Robert Orenstein DO, FACP, FIDSA

Dr. Orenstein received his BS in biochemistry from Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, and he received his DO from the Des Moines University College of Osteopathic Medicine and Surgery. He completed a residency in internal medicine at the Geisinger Medical Center in Danville, Pennsylvania, and a fellowship in infectious diseases at the Virginia Commonwealth University’s Medical College of Virginia Hospitals. He served for a decade as the director of the HIV/AIDS program at Hunter Holmes McGuire Veterans Medical Center and as medical director of the Virginia Commonwealth University HIV/AIDS clinic before moving to the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, in 2002. In Rochester, he served as the internal medicine residency coordinator for infectious diseases at Mayo, and he practiced inpatient and outpatient medicine as a member of both the divisions of infectious diseases and general internal medicine before moving to the Mayo Clinic in Arizona in 2010.

Dr. Orenstein was appointed the chair for infectious diseases at the Mayo Clinic Arizona in 2012 and chair of the Mayo Clinic Enterprise Infectious Diseases Specialty Council in 2017. He has lectured extensively on topics of infectious diseases and has won several awards for undergraduate, graduate, and CME teaching at Mayo.

Dr. Orenstein has served as the editor-in-chief of The Journal of the American Osteopathic Association since January 2013, and he is a reviewer for a number of other medical journals and publications in his area of expertise. He is board-certified in infectious diseases, internal medicine, and HIV medicine and is a fellow of both the Infectious Diseases Society of America and the American College of Physicians.