Esteban Gershanik, MD, MPH, MMSc, FAAP, FHM
Dr. Esteban Gershanik is a Medicine Hospitalist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Dana Farber Cancer Institute in Boston and Pediatric Hospitalist at Children’s Hospital of New Orleans. During the COVID-19 pandemic, he recently served as Chief Medical Officer for the Medical Monitoring Station at the Convention Center in New Orleans and Medical Director for the first federally designated drive through testing site with their health department. He also continues to serve on the Brigham Health COVID 19 Equity, Diversity, and Community Health Response Team.
Previously, Esteban has served as CIO, Health Informatics Director, and Medical Consultant for the Louisiana Department of Health. He led and advanced state efforts on their clinical and public health policies, HIT Roadmap, data and electronic health records (EHR) utilization, emergency preparedness, and opioid data surveillance for which he and his team were nationally recognized with federally funded awards from the CDC and Department of Justice.
Esteban was an inaugural member of the master in medical science degree in clinical informatics from Harvard Medical School as a National Library of Medicine Fellow, received his medical and master in public health in health systems management degree from Tulane University, and received his undergraduate degree from Emory University. He is a Fellow in the American Academy of Pediatrics and Society of Hospital Medicine, has served as faculty at MIT, Tulane Schools of Medicine and Public Health, LSU Schools of Medicine and Public Health, and currently a member at Ariadne labs and Part-Time Instructor at Harvard Medical School.