Max Blumberg, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor
Medicine
School of Medicine

Dr. Max Blumberg serves as Associate Medical Director of Occupational Health Services (OHS) and Assistant Professor of Occupational, Environmental, and Climate Medicine (OECM). He sees patients that are UCSF employees with work-related injuries or illnesses. His non-clinical work is a combination of teaching residents and medical students, policy, scholarship, and leadership in OHS.

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He strives to promote the health of all UCSF employees and prevent injuries and illnesses across UCSF Medical Center, Campus, and research laboratories.

He earned his medical degree from the Jacobs School of Medicine of State University of New York (SUNY) at Buffalo. Additionally, he earned a Master of Public Health from the University of California, Berkeley. Before changing specialties, he completed 2 years of residency training in Albany NY, including an internal medicine internship (PGY1) paired with one year of ophthalmology surgical training (PGY2). He completed his PGY3 & PGY4 at UCSF Occupational and Environmental Medicine Residency, where he served as Chief Resident during his final year. Between PGY2 and PGY3, he spent 8 months working as a staff physician for the Erie County Public Health Department in Buffalo, NY.

Education & Training

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• PGY3/4 Occupational & Environmental Medicine UCSF 06/2024
• MPH Public Health UC Berkeley 05/2023
• PGY2 Ophthalmology Resident Albany Medical College 06/2021
• PGY1 Internal Medicine Internship Albany Medical College 06/2020
• MD Medical School SUNY Buffalo 05/2019
• BSc Physiology McGill University 05/2015

Publications (11)

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• Outbreaks of COVID-19 among healthcare personnel in a U. S. veterans administration health care system site, June and August 2023.
  Journal of occupational medicine and toxicology (London, England) 2025 Santana IA, Blumberg M, Chan N, Ansay MJ, Tien PC, Blanc PD, Guntur S
• Recruitment Challenges for Physician Training in Occupational and Environmental Medicine.
  Journal of occupational and environmental medicine 2025 Blumberg MJ, Harrison RJ
• Doctors Are Facing a Mental Health Crisis. We Must Make it Easier for Them to Get Help
  California Health Report 2024 Max J Blumberg
• ICOH Congress Proceedings
  Improving the Occupational and Environmental Medicine Physician Training Pipeline 2024 Max Blumberg, Robert Harrison
• ACOEM Conference Proceedings
  Cleaning During the COVID-19 Pandemic: the Relationship Between Workload and Negative Health Outcomes 2023 Max Blumberg, Melissa Afterman, Dominic Pina, Javier Freire, Carisa Harris Adamson

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• We’re losing the war. No, not that one
  Kevin MD 2022
• How long have you been awake?
  Doximity Op-Med 2021 Max J Blumberg
• Real-world comparison between the Tonopen and Goldmann applanation tonometry in a university glaucoma clinic.
  International ophthalmology 2021 Blumberg MJ, Varikuti VNV, Weiner A
• Influence of eyelid pigmentation on the diagnosis of meibomian gland dysfunction.
  Clinical ophthalmology (Auckland, N.Z.) 2019 Blumberg MJ, Millen AE, Patel SP
• Have We Forgotten How to Find Equanimity?
  Doximity Op-Med 2019 Max J Blumberg
• Granulomatosis with polyangiitis: seeing the diagnosis.
  BMJ case reports 2017 Blumberg MJ, Tung CI, May LA, Patel SP