Background
Garsten, Joel Jay was born on January 10, 1948 in New York City. Son of Richard Maxwell and Gertrude Ann Garsten.
Garsten, Joel Jay was born on January 10, 1948 in New York City. Son of Richard Maxwell and Gertrude Ann Garsten.
Bachelor in Biology, CUNY, 1968; Doctor of Medicine, Georgetown University, 1973.
Resident in internal medicine, Cornell-Cooperative Hospitals Program, New York City, 1973-1976; fellow gastroenterology, Yale Affiliated Gastroenterology Program, New Haven and Waterbury, Connecticut, 1976-1978; gastroenterologist, Gastroenterology Associations of Waterbury, 1978-1980; physican, managing partner, Digestive Disease Center of Connecticut, since 1980; director section of gastroenterology, Waterbury Hospital Health Center, since 1990; associate director Yale Affiliated GI fellowship program, Waterbury Hospital and Hospital of St. Raphael, New Haven and Waterbury, since 1990; clinical instructor internal medicine, Yale University School Medicine, New Haven, 1978; assistant clinical professor, Yale University School Medicine, New Haven, 1981; associate clinical professor, Yale University School Medicine, New Haven, since 1987. Medical director Liberty Health Plan, Naugatuck, Connecticut, 1987-1989, Physicians Health Plan, Trumbull, Connecticut, 1989-1990, medical advisory board, 1990-1992.
Medical advisory chairman Crohn's and Colitis Foundation, WTBY Satelite, Waterbury,1990-. Resource speaker Waterbury Celiac Group, Thomaston, Connecticut, since 1990, American Cancer Society, since 1991. Principal investigator multiple drug trials.
Fellow American College of Physicians. Member American Society for Liver Disease, Connecticut Society Internal Medicine (president section gastroenterology), American Society Internal Medicine, American Gastroenterology Association, American Society Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition, others.
Married Marion Susan Moscovitz, July 10, 1971. Children: Bryan David, Lauren Roberta.