BA Camb 1970, MB BChir 1973, MA 1974, MD 1984; MRCP 1975; FRCP Lond 1990.
Born in London on 31 December 1947, Bernstein held positions at the National Hospital for Nervous Diseases, Royal Free Hospital, Hammersmith Hospital and Canadian Red Cross Memorial Hospital Taplow, among others. He was later appointed consultant rheumatologist at MRI and the Royal Devonshire Hospital Buxton and was also honorary lecturer in rheumatology at the University of Manchester. Bernstein was a member of the Medical Research Society and the British Society for Rheumatology.