Joel Rosenstock, MD

Joel Rosenstock attended Cornell University as an undergraduate, University of Brussels for medical school and completed an internal medicine residency at the University of Louisville in Louisville, Kentucky and Christ Hospital in Cincinnati, Ohio. He trained in infectious diseases at National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland and was then on the faculty at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda in the Division of Tropical Public Health. He obtained an MPH in epidemiology while at the medical school. He spent 3 years in the Republic of Panama teaching tropical infectious diseases to military physicians at the Naval School of Health Sciences. After leaving the Navy in 1989 he began his private practice in infectious diseases at Piedmont Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia. He served as the Medical Advisor to CARE for 7 years and established the Peachtree Travel Clinic one of the largest travel clinics in the Southeast. Dr. Rosenstock served as the President of the Infectious Disease Society of Georgia from 1998-2002. He established AbsoluteCARE, a patient centered medical home, dedicated to HIV and chronic disease management in 2000 and it has grown to be the largest provider of insured HIV care in Georgia. AbsoluteCARE, an NCQA Level III Recognized Patient Centered Medical Home (PCMH), serves 3000 HIV infected patients and another 2500 patients with chronic medical comorbidities. As the Chief Medical Officer of AbsoluteCARE, Dr. Rosenstock has guided its growth and recent expansion to a second location in Baltimore, Maryland.