Dean Baker, MD, MPH
Professor of Clinical Medicine
Director, Center for Occupational and Environmental Health
Chief, Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine

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Education & Training: B.S., Bio-Systems Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles
M.D., University of California, San Diego
M.P.H., Epidemiology, University of California, Berkeley
Family Medicine Residency, Montefiore Medical Center, New York
Occupational Medicine Residency, NIOSH, New York

Teaching: Director, Preventive Medicine-Occupational Medicine Residency Program; Coordinator, Environmental and Occupational Medicine, Patient-Doctor Course; Joint appointment faculty member in toxicology graduate program in the Department of Community and Environmental Medicine; Joint appointment faculty member in environmental health & epidemiology in the Department of Environmental Analysis and Design, School of Social Ecology

Research Interests: Environmental epidemiology with emphasis on children’s environmental health, including developmental toxicity associated with exposures to heavy metals and pesticides, and environmental factors in asthma. Occupational epidemiology with emphasis on role of work organization, psychosocial factors, and stress in the etiology of cardiovascular disease and possibly immune function.

Clinical & Consulting: Limited to research-related areas.

Recent Publications:

Baker D, Dobson M, Schnall P. Occupational and environmental medicine in the twenty-first century. In: Schnall P, Dobson M, Rosskam E (eds.). Unhealthy Work – Causes, Consequences, Cures. Baywood Publishing, Amityville, NY. 2009, 283-298.

Koh D, Baker D. Occupational Health. In: Detels R, McEwen J, Beaglehole R, Tanaka Heizo (eds). Oxford Textbook of Public Health – Volume 2. Oxford University Press, Oxford. 2009, 894-912.

Baker D, Nieuwenhuijsen M. Environmental Epidemiology: Study Methods and Application. Oxford University Press, New York. 2008.

Su T-C, Lin L-Y, Baker D, Schnall PL, Chen M-F, Hwang W-C, Chen C-F, Wang J-D. Elevated blood pressure, decreased heart rate variability and incomplete blood pressure recovery after a 12-hour night shift work. Journal of Occupational Health. 50:380-386, 2008.

Landsbergis PA, Schnall PL. Belkic KL, Schwartz JE, Baker D, Pickering TG. Work conditions and masked (hidden) hypertension—insights into the global epidemic of hypertension. Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment and Health Suppl. 6:41-51, 2008.

Baker D. Formaldehyde. In: Rom W, Markowitz S. Environmental and Occupational Medicine, 4th edition. Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins. 2006.

Yang H, Schnall PL, Jauregui M, Su TC, Baker DB. Work hours and self-reported hypertension among working people in california. Hypertension. 48(4):744-50, 2006.

Dwight RH, Fernandez L, Baker DB, Semenza JC, Olson BH. Estimating the economic burden from illnesses associated with recreational coastal water pollution – a case study in Orange County, California. Journal of Environmental Management. 76:95-103, 2005.

Baker D, Luderer U, Yang H, Gollapudi S, Kesner J. "The Sixteenth Conference Of The International Society For Environmental Epidemiology (ISEE) - Latent effects of gestational exposure to heptachlor (in Abstract only)." Epidemiology. 5(4): s119, 2004.

Baker D, Yang H, Crinella F. "Twenty first international neurotoxicology conference - Neurobehavioral study of 18 years olds exposed to heptachlor epoxide during gestation (in abstract only)." Neurotoxicology, 25(4): 700-701, 2004.

Belkic K, Landsbergis P, Schnall P, Baker D. Is job strain a major source of cardiovascular disease risk? Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment and Health, 30:85-128, 2004.

Dwight RH, Baker DB, Semenza JC, Olson BH. Health effects associated with recreational coastal water use in urban vs. rural California. American Journal of Public Health, 94:565-567, 2004.

Landsbergis PA, Schnall PL, Belkic K, Baker D, Schwartz J, Pickering T. The workplace and cardiovascular disease: relevance and potential role for occupational health psychology. In: Quick J, Tetrick L (eds.). Handbook of Occupational Health Psychology. Washington DC, American Psychological Association. 2003, pp. 265-288.

Dwight RH, Semenza JC, Baker DB, Olson BH. Association of urban runoff with coastal water quality in Orange County, California. Water Environ Res. 74:82-90, 2002.

Gonzalez EJ, Pham PG, Ericson JE, Baker DB. Tijuana childhood lead risk assessment revisited: validating a GIS model with environmental data. Environ Manage. 29:559-65, 2002.

Landsbergis PA, Schnall PL, Belkic KL, Baker D, Schwartz J, Pickering TG. Work stressors and cardiovascular disease. Work. 17:191-208, 2001.

Schnall P, Belkic K, Landsbergis P, Baker D (eds.). The Workplace and Cardiovascular Disease. Occupational Medicine: State of the Art Reviews. 15(1), 2000.

Baker D, Kjellström, Calderon R, Pastides H (eds.). Environmental Epidemiology: A Textbook on Study Methods and Public Health Applications. World Health Organization, Geneva (WHO/SDE/OEH/99.7). 1999.

Gergen PJ, Mortimer KM, Eggleston PA, Rosenstreich D, Mitchell H, Ownby D, Kattan M, Baker D, Wright EC, Slavin R, Malveaux F. Results of the National Cooperative Inner-City Asthma Study (NCICAS) environmental intervention to reduce cockroach allergen exposure in inner-city homes. Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. 103:501-6, 1999.

Rosenstreich DL, Eggleston P, Kattan M, Baker D, Slavin R, Gergen P, Mitchell H, McNiff-Mortimer K, Lynn H, Ownby D, Malveau F. The role of cockroach allergy and exposure to cockroach allergen in causing morbidity among inner-city children with asthma. New England Journal of Medicine. 336:1356-63, 1997.