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Yaron B. Gesthalter, M.D.

Yaron B. Gesthalter, M.D.

  • Assistant Professor of Medicine Interventional Pulmonary Medicine Division of Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine
  • Department of Medicine

Contact Information

1600 Divisadero St., 4th Floor
San Francisco, CA 94143
(415) 885-3882 Phone
(415) 353-9525 Fax
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2000-2003 Hebrew University, Israel - B.Sc.

2004-2008 University of Tel-Aviv, Sackler School of Medicine - MD

  • 2008-2011 Yale University, Internal Medicine Residency
  • 2012-2015 Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Fellowship in Pulmonary and Critical Care
  • 2015-2016 Boston University School of Medicine – Division of Computational Biomedicine, Boston, Research Fellowship in Bioinformatics
  • 2016-2017 Harvard University, Boston, Combined Beth-Israel Deaconess and Massachusetts General Hospital Fellowship in Interventional Pulmonary Medicine
  • Ablative bronchoscopic techniques (cryo- surgery, electrosurgery, argon plasma coagulation (APC), cryospray, photodynamic therapy)
  • Advanced bronchoscopy [Electromagnetic navigation bronchoscopy (EMN)],Endobronchial ultrasound (EBUS), Rigid bronchoscopy
  • Complex pleural effusions – ultrasound, thoracentesis, chest tubes, tunneled pleural catheters, medical thoracoscopy
  • Diagnostic and staging procedures
  • Fiducial placement for radiation therapy
  • Lung nodules
  • Sarcoidosis and other non-malignant lung pathologies
  • Symptom management
  • Thoracic Malignancies
  • Tracheal and bronchial obstructions
  • Tracheal and bronchial stent placement
  • Application of minimally invasive diagnostic and therapeutic techniques
  • Bioinformatics
  • Lung cancer diagnostics
  • Lung cancer screening
  • Smoking cessation
  • Hebrew

Yaron B. Gesthalter, M.D. received his B.Sc from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 2003.  He then attended The Sackler School of Medicine in Tel-Aviv University where he received his MD in 2008.    

Dr. Gesthalter completed a residency in Internal Medicine (2011) at Yale. He then worked for one year as an attending physician on the Tuberculosis ward at The Church of Scotland Hospital in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. After returning to the United States, Dr. Gesthalter completed a fellowship in Pulmonary and Critical Care at Boston University in 2015. 

He stayed at Boston University for an additional research fellowship in the Division of Computational Biomedicine. Using bioinformatic approaches, he studied the genomics of pre-malignancy, lung cancer and chemoprevention. He then completed an Interventional Pulmonary fellowship (2017) at the combined Harvard program (Beth-Israel Deaconess and Massachusetts Hospital).

In 2017 Dr Gesthalter joined the faculty at UCSF as an Interventional Pulmonologist, where he focuses on minimally invasive diagnostic and therapeutic procedures for diseases that affect the lungs and surrounding pleura. In addition, Dr. Gesthalter also attends on the pulmonary consult service at UCSF.

  Award  
  Confired By    
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  • Michael Stulbarg Outstanding Teacher Award
  • University of California San Francisco
  • 2023
  • Excellence in Teaching Award
  • University of California San Francisco - Haile T. Debas Academy of Medical Educators
  • 2019
  • Thoracic Oncology Assembly Abstract Scholarship
  • American Thoracic Society
  • 2016
  • My interest is in the early diagnosis and prevention of lung cancer through screening, behavioral interventions and chemoprevention. I have used gene-expression analysis to study the molecular profiles of patients at risk for future development of lung cancer and used these profiles to understand the effects various therapies have on the pre-malignancy biology of the lungs. This holds the potential to decrease lung cancer burden by disease aversion. Additionally, I study how to apply new diagnostic technologies that might expedite patient care in a minimally invasive way.

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    1. Anne C. Melzer, Zachary A. Reese, Lorraine Mascarhenas, Caitlin B. Clancy, Janaki Deepak, Hyma Gogineni, Yaron Gesthalter, Joanna L. Hart. Education for Tobacco Use Disorder Treatment: Current State, Evidence, and Unmet Needs. ATS Scholar. 2023 Oct 18. View in PubMed
    2. Gesthalter YB, Channick CL. Interventional Pulmonology: Extending the Breadth of Thoracic Care. Annu Rev Med. 2023 Oct 12. View in PubMed
    3. BRYAN KIM, ILANA R KRUMM, YARON GESTHALTER. COMPLEX PLEURAL SPACES: THE RISKS OF REPEATED THORACENTESIS. CHEST Journal. 2023 Oct 1; 164(4):a3659-a3660. View in PubMed
    4. Trindade AJ, Lentz RJ, Gannon WD, Rickman OB, Shojaee S, Vandervest K, Schwartz G, Li GW, Kumar A, Garcha PS, Seeley EJ, Gesthalter YB, Mueller S, Egan JP, DeMaio AJ, Yarmus LB, Josan ES, Pannu JK, Wayne MT, DeCardenas JL, Bacchetta MD, Maldonado F, Interventional Pulmonary Outcomes Group. Safety and utility of indwelling pleural catheters in lung transplant recipients. Clin Transplant. 2023 10; 37(10):e15056. View in PubMed
    5. Rugo HS, Crossno CL, Gesthalter YB, Kelley K, Moore HB, Rimawi MF, Westbrook KE, Buys SS. Real-World Perspectives and Practices for Pneumonitis/Interstitial Lung Disease Associated With Trastuzumab Deruxtecan Use in Human Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor 2-Expressing Metastatic Breast Cancer. JCO Oncol Pract. 2023 08; 19(8):539-546. View in PubMed
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