MichaelAaronGelmanMDPhD(He/Him)

Deputy Hospital Epidemiologist

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Board certified ID/IM and at the center of the VHA response to COVID-19. Pandemic preparedness, informatics tools for decision support and analytics in infection control and antimicrobial stewardship. Helped build VA's national informatics tools for COVID-19 screening/triage. Regularly consulted by infection preventionists across the VA for advice on infection control matters related to COVID-19.

Physician of the Year - Partner in Collaboration James J. Peters VA Medical Center, 2020
Friend of Pharmacy James J. Peters VA Medical Center, 2019
K08 Career Development Award NIH, 2012
Dean’s Fellowship Stanford University, 2010
Herman Lopata Hepatitis Postdoctoral Fellowship 2010
SPARK Awardee Stanford University, 2010
Thomas Temple Hoopes Prize for outstanding undergraduate thesis 1996
John Harvard Scholar 1994
National Merit Scholar 1992
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PubMed

7 citations
COVID-19 in spinal cord injury patients at a veterans administration hospital: A case series.
Marinella D. Galea, Michael A Gelman, Vincent P Galea, Krutika Parasar Raulkar, Stephen Kornfeld, Swapna Johnson-Kunjukutty, Gang Li, Norbert Bräu> ;The Journal of Spinal Cord Medicine. 2021 Jan 19
46 citations
Design and Structural Characterization of Potent and Selective Inhibitors of Phosphatidylinositol 4 Kinase IIIβ.
Florentine U. Rutaganira, Melissa L. Fowler, Jacob A. McPhail, Michael A. Gelman, Khanh Nguyen, Anming Xiong, Gillian L. Dornan, Brandon Tavshanjian, Jeffrey S. Glenn,...> ;Journal of Medicinal Chemistry. 2016 Feb 26
27 citations
Mixing the right hepatitis C inhibitor cocktail.
Michael A. Gelman, Jeffrey S. Glenn> ;Trends in Molecular Medicine. 2011 Jan 1
88 citations
Biocidal activity of polystyrenes that are cationic by virtue of protonation.
Michael A. Gelman, Bernard Weisblum, David M. Lynn, Samuel H. Gellman> ;Organic Letters. 2004 Jan 27
48 citations
Selective binding of TAR RNA by a Tat-derived beta-peptide.
Michael A. Gelman, Sara N. Richter, Hong Cao, Naoki Umezawa, Samuel H. Gellman, Tariq M. Rana> ;Organic Letters. 2003 Sep 6
165 citations
Translocation of a β-peptide across cell membranes
Naoki Umezawa, Michael A. Gelman, Marcia C. Haigis, Ronald T. Raines, Samuel H. Gellman> ;Journal of the American Chemical Society. 2002 Jan 23
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Journal Articles

Mixing the right hepatitis C inhibitor cocktail
Gelman, M. A.; Glenn, J. S., Trends in Molecular Medicine, 1/1/2010
Biocidal activity of polystyrenes that are cationic by virtue of protonation
Gelman, M. A.; Weisblum, B.; Lynn, D. M.; Gellman, S. H., Org. Lett., 1/1/2004
Selective binding of TAR RNA by a Tat-derived Beta-peptide
Gelman, M. A.; Richter, S.; Cao, H.; Umezawa, N.; Gellman, S. H.; Rana, T. M., Org. Lett., 1/1/2003
Translocation of a Beta-peptide across cell membranes
Umezawa, N.; Gelman, M. A.; Haigis, M. C.; Raines, R. T.; Gellman, S. H., J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1/1/2002
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Books/Book Chapters

Enantioselective synthesis of Beta-amino acids,
Chapter: Using constrained Beta-amino acid residues to control Beta-peptide shape and function
Gelman, M. A.; Gellman, S. H.Editors: Juaristi, E.John Wiley and Sons, Hoboken, NJEdition 2nd,2005

Lectures

Jaundice and Acute Hepatitis in Rural Thailand
Sa Kaeo Provincial Hospital, Sa Kaeo, Thailand - 1/16/2006

Other

Synthesis and biological applications of cationic Beta-peptides and styrenic copolymers (PhD thesis)
Gelman, M. A. and Gellman S.H., Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin
1/1/2003
Directed combinatorial organic chemistry in ligand design (undergraduate thesis)
Schreiber S. L., Gelman, M. A., Department of Chemistry, Harvard University
1/1/1996

K08 Career Development AwardNational Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases2012–Present
Herman F. Lopata Hepatitis Postdoctoral FellowshipAmerican Liver Foundation2010–2011

Postdoctoral Fellow/InstructorInfectious Diseases Fellowship Research, Stanford University, development of novel antiviral agents against hepatitis C virus2009 - 2015
Graduate StudentPhD thesis research, Organic Chemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Samuel H. Gellman group - synthesis and biological activity of beta-peptides and cationic polystyrene derivatives1998 - 2003
UndergraduateUndergraduate research, Organic Chemistry, Harvard University, Stuart L. Schreiber group, directed combinatorial organic chemistry and computational ligand design1994 - 1996