Chair, Infectious Diseases
Mayo Clinic Arizona
Phoenix, Arizona
Dr. Orenstein is a professor of medicine and a senior fellow in the Academy of Educational Excellence at The Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science, and has been the Chair of the Division of Infectious Diseases at Mayo Clinic Arizona since 2012. He is board certified in infectious diseases, internal medicine and certified in Travel medicine and is a fellow of both the Infectious Diseases Society of America and the American College of Physicians.
He served as the Editor-in-Chief for the American Osteopathic Association 2013-2020.
Dr Orenstein practices at the Mayo Clinic Arizona, Phoenix campus where he sees complex inpatient and outpatient infectious diseases. He is the founder of the Mayo Clinic Microbial Restoration Therapeutics Program and the C. difficile treatment program. He has been actively engaged in clinical and epidemiological research on C. difficile.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Dr Orenstein has served as a medical advisor to the Mayo Clinic Arizona leadership team, helping to implement its diagnostic, research, and therapeutic strategies.
Dr. Orenstein received his B.S. in Biochemistry from Trinity College in Hartford Connecticut, and his DO degree from Des Moines University, College of Osteopathic Medicine and Surgery. He completed an osteopathic internship at Botsford General (now Beaumont) Hospital in Farmington Hills, Michigan; a residency in internal medicine at the Geisinger Medical Center, Danville, PA and a fellowship in infectious diseases at Virginia Commonwealth University’s Medical College of Virginia in Richmond. From 1993-2001, he served as the Director of the HIV & AIDS Program at Hunter Holmes McGuire Veterans Medical Center and Medical Director of the Virginia Commonwealth University HIV/AIDS Clinic before moving to Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. At Mayo Clinic Rochester he served as an associate hospital epidemiologist, the residency training coordinator for infectious diseases, and practiced inpatient and outpatient medicine as a joint appointee of the divisions of infectious diseases and general internal medicine before moving to Mayo Clinic in Arizona in 2010.
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Monday, December 5, 2022
1:00 PM – 2:00 PM