Dr. Neil Skolnik, MD, is an academic family physician who sees patients and teaches residents and medical students in the family medicine residency program at Jefferson Health – Abington in Abington, Pennsylvania. He is a Professor of Family and Community Medicine at the Sidney Kimmel Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University and Associate Director of the Family Medicine Residency Program at Jefferson Health – Abington. Dr. Skolnik has written and edited 6 books: On the Ledge: A Doctor’s Stories From the Inner City; Essential Practice Guidelines for Primary Care; Essential Infectious Disease Topics for Primary Care; Sexually Transmitted Diseases for Primary Care; and Electronic Medical Records: A Practical Guide for Primary Care, and Top Articles in Primary Care. He was the series editor for fifteen years overseeing the development of over twenty-five titles in the Humana Press Current Clinical Practice in Primary Care series of medical textbooks and has published more than 450 articles, columns, poems, essays and webinars in both the medical and lay literature including publications in JAMA, JAMA Internal Medicine, Annals of Internal Medicine, Circulation, Medscape, Philadelphia Inquirer and USA Today. Dr. Skolnik lectures nationally on a range of topics, with a special interest in diabetes, obesity, asthma, COPD, exercise in medicine, coronary disease risk factor management, and the medical humanities. He has served on the Expert Panel Report 4 (EPR-4) Working Group, National Asthma Education and Prevention Program Coordinating Committee, National Heart Lung Blood Institute (NHLBI) – the committee that developed the 2020 NIH Asthma Guidelines. He has also served on the Primary Care Advisory Committee and the Diabetes Covid-19 core leadership team for the American Diabetes Association. He also hosts and produces “Diabetes Core Update,” the American Diabetes Association’s official monthly podcast that reviews the most important new articles to come out in the diabetes literature every month, and “Diabetes Day by Day”, the ADA’s podcast for people with diabetes. He tries to make sure that each day he spends at least twenty minutes playing the guitar and singing.
