James Feldman Honored for Outstanding Service to Massachusetts Medical Society

James Feldman, MD, a Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) professor and physician at Boston Medical Center (BMC), has been honored by the Massachusetts Medical Society with its Committee Chair Service Award, an honor recognizing exceptional leadership and service to the Society, the statewide professional association of physicians. He will receive the award at the Society’s annual meeting in Boston on April 30.

Feldman is being honored for his six years of chairing the Society’s Committee on Quality of Medical Practice, which provides consultation to the Society’s Board of Trustees and its House of Delegates on the improvement of the quality of health care provided by physicians. It is the second award he has received from the Society in two years; in 2014, he was presented with the Grant V. Rodkey Award, an honor recognizing a Massachusetts physician for outstanding contributions to medical education and medical students.

Feldman and has held many clinical, academic, and administrative posts at BUSM and BMC for more than 30 years. He was named a full professor at the school in 2009, and, in addition to his clinical and teaching responsibilities, was appointed to the administrative post of Vice Chair of Emergency Medicine Research in 2002. He has been an attending physician at BMC since 1983.

Feldman was twice named Outstanding Faculty and twice cited with the Chair Award in Emergency Medicine at BUSM. He has received four top honors from the Massachusetts College of Emergency Physicians: Distinguished Service Award, Vanguard Award, President’s Award, and Pinnacle Award. He was named a Fellow of the American College of Emergency Medicine in 1990.