Christine Gerbstadt, MD, MPH, RD, LDN, CSSD, CDE

Areas of Expertise:

Diabetes
Elderly Nutrition
High Blood Pressure and Hypertension
Sports Nutrition and Fitness
Weight Loss and Management

Gerbstadt is a writer and nutrition consultant and a board-certified anesthesiologist. She is the author of Doctor's Detox Diet: The Ultimate Weight Loss Prescription (Nutronics 2011). Gerbstadt is a certified specialist in sports dietetics, a certified diabetes educator, an ACE-certified personal trainer and a clinical exercise specialist with the American College of Sports Medicine. She has completed several triathlons and marathons, including Boston in 2000, 2007 and 2011. Gerbstadt is a graduate of Pennsylvania State University and earned a master's degree from the University of California – Berkeley. She earned a medical degree from the Medical College of Pennsylvania and completed her residency training in anesthesiology at Harvard Medical School's Brigham and Women's Hospital.

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