Volume 18, No. 1, Winter 2010
This winter the Rehabilitation Hospital of the Cape and Islands (RHCI) has expanded its services to help children and their families affected by inherited conditions, developmental delays and other illnesses and injuries.
In January the RHCI for Children Eileen M. Ward Outpatient Rehabilitation Center in Sandwich added a Genetics Clinic with Dr. Murray Feingold, Physician in Chief at the Feingold Center for Children (formerly the National Birth Defects Center) in Boston. Dr. Feingold is President of the Genesis Fund, a non-profit organization he founded in 1982 dedicated to helping children born with birth defects, mental retardation and genetic diseases.
According to Tara Souve, PT, manager of RHCI for Children, the Genetics Clinic will be a welcome addition for many of the families whose children receive therapy at the Sandwich pediatric center, especially those in the Upper Cape and Plymouth areas.
“Many of our patients have a suspected genetic component to their conditions. Having convenient access to this specialty will help those families who may otherwise not travel to seek these services.”
The clinic is held on the first Wednesday, every other month. Dr. Feingold will determine or confirm genetic-based diagnoses as well as provide genetics counseling for the family.
Children with birth defects, developmental delays, autism or conditions with a suspected genetic component will be seen at the Genetics Clinic. Dr. Feingold expects to see a broad range of diagnoses, from chromosomal abnormalities (such as Down syndrome) and connective tissue disorders to autism.
For more information or to schedule an appointment, call 781-466-9555.
Dr. Feingold attended Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia and did his residency at Deaconess/MGH/Boston City Hospital. He is board certified in Pediatrics and Medical Genetics.
Dr. Feingold also has been known over the last 30 years for his television appearances and as the radio voice of WBZ 's daily “Medical Minute” and an interview feature, "One on One with Dr. Murray Feingold" on weekday mornings.
He was the first physician in New England to utilize the television medium to help educate the public regarding health and medicine. He also writes a health newspaper column entitled "Second Opinion." He has received the New England Chapter Award/National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences for outstanding in-depth reporting.
Dr. Feingold continues to practice medicine in the Boston area and has been on the faculties of Harvard, Tufts, and Boston University medical schools. He has published over 175 medical articles and has written two books.
RHCI for Children is offering a Pediatric Orthopedic Clinic on the last Friday of the month with Dr. Seymour Zimbler of the Medical Staff at Children’s Hospital Boston. Dr. Zimbler attended SUNY College of Medicine in Syracuse and did his residency at Harvard Combined Orthopedic Surgery Program. He is board certified in Orthopedics. For more information or to make an appointment, call 617-355-2411.
Dr. Murray Feingold, who will be conducting RHCI’s new Genetics Clinic for children, is Physician in Chief at the National Birth Defects Center in Boston and also President and founder of the Genesis Fund, a non-profit organization that raises money to help New England children born with birth defects, mental retardation and genetic diseases.
And herein is another Cape Cod connection. The fund will be conducting its fourth annual fund-raising Cape Cod Fall Classic next September 16-17 at the Hyannisport Club and it includes a round of golf at the Hyannisport Golf Club or fishing on Nantucket Sound, plus a dinner and live auction.
Now this part of the story has little to do with health care, but the event’s sponsorship titles might be taken as the good doctor’s Social Register ratings of our region’s real estate.
For $125 donation, you are dubbed a Hyannisport Sponsor. For $500, you graduate to Cape Cod Sponsor. For $2,500 you can be a Nantucket Sponsor, but you still lag well behind the Martha’s Vineyard Sponsors. These blue chippers have donated $5,000 or more to this worthy cause.