PhilipMichaelBretskyMDPhD, MPH

Internal Medicine • Santa Monica, CA

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Office
1301 20th St
Ste 230
Santa Monica, CA 90404
Phone+1 310-828-4411

Fax+1 310-828-2411

Summary

Dr. Philip Bretsky is an internist and epidemiologist in Santa Monica, CA and is affiliated with multiple hospitals in the area, including Providence Saint John's Health Center and Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. He received his medical degree from University of Southern California School of Medicine and has been in practice 16 years. He is experienced in travel and tropical medicine, public health, medical genetics, primary care, and chronic disease management.

Education & Training

Cedars-Sinai Medical CenterResidency, Internal Medicine, 2005 - 2008
Cedars-Sinai Medical CenterInternship, Internal Medicine, 2005 - 2006
Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern CaliforniaClass of 2005
University of Southern CaliforniaPhD, Epidemiology, 1997 - 2001
Yale UniversityMPH, Infectious Disease Epidemiology, With Distinction, 1995 - 1997

Certifications & Licensure

CA State Medical License 2007 - 2026
American Board of Internal Medicine Internal Medicine

Awards, Honors, & Recognition

CMS Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification PrimeSUITE EHR, Greenway Health, LLC, 2011-2013
Solomon Award Recipient for Outstanding Resident Research UCLA Affiliated Residency Training Programs, 2006
Rubenstein Award Finalist for Resident Research Cedars Sinai Medical Center, 2006
Lasky Award for Best Medical Student Research USC Keck School of Medicine, 2005
American Association of Cancer Research/Genetech Scholar-in-Training Award, 2002
Predoctoral Fellowship Scholarship USC/Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Southern California, 2000
Bowles Fund Scholarship University of Southern California, 1998
Best Paper Award, Aging Section American Federation for Medical Research Conference, 1998
M.D./Ph.D. Salerni Collegium Scholarship University of Southern California, 1997
MPH with Distinction Yale University, 1995
Honors Thesis Yale University, 1995
Best Paper Award, Student Paper Competition American Public Health Association: Injury Control and Emergency Health Services, 1994
Secretary’s Award for Innovation in Health United States Department of Health and Human Services, 1994
Finalist, Community Health Assessment Learning Program American Schools of Public Health and Centers for Disease Control, 1994
Conamina Foundation Award Conamina Foundation, 1992
National Merit Scholarship National Merit, 1988
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Publications & Presentations

PubMed

To Treat or to Palliate? A Case of Endocarditis, Severe Sepsis, and Advanced Cancer.
Kavitha Prabaker, Philip Bretsky, Parag Bharadwaj, Claude Killu, Jamie L. Taylor
Journal of Intensive Care Medicine. 2011-01-21
85 citations
DHEA-S Levels and Cardiovascular Disease Mortality in Postmenopausal Women: Results from the National Institutes of Health—National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (N...
Chrisandra Shufelt, Philip Bretsky, Cristina M. Almeida, B. Delia Johnson, Leslee J. Shaw
The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism. 2010-11-01
12 citations
Comprehensive evaluation of ESR2 variation and ovarian cancer risk.
Celeste Leigh Pearce, Aimee M. Near, Johannah L. Butler, David Van Den Berg, Philip Bretsky
Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention. 2008-02-01

Journal Articles

Cardiovascular risk factors in African-American and Latino acute MI Patients.
Magana RN, Bretsky P, Henderson SO, Academic Emergency Medicine 8:507-8
Risk factors for cardiovascular and cerebrovascular death among African Americans and Hispanics in Los Angeles, California.
Henderson SO, Bretsky P, Henderson BE, Stram DO, Academic Emergency Medicine 8:1163-1172
Risk factors associated with human exposure to emerging raccoon rabies in Connecticut, 1991-1994.
Bretsky P, Wilson, ML, Vector Borne and Zoonotic Diseases 3:211-218
Common variants in CYP11B2 and AGTR1 could account for excess hypertension in African-Americans.
Henderson SO, Bretsky P, Academic Emergency Medicine 10:560-561
Evaluation of the management of sepsis in the Emergency Department.
Rudis MI, Rowland KL, Hara JM, Bretsky P, Hollinger M, Challoner K, Newton E, Chest 128:377S.
Association between serum beta-carotene levels and decline in cognitive functioning in older persons with or without apolipoprotein E4 alleles: MacArthur studies of s...
Hu P, Bretsky P, Crimmins EM, Guarlnik JM, Reuben DB, Seeman TE, Journals of Gerontology Series A: Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences 61:616-620
Level of in hospital care does not predict length of stay for patients admitted with congestive heart failure.
Henderson SO, Calder KK, Bretsky P, Herbert M, Annals of Emergency Medicine 44:S100
Visceral and cutaneous leishmaniasis in an HIV-infected patient: case report.
Bretsky P, Zakowski P, Wong A, Alsabeh R, Ricaurte JC, Limkemann H, Steurer F, Nguyen H, McKellar M, Lancet Infectious Diseases (submitted)
Ladies Compartment.
Bretsky P, New York Times
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Books/Book Chapters

Chapter: Biosynthesis, Transport and Metabolism of Steroid Hormones.
Page 12 - 37Stanczyk FZ, Bretsky PEditors: Ross RK, Ponder BJ and Henderson BE.Oxford University Press

Abstracts/Posters

Familial breast cancer risk with a missense variant in ATM.
Bretsky P, American Association for Cancer Research Frontiers in Cancer Prevention Research, Boston, Massachusetts
Does An Abnormal Carotid Ultrasound Test Predict Coronary Atherosclerosis in Asymptomatic Subjects?
Madyoon H, Yee, BE, Lepor N, Sadri L, Bretsky P, Shah PK, American College of Cardiology Conference, Atlanta, GA
Predictive Value of Carotid Artery Ultrasound Screening to Identify the Presence of Coronary Artery Atherosclerosis as Assessed by 64-Slice Cardiac CT Angiography.
Sadri L, Madyoon H, Bretsky P, Lepor N, American Heart Association Scientfic Session, Chicago, Illinois
DHEA-S Levels and Cardiovascular Mortality in Post-menopausal Women: Results from the National Institutes of Health - National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute - Spons...
Bretsky P, Johnson BD, Shaw LJ, Azziz R, Braunstein GD, Pepine CJ, Bittner V, Vido DA, Bairey Merz CN, American College of Cardiology Conference, Chicago, Illinois
Joint effects of APOE-E4 and chronic comorbidities in longitudinal cognitive decline: MacArthur studies of successful aging.
Bretsky P, Solomon Scholars Research Forum, Los Angeles, California
Joint effects of APOE-E4, diabetes, and hypertension in longitudinal cognitive decline: MacArthur studies of successful aging.
Bretsky P, Rubenstein Resident Award Seminar, Los Angeles, California
Beta-2-adrenoreceptor polymorphisms and the response to therapy in the Emergency Department.
Vannita Simma-Chiang, Bretsky P, Henderson SO, Society for Academic Emergency Medicine Western Regional Research Forum, Los Angeles, California
Evaluation of the management of sepsis in the Emergency Department (ED).
Rowland K, Rudis M, Hara J, Bretsky P, Hollinger M, Challoner K, Newton E, Henderson S, 25th Annual Western States Conference for Pharmacy Residents, Fellows, and Preceptors, Pacific Grove, California
Association between a common haplotype in CYP17 and age of menarche in the multiethnic cohort study. Pediatric Research 55(4, Part 2), 270A.
Pearce CL, Burtt NP, Bretsky P, Kolonel LN, Palmert MR, Pike MC, Hirschhorn JN and Henderson BE, The American Pediatric Society/The Society for Pediatric Research Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California
Level of care as a predictor of length of stay in CHF.
Henderson SO, Calder KK, Herbert ME, Bretsky P, Society for Academic Emergency Medicine Western Regional Research Forum, Oakland, California
Haplotype structure of ESR1 and association studies with complex traits.
Butler J, Bretsky P, Haiman C, Stram DO, Pike MC, Lunetta KL, Ardlie KG, Henderson BE, Daly MJ, Altshuler D, Hirschhorn JN, The American Society of Human Genetics, Los Angeles, California
CYP11B2 and AGTR1 could account for excess hypertension in African-Americans.
Henderson SO, Bretsky P, Society of Academic Emergency Medicine Western Regional Forum, Scottsdale, Arizona
Predictors of academic productivity.
Henderson SO, Bretsky P, Society of Academic Emergency Medicine Western Regional Forum, Scottsdale, Arizona
Dense linkage disequilibrium maps of estrogen receptors alpha (ESR1) And beta (ESR2) and implications for disease association studies: the multiethnic cohort.
Bretsky P, Haiman CA, Freedman ML, Stram DO, Butler J, Kolonel LN, Pike MC, Altshuler D, Henderson BE, Hirschhorn JN, American Association for Cancer Research, Toronto, Canada
Epidemiology of firearm mortality and injury estimates: State of Connecticut, 1988-1993.
Bretsky P, Blanc DC, Phelps S, Ransom JA, Degutis LC, Groce NE, American Public Health Association Conference, Washington DC
Estrogen receptor haplotypes and the risk of breast cancer in a multiethnic cohort.
Bretsky P, Haiman, CA Burtt NP, Kolonel LN, Henderson BE, Altshuler D, Hirschhorn JN, MD/PhD Annual Research Conference, Aspen, Colorado
Estrogen receptor haplotypes and the risk of breast cancer in a multiethnic cohort.
Bretsky P, Burtt NP, Kolonel LN, Henderson BE, Altshuler D, Hirschhorn JN, American Association for Cancer Research, San Francisco, California
Heterozygosity for Missense ATM variants and risk of breast cancer in a multiethnic cohort.
Bretsky P, Haiman CA, Gilad S, Van Den Berg D, Yahalom J, Grossman A, Skaliter R, Kolonel LN, Henderson BE, American Association for Cancer Research, San Francisco, California
A multigenic model of hypertension.
Henderson SO, Bretsky P, Henderson BE, Stram DO, American Society of Human Genetics, San Diego, California
DNA polymorphisms and breast cancer in a multi-ethnic cohort.
Bretsky P, Henderson BE, California Breast Cancer Research Program, Oakland, California.
Race and ethnic variation in candidate breast cancer susceptibility genes.
Bretsky P, NIA Demography Centers Health Disparities Workship, Los Angeles, California.
Treatment of hypertension in African-Americans and Latinos: the effect of JNC VI on urban prescribing practices.
Henderson SO, Bretsky P, deQuattro V, Henderson BE, Society for Academic Emergency Medicine, Newport Beach, California.
Cardiovascular risk factors in African-American and Latino acute MI Patients.
Magana RN, Bretsky P, Henderson SO, Society for Academic Emergency Medicine, Newport Beach, California
Associations between circulating Interleukin-6 (Il-6) levels and successful aging.
Bretsky P, Harris T, Seeman TE, American Federation for Medical Research Conference, Carmel, California
Prospective study of fractures and physical performance.
DeAmicis TA, Bretsky P, Seeman TE, Rowe J, Reuben DB, Greendale GA, American Gerontological Society, Washington DC
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Committees

Invited Peer Reviewer, Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences 2005 - Present
Invited Peer Reviewer, Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry and Neurology 2004 - Present
Invited Peer Reviewer, Trends in Cognitive Sciences 2003 - Present