Matthew C. Keifer (born 1954) is the director of the VA Occupational Health and the Specialty Medicine Service Line at the VA Puget Sound, Seattle, WA.[1] Keifer served as director of the National Farm Medicine Center (NFMC) from 2012 to 2016,[2][3][4] and is currently a co-director of the Upper Midwest Agricultural Safety and Health Center,[5] and a project PI within the National Children's Center for Rural and Agricultural Health and Safety.[6] 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.[7] 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] His research areas include pesticide health effects, injuries and illness in agriculture, and clinical occupational injury management.[8]