Dr. Schick is an Associate Professor of Medicine in the Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, the Associate Director of the Human Exposure Laboratory, and a member of the Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education and the Helen Diller Cancer Center. Dr. Schick studies the health effects of human exposure to second and thirdhand tobacco and cannabis smoke, with a focus on rapid cardiovascular responses and dermal exposures.

Dr. Schick is the principal investigator of the Controlled Thirdhand Smoke Exposure Core, the first research facility in the world to offer controlled exposure to aged sidestream cigarette smoke for research with human subjects. Dr. Schick has used the THS Exposure Core to test the effects of exposure to secondhand and thirdhand cigarette smoke on biomarkers of exposure, endothelial function, inflammation and oxidative stress.