;29(2):144-149. doi: 10.1080/1059924X.2023.2264287.
    PubMed ID: 37772979
  • VanWormer JJ, Berg RL, VanWormer A, Weichelt BP. Race, Rurality, and Suicidality in Children and Adolescents. Am J Prev Med. 2024 May;66(5):883-887. doi: 10.1016/j.amepre.2023.12.004.
    PubMed ID: 38072296
  • Sorensen JA, Milkovich PJ, Khorsandi F, Gorucu S, Weichelt BP, Scott E, Johnson A. Tractors, Trees, and Rollover Protective Structures: A Cause for Concern. Journal of Agromedicine. 2024 April;29(2):162-167. doi: 10.1080/1059924X.2024.2305322.
  • Weichelt B, Burke R, Kieke B, Pilz M, Shimpi N. Provider Adoption of mHealth in Rural Patient Care (Preprint). JMIR Human Factors. 2024 June 24;(11):e55443. doi: 10.2196/55443. PMCID: PMC11231617.
    PubMed ID: 38913992
  • Scott E, Weichelt BP, Lincoln J. Journal of Agromedicine Special Issue on Surveillance. Journal of Agromedicine. 2024 April;29(2):119-121. doi: 10.1080/1059924X.2024.2317693.
  • Weichelt B, Pilz M. Investigating the Use of Large Language Models in Agricultural Injusry Surveillance. American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers. 2024 January. doi: 10.13031.
  • Weichelt B. Access to Care and Services Among U.S. Rural Veterans With and Without Disabilities: A National Study. MDPI. 2024 November 5;13(3).
  • Weichelt B, Pilz M. Large Language Models for Agricultural Injury Surveillance. MDPI. 2025 February 5;11(1).
  • Umucu E, Granger TA, Weichelt B, McGee T, Lee G, Celik Zencir A,...Lee B. Access to Care and Services Among U.S. Rural Veterans With and Without Disabilities: A National Study. Healthcare (Basel). 2025 January 30;13(3). doi: 10.3390/healthcare13030275. PMCID: PMC11817750.
    PubMed ID: 39942464
  • Benny CP, Hanschu J, Heiberger S, Lee BC, Weichelt B. Assessing U.S. Media's Reaction to a Suggested Terminology Shift from "Accident" to "Incident" in News Reports of Childhood Agricultural Injury: A Pilot Study. [published online ahead of print 2025 July 29]. J Agromedicine. 1-8. doi: 10.1080/1059924X.2025.2539970.
    PubMed ID: 40734290
  • Burke RR, Berg RL, Weichelt BP, Gabor RM, Rudolphi JM, Bendixsen CG, VanWormer JJ. A PheWAS Analysis of the Risks and Benefits of Growing Up on a Farm. [published online ahead of print 2025 November 22]. J Agromedicine. 1-9. doi: 10.1080/1059924X.2025.2591079.
    PubMed ID: 41275339
  • Weichelt B, Namkoong K, Sunrin R, Burke R, Kieke B, Aby R. Unveiling the Effect of Repeated Exposure to Agricultural Injury News: A Randomized Controlled Trial. J Agromedicine. 2026 January;1-10. doi: 10.1080/1059924X.2025.2581237.
    PubMed ID: 41170535
  • Benny C, Hanschu J, Aby RG, Gorucu S, Weichelt BP. Heat-Related Illnesses Among U.S. Agricultural Workers from 2016 to 2024: Content Analysis of News Media Reports. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2026 April 23;23(5). doi: 10.3390/ijerph23050549. PMCID: PMC13205723.
    PubMed ID: 42196642
  • Li S, Twidale M, Schneider J, Gorucu S, Davidson P, Weichelt B, Issa S. Design of an Interactive Agricultural Injury Dashboard: Enhancing Data Visualization and Stakeholder Engagement Using AgInjuryNews Data. [published online ahead of print 2026 August 17]. J Agromedicine. 1-17. doi: 10.1080/1059924X.2026.2712970.
    PubMed ID: 42605880