Alvan R. Feinstein

Alvan Richard Feinstein (born December 4, 1925 in Philadelphia , † October 25, 2001 in Toronto ) was an American medic. He is considered to be one of the founders of clinical epidemiology in the USA.

Feinstein studied at the University of Chicago with a bachelor's degree in 1947, a master's degree in 1948 and a medical degree (MD) in 1952. He then completed his residency in internal medicine at the Rockefeller Institute. In 1955 he became chief physician at Irvington House near New York City, where he examined patients with rheumatic fever and discovered that early treatment of this disease did not prevent later heart damage, but simply the form of the disease that caused joint pain and was diagnosable, another The form of the disease that was less virulent and later rarely caused damage to the heart, while patients with severe heart damage from rheumatic fever initially showed hardly any symptoms.

In 1962 he became a professor at Yale University , where he was founding director of the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program in 1974 , which trained medical professionals in clinical research. He wrote several popular textbooks such as Clinical Judgment and Clinical Epidemiology and over 400 research papers. Most recently, he was the Sterling Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology at Yale. He was the founder and editor of the Journal of Clinical Epidemiology until his death in 1988 and edited the Journal of Chronic Diseases from 1982 to 1988.

In 1982 he became a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science . In 1993 he received the Gairdner Foundation International Award and in 1982 the Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Foundation Award from the American College of Physician, in 1987 the Robert J. Glaser Annual Award from the Society for General Internal Medicine and the J. Allyn Taylor International Prize in Medicine (1987 ). He was an honorary doctor of McGill University (1997).

He was a member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation, the Association of American Physicians, the American Epidemiological Society, the Interurban Clinical Club, and the Institute of Medicine.

Fonts

• Clinical Judgment, Williams and Wilkins, Baltimore 1967
• Clinical Epidemiology: the architecture of clinical research, WB Saunders, Philadelphia 1985
• Clinimetrics, Yale University Press 1987
• Clinical Biostatistics, Mosby CV, Saint Louis 1977
• Multivariable Analysis: an introduction, Yale University Press 1996
• Principles of medical statistics, Chapman and Hall, Boca Raton 2002

Web links

• Obituary in Yale 2001