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Remembering Daniel J. Fink, MD, MPH '80
Daniel J. Fink, MD, MPH '80, associate clinical professor of Pathology at the College of Physicians & Surgeons, died unexpectedly on November 27. A cherished faculty member for 28 years, Dr. Fink spent his entire career at Columbia and NewYork-Presbyterian.
After he graduated from P&S in 1975, Dr. Fink completed his residency training in clinical pathology, completed an internship at Montefiore, and received an MPH degree from the Mailman School in 1980. Dr. Fink's research focus was informatics in the clinical laboratory. He was founding director of the Center for Advanced Laboratory Medicine in the Department of Pathology, where he refined and contributed his expertise in laboratory information systems, specimen handling, laboratory instrumentation, clinical chemistry, and epidemiology. The Center for Advanced Laboratory Medicine provides access to clinical laboratory services for both clinical trials and clinical lab research.
At NewYork-Presbyterian, Dr. Fink was an associate attending and founding director of the hospital's Core Laboratory. He was active in teaching medical students and pathology residents. In addition to a bachelor's degree from Cornell and MD and MPH degrees from Columbia, he earned a master's degree in engineering from MIT.
Dr. Fink was among those honored this fall by the Columbia Faculty Practice Organization for 25-plus years of service in patient care at Columbia.
He is survived by his wife Yvonne Lingg, who works as an administrator in the Department of Pathology and the Taub Institute, and his daughter Leslie Fink, originally a member of the P&S class of 2008 who is spending this year on a Doris Duke clinical research fellowship in orthopedic surgery.
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