Neil Gesundheit

Clinical Focus

• Endocrinology / Diabetes
• Endocrinology and Metabolism

Administrative Appointments

• Associate Dean for Advising, Stanford University School of Medicine (2006 - present)
• Associate Dean for Medical Education, Stanford University School of Medicine (1999 - 2006)

Honors and Awards

• The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation Award for Excellence in Preclinical Teaching, Stanford University School of Medicine (2009)
• The Lawrence H. Mathers, Jr. Award for Exceptional Commitment to Teaching and M.D. Student Education, Stanford University School of Medicine (2007)
• The Compassion in Medicine Award, Lance Armstrong Foundation (2005)
• The Department of Medicine Endocrinology Division Teaching Award, Stanford University School of Medicine (2005)
• The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation Award for Excellence in Preclinical Teaching, Stanford University School of Medicine (2004)

Professional Education

Graduate & Fellowship Program Affiliations

• Medicine

Industry Relationships

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Research Interests

Our medical education research group is developing and validating the best educational practices to train competent, compassionate, and ethical physicians and physician-scientists. We are studying the use of standardized patients and other modalities to improve clinical skill training and reasoning. We are interested in applying the rigor of clinical investigation to education research.

My areas of clinical interest in endocrinology include disorders of the pituitary, thyroid, and gonad.

Publications

• The use of virtual patients to assess the clinical skills and reasoning of medical students: initial insights on student acceptance. Gesundheit N, Brutlag P, Youngblood P, Gunning WT, Zary N, Fors U. Medical Teacher. 2009; 31 (8): 739-42
• Integrating collaborative population health projects into a medical student curriculum at Stanford. Chamberlain LJ, Wang NE, Ho ET, Banchoff AW, Braddock CH, Gesundheit N. Acad Med. 2008; 83 (4): 338-44
• Acute hepatitis associated with the use of an herbal supplement (Polygonum multiflorum) mimicking iron-overload syndrome. Laird AR, Ramchandani N, deGoma EM, Avula B, Khan IA, Gesundheit N. J Clin Gastroenterol.. 2008; 42 ((7)): 861-2
• Does feedback matter? Practice-based learning for medical students after a multi-institutional clinical performance examination. Srinivasan M, Hauer KE, Der-Martirosian C, Wilkes M, Gesundheit N. Med Educ. 2007; 41 (9): 857-65
• Body composition of HIV/AIDS males: effects of treatment with insulin-like growth factor (IGF-I) and growth hormone (GH). Ellis KJ, Lee PD, Pivarnik JM, Bukar JG, Gesundheit N. Appl Radiat Isot. 1998 May-Jun; 49 (5-6): 653-5