Joel B. Karlinsky, MD

Professor, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine

Biography

Dr. Karlinsky is a Professor in the Department of Medicine. He attends in the Medical Intensive Care Unit, in the Pulmonary Acute Care Clinic and on the Pulmonary Consultation Service at the West Roxbury VA Medical Center. He is interim Directory of the Medical Intensive Care Unit, and administers the Pulmonary Acute Care Clinic.

Dr. Karlinsky works with colleagues at the Washington University School of Medicine and the St. Louis VA Medical Center, and with colleagues at the Hines VA Cooperative Study Data Collection Center on VA Cooperative Studies relating to Gulf War Research on veterans health. He is also an Editor of Baum’s Textbook of Pulmonary Medicine.

Research special interests include:
-Gulf War Health Effects
-Health Services

Clinical special interests include:
-General Pulmonary Medicine
-Critical Care Medicine

Publications

  • Published 12/18/2018

    Blanchard M, Molina-Vicenty HD, Stein PK, Li X, Karlinsky J, Alpern R, Reda DJ, Toomey R. Medical Correlates of Chronic Multisymptom Illness in Gulf War Veterans. Am J Med. 2019 04; 132(4):510-518. PMID: 30576630.

    Read at: PubMed

  • Published 5/1/2017

    Blanchard M, Toomey R, Karlinsky J, Reda D, Alpern R, Xue L. Increased Risk of Chronic Multisymptom Illness in Spouses of Gulf War Era Veterans. Mil Med. 2017 May; 182(5):e1648-e1656. PMID: 29087907.

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  • Published 1/1/2011

    Arney D, Bhatia K, Bhatia S, Sutton M, Rausch T, Karlinsky J, Goldman JM. Design of an x-ray / ventilator synchronization system in an integrated clinical environment. Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2011; 2011:8203-6. PMID: 22256246.

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  • Published 5/1/2007

    Toomey R, Kang HK, Karlinsky J, Baker DG, Vasterling JJ, Alpern R, Reda DJ, Henderson WG, Murphy FM, Eisen SA. Mental health of US Gulf War veterans 10 years after the war. Br J Psychiatry. 2007 May; 190:385-93. PMID: 17470952.

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  • Published 7/1/2006

    Eisen SA, Karlinsky J, Jackson LW, Blanchard M, Kang HK, Murphy FM, Alpern R, Reda DJ, Toomey R, Battistone MJ, Parks BJ, Klimas N, Pak HS, Hunter J, Lyons MJ, Henderson WG. Spouses of Persian Gulf War I veterans: medical evaluation of a U.S. cohort. Mil Med. 2006 Jul; 171(7):613-8. PMID: 16895127.

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Other Positions

  • Member, Pulmonary Center
    Boston University

Websites

Education

  • Tufts University, MD
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology, SB

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