Paul Blanc MD MSPH is Professor of Medicine, Chief of the Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (Parnassus Heights Campus), and holds the Endowed Chair in Occupational Medicine at UCSF. He is trained in occupational medicine and internal medicine and also holds a certificate of added qualifications in medical toxicology. He received his MD from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and has a Masters of Science in Public Health in industrial hygiene from the Harvard School of Public Health. He is a former Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar and a Fulbright Senior Research Fellow. He is author of the 2009 book How Everyday Products Make People Sick (UC Press; http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520261273).
Dr. Blanc also writes a blog focusing on occupational and environmental health issues called Household Hazards that is hosted on Psychology Today http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/household-hazards
Research Interests
His areas of research concentration include the epidemiology of rhinitis, asthma, COPD, and hypersensitivity pneumonitis in relation to workplace and environmental factors and occupational and environmental toxicology, especially in terms of pulmonary responses.
Recent Publications
Archea C, Yen IH, Chen H, Eisner MD, Katz PP, Masharani U, Yelin EH, Earnest G, Blanc PD. Negative life events and quality of life in adult asthma. Thorax. 2007: 62:139-146
Blanc PD, Toren K. Occupation in COPD and chronic bronchitis: an update. Int J Tuberc Lung Dis 2007; 11: 251-7.
Eisner MD, Iribarren C, Yelin EH, Sidney S, Katz PP, Ackerson L, Lathon P, Tolstykh I, Omachi T, Byl N, Blanc PD. Pulmonary Function and the risk of functional limitation in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Am J Epidemiol. 2008; 167:1090-1101. PMCID: 2610529
Katz P, Morris A, Gregorich S, Yazdany J, Eisner M, Yelin E, Blanc P. Valued life activity disability played a significant role in self-rated health among adults with chronic health conditions. J Clin Epidemiol 2009 62:158-166. PMCID: 2633356
Blanc PD, Ana Maria B. Menezes A-M B, Plana E, Mannino DM, Hallal PC, Toren K, Eisner MD, Zock J-P. Occupational exposures and COPD: An ecological analysis of international data. Eur Respir J 2009; 33:298-304.
Torén K, Blanc PD. Asthma caused by occupational exposures is common - A systematic analysis of estimates of the population-attributable fraction. BMC Pulmonary Med 2009 Jan 29; 9:7.
Balmes JR, Earnest G, Katz PP, Yelin EH, Eisner MD, Chen H, Trupin L, Lurman F, Blanc PD Exposure to traffic: lung function and health status in adults with asthma. J Allergy Clin Immunol 2009; 123:626-31. PMCID: 2785911
Torén K, Zock J-P, Kogevinas M, Plana E, Sunyer J, Radon K, Jarvis D, Kromhout H, d’Errico A, Payo F, Antó JM, Blanc, PD. An international prospective general population-based study of respiratory work-disability. Thorax 2009; 64:339-44.
Katz P, Julian L, Omachi TA, Gregorich S, Eisner MD, Yelin EH, Blanc PD. The impact of disability on depression among individuals with COPD. Chest 2010; 137:838-45. PMCID: 2851560
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
Katz P, Chen H, Omachi TA, Gregorich SE, Julian L, Cisternas M, Balmes J, Blanc PD. The role of physical inactivity in increasing disability among older adults with obstructive airway disease. J Cardiopulm Rehab Prev 2011; 65:26-34 PMCID: 127241
Chen H, De Marco T, Kobashigawa EA, Katz PP, Chang VW, Blanc PD. Comparison of cardiac and pulmonary-specific quality of life measures in pulmonary hypertension. Eur Respir J. 2011; 106:110-118.e1. PMCID: 3056500
Zutler M, Patricia J Quinlan PJ, Blanc PD. An alpha-1-antitrypsin deficient patient presenting with lung function decline associated with dust exposure: a case report. J Med Case Reports 2011; 5:154. PMCID: 3110131
Omachi TA, Eisner MD, Rames A, Markovtsova L, Blanc PD. Matrix metalloproteinase-9 predicts pulmonary status declines in alpha1-antitrypsin deficiency. Respiratory Research 2011;12:35. PMCID: 3073899
Singer JP, Blanc PD, Hoopes C, Golden JA, Koff JL, Leard LE, Cheng S, Chen H. The impact of pre-transplant mechanical ventilation on short- and long-term survival after lung transplantation. Am J Transplant 2011; 11:2197-204.
Blanc PD. COPD and occupation: a brief review. J Asthma 2012; 49:2-4.
Singer J, Chen H, Phelan T, Kukreja J, Golden J. Blanc P. Survival following lung transplantation for silicosis and other occupational lung diseases. Occup Med (Lond) 2012: 62:134-7
Kramer MR, Blanc PD, Fireman E, Amital A Guber A, Rhahman NA, Shitrit D. CaesarStone® silicosis: Disease resurgence among artificial stone workers. Chest 2012 Mar [Epub prior to publication]
