Alvan Feinstein

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

Feinstein studied at the University of Chicago with a bachelor 's degree in 1947, her Master's degree in 1948 and the degrees in medicine (MD) in 1952. Thereafter, he completed his residency training ( residency ) in internal medicine at the Rockefeller Institute. In 1955 he became chief physician at the Irvington House near New York City, where he examined patients with rheumatic fever and discovered that in this disease is not early treatment prevented subsequent heart damage, but simply the form of the disease that led to joint pain and was diagnosed, another form of the disease represented, which was less virulent and later rarely resulted in damage to the heart, while patients with severe heart damage from rheumatic fever initially showed little symptoms.

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

In 1993 he received the Gairdner Foundation International Award and the 1982 Richard and Hinda also Rosenthal Foundation Award from the American College of Physician, 1987 Robert J. Glaser Annual Award of the Society for General Internal Medicine and the J. Allyn Taylor International Prize in Medicine (1987 ). He was an honorary doctorate from 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.

Writings

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