Bruce Gelman, MD

Bruce P. Gelman M.D. was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. He is a graduate of Columbia University in the City of New York and the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine where he subsequently went on to complete an internship and residency in Internal Medicine. He did a Gastroenterology fellowship at Temple University in Philadelphia. He is board certified in Internal Medicine and Gastroenterology. He stayed in Philadelphia where he was in private practice for 35 years and was an attending physician at the Albert Einstein Medical Center, Moss Rehabilitation Center and Temple University, Jeanes campus.

Dr. Gelman is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine and is the GI Hospitalist at Mount Sinai West and Mount Sinai Morningside where he cares for inpatients and lectures and instructs GI fellows, internal medicine residents and medical students. His  interests include endoscopic mucosal resection of colonic polyps, the endoscopic treatment of GI bleeding and complex enteral access issues including direct percutaneous endoscopic jejunostomy (DPEJ), trans abdominal percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG), PEG in challenging patient populations such as patients with an extremely high BMI and the management of dislodged enteral access tubes.

Dr. Gelman is a long standing member of the New York Society for Gastroenterology, The American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, the American Gastroenterological Association and the American College of physicians.

He currently resides in Manhattan with his wife.