Melvyn Rubenfire is a pioneering cardiologist in the University of Michigan Health System and a professor in the department of internal medicine. Rubenfire earned a bachelors degree and Doctor of Medicine degree from Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan in 1965. He is the director of the university's Cardiac Rehabilitation, Preventive Cardiology, and Lipid Management programs.

He has served on the Board of Trustees of the American Heart Association of Michigan, as Michigan Governor for the American College of Cardiology and American College of Physicians, and presently serves on the Prevention Committee of the American College of Cardiology.