Education:

Howard University College of Medicine
Doctor of Medicine, 1973

Internship:

Long Island Jewish-Hillside Medical Center
New Hyde Park, NY
1973-1974

Residency:

State University of New York, Stony Brook
General Surgery
1975-1978
 
Long Island Jewish-Hillside Medical Center
General Surgery
1974-1976

Certification:

American Board of Surgery
1980
Recertified 1988, 1997
Fellow, American College of Surgeons


Gerald I. Schiff M.D., F.A.C.S.

Gerald I. Schiff
M.D., F.A.C.S.

After finishing General Surgery training in New York, Dr. Schiff relocated and opened a General Surgery practice in Torrance. In the past 20 years he has had extensive experience in the surgical treatment of a variety of problems in the field of general surgery, including laparoscopy, hernias, breast surgery and cancer. Dr. Schiff has been very active in hospital committee work as well as taking a leadership role in organized medicine at the local and state level.






These are some of the diseases that Doctor Schiff treats:

Abscess, Appendicitis Biopsy, Breast Surgery, Cancer, Colon, Cyst, Gallbladder Surgery, General Surgery, Hernia Repair, Lipoma, Mass, Melanoma, Myopathy, Parathyroid, Radioguided Surgery, Sentinel Lymph Node Mapping, Thyroid