Paul Blanc, MD MSPH
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Paul Blanc is Chief of the Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine. He has authored numerous scholarly publications on the subject of toxic exposures and illness and is author of How Everyday Products Make People Sick (2009, UC Press). Dr. Paul D. Blanc MD MSPH holds Endowed Chair in Occupational and Environmental Medicine at the University of California San Francisco, where he has been on faculty since 1988. Board certified in internal medicine, occupational medicine and medical toxicology, he also serves Associate Medical Director, California Poison Control System, San Francisco Division. He received his BA from Goddard College (Plainfield, Vermont), where he first became interested in health and the environment. He trained at the Harvard School of Public Health and the Albert Einstein School of Medicine. He has authored numerous scholarly publications on the subject of toxic exposures and illness and is author of the general interest book, How Everyday Products Make People Sick (Updated and expanded edition, 2009, University of California Press).
1974 BA, Goddard College, Plainfield, Vermont
1977 MSPH, Environmental Health Sciences and Industrial Hygiene Harvard School of Public Health, Boston
1982 MD, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York 1982 - 1985 Resident, Internal and Occupational Medicine, Cook County Hospital, Chicago
1985 - 1987 Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar, University of California San Francisco
1987 - 1988 Fulbright Senior Research Scholar, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel
Blanc PD, Iribarren C, Trupin L, Earnest G, Katz PP, Balmes J, Sidney S, Eisner MD. Occupational exposures and the risk of COPD: dusty trades revisited. Thorax 2009; 64:6-12. PMCID: 2775075
Eisner MD, Iribarren C, Yelin EH, Sidney S, Katz PP, Sanchez G, Blanc PD. The impact of SHS exposure on health status and exacerbations among patients with COPD. Int J Chron Obstruct Pulmon Dis 2009; 4:169-76. PMCID: 2685143
Omachi TA, Katz PP, Yelin EH, Gregorich SE, Iribarren C, Blanc PD, Eisner MD. Depression and health-related quality of life in chronic obstructive lung disease. Am J Med 2009; 122:778:e9-e15 PMCID: 2724315
Eisner MD, Jacob P, Benowitz NL, Balmes J, Blanc PD. Longer-term exposure to secondhand smoke and health outcomes in COPD: impact of urine 4-(methylnitrosamino)-1-(3-pyridyl)-1-butanol (NNAL). Nicotine & Tobacco Res 2009; 11:945-53. PMCID: 2711983
Eisner MD, Blanc PD, Yelin EH, Katz PP, Sanchez S, Iribarren C, Omachi TA. The influence of anxiety on health outcomes in COPD. Thorax 2010; 65:229-34.
Eisner MD, Omachi TA, Katz PP, Yelin EH, Iribarren C, Blanc PD. Measurement of COPD severity using a survey-based score: validation in a clinically and physiologically characterized cohort. Chest 2010; 137:846-51. PMCID: 2851559
Omachi TA, Katz PP, Yelin EH, Iribarren C, Knight SJ, Blanc PD, Eisner MD. The COPD Helplessness Index: A new tool to measure factors affecting patient self-management. Chest 2010; 137: 823-30. PMCID: 2851553
Eisner MD, Blanc PD, Omachi TA Yelin EH, Sidney S, Katz PP, Ackerson LM, Sanchez G, Tolstykh I, Iribarren C. Socioeconomic status, race, and COPD health outcomes. J Epi Commun Health [In Press]
Thakur N, Blanc PD, Julian LJ, Yelin EH, Katz PP, Sidney S, Iribarren C, Eisner MD. COPD and cognitive impairment: the role of hypoxemia and oxygen therapy. Int J COPD [In Press]