ArthurM.FeldmanMDPhD

Summary

• Dr. Arthur Feldman is a cardiologist in Philadelphia, PA who is affiliated with Temple Universities School of Medicine where he was the Executive Dean and Chief Academic Officer of the Health System. Prior to that he was the McGee Professor and Chair of the Department of Medicine at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital and Jefferson Medical College. He began his administrative career at the University of Pittsburgh where he was the Harry S. Tack Professor of Medicine and Chief of the Division of Cardiology and the Director of the Cardiovascular Institute of UPMC. He received his medical degree from Louisiana State University School of Medicine in Shreveport and his PhD from the University of Maryland. His academic career began at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine where he served as the Director of Heart Failure Research and Co-Director of the Belfer Laboratories. An internationally recognized expert in heart failure he served as President of the HFSA, President of the Association of Professors of Cardiology and was recently elected as a Counselor of the ACCA. He is also an elected member of the Johns Hopkins University Society of Scholars, the ASCI and the AAP. A Lifetime Achievement Awardee of the HFSA, He received the Barry Coller Award from the Association for Clinical and Translational and the Distinguished Scientist Award from the American College of Cardiology in 2019. The founding editor of two journals of Translational science, Feldman’s own work has been cited over 60,000 times according to Google Scholar. has been in practice 36 years during which time he has frequently been recognized by “Best Doctors in America.” Most recently his clinical practice and research have focused on gene therapy for patients with hereditary cardiomyopathy due to a mutation in BAG3 - work that led him to found Renovacor, Inc., a venture-funded biotechnology company.