{{short description|American surgeon}} {{Infobox scientist |birth_name = Henry Leon Feffer |birth_date = {{birth date|1918|1|15}} |birth_place = New York, U.S. |death_date = {{death date and age|2011|5|9|1918|1|15}} |death_place = Bethesda, Maryland, U.S. |residence = |field = Medicine, surgeon, spine, orthopedic surgeon, hydrocortisone, back pain, neurosurgeon |work_institutions = George Washington University Medical School<br>CARE<br>The Gallinger Municipal Hospital in Washington, D.C. which later became, the now defunct, District of Columbia General Hospital<br>United States Army<br>Howard University College of Medicine<br>National Zoo |alma_mater = Indiana University<br>Indiana University School of Medicine |spouse = Jean Kaplan Feffer (m.?-1964) (her death) (3 children)<br>Daisy Berkes Feffer (m.?-2001) (her death) (2 children) |doctoral_advisor = |doctoral_students = |known_for = |author_abbrev_bot = |author_abbrev_zoo = |awards = |influences = |influenced = |prizes = |footnotes = |signature = }} '''Henry Leon Feffer''' (January 15, 1918{{spaced ndash}}May 9, 2011<ref name="washingtonpost.com">[https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/henry-feffer-back-surgeon-who-treated-dc-notables-and-gorilla-dies-at-93/2011/05/11/AF7ytNtG_story_1.html], Henry Feffer, spine surgeon who treated D.C. notables and beloved gorilla, dies at 93, May 11, 2011.</ref>) of Bethesda, Maryland, was an American neurosurgeon. In the mid-1950s, he was one of the first medical doctors to systematically test whether low-back pain could be relieved with epidural injections of hydrocortisone. Today, physicians routinely give such injections before resorting to more invasive surgery. He was a Washington, D.C. spinal surgeon for more than four decades whose patients included Saddam Hussein.<ref name="washingtonpost.com"/>
==Early life and childhood== Feffer was born on January 15, 1918, in New York City.
==Education== Feffer graduated from Indiana University, and from the Indiana University School of Medicine. His orthopedic surgery internship was in The Gallinger Municipal Hospital in Washington, D.C. which later became, the now defunct, District of Columbia General Hospital.<ref name="nlm.nih.gov">[https://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/medtour/dcgeneral.html], District of Columbia General Hospital, last updated September 8, 2006</ref>
==Career== Feffer was an emeritus professor at George Washington University Medical School.
==Death== Feffer died on May 9, 2011, of congestive heart failure at the age of 93.
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