Meet the Team

We are a group of doctors at UCSF who specialize in treating work related illnesses and improving workplace safety. We are based within the Division of OECM.
 

Sheiphali Gandhi, MD, MPH, is an Assistant Professor at the University of California San Francisco in the Divisions of Occupational, Environmental, and Climate Medicine and Pulmonary, Critical Care, Sleep, and Allergy Medicine. She is a dual-boarded pulmonologist and occupational medicine physician specializing in occupational and environmental respiratory disease. She attends in the UCSF Occupational and Environmental Medicine specialty practice with an emphasis on occupational respiratory diseases and toxicology and on the inpatient pulmonary and critical care services at ZSFG.  She is the Director of the California Silicosis Support and Research Network based at UCSF. Additionally, she is the Associate Director of the San Francisco Veteran's Association Post-Deployment Cardiopulmonary Evaluation Network, assessing veterans with military exposures in Southwest Asia. Her research concentrates on the epidemiology of interstitial lung disease, including pneumoconiosis, and the occupational contributions to health disparities. 

  

Bob Harrison, MD, MPH, joined UCSF in 1984. He founded and directed UCSF Occupational Health Services for more than 15 years, and now is a senior attending physician. He has diagnosed and treated thousands of patients with work- and environmental-induced diseases and injuries. He also directs the worker tracking and investigation program for the California Department of Public Health. Dr. Harrison received his B.A. from the University of Rochester and his M.D. from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He is board certified in both internal medicine and occupational medicine. He has served on the California Occupational Safety and Health Administration (Cal/OSHA) Standards Board, and authored numerous publications in the area of occupational medicine. He is a clinical professor of medicine at UCSF. 

 

Gina Solomon, MD, MPH is the Chief of the Division of Occupational, Environmental and Climate Medicine at UCSF. In this role she oversees clinical occupational and environmental health at UCSF Health, Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and the San Francisco Veterans Administration Medical Center. She is also the Program Director of the UCSF Occupational and Environmental Medicine Residency program, teaches medical and nursing students, and leads the research efforts in the Division. 
 
Before coming to UCSF, Dr. Solomon founded and directed the Achieving Resilient Communities program at the Public Health Institute, where she worked from 2018-2023. From 2012-2018 she was appointed by Governor Brown as the Deputy Secretary for Science and Health at the California Environmental Protection Agency. Dr. Solomon previously served as the director of the occupational and environmental medicine residency program at UCSF from 2008-2012, the associate director of the UCSF Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Unit from 2003-2009, and as a Senior Scientist at the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) from 1996-2012. 
 
Dr. Solomon’s research has encompassed cumulative impacts of environmental and social stressors in disadvantaged communities, environmental justice, farmworker health, new approach methodologies in toxicology and risk assessment, drinking water quality, air pollution, endocrine disrupting chemicals, pesticides, environmental contaminants in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina and in communities after wildfires, the health implications of the 2010 Gulf oil spill, and the health effects of climate change. Currently, Dr. Solomon is Chair of the Bay Area Air Quality Management District Advisory Council.