Biography
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.
Research Overview
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.