Curriculum Vitae NATHAN SCHOU BERTELSEN, M.D. 393 3 St, Apt

Curriculum Vitae
NATHAN SCHOU BERTELSEN, M.D.
393 3rd St, Apt G, Brooklyn, New York, USA
+1-917-657-7505
[email protected]
Education
Year
2012-13
Degree
certificate
2003-07
2000
1998-02
M.D.
certificate
B.A.
Field
Institution
Global mental health Harvard Program in Refugee Trauma
Harvard University, Boston, MA & Orvieto, Italy
Medicine
Univ of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
Spanish language
Univ de Alcala de Henares, Madrid, Spain
Government /
Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA
International relations
Postdoctoral Training
Year
Specialty
Directors
2007-08
Internship
Keith Roach MD
2008-09
Junior Resident
Judy Tung MD
2009-10
Senior Resident
Mark Pecker MD
2009-10
Ambulatory Chief Resident (ACR)
Place of Training
New York Presbyterian Hospital /
Weill Cornell Medical Center
New York, NY, USA
Licensure and Certification
Year
Type
2008
New York State (NYS) Medical License
2011
American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) Certification
Academic Appointments
Year
Academic Title
2010
Instructor
2011
Affiliated Faculty
2012
Assistant Professor
2013
Assistant Professor
(secondary appointment)
Institution
Division of General Internal Medicine, Dept of
Medicine, New York University School of Medicine
Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies
(CLACS), New York University
Division of General Internal Medicine, Dept of
Medicine, New York University School of Medicine
Division of Health and Behavior, Dept of Population
Health, New York University School of Medicine
Hospital Appointments
Year
Hospital Title
2010
Attending Hospitalist, Primary Care Physician
& Clinician Educator in Internal Medicine
Hospital
Bellevue Hospital Center
New York, NY
Teaching Awards and Honors
Year
Name of Award
2012-14
Merrin Master Clinician Faculty Development Fellowship, Program for Medical
Education Innovations and Research (PrMEIR), to research & develop curriculum in
post-traumatic stress disorder and cross-cultural sensitivity at NYU School of Medicine
2011
Faculty of the Year, Div of Gen Int Med, Dept of Medicine, NYU School of Medicine
Major Committee Assignments
Year
Name
Role
2011Global Health Concentration Member
Institution
NYU School of Medicine
2011-
Selective Directors
Member
NYU School of Medicine
Director, Global Health Selective
2011-
Global Health
Member
2010-
Global Health Elective,
Medicine Residency
Member
NYU School of Medicine
Director (from 2012-)
2008-10
Global Health Curriculum
Member
2008-10
Intern Selection Committee Member
Weill Cornell Medical College /
New York Presbyterian Hospital
Internal Medicine Residency
2009-10
Residency Program
Redesign Committee
Member
Weill Cornell Medical College /
New York Presbyterian Hospital
Internal Medicine Residency
2009-10
“D/C to PMD” Transition
Planning Committee
Member
New York Presbyterian Hospital
Amer Soc of Tropical Med & Hygiene
Weill Cornell Medical College
Memberships, Offices and Committee Assignments in Professional Societies
Year
Society
2007-10
Society of General Internal Medicine
2009-10
European Federation of Internal Medicine
2010American College of Physicians
2011American Society of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene
Principal Clinical and Hospital Service Responsibilities
Year
Type of Activity
2010Clinician educator: precept residents & medical students, manage primary care panel
Adult Primary Care Clinic, Bellevue Hospital Center
2010-
Teaching hospitalist, inpatient internal medicine, Bellevue Hospital Center
2010-
Primary care physician, Program for Survivors of Torture, Bellevue / NYU
2010-12
Attending physician, Congestive Heart Failure Collaborative Clinic, Bellevue
Major Administrative Responsibilities
2011-12
Associate Medical Director, Bellevue/NYU Program for Survivors of Torture
2012-14
Director of Primary Care, Bellevue/NYU Program for Survivors of Torture
Teaching Experience
Year
Name of course
Type of Teaching
2013-14
NYU Global MPH Capstone Primary mentor
Contact hours
> 4 hrs / week x 6 mo
2013
Special Topics in Medicine
Three-Year Pathway
course director
60 hrs
2012-
Global Health Selective
Clinical clerkship director
60 hrs / course
2/2012, 3/2013(4 wks each) (>300 faculty contact hrs)
2011
Inter-Clerkship Intensive
Workshop leader on
global malnutrition
2010-
Bellevue inpatient medicine “Teaching rounds”
>80 hrs / yr
2010-12
Bellevue outpatient medicine Precepting
>700 hrs / yr
2010-12
NYU SOM PLACE program Bedside instruction
> 70 hrs / yr
2009-10
Outpatient block at Cornell / Design morning reports,
NYPH medicine residency didactic conferences
60 hrs
2009-10
Primary Care Case Series in Didactic conference
Global Health, Cornell
for residents
12 hrs
2009
Intro to Global Health
Pre-clinical course
4 hrs
2010
Clinical Skills in
Global Health, Cornell
Clinical clerkship
80 hrs
2010
Internal medicine didactics
Bugando Medical Centre,
Mwanza, Tanzania
Pre-clinical & clinical
teaching for Tanzanian
students & residents
100 hrs
Lectures
2014 May
3 hrs
"Trends and Challenges in Global Health." Innovation Fellowship Program, Central
American Healthcare Initiative, INCAE Business School, San Jose, Costa Rica, (2
workshops).
2013 Jul2014 Jan
“Cross-cultural communication,” internal medicine resident ambulatory care
conference, monthly, NYU School of Medicine
2013 Jul2014 Feb
“Working with interpreters,” internal medicine intern ambulatory care conference,
monthly, NYU School of Medicine
2013 Jul
Bay Area Global Health Film Festival, University of California San Francisco, San
Francisco (moderator).
2013 Jun
"Global health education." Central American Healthcare Initiative planning conference,
INCAE Business School, San Jose, Costa Rica
2013 Apr 30 “Global Burdens of Disease,” Core Medicine Clerkship, NYU School of Medicine
2013 Apr 29 “Cardiovascular Disease: Global needs and approaches,” NYU Masters Program in
Global Public Health Spring 2012, GPH-GU 2230 Global Non-Communicable Disease
Epidemiology and Control, Richard Hayes D.D.S. Ph.D., Course director
2013 Mar 9
NYC Asylum Networking event, invited panel speaker, Weill Cornell Center for
Human Rights, New York
2013 Feb 6
“Primary Care for Torture Survivors at Bellevue/NYU Program for Survivors of
Torture,” Yale Univ School of Medicine, Global Mental Health Program, New Haven
2013 Jan 18
Faculty panel, Cardiovascular Research Training (CaRT) institute, NYUDept of
Population Health& University of Ghana School of Public Health, Accra, Ghana
2013 Jan 14
“Intro to Internal Medicine Clerkship,” Koc Univ Medical School, Istanbul, Turkey
2012 Sep 19
“Working with Survivors of Torture,” Mt Sinai School of Medicine, MPH program
2012 Sep 11
“Introduction to Primary Care in the United States,” Univ Especialidades Espiritu
Santo, Guayaquil, Ecuador
2012 Aug 24 Faculty panel, Cardiovascular Research Training (CaRT) institute, NYU Dept of
Population Health & University of Ghana School of Public Health, Accra, Ghana
2012 July 27 “Working with Survivors of Torture,” NYU College of Dentistry
2012 Jun 5
Panel leader, A New Generation of Older Adults: Challenges and Strategies for Healthy
Aging in Latin America symposium, WHO/NYU Nursing, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2012 Apr 19 “Working with Survivors of Torture, & Writing Medical Affidavits,” Bellevue Adult
Primary Care Clinic CME conference
2012 Apr 12 “Global Primary Care and Introduction to NYU Survivors of Torture clinic,” Global
Health at Home Education Unit, Medicine residency, Weill Cornell Medical College
2012 Apr 2
“Cardiovascular Disease: Global needs and approaches,” NYU Masters Program in
Global Public Health Spring 2012, GPH-GU 2230 Global Non-Communicable Disease
Epidemiology and Control, Richard Hayes D.D.S. Ph.D., Course director
2011
“NCDs & HRH: the Latest Alphabet Soup in Global Health, and Why It’s Important for
Primary Care,” Bellevue Adult Primary Care Clinic CME conference
2010-2011
“Global Health Case Studies: Smallpox, Oral Rehydration Therapy,& DirectlyObserved Therapy for Tuberculosis,” NYU medicine residency noon conference
2008-2011
“Navigating US Medical Education: A Guided Tour”
East Meets West in Medical Education conference, Beijing, China, 10/2008
Istanbul University and Koç University, Istanbul, Turkey, 4/2010 & 5/2011
San Raffaele University, Milan, Italy, 5/2011
Research Interests
1. Teaching competency in cultural sensitivity in global health education
2. Teaching and assessing clinical empathy to improve cross-cultural communication skills
Grants Received
2012-14 Merrin Master Clinician Faculty Development Program, $10,000 annually for two years
2011-14 Faculty Grant, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS), $2,500 annually
2011-12 “Rubbermaid Global Health Award” at NYU School of Medicine, $25,000 philanthropic
donation by Rubbermaid Medical to NYU School of Medicine, Division of General Internal
Medicine, for original program development in bilateral GME resident clinical exchange in
Turkey and Peru
Other: Public health internships
Feb-Mar 2003 World Health Organization (WHO) /Regional Office for Europe (EURO)
Copenhagen, Denmark
WHO Intern with Family & Community Health Unit
“Guidelines for Gender Mainstreaming Health Programmes at the Country Level”
“Health Care Access for Migrants, & Health Status of Migrant Women in W Europe”
Jun-Aug 2002 Pan-American Health Organization (PAHO)/World Health Organization (WHO)
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
PAHO Intern with Integrated Management of Childhood Illness program (IMCI)
Jun-Aug 2000 National Institutes of Health (NIH)/National Institute on Aging (NIA)
Bethesda, MD
Social Science Technician–helped acquire State Dept. approval for overseas funding
Sep-Dec 1999 United States Senate, Office of Sen. Paul Wellstone (Minnesota)
Washington, DC
Health Care Intern, Hart Building, Capitol Hill, 106th Session
Symposia
Co-hosted and organized with Dr. Akosua Anyidoho, Director, NYU Accra, a “Healing Environment
Symposium” that brought together experts from medicine and the creative arts to raise awareness for
the topic of the healing environment, at University of Ghana, Institute of African Studies, University of
Ghana, Legon, Accra, Ghana, 25 September 2013
Abstracts
Bertelsen N, DallaPiazza M, Miller L, Schoenthaler A. "Designing a curriculum in clinical empathy for
internal medicine residents to improve clinical skills in cross-cultural patient care." Society of General
Internal Medicine, 2014 annual meeting, San Diego, April 2014. (poster presentation)
Fallahi A, Cartmill K, Farfán R, Ogedegbe G, Bertelsen N. "Designing and piloting a teaching elective
in medical English at Universidad Especialidades Espiritu Santo (UEES) by a medical resident from
New York University (NYU), in Guayaquil, Ecuador," CUGH, annual meeting, Washington DC, May
2014 (poster)
P. Krass, V. Boima, F. Agyekum, G. Ogedegbe, N. Bertelsen. "Non-Compliance With Medications
Among Hypertensives in Ghana." CUGH, annual meeting, Washington DC, May 2014 (poster)
“Global Health Selective: A Novel Interdisciplinary Clinical Clerkship on Fund of Knowledge,
Clinical Skills, and Service Delivery Methods in Global Health at New York University School of
Medicine” (2012 selective), Oral presentation, Global Health and Well Being: the Social Work
Response, NYU Silver School of Social Work, New York, NY, 17 June 2013
“Building an Interdisciplinary Health Professional Research Team at New York University (NYU) and
Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia (UPCH): A Feasibility Study,” NYU & UPCH, Lima, Peru,
Poster presentation, Consortium of Universities for Global Health (CUGH) annual meeting,
Washington, D.C., 14-16 March 2013
“The Impact of Teaching Exercises in Patient Care Presentations, Morning Reports, Journal Clubs and
Clinical Skills Workshops by an NYU Resident,” Istanbul University Cerrahpasa Medical Center,
Istanbul, Turkey, Poster presentation, Consortium of Universities for Global Health (CUGH) annual
meeting, Washington, D.C., 14-16 March 2013
Publications
Francis ER, Goodsmith N, Michelow M, Kulkarni A, McKinney AS, Tomei R, Kishore SP, Bertelsen
NS, Fein O, Balsari S, Lemery J, Fitzgerald D, Johnson W, Finkel ML. “The Weill Cornell Global
Health Curriculum: A Case Study on Global Health Program Development in Medical Schools.”
Academic Medicine. 87(9):1296-1302, September 2012.
Bertelsen, N.; DallaPiazza, M.; Ogedegbe, O.; Hopkins, M. A. "Global Health Selective: a novel
interdisciplinary clerkship on clinical knowledge and skills for global health at New York University
School of Medicine." European Journal of Tropical Medicine and International Health. 18 1 1:89,
September 2013.
Keatley E, D'Alfonso A, Abeare C, Keller A, Bertelsen N. "Assessment, severity and clinical
improvement of physical health complaints among refugee survivors of torture with traumatic brain
injury." Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation, submitted.