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Sol Epstein, MD, FRCP, FACP, is professor of medicine and geriatrics at Mt. Sinai School of Medicine in New York, and adjunct professor at the University of Pennsylvania. He received his medical degree with honours at the University of Cape Town Medical School in Johannesburg, South Africa, where he also completed an internship in general medicine and general surgery. He completed his postgraduate training in internal medicine and endocrinology at Tufts University in Boston and the Royal Postgraduate Medical School of London.

Dr. Epstein returned to Groote Schuur Hospital at the University of Cape Town Medical School, where he was senior lecturer and senior consultant and director of the renal-metabolic laboratory. Dr. Epstein then left South Africa to become associate professor of medicine and director of the Clinical Research Center at Indiana University School of Medicine and its hospital. Dr. Epstein served as professor of medicine at Temple University School of Medicine in Philadelphia and head of the Division of Endocrinology & Diabetes at the Albert Einstein Medical Center in Philadelphia for 15 years. He then went on to MCP-Hahnemann University in Philadelphia where he served as head of the Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism and director of the Division of Osteoporosis and Metabolic Bone Disease. He is continuing basic research studies at Mt. Sinai in New York. He has been named as one of Philadelphia's top 10 endocrinologists.

Dr. Epstein has focused his career on bone and mineral teaching and research and has established many academic initiatives in this area, including the discovery that the calcineurin inhibitor immunosuppressants (cyclosporine and tacrolimus) cause profound bone loss after organ transplantation. He has over 250 peer-reviewed publications, is an author of numerous book chapters, and sits on many editorial boards. He is the co-editor of the Oxford American Handbook of Endocrinology and Diabetes. He is a member of many professional societies including the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research, where he was program director, and the American Federation for Clinical Research; and, he is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians and the Royal College of Physicians. Dr. Epstein is president of the International Society for Post-transplant Bone Disease. Dr. Epstein has served worldwide as a visiting professor of medicine in countries and regions including the United Kingdom, Latin America, Asia, Australia, the Middle East, southern Africa, and Europe.