Dr. Henry Feldman

Henry Feldman, MD is an Instructor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston.

He currently holds dual appointments in the Division of General Internal Medicine in the section of Hospital Medicine and in the Division of Clinical Informatics. He works as a hospitalist at BIDMC on the teaching and non-teaching medical services and is heading the redesign of the patient portal "PatientSite" at BIDMC.

He received his undergraduate degree from Northeastern University in Boston in 1990, then returned to Medical School graduating from NYU School of Medicine in 2001. He completed an Internal Medicine Residency at NYU Medical Center/Bellevue, followed by a year as a Chief Medical Resident at NYU. He also did a 2 year research fellowship in Medical Informatics at NYU. Clinically during his fellowship he was a medical attending in the outpatient clinic at the NY VA Medical Center as well as a ward attending at Bellevue Hospital and the NY VA Medical Center.

Prior to becoming a physician he was in the computer industry for almost 10 years, serving with such companies as Microsoft, 2 subsidiaries of Allen-Bradley, The Boston Consulting Group, among others. For the 2 years prior to coming to Harvard, he served in the section of Medical Informatics at NYU School of Medicine, and created the web based virtual patient modules as part of the CDC Psychosocial Aspects of Bioterrorism grant as well as computerizing outpatient clinic scheduling.

He currently also runs the combined physician/nursing education team on BIDMC's east campus and has started the pet-therapy program there as well.

Division Faculty interviewed on SiriusXM Doctor Radio Division Faculty member Dr. Henry Feldman was interviewed by SiriusXM's Doctor Radio on August 4th regarding the OpenNotes research project. Click here to hear the interview. Division Faculty Interviewed on iPad Use in Healthcare As previously reported, Division Faculty member Dr. Henry Feldman shared his perspective and reflection on his use of an iPad during his regular care of patients on the hospital wards. Dr. Feldman's writeup was featured on the popular Geek Doctor blog on June 11, and again on June 18th. This unique perspective caught the eye of mobile medical applications site iMedicalApps.com who also conducted an interview with Dr. Feldman. Division Faculty Featured For Work With Pet Therapy Dr. Henry Feldman was featured in ACP Hospitalist magazine for his work with Caring Canines to bring pet therapy to BIDMC. The article can be seen here. Division Faculty Gives Talk in Brighton, UK Division Faculty Member Henry Feldman, MD, spoke to the Health and Care Infrastructure Research and Innovation Centre about the differences in care for strokes between the US and UK. Photos of the event: