Dr. Thomas Finucane is Emeritus Professor of Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
He graduated from Harvard College and Emory University School of Medicine, did his housestaff training at George Washington and has been at Hopkins for over 30 years.
For 12 years he was chair of the Ethics Committee at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center.
His academic interests have focused both overtreatment and undertreatment of vulnerable older persons. He has focused on overtreatment of type 2 diabetes, UTIs, dementia and malnutrition, overuse of feeding tubes and care at the end of life.
He has published on each of these topics and has given grand round at Johns Hopkins Hospital or Johns Hopkins Bayview on average once yearly for the past decade.
He has won more than a dozen teaching awards and been a District Medical Officer in the Commonwealth of Dominica, a Fulbright Scholar at the Hospital Civil de Guadalajara, Mexico and a teacher at St. Rita’s Hospital, Kampala, Uganda.
He has been a busy clinician in the clinic, nursing home, ventilator unit, rehabilitation unit, behavioral medicine unit and housecall program at Hopkins Bayview.
With his wife Dr. Robin McKenzie MD, also senior faculty at Hopkins, he has 4 daughters and a son.
