Biography
Dr. Weinstein joined the Boston University Physician Assistant program as a faculty member in 2017 and is currently an Assistant Professor of Medicine in General Internal Medicine at the Chobanian and Avedisian School of Medicine. He serves as the the Director of Research for the Physician Assistant Program. As such, he develops and implements the program’s research curriculum which consists of coursework, journal clubs, and the thesis project. He has prior experience teaching in undergraduate and graduate programs in chemistry, biostatistics and global health economics.
After his PhD in chemistry and prior to joining the PA program, Dr. Weinstein received his masters in global health, where he performed qualitative research into the barriers to male HIV testing, and later served as a researcher in the Division of Global Health Sciences at University of California, San Francisco. Currently, he performs research related to environmental toxins and pregnancy in Kenya, reducing household air pollution in Guatemala, and reducing the malaria burden in rural Malawi. He has presented his research at the annual meetings of the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology and the Consortium of Universities for Global Health.