Brian Feingold, MD, MS, FAHA

  • Professor of Pediatrics
  • Medical Director, Heart Failure and Transplantation Programs, UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh

Dr. Feingold is board certified in Pediatrics and Pediatric Cardiology. His research is broadly focused on pediatric heart transplantation and heart failure with a history of funding by the National Institutes of Health KL2 Clinical Research Scholars Program, the American Heart Association, and the Enduring Hearts Foundation. He serves on multiple councils and committees of national organizations including the pediatric heart failure subcommittee of the American Heart Association and the Scientific Council on Pediatric Thoracic Transplantation and Heart Failure of the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation. He serves on the Scientific and Medical Advisory Board of the Barth Syndrome Foundation.

Professional and Scientific Society Memberships

  • American Medical Association, 1995-2002, 2004-2007 
  • Massachusetts Medical Society, 1999-2002 
  • American Academy of Pediatrics, 1999-2002 (Fellow, 2005) 
  • International Pediatric Transplant Association, 2003-2017, 2019-Present 
  • American College of Cardiology, 2002-2008 
  • American Heart Association, 2004-Present (Fellow, 2016) 
  • American Society of Transplantation, 2006-Present 
  • International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation, 2006-Present 
  • Heart Failure Society of America, 2006-2007 
  • Society for Pediatric Research, 2011-Present 

Education & Training

  • BS, Biology, Duke University, 1995
  • MD, University of Pittsburgh, 1999
  • Internship/Residency in Pediatrics, University of Massachusetts Memorial Medical Center, 1999-2002
  • Fellowship in Pediatric Cardiology, UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, 2002-2005
  • Chief Fellow in Pediatric Cardiology, UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, 2004-2005
  • Fellowship in Pediatric Cardiac Transplantation and Heart Failure, UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, 2005-2006

Selected Publications

Alsaied T, Christopher A, Da Silva J, Gupta A, Morell VO, Lanford L, Weinberg J, Feingold B, Seery T, Hoskoppal A, Goldstein BH, Johnson J, Oliveri LJ, Da Fonseca Da Silva L. Multimodality Imaging in Ebstein Anomaly. Pediatr Cardiol. 2023 Jan;44(1):15-23. PMID: 36151322.

Van den Eynde, J, Possner, M, Alahdab F, Veldtman GR, Goldstein BH, Rathod RH, Hoskoppal A, Saraf A, Feingold B, Alsaied T. Thromboprophylaxis in with Fontan circulation. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2023 Jan;81(4):374–89. PMID: 36697138

Feingold B, Rose-Felker K, West SC, Miller SA, Zinn MD. Short-term Clinical Outcomes and Predicted Cost Savings of dd-cfDNA-led Surveillance after Pediatric Heart Transplantation. Clin Transplant. 2023; 2023 Feb 13;e14933. PMID: 36779524.

Ellison M, Mangiola M, Marrari M, Bentlejewski C, Sadowski J, Zern D, Kramer CSM, Heidt S, Niemann M, Xu Q, Dipchand AI, Mahle WT, Rossano JW, Canter CE, Singh TP, Zuckerman WA, Hsu DT, Feingold B, Webber SA, Zeevi A. Immunologic risk stratification of pediatric heart transplant patients by combining HLA-EMMA and PIRCHE-II. Front Immunol. 2023 Mar 14;14:1110292. PMID: 36999035

Smith KL, Gordon EB, Gunsaulus ME, Christopher A, Olivieri LJ, Tadros SS, Harris T, Saraf AP, Kreutzer J, Feingold B, Alsaied T. Surrogates of muscle mass on cardiac MRI correlate with exercise capacity in patients with Fontan circulation. J Clin. Med. 2023;12:2689. PMID: 37048773

Yamada M, Macedo C, Louis K, Shi T, Landsittel D, Nguyen C, Michaels MG, Feingold B, Mazariegos GV, Green M, Metes D. Distinct association between chronic EBV infection and T cell compartments from pediatric heart, kidney, and liver transplant recipients. Am J Transplant. 2023 May 13;S1600-6135(23)00468-9. PMID 37187296.

Bogle C, Colan SD, Miyamoto SD, Choudhry S, Baez-Hernandez N, Brickler MM, Feingold B, Lal AK, Lee TM, Canter CE, Lipshultz SE. Treatment Strategies for Cardiomyopathy in Children: A Scientific Statement from the American Heart Association. Circulation. 2023 Jun 8;48:174–95. PMID: 37288568.

Abdulkarim A, Shaji S, Elfituri M, Gunsaulus M, Zafar MA, Zaidi AN, Pass RH, Feingold B, Kurland G, Kreutzer J, Ghassemzadeh R, Goldstein B, West S, Alsaied T. Pulmonary Complications in Patients with Fontan Circulation. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2023;81:2434–44.

Kirmani S, Woodard PK, Shi L, Hamza TH, Canter CE, Colan SD, Pahl E, Towbin JA, Webber SA, Rossano JW, Everitt MD, Molina KM, Kantor PF, Jefferies JL, Feingold B, Addonizio LJ, Ware SM, Chung WK, Ballweg JA, Lee TM, Bansal N, Razoky H, Czachor J, Lunze FI, Marcus E, Wilkinson JD, Lipshultz SE. Cardiac Imaging and Biomarkers for Assessing Myocardial Fibrosis in Children with Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy. Am Heart J. 2023 Jun 12;264:153-62. PMID: 37315879.

Webber SA, Chin H, Wilkinson JD, Armstrong BD, Canter CE, Dipchand AI, Dodd DA, Feingold B,Lamour JM, Mahle WT, Singh TP, Zuckerman WA, Rossano JW, Morrison Y, Diop H, Demetris AJ, Bentlejewski C, Mohanakumar T, Odim J, Zeevi A. Impact of Donor Specific Anti-HLA Antibody on Cardiac Hemodynamics and Graft Function 3 years after Pediatric Heart Transplantation: First Results from the CTOTC-09 Multi-Institutional Study. Am J Transplant. In Press. PMID: 37579817.

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Academic and Research Interests

  • Heart failure
  • Heart transplantation
  • Donor-derived cell-free DNA
  • Transplant rejection
  • Barth Syndrome
  • Allosensitization