Peter Schnall

Dr. Peter Schnall MD MPH, Director of the Center for Social Epidemiology, is a Clinical Professor of Medicine at the UC Irvine Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine where he directs the Center’s program in work organization and cardiovascular disease. He is a recognized expert and active researcher on the role of occupational stress in causing hypertension and cardiovascular disease.

2008 - Convener, 5th ICOH Conference on Work Environment and Cardiovascular Diseases, Cracow, Poland, September 27-30, 2009

2005 - Chair, ICOH Scientific Committee on Cardiology in Occupational Health 2005 Chair, 4th ICOH Conference on Work Environment and Cardiovascular Diseases, Newport Beach, March 9-11, 2005

2004 - Includes: Invited Presenter: Los Factores Psicosociales y la Salud de los Trabajadores, Mexico City 2004; Co-Organizer and Planning Commitee: “The Way We Work and Its Impact on Our Health”, Los Angeles 2004; Co-Organizer: 4th International ICOH Meeting, Los Angeles 2005.

2003 - Director: Southern California COEH STEP (Surveillance, Treatment and Early Prevention) Project (UCLA-UCI initiative)

2002-2003 - Includes: Presenter: APHA 131st Annual Meeting, “Behavior, Lifestyle and Social Determinants of Health”, San Francisco 2003; Presenter: APA NIOSH Conference, “Work, Stress and Health”, Toronto 2003; Invited Presenter: Northern California COEH Spring Symposium, “Worker Health and the Organization of Work”, Berkeley 2002; Presenter: Southern California ERC Symposium; “The Importance of Workplace Psychosocial Factors in Occupational Health”, Los Angeles 2002; Invited presenter: Third International Conference of Work Environment and Cardiovascular Diseases, Dusseldorf 2002.

1999-2001 - Includes: Invited presenter: 5th International Conference on Preventive Cardiology, Osaka, Japan 2001; Invited presenter: Japan Society for Occupational Health “208th Regional Scientific Meeting” Tokyo 2000; Presenter at “Scientifically Based Biological Assessment of Longterm Stress in Daily Life”, Wenner-Gren Foundation, Stockholm 2000; Presenter at “Work, Stress & Health: Organization of Work in a Global Economy”, Baltimore 1999; Invited presenter: “Work and Health Cuba 99”, Instituto Nacional de la Salud de los Trabajadores, Havana 1999.

1990-1998 Includes: Guest editor for Occupational Medicine: State of the Art Review on Work and Cardiovascular Disease; Consultant to The American Heart Association on Psychosocial Factors and Hypertension; Invited presenter at the “triangular” conference “Work-Related Stress and Health in Three Post-Industrial Settings – The European Union, Japan and The United States”, Tokyo; Presenter at WorkStress & Health: Organization of Work in a Global Economy in Baltimore, Maryland; Presenter at the 25th International Congress of Occupational Health, Stockholm, Sweden; Presenter at the Fourth International Congress of Behavioral Medicine, Washington, DC; Presenter at the ACOEM Conference, Las Vegas, Nevada; Presenter at the First International Symposium in Work Environment and Cardiovascular Diseases, Copenhagen, Denmark.

1988 - Includes: Presenter, Society Epidemiologic Research, Vancouver, BC; Presenter, International Society for Hypertension, Kyoto, Japan; Presenter, American Heart Association Conference on Cardiovascular Disease Epidemiology, Santa Fe.

1984-1992 - Co-Principal Investigator, NHHLBI Grant, “Ambulatory Blood Pressure Behavior”.

1978-1983 - Includes: Invited Participant: Conference on Health Care Implications of the Hypertension Detection and Follow-up Program, sponsored by the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute and the American College of Cardiology, Bethesda, MD.; Invited Participant: White House sponsored Conference of National Black Health Providers Task Force on Hypertension, Washington, DC; Moderator: Panel at American Public Health Association Meeting, “Social Versus Personal Determinants of Illness”.

1978-1979 - Grant Recipient: New York Heart Association for Community Hypertension Outreach; Organizer: East Coast Health Discussion Group.

1967-1969 - Includes: Member, Board of Directors Student American Medical Association Conference on Environment and Summer Student Health Project; Presenter, Stanford University Medical Association Conference on Environment and Summer Student Health Project; Project Co-Director, Second Student Health Organization Summer Project, sponsored by Stanford University and University of Southern California with funding by the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare and the Office of Economic Opportunity; Organizer and Chair, Stanford University Medical School Student Organization (S.H.O.); Member, Student Health Organization Advisory Committee to U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare, and the Office of Economic Opportunity; Project Co-Director, First Student Health Organization Summer Project sponsored by USC and funded by the Office of Economic Opportunity.

Belkic KL, Landsbergis PA, Schnall PL, Baker D. Is job strain a major source of cardiovascular disease risk? A critical review of the empirical evidence, with a clinical perspective. Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment & Health 2004;30(2):85-128. See Paper

Landsbergis PA, Schnall PL, Pickering TG, Warren K, Schwartz JE. Lower socioeconomic status among men in relation to the association between job strain and blood pressure. Scand J Work Environ Health 2003;29(3):206-215. See Abstract

Landsbergis PA, Schnall PL, Pickering TG, Warren K, Schwartz JE. Life course exposure to job strain and ambulatory blood pressure among men. American Journal of Epidemiology 2003;107:998-1006. See Abstract

Landsbergis PA, Schnall PL, Pickering TG, Schwartz, JE. Validity and reliability of a Work History Questionnaire derived from the Job Content Questionnaire. J Occup Environ Med. 2002;44:1037-1047. See Article

Landsbergis PA, Schnall PL, Belkic K, Baker D, Schwartz JE, Pickering TG. Work stress and cardiovascular disease. Work: A Journal of Assessment and Prevention 2001;17:191-208.

Friedman R, Schwartz JE, Schnall PL, Pieper CF, Gerin W, Landsbergis PA, Pickering TG. Psychological Variables in Hypertension: Relationship to Casual or Ambulatory Blood Pressure in Men. Psychosomatic Medicine 2001;63(1):19-31. See Abstract

Schnall PL, Schwartz JE, Landsbergis PA, Belkic KL, Pickering TG. Job Strain findings in the Cornell University Work Site Blood Pressure Study: A review. J. Tokyo Med. Univ. 2000;58(3): 367-376. See Abstract

Schnall PL. Hypertension: Could lowering job strain be a specific theraputic modality? In: Schnall PL, Belkic KL, Landsbergis PA, Baker DB, eds: The Workplace and Cardiovascular Disease. Occup Med 15(1):233-245, 2000.

Schnall PL, Belkic KL, Landsbergis PA, Schwartz JE, Gerber LM, Baker D, Pickering TG. Hypertension at the workplace - often an occult disease: The relevance and potential in Japan for work site surveillance? The Japanese Journal of Stress Sciences 2000;15(3).

Schnall PL, Belkic KL, Landsbergis PA, Baker DB. Why the workplace and cardiovascular disease? In: Schnall PL, Belkic KL, Landsbergis PA, Baker DB, eds: The Workplace and Cardiovascular Disease. Occup Med 15(1):1-5, 2000. See Article

Schnall PL, Belkic KL. Obtaining a CVD history: Obstacles and challenges. In: Schnall PL, Belkic KL, Landsbergis PA, Baker DB, eds: The Workplace and Cardiovascular Disease. Occup Med 15(1):189-190, 2000.

Schnall PL, Belkic KL. Point estimates of blood pressure at the worksite. In: Schnall PL, Belkic KL, Landsbergis PA, Baker DB, eds: The Workplace and Cardiovascular Disease. Occup Med 15(1):203-208, 2000.

Belkic KL, Schnall PL, Savic C, Landsbergis PA. Multiple exposures: A model of total occupational burden. In: Schnall PL, Belkic KL, Landsbergis PA, Baker DB, eds: The Workplace and Cardiovascular Disease. Occup Med 15(1):94-98, 2000.

Belkic KL, Schnall PL, Ugljesic M Cardiovascular evaluation of the worker and workplace: A practical guide for clinicians. In: Schnall PL, Belkic KL, Landsbergis PA, Baker DB, eds: The Workplace and Cardiovascular Disease. Occup Med 15(1):213-222, 2000.

Belkic KL, Schnall PL, Landsbergis PA, Baker D. The workplace and cardiovascular health: Conclusions and thoughts for a future agenda. In: Schnall PL, Belkic KL, Landsbergis PA, Baker DB, eds: The Workplace and Cardiovascular Disease. Occup Med 15(1):307-322, 2000. See Article

Belkic KL, Landsbergis PA, Schnall PL, Baker DB, Theorell T, Siegrist J, Peter R, Karasek R. Psychosocial factors: Review of the empirical data among men. In: Schnall PL, Belkic KL, Landsbergis PA, Baker DB, eds: The Workplace and Cardiovascular Disease. Occup Med 15(1):24-46, 2000.

Leigh P, Schnall PL. Costs of occupational circulatory disease. In: Schnall PL, Belkic KL, Landsbergis PA, Baker DB, eds: The Workplace and Cardiovascular Disease. Occup Med 15(1):257-268, 2000.

Schwartz JE, Belkic KL, Schnall PL, Pickering TG. Mechanisms leading to Hypertension and cardiovascular morbidity. In: Schnall PL, Belkic KL, Landsbergis PA, Baker DB, eds: The Workplace and Cardiovascular Disease. Occup Med 15(1):121-132, 2000.

Gerber LM, Schwartz JE, Schnall PL, Devereux RB, Warren K, Pickering, TG. Effect of body weight changes in ambulatory and standardized non-physician blood pressures over three years. Annals of Epidemiology 1999; 9(8):489-497. See Abstract

Landsbergis PA, Schnall PL, Warren K, Pickering TG, Schwartz JE. The effect of job strain on ambulatory blood pressure in men: Does it vary by socioeconomic status? Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 1999;896:414-416. See Abstract

Landsbergis PA, Cahill J, Schnall PL. The Impact of Lean Production and Related New Systems of Work Organization on Worker Health. Journal of Occupational Health Psychology 1999;4 (2): 108-130. See Article

Schnall PL, Schwartz JE, Landsbergis PA, Warren K, Pickering TG. A longitudinal study of job strain and ambulatory blood pressure: Results from a three-year follow-up. Psychosomatic Medicine 1998;60:697-706. See Abstract

Schnall PL, Landsbergis PA, Belkic K, Warren K, Schwartz JE, Pickering TG. Findings in the Cornell University ambulatory blood pressure study. Homeostasis 1998;38:195-215.

Landsbergis PA, Schnall PL, Dietz D, Warren K, Pickering TG, Schwartz JE. Job Strain and Health Behaviors: Results of a Prospective Study. American Journal of Health Promotion 1998;12(4):237-245. See Abstract

Pickering TG, Devereux RB, James GD; Gerin W, Landsbergis P, Schnall PL, Schwartz JE. Environmental influences on blood pressure and the role of job strain. J Hypertens Suppl 1996;Dec14 (5):S179-85.

Gerber LM, Schwartz JE, Schnall PL, Pickering TG. Body Fat and Fat Distribution in Relation to Sex Differences in Blood Pressure. American Journal of Human Biology 1995;7:173-182.

Landsbergis PA, Schnall PL, Schwartz JE, Warren K, Pickering TG. The Association of Ambulatory Blood Pressure with Alternative Formulations of Job Strain. Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment, and Health 1994;20:349-63.

Schnall PL, Landsbergis PA, Baker D. Job Strain and Cardiovascular Disease. Annual Review of Public Health 1994;15:381-411.

Schnall PL, Landsbergis PA, Schwartz JE, Pickering TG. Job Strain and Hypertension (letter to the editor). American Journal of Public Health 1994;82(2):320-321.

Pieper C, Schnall PL, Warren K, Pickering TG. Comparison of Ambulatory Blood Pressure and Heart Rate on a Work Day and a Non-work Day: Evidence of a ‘Carry-Over’ Effect. Journal of Hypertension 1993;11:177-183.

Landsbergis PA, Schurman S, Israel B, Schnall PL, Hugentobler M, Cahill J, Baker D. Job Stress and Heart disease: Evidence and Strategies for Prevention. New Solutions 1993;3(3):42-58.

Landsbergis PA, Schnall PL, Dietz D, Friedman R, Pickering TG. The Patterning of Psychological Attributes and Distress by 'Job Strain' and Social Support in a Sample of Working Men. Journal of Behavioral Medicine 1992;15(4).

Schnall PL, Schwartz J, Landsbergis PA, Warren K, Pickering TG. The Relationship Between Job Strain, Alcohol, and Ambulatory Blood Pressure. Hypertension 1992;19(5):488-494.

Schnall PL, Landsbergis PA, Pieper CF, Dietz D, Gerin W, Schlussel Y, Warren K, Pickering TG. The Impact of Anticipation of Job Loss on Psychological Distress and Worksite Blood Pressure. American Journal of Industrial Medicine 1992;21:417-432.

Schnall PL, Devereux RB, Pickering TG, Schwartz JE. Letter to the Editor. The Relationship Between 'Job Strain,' Workplace Diastolic Blood Pressure, and Left Ventricular Mass Index: A Correction. JAMA 1992;267(9):1209.

Pickering T, Schnall PL, Schwartz JE, Pieper CF. Can Behavioral Factors Produce a Sustained Elevation of Blood Pressure? Some Observations and a Hypothesis. Journal of Hypertension 1991;9(suppl 8):S66-S68.

Gerber LM, Schnall PL, Pickering T. Body Fat and its Distribution in Relation to Casual and Ambulatory 1 Blood Pressure, Hypertension 1990;15(8).

Pickering TG, Devereux D, Gerin W, James G, Pieper CF, Schlussel Y, Schnall PL. The Role of Behavioral Factors in White Coat and Sustained Hypertension. Journal of Hypertension 1990; 8:514-517.

Schnall PL, Pieper C, Schwartz JE, Karasek RA, et al. The Relationship Between 'Job Strain,' Workplace Diastolic Blood Pressure, and Left Ventricular Mass Index. JAMA 1990;263(14):1929-1935.

Ganau A, Devereux RB, Pickering TG, Roman MJ, Schnall PL, et al. Relation of Left Ventricular Hemodynamic Load and Contractile Performance to Left Ventricular Mass. Circulation 1990;81(1).

Schlussel YR, Schnall PL, Zimbler M, Warren K, Pickering TG. The Effect of Work Environments on Blood Pressure: Evidence From 7 New York Organizations, The Journal of Hypertension 1990;8:679-685.

Karasek R, Theorell T, Schwartz J, Schnall P, Pieper C, Michela J. Job Characteristics in Relation to the Prevalence of Myocardial Infarction in the U.S. Health Examination Survey (HES) and the Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (HANES), AJPH 1988; 78(7):1-9.

Schnall PL, Alderman M, and Kern R. Reanalysis of the HDFP Trial: Evidence of Adverse Effects of Antihypertensive Treatment on White Women with Moderate and Severe Hypertension. NYSJM 1984;84:299-301.

Guttmacher S, Teitelman M, Chapin G, Garbowski G, Schnall PL. Ethics and Preventive Medicine: The Case of Borderline Hypertension. The Hastings Center Report 11 1980;1:12-20.

Smith DA, Schnall PL. Improved Hypertension Control using a Surveillance System in a Neighborhood Health Center. Medical Care 1980;18(7):766-774.

Landsbergis PA, Schnall PL, Belkic KL, Baker D, Schwartz JE, Pickering TG. The Workplace and Cardiovascular Disease: Relevance and Potential Role for Occupational Health Psychology. Handbook of Occupational Health Psychology. J Quick and L. Tetrick, eds. Washington DC, American Psychological Association, 2002.

Belkic KL, Schnall PL, Landsbergis PA, Schwartz JE, Gerber LM, Baker D, Pickering TG. Hypertension at the workplace - An occult disease? In: Theorell T, ed: Everyday Biological Stress Mechanisms. Adv Psychosom Med. Basel, Karger; 22: 116-138, 2001.

Landsbergis PA, Cahill J, Schnall PL. New systems of work organization: Impacts on job characteristics and health. In: Confronting Change: Auto Labor and Lean Production in North America, Mexico, 1998.

Landsbergis PA, Schurman SJ, Israel BA, Schnall PL, Hugentobler MK, Cahill J, Baker D. Job stress and heart disease: Evidence and strategies for prevention. In: Work, Health and Environment: Old Problems, New Solutions New York: The Guilford Press, 1997.

Landsbergis PA, Silverman B, Barrett C, Schnall PL. Comites sindicales sobre el reduccion del estres en los administrativos y obreros de los Estados Unidos. La Prevencion Del Estres en el Trabajo: Condiciones De Trabajo 8: Instituto Nacional de Seguridad E Higiene en el Trabajo; 1996

Landsbergis PA, Schnall PL, Schwartz JE, Warren K, Pickering TG. Job strain, hypertension, and cardiovascular disease: empirical evidence, methodological issues, and recommendations for the future. In: Sauter SL, Murphy LR, eds. Organizational Risk Factors for Job Stress. Washington DC: American Psychological Association, 1995.

Baker D, Schnall PL, Landsbergis PA. Epidemiologic research of the association between occupational stress and cardiovascular disease. In: Araki S, ed. Behavioral Medicine: An Integrated Biobehavioral Approach to Health and Illness. New York: Elsevier:103-113, 1992.

Landsbergis PA, Silverman B, Barrett C, Schnall PL. Union stress committees and stress reduction in blue- and white-collar workers in the United States. In: DiMartino V, ed. Conditions of Work Digest: Preventing Stress at Work. Geneva, Switzerland: International Labor Office:144-151, 1992.

Alderman MH, Schnall PL. When to treat a patient with Hypertension. In: Drayer JM, Lowenthal DT, Weber MA, eds. Clinical Pharmacology Vol. 6; Drug Therapy in Hypertension. New York, Marcel Dekker, Inc: 1-26, 1987.

Schnall PL and Kern R. Hypertension in American Society. In Peter Conrad and Rochelle Kern (eds.), Sociology of Health and Illness. New York, St. Martin's Press, 1981.