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Joel Pasternack, M.D., Ph.D.
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About Me

Dr. Pasternack is a Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine. He attended medical school at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry and graduated as a surgery resident. Dr. Pasternack also graduated with a PhD and Masters in Mathematics from Princeton University.

Dr...
Dr. Pasternack is a Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine. He attended medical school at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry and graduated as a surgery resident. Dr. Pasternack also graduated with a PhD and Masters in Mathematics from Princeton University.

Dr. Pasternack has a love for teaching medical students and residents whether it is through simulation, cadaver labs, casting and splinting, or while working clinically.

Professional Background

Dr. Pasternack is a Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine. He attended medical school at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry and graduated as a surgery resident. Dr. Pasternack also graduated with a PhD and Masters in Mathematics from Princeton University.

Dr...
Dr. Pasternack is a Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine. He attended medical school at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry and graduated as a surgery resident. Dr. Pasternack also graduated with a PhD and Masters in Mathematics from Princeton University.

Dr. Pasternack has a love for teaching medical students and residents whether it is through simulation, cadaver labs, casting and splinting, or while working clinically.

Certified Specialties

Emergency Medicine - American Board of Emergency Medicine

Credentials

Residency & Fellowship

Residency, Surgery (General Surgery), University of Rochester Medical Center. 1981 - 1982

Internship, Surgery (General Surgery), University of Rochester Medical Center. 1980 - 1981

Education

MD | University of Rochester School of Medicine/Dentistry. 1980

Awards

ACEP National Bedside Teaching Award. 2019

Clinical Teaching in Emergency Medicine. 2010

Keith Miner Ford Award for Excellence in Teaching. 2003

Clinical Teaching in Emergency Medicine. 2003

AOA Medical Honor Society. 2000

Clinical Teaching in Emergency Medicine. 1998

Research

Dr. Pasternack is a Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine. He attended medical school at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry and graduated as a surgery resident. Dr. Pasternack also graduated with a PhD and Masters in Mathematics from Princeton University.

Dr...
Dr. Pasternack is a Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine. He attended medical school at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry and graduated as a surgery resident. Dr. Pasternack also graduated with a PhD and Masters in Mathematics from Princeton University.

Dr. Pasternack has a love for teaching medical students and residents whether it is through simulation, cadaver labs, casting and splinting, or while working clinically.

Publications

Journal Articles

Recently discharged inpatients as a source of emergency department overcrowding.

Baer RB, Pasternack JS, Zwemer FL

Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine.. 2001 November 8 (11):1091-4. Epub 1900 01 01.

Pediatric cervical spine injury sustained in falls from low heights.

Schwartz GR, Wright SW, Fein JA, Sugarman J, Pasternack J, Salhanick S

Annals of emergency medicine.. 1997 September 30 (3):249-52. Epub 1900 01 01.

Baseball injuries: a Little League survey.

Pasternack JS, Veenema KR, Callahan CM

Pediatrics.. 1996 September 98 (3 Pt 1):445-8. Epub 1900 01 01.

Developing prediction rules and evaluating observation patterns using categorical clinical markers: two complementary procedures.

McConnochie KM, Roghmann KJ, Pasternack J

Medical decision making : an international journal of the Society for Medical Decision Making.. 1993 13 (1):30-42. Epub 1900 01 01.

Prediction rules for selective radiographic assessment of extremity injuries in children and adolescents.

McConnochie KM, Roghmann KJ, Pasternack J, Monroe DJ, Monaco LP

Pediatrics.. 1990 July 86 (1):45-57. Epub 1900 01 01.

Stable oscillations in mathematical models of biological control systems.

Glass, L; Pasternack, J.

J. Math. Biol. 1978; 6: 207-223.

Prediction of limit cycles in mathematical models of biological oscillations.

Glass, L; Pasternack, J.

Bull. Math. Biol. 1978; 40: 27-44.

Books

The Five Minute Emergency Medicine Consult (2003)

Chapter: Tendinitis

Authors: Pasternack, J

Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins 2003