Joseph J. Fins, MD - Weill Medical College of Cornell University/New York Presbyterian Hospital-Weill Cornell Medical Center

Joseph J. Fins, MD, is Chief of the Division of Medical Ethics at Weill Medical College of Cornell University where he serves as Professor of Medicine, Professor of Public Health, and Professor of Medicine in Psychiatry. In addition, Dr. Fins is Director of Medical Ethics at New York-Presbyterian Weill Cornell Center, Associate for Medicine at The Hastings Center, and a member of the Adjunct Faculty of Rockefeller University. He has been a Visiting Professor in Medical Ethics at The Complutense University in Madrid and is a recipient of a Soros Open Society Institute Project on Death in America Faculty Scholars Award and a Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation Visiting Fellowship. In July 2000, Dr. Fins was appointed by President Clinton to the White House Commission on Complementary and Alternative Medicine Policy. A diplomat of the American Board of Internal Medicine, Dr. Fins is a graduate of Wesleyan University (B.A. with Departmental Honors, The College of Letters, 1982) and Cornell University Medical College (M.D., 1986). He completed his residency in Internal Medicine and Fellowship in General Internal Medicine at The New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center. Dr. Fins resides in Manhattan with his wife and son.