Robert Harrison, MD

Robert Harrison, MD

Education
Residency, 1984 - Occupational Medicine, University of California, San Francisco
MPH, 1983 - Public health, University of California, Berkeley
Residency, 1982 - Internal Medicine, University of California, San Francisco
M.D., 1979 - Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Websites
Publications

  1. Cummings KJ, Harrison R. What Losing the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health Means for Respiratory Health. American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine 2025. PMID: 40824181


  2. Flattery J, Martysh E, Espineli C, Cummings KJ, Harrison RJ. Letter to the Editor California response to "Work-Related Asthma Mortality, Michigan 2003-2023". Journal of occupational and environmental medicine 2025. PMID: 40999571


  3. Murray M, Blanc P, Kales SN, Balmes J, Frederick M, Cummings KJ, Harrison R, Gandhi S. Respiratory Injuries among California Career Firefighters, 2000-2019. Annals of the American Thoracic Society 2025. PMID: 40961123


  4. Flattery J, Woolsey C, Fazio JC, Gandhi SA, Heinzerling A, Harrison RJ, Cummings KJ. Silicosis Surveillance in California, 2019-2024: Tracking an Epidemic. American journal of public health 2025. PMID: 40906995


  5. Sharip A, Papanek P, Conlon C, Gean CJ, Khan A, Harrison R, Berenji M. WOEMA Position Paper and Call-to-Action: California Needs More Physicians Specializing in Occupational and Environmental Medicine (OEM). Journal of occupational and environmental medicine 2025. PMID: 40893108


  6. Heinzerling A, Harrison R, Flattery J, Fazio JC, Gandhi S, Cummings KJ. Reply to Currow et al. and to Akgün. American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine 2025. PMID: 40173455


  7. Pacheco M, Fitzsimmons K, Reeb-Whitaker C, Rosenman K, Flattery J, Weinberg JL, Reilly MJ, Yiu S, Sack C, Todorov D, Harrison R, Dodd KE, Sparer-Fine E. Work-Related Asthma in the Cannabis Industry: Findings From California, Massachusetts, Michigan, and Washington. Journal of occupational and environmental medicine 2025. PMID: 40561210


  8. Sharip A, Papanek PJ, Conlon C, Gean CJ, Khan A, Harrison R, Berenji M. WOEMA Position Paper and Call-to-Action: California Needs More Physicians Specializing in Occupational and Environmental Medicine (OEM). Journal of occupational and environmental medicine 2025. PMID: 40245373


  9. Blumberg MJ, Harrison RJ. Recruitment Challenges for Physician Training in Occupational and Environmental Medicine. Journal of occupational and environmental medicine 2025. PMID: 40165522


  10. Murray M, Beckman S, Heinzerling A, Frederick M, Cummings KJ, Gandhi S, Harrison R. Heat-Related Illness in California Firefighters, 2001-2020. American journal of industrial medicine 2024. PMID: 39691957


  11. Fazio JC, Gandhi SA, Harrison RJ. Workers at Risk of Silicosis-Ongoing Overexposure and Lack of Medical Surveillance-Reply. JAMA internal medicine 2023. PMID: 38109093


  12. Flattery J, Woolsey C, Epstein-Corbin M, Blackley DJ, Harrison RJ, Cummings KJ. Notes from the Field: Surveillance of Silicosis Using Electronic Case Reporting - California, December 2022-July 2023. MMWR. Morbidity and mortality weekly report 2023. PMID: 37971928


  13. Valeev EF, Harrison RJ, Holmes AA, Peterson CC, Penchoff DA. Direct Determination of Optimal Real-Space Orbitals for Correlated Electronic Structure of Molecules. Journal of chemical theory and computation 2023. PMID: 37791808


  14. Fazio JC, Gandhi SA, Flattery J, Heinzerling A, Kamangar N, Afif N, Cummings KJ, Harrison RJ. Silicosis Among Immigrant Engineered Stone (Quartz) Countertop Fabrication Workers in California. JAMA internal medicine 2023. PMID: 37486642


  15. Gandhi SA, Heinzerling A, Flattery J, Fazio JC, Alam A, Cummings KJ, Harrison RJ. Active Surveillance of Engineered Stone Workers Facilitates Early Identification of Silicosis: A Discussion of Surveillance of Occupational Lung Diseases. New solutions : a journal of environmental and occupational health policy : NS 2023. PMID: 37649363


  16. Gandhi SA, Welch TJ, Jones KD, Cummings KJ, Styles L, Blanc PD, Harrison RJ. Rare case of occupational pulmonary hemorrhage in a firefighter. Respiratory medicine case reports 2022. PMID: 35993005


  18. Odes R, Chapman S, Ackerman S, Harrison R, Hong O. Differences in Hospitals' Workplace Violence Incident Reporting Practices: A Mixed Methods Study. TO REMOVE 2022. PMID: 35317690


  19. Grant M, Harrison R, Nuñez A, Kurtz T, Phelps S, Brokaw J, Shusterman D. Seroprevalence of SARS-CoV-2 Among Firefighters/Paramedics in San Francisco, CA. TO REMOVE 2021. PMID: 34739446


  20. Beckman S, Silver E, Weinberg JL, Hurley S, Frederick M, Chan J, Reynolds P, Harrison R. Development of a Data Visualization Tool for Occupational Exposure to Chemicals of Concern for Breast Cancer Among California Working Women, 2010-2014. TO REMOVE 2021. PMID: 34325565


  21. Chen YH, Glymour M, Riley A, Balmes J, Duchowny K, Harrison R, Matthay E, Bibbins-Domingo K. Excess mortality associated with the COVID-19 pandemic among Californians 18-65 years of age, by occupational sector and occupation: March through November 2020. PloS one 2021. PMID: 34086762


  22. Hoang A, Fagan K, Cannon DL, Rayasam SDG, Harrison R, Shusterman D, Singla V. Assessment of Methylene Chloride-Related Fatalities in the United States, 1980-2018. TO REMOVE 2021. PMID: 33871539


  23. Sparrow AK, Brosseau LM, Harrison RJ, Osterholm MT. Protecting Olympic Participants from Covid-19 - The Urgent Need for a Risk-Management Approach. TO REMOVE 2021. PMID: 34033274


  24. Kowalski K, Bair R, Bauman NP, Boschen JS, Bylaska EJ, Daily J, de Jong WA, Dunning T, Govind N, Harrison RJ, Keçeli M, Keipert K, Krishnamoorthy S, Kumar S, Mutlu E, Palmer B, Panyala A, Peng B, Richard RM, Straatsma TP, Sushko P, Valeev EF, Valiev M, van Dam HJJ, Waldrop JM, Williams-Young DB, Yang C, Zalewski M, Windus TL. From NWChem to NWChemEx: Evolving with the Computational Chemistry Landscape. Chemical reviews 2021. PMID: 33788546


  26. Durrani T, Clapp R, Harrison R, Shusterman D. Solvent-based paint and varnish removers: a focused toxicologic review of existing and alternative constituents. Journal of applied toxicology : JAT 2020. PMID: 32342556


  28. Lee SJ, Lee JH, Harrison R. Impact of California's safe patient handling legislation on musculoskeletal injury prevention among nurses. American journal of industrial medicine 2018. PMID: 30474130


  29. Krylov A, Windus TL, Barnes T, Marin-Rimoldi E, Nash JA, Pritchard B, Smith DGA, Altarawy D, Saxe P, Clementi C, Crawford TD, Harrison RJ, Jha S, Pande VS, Head-Gordon T. Perspective: Computational chemistry software and its advancement as illustrated through three grand challenge cases for molecular science. The Journal of chemical physics 2018. PMID: 30441927


  30. Penchoff DA, Peterson CC, Quint MS, Auxier JD, Schweitzer GK, Jenkins DM, Harrison RJ, Hall HL. Structural Characteristics, Population Analysis, and Binding Energies of [An(NO3)]2+ (with An = Ac to Lr). ACS omega 2018. PMID: 31458106


  31. Wettstein ZS, Hoshiko S, Fahimi J, Harrison RJ, Cascio WE, Rappold AG. Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Emergency Department Visits Associated With Wildfire Smoke Exposure in California in 2015. Journal of the American Heart Association 2018. PMID: 29643111


  32. Wang L, Han J, Sundahl B, Thornton S, Zhu Y, Zhou R, Jaye C, Liu H, Li ZQ, Taylor GT, Fischer DA, Appenzeller J, Harrison RJ, Wong SS. Ligand-induced dependence of charge transfer in nanotube-quantum dot heterostructures. Nanoscale 2016. PMID: 27368081


  33. Wilken JA, Ried C, Rickett P, Arno JN, Mendez Y, Harrison RJ, Wohlfeiler D, Bauer HM, Joyce MP, Switzer WM, Heneine W, Shankar A, Mark KE. Occupational HIV Transmission Among Male Adult Film Performers - Multiple States, 2014. TO REMOVE 2016. PMID: 26866344


  35. Lefkowitz D, Pechter E, Fitzsimmons K, Lumia M, Stephens AC, Davis L, Flattery J, Weinberg J, Harrison RJ, Reilly MJ, Filios MS, White GE, Rosenman KD. Isocyanates and work-related asthma: Findings from California, Massachusetts, Michigan, and New Jersey, 1993-2008. Volume 58 of Issue 11. American journal of industrial medicine 2015. PMID: 26351141


  36. Lee SJ, Nam B, Harrison R, Hong O. Erratum to "acute symptoms associated with chemical exposures and safe work practices among hospital and campus cleaning workers: a pilot study". Volume 58 of Issue 8. American journal of industrial medicine 2015. PMID: 26179115


  37. Dick VR, Masters AE, McConnon PJ, Engel JP, Underwood VN, Harrison RJ. The CDC/Council of state and territorial epidemiologists applied epidemiology fellowship program: evaluation of the first 9 years. American journal of preventive medicine 2014. PMID: 25439260


  38. Lee SJ, Nam B, Harrison R, Hong O. Acute symptoms associated with chemical exposures and safe work practices among hospital and campus cleaning workers: a pilot study. Volume 57 of Issue 11. American journal of industrial medicine 2014. PMID: 25223949


  39. White GE, Seaman C, Filios MS, Mazurek JM, Flattery J, Harrison RJ, Reilly MJ, Rosenman KD, Lumia ME, Stephens AC, Pechter E, Fitzsimmons K, Davis LK. Gender differences in work-related asthma: surveillance data from California, Massachusetts, Michigan, and New Jersey, 1993-2008. Volume 51 of Issue 7. The Journal of asthma : official journal of the Association for the Care of Asthma 2014. PMID: 24673105


  40. Macisaac J, Harrison R, Krishnaswami J, McNary J, Suchard J, Boysen-Osborn M, Cierpich H, Styles L, Shusterman D. Fatalities due to dichloromethane in paint strippers: a continuing problem. Volume 56 of Issue 8. American journal of industrial medicine 2013. PMID: 23450690


  41. Lee SJ, Harrison R, Rosenberg J, McLendon P, Boston E, Lindley MC. Influenza vaccination among health care personnel in California: 2010-2011 influenza season. Volume 41 of Issue 8. American journal of infection control 2013. PMID: 23394860


  42. Wang PC, Harrison RJ, Yu F, Rempel DM, Ritz BR. Follow-up of neck and shoulder pain among sewing machine operators: The Los Angeles garment study. Volume 53 of Issue 4. American journal of industrial medicine 2010. PMID: 20017187


  43. Wang PC, Rempel DM, Hurwitz EL, Harrison RJ, Janowitz I, Ritz BR. Self-reported pain and physical signs for musculoskeletal disorders in the upper body region among Los Angeles garment workers. Volume 34 of Issue 1. Work (Reading, Mass.) 2009. PMID: 19923678


  44. Wang PC, Ritz BR, Janowitz I, Harrison RJ, Yu F, Chan J, Rempel DM. A randomized controlled trial of chair interventions on back and hip pain among sewing machine operators: the los angeles garment study. Volume 50 of Issue 3. Journal of occupational and environmental medicine 2008. PMID: 18332775


  45. Rempel DM, Wang PC, Janowitz I, Harrison RJ, Yu F, Ritz BR. A randomized controlled trial evaluating the effects of new task chairs on shoulder and neck pain among sewing machine operators: the Los Angeles garment study. Volume 32 of Issue 9. Spine 2007. PMID: 17450065


  46. Bailar JC, Ballal SG, Boback M, Castleman B, Chee HL, Cherniack M, Christiani D, Cicolella A, Fernández de D'Pool J, Egilman D, Frank AL, Garcia MA, Giannasi F, Greenberg M, Harrison RJ, Huff J, Infante P, de Souza EJ, Joshi TK, Kamuzora P, Kazan-Allen L, Kern DG, Kromhout H, Kuswadji S, LaDou J, Lemen RA, Levenstein C, Luethje B, Mancini F, Meel BL, Mekonnen Y, Mendes R, Murie F, Myers J, O'Neill R, Osaro E, Paek D, Richter E, Robertson E, Samuels SW, Soskolne CL, Stuckey R, Teitelbaum DT, Terracini B, Thébaud-Mony A, Vanhoorne M, Wang X, Watterson A, Wedeen R. FIOH-sponsored newsletter misrepresents asbestos hazards in Zimbabwe. TO REMOVE 2006. PMID: 16967833


  47. Burgel BJ, Lashuay N, Israel L, Harrison R. Garment workers in California: health outcomes of the Asian Immigrant Women Workers Clinic. Volume 52 of Issue 11. AAOHN journal : official journal of the American Association of Occupational Health Nurses 2004. PMID: 15587459


  48. Roberts JL, Janson S, Gillen M, Flattery J, Harrison R. Processes of care for individuals with work related asthma: treatment characteristics and impact of asthma on work. Volume 52 of Issue 8. AAOHN journal : official journal of the American Association of Occupational Health Nurses 2004. PMID: 15357371