Dr. Gentilello attended the University of Texas at El Paso, and received his medical degree from Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City. He completed his surgical residency at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, and a fellowship in Surgical Critical Care at the same institution. This was followed by completion of a fellowship in Trauma Surgery at Jackson Memorial Medical Center, University of Miami School of Medicine. Doctor Gentilello was a faculty member at the University of Washington School of Medicine in Seattle, where he was based at Harborview Medical Center. He was Co-Director of the Surgical Critical Care Residency, and also Associate Director of the Trauma Intensive Care Unit. He spent one year at Harvard Medical School, where he was Chief of Trauma and Critical Care at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. His research interests include hypothermia, and trauma prevention, public health, health care services, and health care policy. He has conducted a number of clinical trials designed to incorporate phychosocial health care interventions, especially those that involve substance use problems, into the trauma and acute care arena. He has received federal funding from the NIH, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the Health Care Services Research Association, and also from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. He recently received the Innovators Combating Substance Abuse Award from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
