Charles D. Gerson, M.D. graduated with honors from State University of New York, Downstate Medical Center, and completed medical internship and residency at Cornell Division, Bellevue Hospital and Mount Sinai Hospital. He completed a two-year gastroenterology fellowship at the same institutions.
Dr. Gerson’s current positions include Clinical Professor and Attending Physician at Mount Sinai.
Dr. Gerson has authored numerous research articles and given many professional talks about Irritable Bowel Syndrome. He was Co-Chair of the Cross-Cultural Committee to the Functional Brain-Gut Research Group and is currently on the Working Team on Multinational Cross Cultural Research of the Rome Foundation. He has received the Distinguished Service Award from the Department of Medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital.
Mary-Joan Gerson, Ph.D. is a member of the teaching faculty at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology, as well as Founding Co-Chair of the Committee on Psychoanalysis and health care of the American Psychological Association (Division 39).
She has conducted original research and published articles about the psychological aspects of inflammatory bowel disease, and has served on the Scientific Advisory Board of the Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation of America.
Dr. Gerson has authored numerous research articles and given many professional talks about Irritable Bowel Syndrome and was Co-Chair of the Cross-Cultural Committee to the Functional Brain-Gut Research Group.
Dr. Gerson’s numerous publications have appeared in such journals as Contemporary Psychoanalysis, Psychoanalytic Psychology, The Journal of Psychotherapy Integration, Social Science and Medicine, and Family Systems Medicine, and she has published a full length book, The Embedded Self, Second Edition: An Integrative Psychodynamic and Systemic Perspective on Couples and Family Therapy
