Dr. Brian Gelbman

Board-certified pulmonology and internal medicine

Dr. Brian Gelbman is Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine at New York Presbyterian Hospital and Weill Cornell Medical College. He is board-certified in Internal Medicine, Pulmonary Medicine, Sleep Medicine, and Critical Care Medicine by the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM). Dr. Gelbman was President of the New York State Thoracic Society 2014-2015 and is on the Board of Fellows for Weill Cornell Medical College.

Dr. Gelbman’s special area of interest includes early lung cancer detection. He has advanced training in bronchoscopy techniques for diagnosing lung cancer, such as Endobronchial Ultrasound Guided biopsy (EBUS) and Navigational Bronchoscopy.  Dr. Gelbman has performed research on Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), emphysema, and ciliary disorders of the airway.  He has written several original articles, reviews, and abstracts on COPD, Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis, Bronchiolitis Obliterans, and smoking-related disease of the lungs.

Dr. Gelbman was raised in South Florida and Peekskill, NY. After attending Cornell University in Ithaca, NY for his undergraduate training, and Vanderbilt University School of Medicine for medical school, he returned to New York Presbyterian Hospital for his post-graduate training in Internal Medicine and Pulmonary and Critical Medicine.

He is married to Dr. Joy Kaplan Gelbman a Cardiologist at New York Hospital – Weill Cornell Medical Center.  Together, they have three children and live in Brooklyn.

Education

Undergraduate

• B.S.-Cornell University Ithaca, NY, 1996

Medical School

• M.D. – Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN, 2000

Residency in Internal Medicine

• New York Presbyterian Hospital – Weill Cornell Medical Center 2003
• Fellowship in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
• New York Presbyterian Hospital – Weill Cornell Medical Center 2006

Honors

• 2014 – Present, New York Magazine, Best Doctors
• 2012 – Present, Castle Connelly Best Doctors
• 2011 – Present, Superdoctors
• 2004 Finalist, Weill Cornell Medical Center – Research Fellows Award
• 2004 Chest Foundation – Clinical Research in COPD Trainees award
• 2000 AOA Medical Honor Society

Titles

• Weill Cornell Medical College: 2023-2026 Board of Fellows
• New York State Thoracic Society: 2014 President, 2013 President-Elect, 2012 Vice President
• Cornell Medical School General Faculty Council: 2012-2014  – Elected Representative Voluntary Medicine Faculty
• Association of Practicing Physicians of New York Presbyterian Hospital: 2011  – Secretary
• Investigational Review Board, Weill Cornell Medical Center: 2011-2012 – Member

Publications:

• Gelbman, BD, Reed, CR, An Integrated, Multimodal, Digital Health Solution for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: Prospective Observational Pilot Study, JMIR Form Res. 2022 Mar 17;6(3):e34758
• Dransfield MT, BLOCK COPD Trial Group, Metoprolol for the Prevention of Acute Exacerbations of COPD. New England Journal of Medicine. 2019 Dec 12;381(24):2304-2314
• O’Beirne, SL, Chazen, JL, Cornman-Homonoff, J, Carey BT, Gelbman BD, Association Between Diaphragmatic Paralysis and Ipsilateral Cervical Spondylosis on MRI, Lung, 2019 Dec;197(6):727-733
• Xu XK, Harvey, BP, Lutchen KR, Gelbman BD, Monfre, SL, Coifman, RE, Forbes, CE, A comparison of a micro-electro-mechanical system airflow sensor with the pneumotach in the forced oscillation technique, Medical Devices: Evidence and Research, 2018:II, 419-426
• O’Beirne, SL, Legasto AC, Giorgadze TA, Gelbman BD, A Woman with a Breast Mass, Multiple Pulmonary Nodules, and Wheezing, Annals of the American Thoracic Society, 2017, Jan; 14:1, 134-136
• O’Beirne, SL, Legasto AC, Narula, N, Gelbman BD, Trust Your Instincts: Surgical Lung Biopsy With Normal Chest Imaging In A 49-Year-Old Man With Progressive Dyspnea, Annals of American Thoracic Society, 2016 May;13(5):741-5
• Gulati C, Schreiner AM, Libby DM, Port JL, Altorki NK, Gelbman BD, Outcomes of Unresected Ground Glass Nodules with Cytology Suspicious for Adenocarcinoma, Journal of Thoracic Oncology, 2014 May;9(5):685-91
• Libby LJ, Gelbman BD, Altorki NK, Christos PJ, Libby DM, Surgical lung biopsy in adult respiratory distress syndrome: a meta-analysis. Ann Thorac Surg. 2014 Oct;98(4):1254-60. doi: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2014.05.029. Epub 2014 Jul 25.
• Gelbman BD, Libby DM, Overstating Overdiagnosis in Low-Dose Computed Tomography Screening for Lung Cancer, Correspondence, JAMA Internal Medicine, 2014 Jul;174(7):1197-8
• Gelbman BD, Crystal RG, Idiopathic and Autoimmune Interstitial Lung Disease, in The Autoimmune Diseases, Fifth Edition, ed: Rose and Mackay, Academic Press, 2013.
• Gelbman BD, Cham MD, Kim W, Libby DM, Port, JL, Altorki NK, Henschke CI, Yankelevitz DF, Radiographic and Clinical Characterization of False Negative Results from CT-Guided Needle Biopsies of Lung Nodules, Journal of Thoracic Oncology, 2012, 7(5): 815-820, May 2012.
• Gelbman BD, Gelbman JK, Is it always wrong to perform futile CPR, Correspondence, New England Journal of Medicine, 2010, 362:21.
• Gelbman BD, Gelbman JM, Deconstructing DNR, Journal of Medical Ethics, 2008, 34:640-641.
• Gelbman BD, Heguy A, O’Connor TP, Zabner J, Crystal RG Upregulation of pirin expression by chronic cigarette smoking is associated with bronchial epithelial cell apoptosis, Respiratory Research 2007, 8:10 (8 February 2007)
• Gelbman BD, Crystal RG, Idiopathic Bronchiolitis Obliterans and Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis, in The Autoimmune Diseases, Fourth Edition, ed: Rose and Mackay, Academic Press, 2006.
• Gelbman BD, Total Educational Debt May be more Important than Monthly Debt Payments on Career Choices, Correspondence, American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, 2006, 173, p 933.