Arye Rubinstein

Arye Rubinstein, MD, PhD, is Chief, Allergy and Immunology and Professor, Pediatrics and Microbiology and Immunology at Montefiore Einstein. His clinical focus centers on immune disorders, including hereditary and acquired immune deficiencies, angioedema and inflammasome disorders. He has a particular interest in autoimmune and immune regulatory disorders in immunodeficiency and the associated genetic imprints.

After earning his Doctor of Medicine and Research Doctorate at the University of Bern, in Bern, Switzerland in 1962, Dr. Rubinstein completed his internship at the University of Tel Aviv in Tel Aviv, Israel in 1963. He remained there to complete a pediatrics residency in 1967 before moving back to the University of Bern to complete a pediatrics fellowship in allergy & immunology in 1969. In 1962 he became director of the bone marrow transplantation unit. In 1972, Dr. Rubinstein became a Research Associate at Harvard Medical School in the Division of Immunology for one year.

Building on his clinical focus, Dr. Rubinstein’s research focuses on the diagnosis and treatment of immune disorders and associated autoimmune diseases. He also studies treatment with Gammaglobulin and Biologicals. His work has been published in numerous peer-reviewed journals and he was on the editorial boards of AIDS, the International Journal of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology, Annals of Allergy and the Journal of Pediatrics, Russia.

Dr. Rubinstein is board certified in Pediatrics and Allergy & Immunology. He is a member of many professional organizations, including the American Academy of Allergy and Immunology, the American College of Allergy and Immunology, the Clinical Immunology Society (CIS) and the International AIDS Society. Dr. Rubinstein has received many awards for his work, including a Lifetime Award in Immunology in 1990 and the Annual Award of the U.S. Assistant Secretary of Health for Excellence in AIDS Research and Treatment the same year. He was also named in Town & Country’s “10 Top Physicians in the U.S. in Allergy/Immunology/AIDS” in 1995 and received the Heroes in Medicine Award from the International AIDS Society in 2000.