Ralph Feigin
Encyclopedia
Ralph David Feigin was an American
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 pediatrician whose influential book Textbook of Pediatric Infectious Diseases was in its sixth printing at the time of his death.

Education

He graduated from Columbia University
Columbia University
Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...

 with his A.B. degree in 1958 and followed with his medical degree from Boston University School of Medicine
Boston University School of Medicine
Boston University School of Medicine is one of the graduate schools of Boston University. Founded in 1848, the medical school holds the unique distinction as the first institution in the world to formally educate female physicians. Originally known as the New England Female Medical College, it was...

 in 1962. He then underwent an internship at Boston City Hospital from 1962–63 and became a resident from 1963-64. He completed his residency at Massachusetts General Hospital
Massachusetts General Hospital
Massachusetts General Hospital is a teaching hospital and biomedical research facility in the West End neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts...

 in 1965.

Career

After conducting research for the United States Army
United States Army
The United States Army is the main branch of the United States Armed Forces responsible for land-based military operations. It is the largest and oldest established branch of the U.S. military, and is one of seven U.S. uniformed services...

 from 1965 to 1967, and becoming chief resident of the Children's Service of Massachusetts General Hospital, Feigin was a professor of pediatrics at Washington University in 1968.

He took a faculty appointment at the Baylor College of Medicine
Baylor College of Medicine
Baylor College of Medicine, located in the Texas Medical Center in Houston, Texas, USA, is a highly regarded medical school and leading center for biomedical research and clinical care...

 in 1977, and was its President and CEO from 1996 to 2003. He was Chair of the Baylor College of Medicine Department of Pediatrics from 1977-2008. During this time, Feigin led the nation in grants for pediatric studies in 2003 and 2004. Many of these grants were funded by the National Institutes of Health
National Institutes of Health
The National Institutes of Health are an agency of the United States Department of Health and Human Services and are the primary agency of the United States government responsible for biomedical and health-related research. Its science and engineering counterpart is the National Science Foundation...

.

Perhaps most notably, Feigin was the Physician-in-Chief at Texas Children's Hospital
Texas Children's Hospital
Texas Children's Hospital is a pediatric hospital located in the Texas Medical Center in Houston, Texas.With 639 licensed beds and 465 beds in operation, Texas Children's is the largest children's hospital in the United States and is affiliated with the Baylor College of Medicine as that...

 from 1977 until the time of his death in 2008.

Publications

Feigin was co-author and editor of numerous textbooks in pediatrics and infectious disease. His most influential works include: Feigin and Cherry's Textbook of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Oski's Pediatrics: Principles and Practice. He was the associate editor for Pediatrics, the official journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics
American Academy of Pediatrics
The American Academy of Pediatrics is the major professional association of pediatricians in the United States. The AAP was founded in 1930 by 35 pediatricians to address pediatric healthcare standards. It currently has 60,000 members in primary care and sub-specialist areas...

.

Death

Feigin, a nonsmoker, died of lung cancer
Lung cancer
Lung cancer is a disease characterized by uncontrolled cell growth in tissues of the lung. If left untreated, this growth can spread beyond the lung in a process called metastasis into nearby tissue and, eventually, into other parts of the body. Most cancers that start in lung, known as primary...

 in Houston, Texas
Houston, Texas
Houston is the fourth-largest city in the United States, and the largest city in the state of Texas. According to the 2010 U.S. Census, the city had a population of 2.1 million people within an area of . Houston is the seat of Harris County and the economic center of , which is the ...

. He is survived by his wife Judith Zobel Feigin, Ed.D. and his three children and six grandchildren.

External links

The source of this article is wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.  The text of this article is licensed under the GFDL.
 
x
OK