Brian D. Gelbman, M.D.
635 Madison Avenue, Suite 1101
New York, New York 10022
(P) 212-628-6611 (F) 212-588-9897
brg9001@med.cornell.edu
EDUCATION:
1996-2000
1992-1996
Vanderbilt School of Medicine, Nashville, TN
Doctor of Medicine
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Bachelor of Science
POST GRADUATE TRAINING:
2003–2006:
2001-2003:
2000-2001:
Fellow, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine,
Weill Cornell Medical Center, New York Presbyterian Hospital, NY, NY 10021
Resident, Internal Medicine,
Weill Cornell Medical Center, New York Presbyterian Hospital, NY, NY 10021
Intern, Internal Medicine,
Weill Cornell Medical Center, New York Presbyterian Hospital, NY, NY 10021
LICENSURE AND CERTIFICATIONS:
Board Certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine:
Internal Medicine 8/19/2003, expires 12/31/2022
Pulmonary Medicine 11/15/2005, expires 12/31/2015
Critical Care Medicine 11/8/2006, expires 12/31/2016
Sleep Medicine 10/16/2013, expires 10/16/2023
Completed USMLE steps I, II, III
New York State medical license: # 224664. Issued: 12/2001
DEA practitioner license. Issued: 9/2003
HONORS AND AWARDS
2013
2011
2004
2004
2004
1999
1999
1996
Listed in Castle Connelly Best Doctors
Listed in Superdoctors, New York
CHEST Foundation Clinical Research Trainee Award in COPD
NIH Clinical Research Loan Repayment Program
Finalist, Weill Cornell Medical Center - Clinical Research Fellows Award
Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Society
Honorable Mention, Dystonia Medical Research Society
Golden Key National Honor Society
MEMBERSHIPS:
2008-Present
New York State Thoracic Society
2014 President
2013 President-Elect
2012 Vice President
2008-Present
2011-Present
2004-Present
2003-Present
2000-2001
1997-2000
2011 Secretary/Treasurer
Association of Practicing Physicians of New York Presbyterian Hospital
2009-Present Secretary
Medical Society State of New York
American Thoracic Society
Fellow, American College of Chest Physicians
American Medical Association
American Medical Student Association
1998 Chapter President
PUBLICATIONS:
Gulati C, Schreiner AM, Libby DM, Port JL, Altorki NK, Gelbman BD, Outcomes of Unresected
Ground Glass Nodules with Cytology Suspicious for Adenocarcinoma, Journal of Thoracic Oncology,
Accepted 2014
Gelbman BD, Libby DM, Overstating Overdiagnosis in Low-Dose Computed Tomography Screening for
Lung Cancer, Correspondence, JAMA Internal Medicine, Accepted 2014
Gelbman BD, Cham MD, Kim W, Libby DM, Port, JL, Altorki NK, Henschke CI, Yankelevitz DF,
Radiographic and Clinical Characterization of False Negative Results from CT-Guided Needle Biopsies of
Lung Nodules, Journal of Thoracic Oncology, 2012, 7(5): 815-820, May 2012.
Gelbman BD, Crystal RG, Idiopathic and Autoimmune Interstitial Lung Disease, in The Autoimmune
Diseases, Fifth Edition, ed: Rose and Mackay, Academic Press, In press
Gelbman BD, Gelbman JK, Is it always wrong to perform futile CPR, Correspondence, New England
Journal of Medicine, 2010, 362:21.
Gelbman BD, Gelbman JM, Deconstructing DNR, Journal of Medical Ethics, 2008, 34:640-641.
Gelbman BD, Heguy A, O'Connor TP, Zabner J, Crystal RG Upregulation of pirin expression by chronic
cigarette smoking is associated with bronchial epithelial cell apoptosis, Respiratory Research 2007, 8:10 (8
February 2007)
Gelbman BD, Crystal RG, Idiopathic Bronchiolitis Obliterans and Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis, in The
Autoimmune Diseases, Fourth Edition, ed: Rose and Mackay, Academic Press, 2006.
Gelbman BD, Total Educational Debt May be more Important than Monthly Debt Payments on Career
Choices, Correspondence, American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, 2006, 173, p 933.
ABSTRACTS AND PRESENTATIONS
Gelbman BD, Cham MD, Kim W, Libby DM, Port JL, Altorki N, Smith JP, Henschke CL, Yankelevitz
DF, Outcomes after a benign result from a CT guided transthoracic fine needle aspiration of a pulmonary
nodule, Oral Presentation at the 2010 American Thoracic Society International Conference, 2010; 181: A4001
Gelbman BD, Heguy A, O’Connor TP, Zabner J, Crystal RG, Adenovirus-Mediated Gene Transfer
Demonstrates that Pirin, a Transcription Factor Up-regulated in the Bronchial Epithelium by Cigarette
Smoke, Mediates Bronchial Epithelial Cell Apoptosis, Oral presentation at the 2005 American Society of Gene
Therapy’s 8th Annual Meeting, Molecular Therapy 2005; Vol 11, S316-S317.
Gelbman BD, Heguy A, O’Connor T, Zabner J, Crystal RG, Exposure to Cigarette Smoke Upregulates
Pirin Gene Expression in Airway Epithelium and Leads to Epithelial Cell Apoptosis, Oral presentation at the
2005 American Thoracic Society International Conference, Proceedings of the American Thoracic Society 2005; Vol 2,
A805.
Gelbman BD and King TK Response to Long-Term Macrolide Therapy in a Patient with Cryptogenic
Adult Bronchiolitis Chest, October 1, 2004; 126(4): 963S
Flieder, DB., Vora, SK., Sanders, A, Gelbman, BD, Benign Thymic Hyperplasia As a Cause of Anterior
Mediastinal Mass After Chemotherapy, Chest 2004 126: 929S-930S.
Gelbman BD: Why Medical School Should Be Free, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Vol XLIX:23, page
B16, 2/14/2003
Gelbman BD, Khalifeh, M, German D, Smoking Mirror: A Smoking Prevention Program, Presented at the
23rd Annual Innovations in Medical Education, part of the 109th Annual Meeting of the Association of American Medical
Colleges, Oct 30-Nov 5, 1998.
Charles, PD, Robertson D, Kerr LD, Lonce S, Austin MT, Gelbman BD, Whetsell WO, Davis TL:
Evidence of Apoptotic Cell Death in Multiple Systems Atrophy (abstract), Annals of Neurology Sept 1997;
Vol 42:3, 408-409.
Invited Speaker:
2011
2011
2011
2010
2009
2008
2007
2007
Peri-operative grand rounds: “Obstructive Sleep Apnea”, Hospital for Special Surgery
Update your medicine course – “New Developments in Pulmonary Medicine”, WCMC
Women’s Health Seminar – “Asthma in Women” – WCMC
Update your medicine course – “New Developments in Pulmonary Medicine”, WCMC
Update your medicine course – “Asthma”, WCMC
Internal Medicine Residents Wednesday Afternoon Conference: “Dive Medicine”, WCMC
Peri-operative grand rounds: “Obstructive Sleep Apnea”, Hospital for Special Surgery
Primary Care Residents Outpatient Lecture Series: Obstructive Sleep Apnea, WCMC
Ongoing Teaching Responsibilities:
Member of Investigational Review Board, WCMC
Monthly Journal Club, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Pulmonary Fellows, WCMC
Morning Report attending, Department of Medicine, Internal Medicine Residents, WCMC
Problem Based Learning – Basis of Disease Course Tutor, Second Year Medical Students, WCMC