Jeffrey Gertsch MD

Dr. Gertsch is a clinical neurologist with special expertise in neurophysiology. He will maintain an active clinical neurophysiology program at both UCSD Medical Center Hospitals. He is the Medical Director of Surgical Neurophysiology; and in addition specializes in the medical evaluation of seizures and epilepsy.

Dr. Gertsch began his education at UCSD with an undergraduate degree in biochemistry, graduating in May 1998. He also concurrently performed scholarly research in infectious diseases at the Salk Institute of Biosciences in La Jolla.

He spent a year at the Center for the Study of Neurological Disease in Honolulu before initiating Medical School at the University of Hawaii, John A Burns School of Medicine in August of 1999. Dr. Gertsch established his current area of research interest shortly thereafter as one of a handful of international researchers dedicated to the study of clinical aspects of neurological disease at high altitude.

He has since that time traveled regularly to the Mt. Everest region of the Himalayas to study neurological illnesses at altitude.