Harvey Finkel's career is very much Boston based, however, as
he went on to practice at the U.S. Public Health Service Hospital
in Boston until 1964 when he took up a fellowship in hematology
at Tufts New England Medical Center. Finkel returned to the U.S.
Public Health Service Hospital in 1966 as Chief of Hematology,
becoming Director of Medical Education in 1969.He has been a Clinical
Professor of Medicine at Boston University School of Medicine
since 1969.
In 1978, Harvey Finkel became Director of the Oncology and Hematology
Clinic at Brookline Hospital and has many other prestigious Directorships
and Consultancies too numerous to list!
When questioned as to how he became involved in the health aspects
alcohol consumption, his comment was 'As you know I am a physician
- hence the health angle. I became enamoured of wine, in part
because I like it and it likes food, in part because of its infinitude.
I 'd guess that, since I highly value accuracy, and despise pretension,
I very much welcomed the opportunity to wed the two fields about
which I really know something - wine and health'. He has, over
the years become a specialist in the alcohol and health field
and lectures internationally on the interrelation between the
two. He wrote ' in Vino Sanitas? on behalf of the Society of Wine
Educators in 1998,is contributing Editor to the Wine Educator
and Wine News plus co-wrote the Wine of New England in 1990.
Harvey has contributed invaluable articles to Aim Digest over
the last two years and joined AIM's Editorial Board this Spring.
