Robert Harrison, MD, MPH
Sr.Physician Diplomate
Medicine
School of Medicine

Dr. Harrison received his B.A. from the University of Rochester and his M.D. from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He is board certified in both internal medicine and occupational medicine. He has served on the California Occupational Safety and Health Administration (Cal/OSHA) Standards Board, and authored numerous publications in the area of occupational medicine. He is a clinical professor of medicine at UCSF.

• Safe patient handling legislation and musculoskeletal disorders among California healthcare workers: Analysis of workers' compensation data, 2007-2016.
  American journal of industrial medicine 2022 Lee SJ, Lee JH, Harrison R
• Differences in Hospitals' Workplace Violence Incident Reporting Practices: A Mixed Methods Study.
  Policy, politics & nursing practice 2022 Odes R, Chapman S, Ackerman S, Harrison R, Hong O
• Seroprevalence of SARS-CoV-2 Among Firefighters/Paramedics in San Francisco, CA.
  Journal of occupational and environmental medicine 2021 Grant M, Harrison R, Nuñez A, Kurtz T, Phelps S, Brokaw J, Shusterman D
• Development of a Data Visualization Tool for Occupational Exposure to Chemicals of Concern for Breast Cancer Among California Working Women, 2010-2014.
  New solutions : a journal of environmental and occupational health policy : NS 2021 Beckman S, Silver E, Weinberg JL, Hurley S, Frederick M, Chan J, Reynolds P, Harrison R
• 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 Chen YH, Glymour M, Riley A, Balmes J, Duchowny K, Harrison R, Matthay E, Bibbins-Domingo K
• Assessment of Methylene Chloride-Related Fatalities in the United States, 1980-2018.
  JAMA internal medicine 2021 Hoang A, Fagan K, Cannon DL, Rayasam SDG, Harrison R, Shusterman D, Singla V
• Protecting Olympic Participants from Covid-19 - The Urgent Need for a Risk-Management Approach.
  The New England journal of medicine 2021 Sparrow AK, Brosseau LM, Harrison RJ, Osterholm MT
• Frequency of violence towards healthcare workers in the United States' inpatient psychiatric hospitals: A systematic review of literature.
  International journal of mental health nursing 2020 Odes R, Chapman S, Harrison R, Ackerman S, Hong O
• Solvent-based paint and varnish removers: a focused toxicologic review of existing and alternative constituents.
  Journal of applied toxicology : JAT 2020 Durrani T, Clapp R, Harrison R, Shusterman D
• Factors associated with physical injury or police involvement during incidents of workplace violence in hospitals: Findings from the first year of California's new standard.
  American journal of industrial medicine 2020 Odes R, Hong O, Harrison R, Chapman S
• Impact of California's safe patient handling legislation on musculoskeletal injury prevention among nurses.
  American journal of industrial medicine 2018 Lee SJ, Lee JH, Harrison R
• Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Emergency Department Visits Associated With Wildfire Smoke Exposure in California in 2015.
  Journal of the American Heart Association 2018 Wettstein ZS, Hoshiko S, Fahimi J, Harrison RJ, Cascio WE, Rappold AG
• Occupational HIV Transmission Among Male Adult Film Performers - Multiple States, 2014.
  MMWR. Morbidity and mortality weekly report 2016 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
• Sudden Deaths Among Oil and Gas Extraction Workers Resulting from Oxygen Deficiency and Inhalation of Hydrocarbon Gases and Vapors - United States, January 2010-March 2015.
  MMWR. Morbidity and mortality weekly report 2016 Harrison RJ, Retzer K, Kosnett MJ, Hodgson M, Jordan T, Ridl S, Kiefer M
• Isocyanates and work-related asthma: Findings from California, Massachusetts, Michigan, and New Jersey, 1993-2008.
  American journal of industrial medicine 2015 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
• Erratum to "acute symptoms associated with chemical exposures and safe work practices among hospital and campus cleaning workers: a pilot study".
  American journal of industrial medicine 2015 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.
  American journal of industrial medicine 2014 Lee SJ, Nam B, Harrison R, Hong O
• Gender differences in work-related asthma: surveillance data from California, Massachusetts, Michigan, and New Jersey, 1993-2008.
  The Journal of asthma : official journal of the Association for the Care of Asthma 2014 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
• Fatalities due to dichloromethane in paint strippers: a continuing problem.
  American journal of industrial medicine 2013 Macisaac J, Harrison R, Krishnaswami J, McNary J, Suchard J, Boysen-Osborn M, Cierpich H, Styles L, Shusterman D
• Influenza vaccination among health care personnel in California: 2010-2011 influenza season.
  American journal of infection control 2013 Lee SJ, Harrison R, Rosenberg J, McLendon P, Boston E, Lindley MC
• Follow-up of neck and shoulder pain among sewing machine operators: The Los Angeles garment study.
  American journal of industrial medicine 2010 Wang PC, Harrison RJ, Yu F, Rempel DM, Ritz BR
• Self-reported pain and physical signs for musculoskeletal disorders in the upper body region among Los Angeles garment workers.
  Work (Reading, Mass.) 2009 Wang PC, Rempel DM, Hurwitz EL, Harrison RJ, Janowitz I, Ritz BR
• A randomized controlled trial of chair interventions on back and hip pain among sewing machine operators: the los angeles garment study.
  Journal of occupational and environmental medicine 2008 Wang PC, Ritz BR, Janowitz I, Harrison RJ, Yu F, Chan J, Rempel DM
• 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.
  Spine 2007 Rempel DM, Wang PC, Janowitz I, Harrison RJ, Yu F, Ritz BR
• FIOH-sponsored newsletter misrepresents asbestos hazards in Zimbabwe.
  International journal of occupational and environmental health 2006 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, …
• Garment workers in California: health outcomes of the Asian Immigrant Women Workers Clinic.
  AAOHN journal : official journal of the American Association of Occupational Health Nurses 2004 Burgel BJ, Lashuay N, Israel L, Harrison R
• Processes of care for individuals with work related asthma: treatment characteristics and impact of asthma on work.
  AAOHN journal : official journal of the American Association of Occupational Health Nurses 2004 Roberts JL, Janson S, Gillen M, Flattery J, Harrison R