Stephen E. Goldfinger, M.D.

Dr. Goldfinger is Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and is a member of the Gastroenterology Unit of the Massachusetts General Hospital. He served as Harvard Medical School's Faculty Dean for Continuing Education between 1973 and 2000. Until 1999, Dr. Goldfinger also served as director of the Harvard Health Publishing Group and editor-in-chief of the Harvard Health Letter. A native of Brooklyn, New York, Dr. Goldfinger majored in philosophy at Princeton University and then received his medical degree from the Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons. He completed his residency and chief residency in medicine, as well as a fellowship in gastroenterology at the Massachusetts General Hospital. Dr. Goldfinger also spent two years at the National Institute for Arthritis and Metabolic Disease. He has served as a Director of the American Board of Internal Medicine, and was also Massachusetts Governor for the American College of Physicians.