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Up for sale a VERY RARE! "The Boy In The Bubble" Ralph Feigin, MD Hand Signed Newspaper Article.
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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.
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. 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 Washington University 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. 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. 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. He was the associate editor for Pediatrics,
the official journal of the American Academy of
Pediatrics.
