Dr. Kaufman earned his MD from New York Medical College and completed his Internal Medicine Residency and Board Certification at St. Vincent’s Hospital and Medical Center in New York City. During the course of his 32 years in practice in NYC, in addition to his focus on HIV disease, he provided primary care to multiple family generations and to a widely diverse population of patients.
In 2012, he joined the Open Medicine Institute, a clinic focused on the diagnosis and management of people with ME/CFS. In 2017, he opened a new clinic, the Center for Complex Diseases, with a focus on patients suffering from ME/CFS, Dysautonomia, Autoimmune Diseases, and Chronic Infectious Diseases including Tick borne diseases, Small Intestine Bacterial Overgrowth Syndrome, and Mast Cell Activation Syndrome.
Dr. Kaufman is a member of the ME/CFS Collaborative Research Center at the Stanford University Genome Technology Center, the U.S. Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) Clinical Coalition, and part of the Guideline Committee. He helped write the ME/CFS diagnosis and treatment consensus recommendations published in the Mayo Clinic Proceedings. After the COVID-19 pandemic, he has also become very involved in the diagnosis and management of people with Long COVID. He has been a principal investigator for over 20 clinical trials and published over 30 papers.