shanghai --
The following recent biography of Dr. Goldfinger from the website of
the American Board of Internal Medicine directly answers your
question:
"After three decades, Dr. Goldfinger stepped down as Dean of Harvard
Medical School's Continuing Education Office in June of 2001. Until
1999, he 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. Dr. Goldfinger has served as a Director of the
ABIM, has been a member of the ACGME Residency Review Committee
(Internal Medicine), and was also Massachusetts Governor for the
American College of Physicians. He maintains a small clinical practice
and has a special interest in one obscure disease, familial
Mediterranean fever, for which he introduced colchicine therapy in
1972."
American Board of Internal Medicine
http://www.abim.org/ViP/Bios/Goldfinger.htm
The following is some more specific information about Dr. Goldfinger's
career:
Dr. Goldfinger is the co-editor of the book, "Your Good Health: How to
Stay Well, and What to Do When You're Not," a compendium of "vital
health information:"
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0674966317/ref=pm_dp_ln_b_6/103-1096845-0182224?v=glance&s=books&n=507846&vi=reviews
He is also the co-editor of a 1981 compendium of material drawn from
the Harvard Medical School Health Letter:
Harvard Medical School Health Letter Book
http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/results.asp?WRD=Stephen+Goldfinger&userid=54XGNT24MB
As noted above, Dr. Goldfinger has a special interest and expertise in
"familial Mediterranean fever," which is "an inherited disorder
usually characterized by recurrent episodes of fever and peritonitis
(inflammation of the abdominal membrane)." More information on the
disease can be found at this link:
National Center for Biotechnical Information: Genes and Diseases
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/disease/FMF.html
In 1997, the Harvard Medical School announced that Dr. Goldfinger had
won the Harry Heller award at the First International Conference on
Familial Mediterranean Fever because of his pioneering work in
"introducing colchicine therapy [in 1972], which has been the only
effective treatment to date."
Harvard Medical School Bulletin: October 3, 1997
http://focus.hms.harvard.edu/1997/Oct3_1997/bulletin.html
Dr. Goldfinger represents the American Board of Internal Medicine, in
its "Visitors program," as a liaison from that Board with the internal
medicine programs of medical schools around the country:
ABIM Visit Program
http://www.abim.org/ViP/program.htm
Finally, Dr. Goldfinger is not listed in Boston Magazine's most recent
listing of "top doctors" in the Boston area, "according to a survey of
hundreds of their peers and members of the Massachusetts Nurses
Association," although this may well have resulted solely from the
fact that he has only a small clinical practice:
Boston Magazine
http://www.bostonmagazine.com/content.php?name=topdocs.txt
Google Search Terms:
"stephen e. goldfinger"
"stephen goldfinger"
"stephen goldfinger" -"M."
(In doing any further research, note that there is another Dr. Stephen
Goldfinger, with the middle initial "M.")
"familial Mediterranean fever"
I hope that this answer fully satisfies your needs. If any of the
above information is unclear, or if any of the links don't work,
please post a "clarification request" before rating this answer.
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