Dr. Martin Finkelstein is a recently retired board-certified internist and geriatrician. For over fifty years, he practiced medicine and geriatrics in New York, NY. He was a clinical associate professor of medicine at NYU-Langone Medical Center in NYC, where for many years he participated in the teaching and training of medical students, junior faculty, colleagues, and nursing students, as well as learning from his patients. Dr. Finkelstein graduated from New York University School of Medicine with Honors in Microbiology and received his postgraduate training in Internal Medicine at NYU and Bellevue Hospitals in New York and Stanford-Palo Alto Medical Center in Palo Alto, California, where he completed a fellowship in Infectious Disease.

Dr. Finkelstein was a flight surgeon in the US Air Force. He had extensive experience in conducting medical and basic science research, teaching medicine and geriatrics, and patient care. Dr. Finkelstein has traveled extensively around the world and has observed the practice of medicine in many different communities.