Dr. Fischbein was born and raised in Irvington, N.J. and attended Case Western Reserve University and The State University of New York at Buffalo School of Medicine. He trained in pediatrics at the Cincinnati Childrens Hospital and in pediatric cardiology at the Boston Childrens Hospital. He has been in private pediatric practice in Waterbury, CT since 1974 and has been an Assistant Clinical Professor of Pediatrics at Yale and at the University of Connecticut. He resides with his wife in Cheshire, CT.