Cedars-Sinai Expert Available to Comment on Medical Testing Recommendations

Newswise — Looking for a highly qualified expert to discuss today’s unified recommendation by nine specialty medical boards for less medical testing? Glenn D. Braunstein, MD, vice president for clinical innovation at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center is available. Dr. Braunstein says medical specialty boards are right to call for fewer tests at a time when medical providers are trying to simultaneously provide quality care and contain costs. “Our healthcare system is very fragmented, and this results in a lot of unnecessary testing,” he says. For more information and to arrange interviews, call Duke Helfand at 323-336-5914 or email [email protected]. BRIEF BIO Dr. Glenn Braunstein is Vice President for Clinical Innovation at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, where he holds the James R. Klinenberg, MD, Chair in Medicine. Board certified in Internal Medicine and Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Braunstein served as the Chair of the Department of Medicine for more than two decades and is the Director of the Thyroid Cancer Center at Cedars-Sinai. He is the recipient of numerous awards including the prestigious Distinguished Physician Award of the Endocrine Society, Mastership in the American College of Physicians and was named “Master of Medicine—Top Endocrinologist” by the Los Angeles Business Journal. Los Angeles magazine also named him one of the best endocrinologists in L.A. His clinical and laboratory research interests are in male and female reproductive endocrinology, as well as in thyroid cancer. He received his M.D. degree from UC San Francisco, followed by residency in Internal Medicine at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, Harvard Medical School in Boston. He completed his endocrinology training at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md., and Harbor General Hospital-UCLA in Los Angeles.