General Info

Dr. Neil Gesundheit is a board-certified endocrinologist who trained at Stanford and UCSF in internal medicine and at the National Institutes of Health (NIDDK) in endocrinology and metabolism. He sees hospitalized endocrine patients at Stanford and at the Palo Alto Veterans Administration Hospital. Dr. Gesundheit directs the second-year medical student endocrine physiology module, teaches in the Practice of Medicine course, and has served for 25 years in the Dean's office, most recently as the Senior Associate Dean for Medical Education overseeing implementation of the Discovery Curriculum. Dr. Gesundheit served as the Faculty Lead for the LCME visit of 2022, leading to an 8-year re-accreditation of the School of Medicine.