{{short description|American pediatrician (1938–2008)}} '''Ralph David Feigin''' (April 3, 1938 – August 14, 2008) was an American pediatrician whose influential book ''Textbook of Pediatric Infectious Diseases'' was in its sixth printing at the time of his death.<ref name="feigincherry">[http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/extract/280/16/1456 ''Feigin and Cherry's Textbook of Pediatric Infectious Diseases''] Retrieved 11-05-2009</ref> ==Life and career== {{Expand section|early life|date=December 2009}} Feigin was born in Manhattan on April 3, 1938.
===Education=== He graduated from Columbia University with his A.B. degree in 1958 and followed with his medical degree from Boston University School of Medicine in 1962. He then underwent an internship at Boston City Hospital from 1962–63 and became a resident from 1963-64. He completed his residency at Massachusetts General Hospital in 1965.
===Career=== After conducting research for the United States Army from 1965 to 1967, and becoming chief resident of the Children's Service of Massachusetts General Hospital, Feigin was a professor of pediatrics at the School of Medicine at Washington University in St. Louis in 1968.
He took a faculty appointment at the Baylor College of Medicine in 1977, and was its President and CEO from 1996 to 2003. He was Chair of the Baylor College of Medicine Department of Pediatrics from 1977-2008. During this time, Feigin led the nation in grants for pediatric studies in 2003 and 2004.<ref name="timesdaily">TimesDaily.com [http://www.timesdaily.com/article/20080823/ZNYT04/808230350/0/MISC&title=Ralph_D__Feigin__70__Children__x2019_s_Diseases_Book_Editor__Dies ''Ralph D. Feigin, 70, Children's Diseases Book Editor, Dies'']{{dead link|date=April 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} Retrieved 11-09-2009</ref> Many of these grants were funded by the National Institutes of Health.
Feigin was the Physician-in-Chief at Texas Children's Hospital from 1977 until the time of his death in 2008.<ref name ="feigin">Texas Medical Center News [https://archive.today/20110728090559/http://www.texmedctr.tmc.edu/root/en/TMCServices/News/2008/08-15/Remembering+Ralph+Feigin.htm Remembering Ralph Feigin] Retrieved 11-05-2009</ref> He received the John Howland Award, the most prestigious honor given by the American Pediatric Society (APS), in 2007.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Demmler |first=Gali J. |date=2007-06-08 |title=Introduction of the 2007 American Pediatric Society John Howland Award Recipient, Ralph D. Feigin, M.D. Tales of a Modern Day Super Hero |url=https://www.nature.com/articles/pr2007206 |journal=Pediatric Research |language=en |volume=62 |issue=2 |pages=231–233 |doi=10.1203/PDR.0b013e31813c127d |pmid=17597637 |issn=1530-0447}}</ref>
===Publications=== Feigin was co-author and editor of numerous textbooks in pediatrics and infectious disease. His most influential works include: ''Feigin and Cherry's Textbook of Pediatric Infectious Diseases'', ''Oski's Pediatrics: Principles and Practice''.<ref name="oski">Lippincott Williams & Wilkins [http://www.lww.com/product/?978-0-7817-3894-1 ''Oski's Pediatrics: Principles & Practice''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070220205531/http://www.lww.com/product/?978-0-7817-3894-1 |date=2007-02-20 }} Retrieved 11-09-2009</ref> He was the associate editor for ''Pediatrics'', the official journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics.<ref name="pediatrics">American Academy of Pediatrics [http://aapnews.aappublications.org/cgi/content/full/29/10/1-c ''AAP News''] Retrieved 11-09-2009</ref>
===Death=== Feigin, a nonsmoker, died of lung cancer in Houston, Texas.<ref name="nytobit">Pearce, Jeremy (August 22, 2008). [https://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/23/health/research/23feigin.html Ralph D. Feigin, 70, Children’s Diseases Book Editor, Dies.]</ref> Feigin was married to Judith Zobel Feigin, and they had three children.
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==External links== *[https://web.archive.org/web/20080914094741/http://www.texaschildrens.org/AllAbout/FeiginBio.aspx Dr. Ralph D. Feigin, Physician-in-Chief] via Texas Children's Hospital * Feigin, Dr. Ralph and David Goldstein. [http://digital.houstonlibrary.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/oralhistory/id/28 Dr. Ralph Feigin Oral History] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121228043418/http://digital.houstonlibrary.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/oralhistory/id/28 |date=2012-12-28 }}, Houston Oral History Project, September 17, 2007.
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