Diana G Finkel

Dr. Finkel is an Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine and Director of the Infectious Disease Fellowship Program at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School. She received her Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine from the Kansas City University of Medicine and Biosciences-College Osteopathic Medicine and completed her Internal Medicine Residency and Infectious Disease Fellowship at Seton Hall University/ St. Michaels Medical Center in Newark, New Jersey. Dr. Finkel has been a Faculty member at the New Jersey Medical School since 2018. She has been a community provider for over 18 years and has been actively involved in patient care, medical education and clinical research. She is passionately committed to improving health disparities in marginalized populations and has coordinated community care for diverse populations at risk, including immigration detainees, LGBQT marginally housed youth and persons who use drugs. She has served as a Principal and co-investigator in the Rutgers NIH sponsored HIV Clinical Trials Unit in both treatment and prevention trials. Her clinical and research interests include HIV infection, transgender community health, telemedicine and the intersection of addiction and infectious diseases.