Peter Rabinowitz, MD, MPH Associate Professor of Medicine Director of Clinical Services 135 College Street Room 398 Phone: 203-785-5885 Fax: 203-785-7391 Appointments: 203-785-4197

Medical School

University of Washington 

Residency

University of California San Francisco Natividad Medical Center- Family Medicine

Fellowship

Yale University School of Medicine - Occupational and Environmental Medicine
Yale University School of Medicine - General Preventive Medicine

Research Activities

Noise induced hearing loss, heavy metal toxicity, PCB toxicity, occupational health issues of disadvantaged populations, and animals as sentinels of human environmental health hazards.

Clinical Activities

Occupational and environmental diseases, noise induced hearing loss, metal toxicity, PCB toxicity.

Selected Publications

Peer Reviewed Original Research

1. Rabinowitz PM, Gordon Z, Holmes RH, Taylor B, Wilcox M, Chudnov D, Nadkarni P , Dein FJ. 2005. Animals as sentinels of human environmental health hazards, an evidence-based analysis. EcoHealth 03/2005 (in press).

2. Rabinowitz PM, Slade M, Dixon-Ernst C, Sircar K, Cullen M. 2003. Impact of OSHA final rule: recording hearing loss. Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine 45:1274-80.

3. Rabinowitz PM, Wise JP, Powell C, Mobo BH, Antonucci PG. 2002. Antioxidant status and hearing function in noise-exposed workers. Hearing Research 173: 164-71.

4. Rabinowitz PM, Duran R. 2001. Is acculturation related to use of hearing protection?  AIHAJ 62:611-4.

5. Rabinowitz PM. 2000. Noise-induced hearing loss. American Family Physician 61(9):2749-56, 2759-60.

6. Rabinowitz PM, Cullen MR, Lake HR. 1999. Wildlife as sentinels for human health hazards: A review of study designs. J Environ Med 1:217-23.

7. Rabinowitz PM. Cullen MR. Feinstein RE. 1998. Host/environment medicine: a family practice model for the future [editorial]. Family Medicine 30(4):297-300.

8. Lalonde BL, Rabinowitz PM. 1997. Novelas as health education tools. Health Education & Behavior 24(5):587-602.

Case Reports, Technical Notes, Letters

1. Rabinowitz PM, Gordon Z. 2004. Outfoxing a rash: clinical example of human-wildlife interaction. EcoHealth 1:404-7.

2. Rabinowitz PM, Dobie RA. 2003. Use of audiometric configuration in the diagnosis of noise-induced hearing loss: can "notch criteria" help? NHCA Spectrum 20:8-11.

3. Rabinowitz PM. 2003. Musical illusions and paradoxes. NHCA Spectrum, page 3.

4. ACOEM 2003. Noise and hearing conservation committee. ACOEM evidence-based statement: noise-induced hearing loss. Journal of Occupational & Environmental Medicine. 45(6):579-81 (principal author).

5. Rabinowitz PM. 2000. New Deal Medicine (book review). Journal of General Internal Medicine 15:438.

6. Rabinowitz PM, Sparer JS. 2000. Noise induced hearing loss. Occupational Airways 6:1-4.

7. Rabinowitz PM. 1995. Family centered birthing (letter), Family Medicine 27(7):418-9.
   

Editorials, Reviews, Chapters, Books

1. Bogucki S., Rabinowitz, PM. 2005. Occupational health of police and firefighters. In Rosenstock L, Cullen MR (Ed) Clinical Occupational and Environmental Medicine (2nd Edition) WB Saunders, Philadelphia PA.

2. Dunn D, Rabinowitz PM. 2005. Noise as an occupational and environmental hazard. In Rosenstock L, Cullen MR (Ed) Clinical Occupational Medicine (2nd Edition) WB Saunders, Philadelphia PA.

3. Rabinowitz, PM, Rees T. 2005. Hearing loss. In Rosenstock L, Cullen MR (Ed) Clinical Occupational Medicine (2nd Edition) WB Saunders, Philadelphia PA.

4. Rabinowitz PM, Poljak A. 2003. Host/environment medicine; a primary care model for the age of genomics. Journal of General Internal Medicine 18: 222-6.

5. Rabinowitz PM. Siegel MD. 2002. Acute inhalation injury. Clinics in Chest Medicine. 2002 23:707-15.

6. Rabinowitz PM. 2002. Noise induced hearing loss and workers compensation: what managers should know. The Journal of Workers Compensation 11: 9-18.

7. Rabinowitz PM. 2000. Noise-induced hearing loss, American Family Physician. 61:2749-56, 2759-60.

8. Rabinowitz PM. 1999. Psychosocial theories in primary care. In Feinstein RE, Brewer AA (Ed.) Primary Care Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine, Springer Publishing, New York.

9. Rabinowitz PM, Cullen MR, Feinstein RE. 1998. Host/environment medicine: a family practice model for the future, Family Medicine 30(40):297-300.

10. Rabinowitz PM. 1981. Talking medicine: American doctors tell their stories (Interviews with medical students and physicians about the realities of being a doctor), W.W. Norton, New York, 316 pp.