Martin S. Farber, MD, Ph.D., has been an attending rheumatologist at Sunnyview Rehabilitation Hospital since 1984. He was also appointed an attending physician in medicine and rheumatology at Ellis Hospital in Schenectady and served as chief of the hospital's section of rheumatology in 1986. Since 1995, he has served as chief of the Rheumatology Department at St. Clare's Hospital in Schenectady, where he has been an attending physician in internal medicine since 1984. Dr. Farber is a graduate of Columbia College in New York City, where he earned a bachelor's degree in chemistry. A clinical assistant professor in the Department of Medicine at the Albany Medical College in Albany, NY, he completed his medical degree in 1979 at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx, where he simultaneously earned a doctorate in cell biology. He completed internship training in medicine at Boston City Hospital from 1979-1982 and received fellowship training in rheumatology at University Hospital, also in Boston, from 1982-84. Dr. Farber has authored or co-authored numerous articles on rheumatoid arthritis, osteoarthritis and other topics for peer-reviewed journals, including The Journal of Rheumatology and The Journal of Rheumatology and Virology. He is a Fellow of the American College of Rheumatology and holds memberships in the International Society for Clinical Densitometry, the American College of Physicians, the Medical Society of the State of New York and the County of Schenectady. Dr. Farber is a diplomate, with a subspecialty in rheumatology, of the American Board of Internal Medicine, as well as a diplomate of the American Board of Internal Medicine and the National Board of Medical Examiners. He is a clinical densitometrist, certified to complete bone density testing and analyses. From 1993-94, he chaired the Northeastern Chapter of the New York State Arthritis Foundation and continues to be involved in the organization.