He is a graduate of Yale University and the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. He completed his postgraduate training at the New York Presbyterian Hospital–Weill Cornell Medical Center, where he served as Chief Medical Resident, including a Fellowship in Infectious Disease. Dr. Kendler is now Course Director for Medicine, Patients and Society 2, a course for second-year medical students at the Weill Cornell Medical College. He maintains an active practice in Internal Medicine in Manhattan and has a special interest in travel medicine.