Charles Feldman, M.D.

Charles Feldman

Professor of Pulmonology and

Chief Physician,

Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital

Johannesburg

Professor Charles Feldman was born and brought up in Johannesburg, South Africa. He obtained his MB BCh degree at the University of the Witwatersrand, in Johannesburg, in 1975 and served his internship at Johannesburg Hospital. He subsequently did his fellowship training in Internal Medicine at Johannesburg Hospital and received his FCP (SA) in 1981. He received his PhD in 1991 for a thesis entitled “Aspects of Community-acquired Pneumonia”. He was registered as a sub-specialist in Pulmonology in 1993 and was elected to the Fellowship of the Royal College of Physicians (FRCP) in 1997.

From 1982 he worked as a consultant in the Division of Pulmonology/Critical Care in the Department of Medicine at Hillbrow Hospital in Johannesburg, and in 1986 became Director of the Intensive Care Unit and Pulmonology Unit of that Hospital. In May 1995 he was appointed as Professor of Pulmonology and Chief Physician, at Johannesburg Hospital and the University of the Witwatersrand, a position which he currently holds. 

In 1988/89 he was a Research Fellow and Honorary Senior Visiting Colleague, in the Host Defence Unit, Department of Thoracic Medicine, National Heart and Lung Institute, and Royal Brompton Hospital, London, United Kingdom. 

Professor Feldman’s research interest is in the field of community-acquired pneumonia, and in particular pneumococcal pneumonia. In addition to being part of large international clinical collaborations recruiting cases of community-acquired pneumonia he has also contributed to basic research studies, investigating the effects of various pneumococcal virulence factors on human ciliated epithelium as well as investigating the effects of antibiotics on pneumococcal growth and expression of virulence factors. He has a number of publications in books and book chapters, as well as more than 170 articles in indexed, peer reviewed journals.