Radiation Oncologist, Co-Director
Dr. James K. Gerstley completed a residency
in Internal Medicine at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in
Philadelphia and a residency in Radiation Oncology at Yale-New Haven
Hospital. He moved to Orlando, FL where he practiced for ten years
and co-founded The Center for Cancer Care, an affiliate of Johns
Hopkins Department of Radiation Oncology. Dr. Gerstley has been
a pioneering practitioner of Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy since the FDA approved it in 1996. He moved with his wife,
Linda, and four children to Rockland County in 1998 to help design
and run Advanced ROS, the new state-of-the-art radiation center
in Nyack, NY. Dr. Gerstley is one of the country’s most experienced
practitioners of prostate brachytherapy, having treated over
a thousand patients with this procedure. He is Board Certified
in Radiation Oncology and on staff at both Nyack Hospital and The
Valley Hospital.
Education
Tulane University School of Medicine, Doctor of Medicine, 1982
University of Pennsylvania, graduated Cum Laude with a B.A. in Biology,
1978
Postgraduate Training
Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Residency in Internal Medicine,
1982 -1985
Yale-New Haven Hospital, Residency in Radiation Oncology, 1985 -1988
Work Experience
· Radiation Therapy Consultants, P.C. and Florida
Hospital Department of Radiation Oncology, The Center for Cancer
Care, 1988 -1998
· The Valley Hospital, Ridgewood, NJ, 1998
-1999
· Advanced ROS (Advanced Radiation Oncology
Services of Rockland, P.C.), Nyack, NY, 1999 - Present
Certification
American Board of Radiology in Radiation
Oncology
Societies
American Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology (ASTRO)
American College of Radiology
American Medical Association
New York Medical Society
Curriculum
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