Michael Bernstein, MD

Dr. Bernstein is the Director of the Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine at Stamford Health and Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine at the Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons. Dr. Bernstein has been at Stamford Health since 2010 and he currently leads a team of 10 physicians and nine nurse practitioners. Since arriving at Stamford Health in 2010, he developed the Interventional Pulmonary and Advanced Bronchoscopy program as well as serving as the Co-Clinical Director for the Lung Cancer Screening and Lung Nodule Programs. During the Covid-19 pandemic, he was the lead physician for the critical care team response. Dr. Bernstein is a teacher for Columbia medical students as we as faculty and an attending physician for the Stamford Health Internal Medicine Residency Program. He maintains an active research program as a site-investigator for a number of industry-sponsored trials in lung nodule and lung cancer diagnostics as well as publishing and presenting at national and international meetings. Dr. Bernstein has won several awards for patient care as well as teaching. Dr. Bernstein was raised in Fairfield County and currently lives in Stamford with his wife and two teenage daughters.

Dr. Bernstein graduated magna cum laude with a B.A. in history from Duke University where he was elected Phi Beta Kappa. He received his M.D. from the Duke University School of Medicine. He completed a combined Internal Medicine/Pediatrics Residency as well as fellowship in Pulmonary and Critical Care Fellowship at the Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City where he also served as Chief Resident and Chief Administrative Fellow.