Gale Burstein, MD, MPH, FAAP, FSAHM

Dr. Gale R. Burstein is the Erie County Commissioner of Health and an Associate Clinical Professor at the SUNY at Buffalo School Medicine and Biomedical Sciences Department of Pediatrics. Dr. Burstein attended SUNY at Buffalo School of Medicine; completed a pediatric residency at Case Western Reserve University-Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital in Cleveland, OH; received Adolescent Medicine fellowship training at the University of Maryland; completed an STD Prevention fellowship and a Masters in Public Health at John's Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD; and worked as a Medical Officer at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Dr. Burstein is currently working on strategies to improve sexual health care services in primary care. Dr. Burstein, a board-certified in Adolescent Medicine physician, is a member of a number of professional organizations and has been published in various scientific journals, including JAMA, Pediatrics, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Clinical Infectious Diseases, MMWR, Sexually Transmitted Diseases and Sexually Transmitted Infections.