Max Blumberg, MD, MPH

Title(s)Assistant Professor, Medicine
SchoolSchool of Medicine
PronounsHe/Him/His
ORCID ORCID Icon0000-0001-9909-1819 Additional info
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    McGill University, Montreal, QC, CanadaBSc05/2015Physiology
    SUNY Buffalo, Buffalo, NYMD05/2019Medical School
    Albany Medical College, Albany, NYPGY106/2020Internal Medicine Internship
    Albany Medical College, Albany, NYPGY206/2021Ophthalmology Resident
    UCSF, San Francisco, CAPGY3/406/2024Occupational & Environmental Medicine
    UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CAMPH05/2023Public Health

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    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. 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.

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    1. Doctors Are Facing a Mental Health Crisis. We Must Make it Easier for Them to Get Help. California Health Report. 2024. Max J Blumberg. . View Publication.
    2. ICOH Congress Proceedings. Improving the Occupational and Environmental Medicine Physician Training Pipeline. 2024. Max Blumberg, Robert Harrison. View Publication.
    3. 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.
    4. We’re losing the war. No, not that one. Kevin MD. 2022. View Publication.
    5. How long have you been awake?. Doximity Op-Med. 2021. Max J Blumberg. . View Publication.
    6. Real-world comparison between the Tonopen and Goldmann applanation tonometry in a university glaucoma clinic. Int Ophthalmol. 2021 May; 41(5):1815-1825. Blumberg MJ, Varikuti VNV, Weiner A. PMID: 33651312.
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    7. Influence of eyelid pigmentation on the diagnosis of meibomian gland dysfunction. Clin Ophthalmol. 2019; 13:1815-1821. Blumberg MJ, Millen AE, Patel SP. PMID: 31571820; PMCID: PMC6756854.
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    8. Have We Forgotten How to Find Equanimity?. Doximity Op-Med. 2019. Max J Blumberg. . View Publication.
    9. Granulomatosis with polyangiitis: seeing the diagnosis. BMJ Case Rep. 2017 May 09; 2017. Blumberg MJ, Tung CI, May LA, Patel SP. PMID: 28487300; PMCID: PMC5612011.
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