The APA-NIOSH conference "WORK, STRESS AND HEALTH: NEW CHALLENGES IN A CHANGING WORKPLACE" was recently held (March 20-22, 2003) in Toronto. We present here abstracts and presentations associated with staff and colleagues of the Center for Social Epidemiology.

1. SC COEH STEP PROJECT. Peter Schnall, Haiou Yang, Maritza Jauregui and Dean Baker, UCI COEH

2. UCLA-FOGARTY PROGRAM. Kanan-Patel Coleman, UCLA, Peter Schnall, UCLA and UCI, John R. Froines, UCLA

3. PROTECTING CARDIOVASCULAR HEALTH OF URBAN TRANSIT OPERATORS: PHYSIOLOGIC & CLINICAL CONSIDERATIONS. Karen Belkic, M.D., PhD, USC School of Medicine--IPR

4. A SOCIAL EPIDEMIOLOGIC PERSPECTIVE ON OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY. Peter Schnall, MD, MPH, UC-Irvine

5. JOB STRAIN AND AMBULATORY BLOOD PRESSURE: 10-YEAR LONGITUDINAL FINDINGS FROM THE WORK SITE BLOOD PRESSURE STUDY. Joseph Schwartz, PhD, SUNY - Stony Brook, Peter Schnall, MD, MPH, UC-Irvine, Paul Landsbergis, PhD, MPH, Thomas Pickering, MD, DPhil, Mt Sinai Medical Center

6. WORK, STRESS & HEALTH IN A CLINICAL CONTEXT: THE EMERGENCE OF OCCUPATIONAL CARDIOLOGY. Karen Belkic MD, PhD, USC School of Medicine, Inst. for Health Promotion & Disease Prevention Research, Peter Schnall, M.D., MPH, UCI School of Medicine, COEH

7. IS JOB STRAIN A CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE RISK FACTOR? A CRITICAL REVIEW. Karen Belkic, M.D., PhD*, USC School of Medicine-Institute for Health Promotion & Disease Prevention Research, Paul Landsbergis, M.P.H., PhD., Mount Sinai School of Medicine-Dept. of Community Medicine, Peter Schnall, M.D., M.P.H., Dean Baker, M.D., M.P.H., UCI School of Medicine-Ctr. for Occupational & Environmental Health

8. ORGANIZATION OF WORK AND HEALTH OUTCOMES IN THE CANADIAN AUTOMOBILE INDUSTRY. Wayne Lewchuk (McMaster), David Robertson (CAW), Donald Cole (U.of Toronto & IWH), Peter Schnall (U.California), Selahadin Ibrahim (IWH), Mickey Kerr (U.of Western Ontario),Dorothy Wigmore (McMaster), Joe Schwartz (SUNY), Paul Landsbergis (Mount Sinai), Ted Haines (McMaster), Joe Zsoldos (CAW)

9. OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH GRADIENTS IN HOSPITAL WORKERS (GROW STUDY). Jeffrey Braff, DrPH, Genevieve Ames, PhD, Robin Baker MPH, Rajiv Bhatia MD, MPH, John Frank, MD, Marion Gillen, PhD, RN, Deborah Gordon, PhD, Robert Harrison, MD, MPH, Bradley Jacobs, MD, MPH, Ira Janowitz, PT, CPE, Umesh Masharani, MD, Raymond Meister, MD, MPH, Reiner Rugulies, PhD, Irene Yen, PhD, Paul Blanc, MD, MSPH

For more information regarding this site, e-mail us at: cse@workhealth.org