Bruce N. Leistikow, MD

Associate Adjunct Professor
Department of Public Health Sciences
University of California, Davis
Davis, California 95616

bnleistikow@ucdavis.edu

Research Interests:

Community health interventions, rural health, quantifying overlooked causes of injuries and other burdens; tobacco control/smoking prevention and cessation; healthcare worker diseases; and diseases of animal confinement workers.

Publications:

Park HY, Leistikow B, Tsodikov A, Yoo CI, Lee K. (2007) Smoke load/cancer death rate associations in Korea females, 1985-2004. Prev Med. Epub ahead of prin.

Leistikow BN, Chen M, Tsodikov A. (2006) Smoke loads and ethnic, state, gender, and temporal cancer mortality disparities in Asian-Americans. Prev Med. 42(6):430-4.

Yoo C, Leistikow B, Lee K, Jung K. (2006) Lung cancer rate as an index of tobacco smoke exposure: validation using Korean male cancer death rates, 1985~2002. Cancer Prevention Research. 11(11):176-182.

Leistikow BN, Tsodikov A. (2005) Cancer death epidemics in United States Black males: evaluating courses, causation, and cures. Prev Med. 41(2):380-5.

Bruce Leistikow (2004) Lung cancer rates as an index of tobacco smoke exposures: validation against black male ~non-lung cancer death rates, 1969-2000. Prev Med. 38(5):511-15.

Leigh, JP, Bowlus, CL, Leistikow, BN, and Schenker, M (2001) Costs of hepatitis C. Arch of Internal Med. 161(18):2231-2237.

Leigh, JP, Seavey, W, and Leistikow, B (2001) Estimating the costs of job related arthritis. J Rheumat. 28(7):1647-1654.

Leistikow, B N (2001) Diabetes in Canada's First Nations. CMAJ. 164(8):1126-8.

Leistikow, Bruce (2001) Child hunger in Canada. CMAJ. 164(9).

Leistikow, B N (2000) The human and financial costs of smoking. Clin Chest Med. 21(1):189-97, x-xi.

Leistikow, B N, D C Martin and C E Milano (2000) Fire injuries, disasters, and costs from cigarettes and cigarette lights: a global overview. Prev Med. 31(2 Pt 1):91-9.

Leistikow, B N, D C Martin and C E Milano (2000) Estimates of smoking-attributable deaths at ages 15-54, motherless or fatherless youths, and resulting Social Security costs in the United States in 1994. Prev Med. 30(5):353-60.

Leistikow, B N, D C Martin and S J Samuels (2000) Injury death excesses in smokers: a 1990-95 United States national cohort study. Inj Prev. 6(4):277-80.

Leistikow, B N, D C Martin, J Jacobs, D M Rocke and K Noderer (2000) Smoking as a risk factor for accident death: a meta-analysis of cohort studies. Accid Anal Prev. 32(3):397-405.

Leistikow, B. N. and M. J. Shipley (1999) Might stopping smoking reduce injury death risks? A meta-analysis of randomized, controlled trials. Prev Med. 28(3):255-259.

Leistikow, B N (1998) Injury prevention. N Engl J Med. 338(2):133.

Leistikow, B N and T R Miller (1998) The health care costs of smoking. N Engl J Med. 338(7):471; author reply 47.

Leistikow, B. N., D. C. Martin, J. Jacobs and D. M. Rocke (1998) Smoking as a risk factor for injury death: a meta-analysis of cohort studies. Prev Med. 27(6):871-878.

Leistikow, B N (1996) Smoking cessation--new challenge and opportunities. West J Med. 165(4):226-7.

Leistikow, B N (1996) Preventing workers' hepatitis A, B, C, D, E, and G. West J Med. 165(3):139.

Franke, D. L., B. N. Leistikow, K. P. Offord, L. Schmidt and R. D. Hurt (1995) Physician referrals for smoking cessation: outcome in those who show and don't show. Prev Med. 24(2):194-200.

Schwartz, D. A., L. J. Fuortes, J. R. Galvin, L. F. Burmeister, L. E. Schmidt, B. N. Leistikow, F. P. LaMarte and J. A. Merchant (1990) Asbestos-induced pleural fibrosis and impaired lung function. Am Rev Respir Dis. 141(2):321-326.