Murray Feingold (July 20, 1930 – July 17, 2015) was an

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, and founder of the Feingold Center for Children in Waltham,

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. He was also the founder and president of The Genesis Foundation for Children.

Early life and career

Feingold was born in

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, in 1930. He was a graduate of Jefferson Medical School (now

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) in

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. He has served on the faculty of

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, and

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. He previously served as chief of the division of ambulatory services and chief of

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and

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at Boston Floating Hospital for Children and director of genetics at Franciscan Children's Hospital and Rehabilitation Center. Feingold was the medical editor at CBS Boston

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and WBZ Radio for 30 years. He died on July 17, 2015, three days shy of his 85th birthday. Feingold syndrome was named after him, as he was the first to describe it in the medical literature in 1975

Publications

*''Genetics and Birth Defects in Clinical Practice,'' a standard medical textbook, co-author. *''Normal values for selected physical parameters: an aid to syndrome delineation''.Birth defects original article series, 1974 Feingold authored 180 articles that have been published in the medical literature. He described three genetic syndromes, one bearing his name, Feingold syndrome. He wrote a weekly newspaper column entitled "Second Opinion" that appeared in 80 newspapers. Feingold also had a daily medical feature on WBZ-CBS Radio in Boston entitled "Medical Minute."

References

External links

Dr. Murray Feingold: Talking less insensitively to child patients
1930 births 2015 deaths American geneticists American medical researchers People from Hazleton, Pennsylvania American pediatricians Thomas Jefferson University alumni {{US-physician-stub