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Michael Stein, MD
An international authority on HIV disease and substance abuse, Michael Stein, MD, is the director of HIV services at Rhode Island Hospital and a professor of medicine and community health at Brown Medical School. In addition to his internal medicine practice at Rhode Island Hospital, he directs the General Internal Medicine Research Unit at the hospital and oversees an HIV clinic in Santiago, Dominican Republic.
Stein is a researcher specializing in the areas of HIV disease and substance abuse, HIV behaviors and risk-taking among drug users, needle exchange programs and accessibility to addiction treatment programs, and has authored more than 150 medical articles on those topics. He is a study section member of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and the principal investigator of five National Institute of Health-funded clinical prevention trials.
Stein teaches a course on literature and medicine in the English Department at Brown University and is the author of four novels: Probabilities (nominated for the PEN/Hemingway Award); The White Life, The Lynching Tree, This Room is Yours (nominated for the Pulitzer Prize) His first book of non-fiction, The Lonely Patient, (Harper Collins/Morrow, 2007) examines the emotional lives of people grappling with illnesses including cancer, chronic pain, and the complications of surgery, and will be useful to patients, their families, and their caregivers.
After graduating with a bachelor’s degree in biology from Harvard College in Cambridge, Mass, Stein was the American correspondent for the British scientific journal, Nature. He earned a medical degree from Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York, NY, and completed his residency training in internal medicine at New England Medical Center before joining Brown Medical School and Rhode Island Hospital.
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