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Jeffrey Gershel, MD

Dr. Gershel is the Associate Vice-Chairman of the Lewis M. Fraad Department of Pediatrics, Director of the Inpatient Service, and Acting Director of the NICU. In 2000-2001 he served as Director of Region II of the Ambulatory Pediatric Association (now Academic Pediatric Association). Dr. Gershel is President of the Medical Board for Jacobi Medical Center and co-Medical Director for three suburban school districts. He is also board-certified in Pediatric Emergency Medicine. Dr. Gershel co-edits the Clinical Manual of Emergency Pediatrics; the fifth edition will be published in 2010. Dr. Gershel is a Professor of Clinical Pediatrics at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine.

Undergraduate:
Colgate University
Medical School:
SUNY Downstate
Training:
Internship and Residency: Bronx Municipal Hospital Center (now Jacobi Medical Center)
Awards and Honors:
  • Alpha Omega Alpha
  • House Staff Teaching Award, Bronx Municipal Hospital Center
Research and/or Clinical Interests:
  • Sports Medicine
  • Hazing of Athletes
  • Febrile infants
Bibliography:
  • Crain EF, Gershel, JC (eds.): Clinical Manual of Emergency Pediatrics (5th ed). McGraw-Hill, New York, (expected 2010).
  • Osterhoudt KC, Gershel JC: Pediatric laborers, in Greenberg MI (ed.): Occupational, Industrial, and Environmental Toxicology (2nd ed), Mosby, St. Louis, 2003, pp 292-301.
  • Crain EF, Gershel, JC (eds.): Clinical Manual of Emergency Pediatrics (PDA version). McGraw-Hill, New York, 2004.
  • Zandieh SO, Gershel JC, Briggs WM, Mancuso CA, Kuder JM: Revisiting predictors of parental healthcare seeking behaviors for nonurgent conditions at one inner city hospital. Pediatr Emerg Care 2009;25:238-43.
  • Gershel JC, Katz-Sidlow RJ, Small E, Zandieh S: Hazing of suburban middle school and high school athletes. J Adolesc Health 2003;32:333-5.
  • Kevill K, Wong AM, Goldman HS, Gershel JC: Is a complete trauma series indicated for all pediatric trauma victims? Pediatr Emerg Care 2002;18:75-7.
  • Metzl JD, Small E, Levine SR, Gershel JC: Creatine use among young athletes. Pediatrics 2001;108:421-5.
  • Gershel JC: Human granulocytic ehrlichiosis presenting as abdominal pain. Pediatrics 2000;106:602-4.
  • Crain EF, Gershel JC: Emergency care of asthma. Respir Care Clin N Am 2000; 6:135-54.
  • Gershel J: Criteria for deciding when to obtain chest radiographs in first time wheezers. Pediatr Emerg Care 1998;14:452.

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