Dr. Gershan is a graduate of McGill University School of Medicine and completed her pediatric residency at the University of Michigan and McGill University Faculty of Medicine. She completed her Neonatal-Perinatal fellowship at McGill and St. Louis Universities. 

Her career started at the Medical College of Wisconsin before she transitioned to private General Pediatric practice and then began her training in Integrative Health. 

Dr. Gershan returned to academics in 2010 and started the Integrative Health program at the University of Utah- Primary Children’s Hospital. She has recently retired as the founding Medical Director of Pediatric Integrative Health and Wellbeing at the University of Minnesota Masonic Children’s Hospital. 

Her published research and clinical interests included ways of incorporating Traditional Chinese Medicine, self-hypnosis, and other Integrative modalities into pediatric academic health centers.