Education:
B.S., Biology: Gannon University, Erie, PA
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 Wake Medical Hospital (WakeMed), evaluating and treating patients for psychiatric issues, including addiction and pain, 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 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 Wake Medical Center 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 and medical students, as well as pharmacy and physician assistant students. He also will give a quarterly lecture to the psychiatry residents on the consultation-liaison psychiatry service at the University of North Carolina Hospitals, and have given a psychiatry grand rounds lecture on physician impairment at UNC.

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.