Geisinger Health System

Fellowship Director :

Christopher D. Still, DO, FACN, FACP

Directory, Center for Nutrition and Weight Managment

Associate, Department of Gastroenterology and Nutrition

Geisinger Health System
Danville, PA 17822-2111

Phone: 570-271-6439

Fax: 570-271-6852

Email: cstill@geisinger.edu

Specialty : Internal Medicine

Subspecialty : Nutrition

Primary Focus : Adult Nutrition Support/Bariatric Medicine

# of Positions :

1st Yr: 1 to 3

2nd Yr: 1 to 3

3rd Yr: 1 to 3

Duration : 12 months

Eligibility Requirements : Internal Medicine for GI/Nutrition Fellowship in Internal Medicine/Family Practice for 1 year

Currently recruiting : yes

# Fellows being recruited : 2

Positions obtained by fellows in last 10 years
Academic : 3
Private : 3
Industry : 0
Other (Specify) :

Certification exams taken by fellows
ABPNS : 2
ASPEN :
ACN : 1
Other (specify) :

Background of fellows before entering program
Internal Medicine or Pediatrics : 5
Family Medicine : 1
GI (adult/peds) :
Endocrinology :
Nephrology :
Cardiology :
Critical Care Medicine :
Preventive Medicine :
Other (specify) :

Faculty

# Directors : 1

Director Fellowship Trained : Yes

Director time (%) : 100

Additional Faculty : 1

Time (%) : 25

Other Faculty (#) : 10

Time (%) : (gastroenterology focus)

Fellow Funding Source (%) :

Extramural :

Hospital :

Practice :

Department : 100% GI Nutrition

Other :

# of Educational Conferences per Month :

Clinical : 4

Clinical Nutrition : 1

Fellows expected : 100%

Basic : 1

Basic Nutrition : combined

Fellows expected : 100%

Journal : 1

Journal Nutrition : incorporated

Fellows expected : 100%

Research : 4

Research Nutrition : 2
Fellows expected : 100%

Lab : 1

Lab Nutrition :

Fellows expected :

Fellow Time Allocation (%)
Yr 1
Didactic :
Clinical : 75
Research : 25
Teaching :
Yr 2
Didactic :
Clinical :
Research :
Teaching :
Yr 3
Didactic :
Clinical :
Research :
Teaching :

% Program Content Taught Through:
Self : 10
Supervised Clinical : 70
Lecture/Academic : 5
Lecture/Non-academic : 0
Clinical Conference : 5
Research Seminar : 5
Journal : 5
Other :

Courses
Biochemistry : 1
Clinical Nutrition : 1
Biostatistics : 1
Other : 1

% Fellowship Devoted to Nutrition : 80-100%

% Fellowship Devoted to Nutrition Support : 20-39%