{{Short description|American neuroscientist}} {{Infobox scientist | name = | image = <!--(filename only, i.e. without "File:" prefix)--> | birth_date = <!--{{birth date |YYYY|MM|DD}}--> | birth_place = | death_date = <!--{{death date and age |YYYY|MM|DD |YYYY|MM|DD}} (death date then birth date)--> | death_place = | death_cause = | citizenship = | nationality = | fields = | workplaces = {{plainlist| * University of Medicine and Health Sciences * Oakland University * Seton Hall University * University of California Irvine * Loma Linda University * University of Rochester * Indiana University }} | education = | alma_mater = {{plainlist| * Massachusetts Institute of Technology * University of Pennsylvania }} | known_for = | awards = | spouse = <!--(or | spouses = )--> | children = }} '''David L. Felten''' is an American neuroscientist. He is associate dean of clinical sciences at the University of Medicine and Health Sciences, and was formerly associate dean of research at Oakland University and vice president for research and medical director of the Beaumont Research Institute.

He received a B.S. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1969, an M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in 1973, and a Ph.D. from the Institute of Neurological Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania in 1974.<ref>{{citation |url=http://www.michbio.org/about-michbio/board-directors/board-directors-biographies |title=MichBio Board of Directors' Biographies |accessdate=2010-09-03 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100301083517/http://www.michbio.org/about-michbio/board-directors/board-directors-biographies |archivedate=2010-03-01 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www2.oakland.edu/undergrad/newfac2009.cfm |title=Oakland University - Undergraduate Education - New Faculty - Bios 2009 |access-date=2010-02-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091224134127/http://www2.oakland.edu/undergrad/newfac2009.cfm |archive-date=2009-12-24 |url-status=dead }}</ref> He is on the advisory board of the Medingen Group.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.medingen.com/downloads/feltenCV.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=2010-02-25 |archive-date=2011-07-14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110714065152/http://www.medingen.com/downloads/feltenCV.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref>

He was co-founder and co-editor of ''Brain, Behavior, and Immunity''.

He had a profound spiritual experience in 2013 while visiting Rome and subsequently converted to Roman Catholic Christianity.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://guslloyd.com/blog/?p=10549 |title=Tuesday, June 28, 2016 &#124; Gus Lloyd's Reflections |access-date=2016-06-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160806214039/https://guslloyd.com/blog/?p=10549 |archive-date=2016-08-06 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

==Awards== * 1983 MacArthur Fellows Program * NIH MERIT award * "Building Bridges of Integration Award" by the Traditional Chinese Medicine World Foundation<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.beaumonthospitals.com/press-release-Felten-integrative-medicine-award |title=BEAUMONT DOCTOR GETS INTEGRATIVE MEDICINE AWARD &#124; Beaumont Health System |website=www.beaumonthospitals.com |access-date=22 May 2022 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20110809222414/https://www.beaumonthospitals.com/press-release-Felten-integrative-medicine-award |archive-date=9 August 2011 |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.tcmconference.org/d-felten.html |title=Building Bridges of Integration for Traditional Chinese Medicine |access-date=2010-02-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070821155903/http://www.tcmconference.org/d-felten.html |archive-date=2007-08-21 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

==Works== *{{cite book| title=Psychoneuroimmunology, Volume 2| editor=Robert Ader| editor2=David L. Felten| editor3=Nicholas Cohen| publisher=Academic Press| year= 2000| isbn= 978-0-12-044314-7 }} *{{cite book| title=Netter's atlas of human neuroscience| author=David L. Felten| author2=Ralph F. Józefowicz| editor=Frank Henry Netter| publisher=Icon Learning Systems| year= 2003| isbn= 978-1-929007-16-5 }} *{{cite book| chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=THnapClAJngC&q=David%20L.%20Felten&pg=PA9| chapter=Peripheral Innervation of Lymphoid Tissue| title=The Neuroendocrine-immune network| editor=S. Freier| publisher=CRC Press| year= 1990| isbn=978-0-8493-4625-5 }}

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