Stan N. Finkelstein, MD, is a senior lecturer in the Department of Health Care Policy. He is the founding director of the MD/MBA joint degree program with Harvard Business School and continues to serve as its director from Harvard Medical School.

Dr. Finkelstein codirects two academic courses in health care management at HMS, which are core requirements of the MD/MBA program and also are available as electives to other medical students. He serves as an adviser to students who seek to pursue careers at the interface of medicine and management.

A specialist in the evaluation of medical practice and technology, Dr. Finkelstein has worked actively at the business-government interface for medical technology, including clinical research and cost-effectiveness study design and third-party reimbursement. Recent research interests have included analyses related to the economics of illness and pharmaceutical treatment. He is the author of numerous articles that address links among illness and treatment outcomes, and the role of advancing science and technology in changing patterns of medical care.

Dr. Finkelstein also holds appointments as a senior research scientist in the MIT Engineering Systems Division and the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology. He received his BSc and MSc degrees from MIT and his MD from Harvard Medical School.