Eric Garshick MD, MOH

Dr. Garshick is Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Associate Chief, Pulmonary, Allergy, Sleep, and Critical Care Medicine Section at VA Boston Healthcare System. He received his MD degree from Tufts Medical School and a Master of Occupational Health degree from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. He is Board Certified in Internal Medicine, Pulmonary Disease, and Critical Care Medicine. In addition to practicing clinical pulmonary medicine at VA Boston, his research has focused on epidemiologic studies assessing the health effects of inhaled particulate matter.

He has conducted NIH-funded epidemiologic studies in railroad worker and trucking industry workers that contributed to the assessment of diesel exhaust a lung carcinogen, and on effects of particulate matter in patients with COPD. His previous VA-funded studies have also investigated respiratory function and illness in patients with chronic spinal cord injury. He has served on the Diesel Exhaust Review Panel for the EPA Clean Air Science Advisory Committee, the Institute of Medicine Committee that reviewed the effects of environmental particulate exposures during the Gulf War, and the International Agency for Research on Cancer working group that determined that diesel exhaust was a human lung carcinogen. He is study co-chair of VA Cooperative Study #595 entitled Pulmonary Health and Deployment to Southwest Asia and Afghanistan assessing associations between deployment-related particulate matter exposures and pulmonary function in Veterans.