Elie Gertner, MD
Chair, Institutional Review Board

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HealthPartners Medical Group title: Head, Internal Medicine/Medical Education

Academic title: Professor of Medicine, University of Minnesota Medical School; Vice Chair, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Minnesota Medical School.

Education and training: MD, University of Toronto, Canada; FRCP(C), FACP; Certifications in Internal Medicine, Rheumatology, and Clinical Densitometry.

Overview/research interests: Rheumatology research, medical education and Institutional Review Board.

Current research activities and funding:

  • Rheumatology
  • Medical education

Affiliation

positions

  • Research Investigator, Rheumatology

    • Publications While At HealthPartners

    selected publications

    Journal Article
  • Clinical images: flail elbows: destructive calcium pyrophosphate crystal arthritis. 
    ACR open rheumatology. 2025
    Article has an altmetric score of 1
  • Marked exacerbation of resolving macrophage activation syndrome in a patient with adult-onset Still's disease following one dose of granulocyte colony-stimulating factor. 
    BMJ Case Reports. 2025
  • Arthritis in the regional cultures of the American Nations: an overlooked component of a larger unhealthy lifestyle syndemic. 
  • Colchicine and/or Naltrexone for hospitalized COVID-19 patients not requiring high levels of ventilatory support (COLTREXONE): a prospective, randomized, open-label trial. 
    Cureus. 2024
  • Continuous IV influsion of anakinra. 
    • Editorial Article
  • COVID-19 trial co-enrolment and subsequent enrolment [editorial]. 
    • Conference Paper
  • Decreased working memory capacity in sleep-deprived internal medicine residents
    2007
    • Conference Poster
  • A comparison of non-operative and operative management of acute spine fractures in ankylosing spondylitis [poster]
    2013
  • A comparison of non-operative and operative management of acute spine fractures in ankylosing spondylitis [poster]
    2013
  • Lipoprotein subclass particles and small vessel elasticity as a potential marker for early atherosclerosis in rheumatoid arthritis, a prospective study [poster]
    2012
  • Elevations of small low-density lipoprotein particles associated with disease activity in rheumatoid arthritis: a potential biomarker for cardiovascular risk [poster]?
    2011
  • Subtrochanteric femoral fractures associated with alendronate therapy: a case series [poster]
    2008
    • Review
  • Guidelines for treatment of Susac syndrome - an update [review]. 
  • Collapsing glomerulopathy in collagen vascular-like disease [review, systematic review]. 
    Lupus. 2014
  • Rheumatic manifestations of scurvy: a report of three recent cases in a major urban center and a review [review]. 
  • Safety of coronary angiography and percutaneous coronary intervention in patients on uninterrupted warfarin therapy: a meta-analysis [review, meta-analysis]. 
    • Abstract
  • Continuation of warfarin is superior to holding warfarin with or without bridging therapy in patients undergoing pacemaker and defibrillator placement [abstract]. 
    Circulation. 2009

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  • Specialty: Internal Medicine

    Education and Training:

    Fellowship in Rheumatology – University of Toronto, Canada

    Residency in Internal Medicine – University of Toronto, Canada

    Medical School – University of Toronto, Canada

    Certification – American Board of Internal Medicine

    Certification – American Board of Internal Medicine-Rheumatology

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