Murray Feingold

Murray Feingold (1930 to 2015) was an American pediatrician and clinical geneticist. Born in Hazleton, Pennsylvania, he graduated from Jefferson Medical School in Philadelphia and went on to teach at Tufts University School of Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Boston University School of Medicine. He held posts at Boston Floating Hospital for Children and at Franciscan Children's Hospital and Rehabilitation Center, where he directed genetics, and he founded the Feingold Center for Children in Waltham, Massachusetts, and the Genesis Foundation for Children. In 1975 he became the first to describe in the medical literature the inherited disorder now called Feingold syndrome, and he described two other genetic syndromes as well. He authored about 180 medical articles, co-wrote a standard textbook on genetics and birth defects, and for three decades served as medical editor for a Boston television and radio station, writing a weekly newspaper column on health.