David K. Gittelman, D.O.

Email: dgittelman@wakemed.org

Office Phone: (919) 350-7326 (Wake Med)

Office Fax: (919) 350-7988

Education:

B.S., Biology, Gannon University

Doctor of Osteopathy, Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine

Internship, Delaware Valley Medical Center

Internship, Jinan University, Guangzhou, People’s Republic of China

Residency, Adult Psychiatry, Mayo Graduate School of Medicine

Fellowship, Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry, Burn Unit Liaison, Wake Medical Center Teaching Service Liaison, University of North Carolina School of Medicine

Summary Statement:

Dr. Gittelman’s clinical duties are performed at WakeMed, the iste of the Wake Area Health Education Center, evaluating and treating patients for psychiatric issues while they are on medical-surgical units. We often see patients who have made suicide attempts, are struggling emotionally, as well as physically, with severe medical and psychiatric conditions, or behavioral issues arising from drug or alcohol dependence, medication side effects, or head injuries, just to name a few. He is responsible for monthly lectures to the internal medicine residents, interns, and medical students on topics relevant to psychiatry and medicine. The topics he speaks about most frequently include decisional capacity, topics in medical ethics, chronic pain and addiction, depression, delirium and dementia, physician impairment, domestic violence, psychiatric aspects of AIDS, and physician-assisted suicide. Dr. Gittelman gives medical grand rounds at WakeMed twice a year. He does clinical teaching on the general medicine wards with the internal medicine, obstetrics and gynecology, surgery, and pediatrics residents, interns, and medical students. He periodically acts as a preceptor to psychiatry and family medicine residents, medical students, pharmacy and physician assistant students.

Representative Publications:

1. Gittelman DK: Chronic Salicylate Intoxication, Report of Two Cases. Southern Medical Journal; 86:683-685, 1993.

2. Toomey TC, Hernandez JT, Gittelman DK, Hulka JF: Relationship of Sexual and Physical Abuse to Pain Variables in Chronic Pelvic Pain Patients. Pain. 53:105-109, 1993.

3. Gittelman DK and Hall-Smith P: Psychological Consequences of Domestic Violence. North Carolina Medical Journal. 55:434-439, 1994.

4. Koenig H, Gittelman DK, Branski SB, et al.: Depressive Symptoms in Elderly Medical-Surgical Patients Hospitalized in Community Settings. American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry. 6:14-23, 1998.

5. Gittelman DK: Euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide. Southern Medical Journal. 92:369-374, 1999.