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Jeffrey Feldman

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Name
Jeffrey
Last name
Feldman
Degree
Ph.D.
Language
English
Biography

EDUCATION:

1974 Rutgers College of Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Jersey, A.B. Psychology                                    

1978 Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, .A., Ph.D., Clinical Psychology

 

PREDOCTORAL TRAINING:

1977 – 1978    Psychology Trainee, Veterans Administration Hospital, Cleveland, OH

                                                                          

POSTDOCTORAL TRAINING:

1978 - 1979     Intern, Clinical Psychology, N.Y.U. Medical Center - Bellevue Hospital, New York, NY

1980 - 1980     Extern, Family Therapy Program, The Philadelphia Child Guidance Clinic, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

 

PROFESSIONAL LICENSURE:

1980-1990       State of New York, # 6266 (inactive)

1989- present  State of North Carolina, # 1474

 

EMPLOYMENT:

Academic Appointments:

Wake Forest School of Medicine, Wake Forest University

1999 - 2014     Assistant Professor, Department of Neurology

2009 - present Member, Translational Science Institute

2014 – present Associate Professor, Department of Neurology

 

Professional Experience:

1979 – 1980    Research Psychologist N.Y.U Medical Center-Department of Pediatrics

1980 - 1982     Staff Psychologist, St. John's Home for Boys, Rockaway Park, NY

1981 - 1982     Long Island University, Department of Continuing Education, Associate Professor in Psychology

1981 – 1987    Co-Director Pain Management Center, Brooklyn, N.Y.

1983 - 1989     Faculty, Hypnosis Training Program, N.Y. M.H. Erickson Society for Psychotherapy and Hypnosis

1979 - 1989     Consulting Psychologist, The Episcopal Mission Society of New York, The Children's Aid Society, The Youth Counseling League, New York, N.Y.

 

1986 – 1989    Psychologist, Nassau Pain, and Stress Center, Mineola, N.Y.

1980 - 1989     Psychologist, Private Practice, New York, N.Y.

1989 – 1992    Program Coordinator, Pain Rehabilitation Services, Charlotte Rehabilitation Hospital

1992 – 1996    Psychologist, Rehab Advantage, Charlotte Institute of Rehabilitation

1996 – 1999    Program Director, Presbyterian Rehabilitation Center for Pain Medicine, Presbyterian Orthopaedic  Hospital,  Charlotte, N.C.

1999 – Present          Adjunct Faculty/Coach, The Center for Creative Leadership, Greensboro, NC

 

OTHER PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS AND INSTITUTIONAL SERVICE:

 

Professional Appointments:

1999 – present Director, Occupational Rehabilitation Programs, Forest Baptist Medical Center

2008 – 2011    Associate Director, Hypnosis and Guided Imagery, Center for Integrative Medicine, WFBH

2011 – 2013    Associate Co-Director, Education Programs, Center for Integrative Medicine, WFBH

10/12 – 8/13    Interim Director, Center for Integrative Medicine, WFBH

8/13 – 2/16      Director, Center for Integrative Medicine, WFBH

2/16-Present   Associate Director, Center for Integrative Medicine, WFBH

 

Institutional Committee Service:

2004 - 2005     WFBMC Workers Compensation Committee, Chair

2008 – 2009    Team Science Program Committee, TSI

2009 – 2009    Ad Hoc Member Intramural Research Support Committee, Center for Worker Health, TSI

2009 – 2013    WFBH – Community Integrative Medicine Seminar Series Advisory Committee, Chair (2011 present)

2009 – 2011; 2013 -present Admissions Committee, WFSM

2010 – 2014    Executive Committee, Center for Worker Health, TSI

2012 – 2013    Pain Management Committee for Inpatient Rehabilitation

2012 – 2012    WFSM Curriculum Review Committee; Four Working Groups

2014 – 2016    Member LCME Self –Study Task Force

 

Other Institutional Service

2008 – present WFSM representative, Steering Committee, Academic Consortium for Integrative Medicine and Health (ACIMH)

2009 - present Interviewing of prospective medical students

2010 – 2013    Faculty judge for Division of Surgical Science Resident Research Posters

2008 – 2014    In-service training of in and outpatient rehabilitation staff

4/5/19              Presentation to Neurology Staff:  “Purposely losing your mind: two practical techniques for ‘getting out of your head’, relaxing, and improving the quality of your life”

 

Extramural Appointments and Service

 

Board of Editorial Consultants International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis 6/18-present

 

Journal Reviewer:  Ad hoc reviewer for:  Psychological Bulletin, International Journal of Psychophysiology, of Affective Disorders, Diabetes, UK

 

Funding Agency Reviewer:  Scientific merit review & evaluation board member, Department of Veteran Affairs, Rehabilitation Research and Development Service, 3/13-14/06; 8/28-29/06; 3/5-6/07

 

Abstract Reviewer:

Research Symposium on Integrative Medicine and Health (Hotel Palomar, Los Angeles, CA, 2011)

International Research Congress on Integrative Medicine and Health (Portland, Oregon, 2012)

International Congress for Educators in ComplementaryAnd Integrative Medicine (Georgetown, University, 2012)

International Society for Complementary Medicine Research (London, England, 2013)

International Congress for Clinicians in Complementary and Integrative Medicine, (Northwestern Univ., Chicago, Ill., 10/13)

International Research Congress on Integrative Medicine and Health (Miami, Florida, 2014)

International Congress on Integrative Medicine and Health (Las Vegas, NV, 2016)

International Congress on Integrative Medicine and Health (Baltimore, MD, 2018)

 

 

Other Extramural Service:                                  

Program Committee and Planning Committee Member, International Congress for Clinicians in Complementary and Integrative Medicine, (Northwestern Univ., Chicago, Ill., 10/13), Co-Chair Planning Committee, 2018 International Congress on Integrative Medicine and Health

 

PROFESSIONAL Memberships:

1980 - present American Psychological Association (Division 38, Health Psychology; Division 30, Psychological Hypnosis)

1989 - present North Carolina Psychological Association

2005 - present American Society of Clinical Hypnosis

2006 – present Academic Consortium for Integrative Medicine and Health   WFSM Steering Committee Member

2011 – 2015    Consortium of Academic Health Centers for Integrative Medicine:  Co- Chair of Clinical Working Group;

2013 – 2015    Consortium of Academic Health Center for Integrative Medicine, Working Group Representative to the Executive Committee

 

Honors and Awards:

12/83                Co-Recipient of Award for Most Scholarly Accepted Paper: Second International Congress on Ericksonian Approaches to Hypnosis and Psychotherapy, Phoenix, AZ, "Subliminal Perception and Information Processing Theory: Empirical and Conceptual Validations of Erickson's Notion of the Unconscious".

Location
Wake Forest, North Carolina, USA
location_lat
35.9798628
location_lng
-78.50942119999999
Publications
Publications

Public Outreach:

5/18/00 – “Complementary Care for Patients with Chronic Pain”, community presentation, Women’s Health Center

3/5/02 – “Fear/Stress in the Workplace”, North Carolina Rehabilitation Professionals

3/4/05 - "A neuropsychological view of pain and emotions" Neurology Update for the Primary Care Physician.

9/23/05 – “Chronic Pain Management and Workers Comp”, North Carolina Bar Association, Continuing Education.

2/20/06 – “PTSD and the Workers Compensation Patient”, North Carolina Rehabilitation Professionals

9/23/08 – “Rehabilitation of Workers Compensation Patients with Chronic Pain” Forsyth County Bar Association, Workers Compensation Interest Group.

11/12/08 - “The chronic back pain patient”, Staff of NC Department of Vocational Rehabilitation

2/12/09 -   “Hypnosis”, Psychology Club of the WSFC Schools Career Center (high school)

11/05/08 – “Coping with ALS, the Richness of Diversity”, Community Seminar sponsored by the WFBH ALS Center (presentations to ALS support group: 7/22/12; 9/20/11; 4/21/09; 8/17/08)

4/20/09 - “Stress management and relaxation” “Club Independence” (brain injury program).

11/30/10 - "Hypnosis and Pain Management", WFBH -Community Integrative Medicine Seminar    Series.

3/12/11 - “Mindfully Coping with Childhood Arthritis”, Juvenile Arthritis Foundation, Children’s Museum of Winston-Salem”

8/22/13 – “Stress management and relaxation”, WFBH Brain Injury Support Group

10/18 -   “Coping with Stress”, ALS Caregivers Conference

BIBLIOGRAPHY:

Peer Reviewed Journal Articles:

 

  1. Feldman, J. The Work of Milton Erickson: a Multisystem Model of Eclectic Therapy.  Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice, 1985 22:154-162.

 

  1. Feldman, J. The Workers' Compensation Patient: A Paradoxical Cognitive-Behavioral Approach to Rehabilitation..  Current Review of Pain, Phil., PA: Current Science Inc., 1998; 2 :11-18.  

 

  1. Aronoff, G. & Feldman, J. Preventing Iatrogenic Disability from Chronic Pain. Current Review of Pain, Phil., PA:  Current Science Inc., 1999; 3: 67-77. 

 

  1. Aronoff, G. & Feldman, J. Preventing Disability from Chronic Pain. International Review of Psychiatry, 2000; 12:156-168.

 

  1. Feldman, J. The Neurobiology of Pain, Affect, and Hypnosis. American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis, 2004; 46:187-200.

 

  1. Feldman, J. The Prevention of Occupational Low Back Pain Disability – Evidence Based Reviews Point in a New Direction.  Journal of Surgical Orthopaedic Advances, 2004; 13:1-15.

 

  1. Feldman, J.  Review of Lichstein, K., Durrence, H., Riedel, B. Taylor, D. and Bush, A. Epidemiology of Sleep: Age, Gender, and Ethnicity.  American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis, 2005 ;48:58-60

 

  1. Feldman, J. Expanding Hypnotic Pain Management to the Affective Dimension of Pain. American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis , 2009, 51:235-254.

 

  1. Thorne N, Kundu S, Vadlamudi R, Ervin S, Feldman J, Koch K. Hospitalized patients with chronic abdominal pain are frequently prescribed narcotic analgesics without pain management and/or psychiatric evaluation. (abstract). American Journal of Gastroenterology  03/12/2010; 104 (Suppl 3); S408.

 

  1. LaRose A, Danhauer, SC, Feldman J, Evans GW, Kemper KJ. Brief Stress ReductionTraining in an Academic Health Center. J Alt Comp Med, 2010; 16(9): 1-2.

 

  1. Glick RM, Feldman JB, Perlman A, Elam R. Pain Relief Report Commended for Highlighting Self-Management, Integrative Approaches.  J Pain. 2011 Nov;12(11):1197-8.
  2. Feldman, J, The rhythmic finger focus hypnotic technique: Multilevel application of Ericksonian utilization.  American   Journal of Clinical Hypnosis (In press)

 

 

Chapters in Books:

 

  1. Feldman, J. Family Therapy. In: A. E. Ferreira & P. F. Carneiro, eds. Personalidade et Terapie Hoje (Personality and Therapy Today).  Rio De Janeiro: Zahar, 1983.

 

  1. Feldman, J. Subliminal Perception and Information Processing Theory: Empirical and Conceptual Validation of Erickson's Notion of the Unconscious.  In:   Zeig, ed. Ericksonian Psychotherapy, Volume 1: Structures. NY: Brunner/Mazel, 1985:431-447.  (Translated and republished as: Subliminal Wahrenhmung und Informations-Verarbeitungstheorie.  Hypnosis und Kognition,5 (2), 1988:(74-86).

 

  1. Feldman, J. The Utilization of Cognition in Psychotherapy: A Comparison of Ericksonian and Cognitive Therapy. In: S. Lankton & J. Zeig, eds. Ericksonian Monographs/Research Comparisons and Medical Applications of Ericksonian Techniques, 4. N.Y: Brunner/Mazel, 1988.

 

  1. Feldman, J. A Multischema Model for Combining Ericksonian and Cognitive Therapy.  In: S. Lankton & K. Erickson, eds. The Essence of a Single Session Success, Ericksonian Monographs, 9. N.Y: Brunner/Mazel, 1994.

 

  1. Feldman, J. Rehabilitation of Chronic Pain Patients: Expanding an Ericksonian Approach to Interdisciplinary Team Treatment.  In:  Matthews and J. Edgette, eds. Current Thinking and Research in Brief Therapy.  N.Y.:  Brunner/Mazel, 1997.

 

  1. Feldman, J., Phillips, L., & Aronoff, G.  A Cognitive Systems Approach to Treating Chronic Pain Patients and their Families.  In: G. Aronoff, ed. Evaluation and Treatment of Chronic Pain, Third Edition.  Baltimore:  Willliams & Wilkins, 1999.

 

  1. Aronoff, G., Feldman, J., & Campion, T.  Management of Chronic Pain and Control of Long-Term Disability.  In:  Randolph and M. Ranavaya, eds. Occupational Medicine: State of the Art Reviews– Risk and Disability Evaluation in the Workplace 15, Phil.: Hanley & Belfus, 2000.

 

  1. Aronoff, G., Gallagher, R. & Feldman, J. Biopsychosocial Evaluation and Treatment of Chronic Pain. In: P. Raj et al. eds. Practical Management of Pain, Third Edition.  St Louis: Mosby, 2000:156-165.

 

  1. Childers, C., Feldman, J., Guo, H. Myofascial Pain.  In: Frontera, ed. Essentials of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, 2nd edition, Phil: Hanley & Belfus (2008).

 

  1. Childers, C., Feldman, J., Guo, H. Myofascial Pain.  In: Frontera, ed. Essentials of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, 3rd edition, Phil: Hanley & Belfus (2015).

 

                                 

Abstracts, Scientific Exhibits, Presentations at National Meetings:   

 

  1. 10/82 - "The Work of Milton Erickson: A Multisystem Model of Eclectic Therapy". Paper presented at the American Psychological Association Convention, Washington, D.C.
  2. 12/92 - "Rehabilitation of Chronic Pain Patients: Expanding the Essence of Ericksonian Methods to an Interdisciplinary Team Approach". Short course presented at the Fifth International Congress of Ericksonian Approaches to Hypnosis and Psychotherapy.  Phoenix, AZ.
  3. 5/95 - "The Chronic Pain Screening of Beliefs Scale (SOBS) - A Brief Tool to Assess Beliefs Critical to Successful Rehabilitation". Poster presented with Parhamovich, J., McDeavitt, J., & Cannon, A.at the North Carolina Psychological Association Meeting, Wrightsville Beach, NC.
  4. 9/95 - "The Worker's Compensation Patient, A Cognitive-Behavioral Approach to Rehabilitation". Paper presented at the conference Work, Stress and Health 95: Creating Healthier Workplaces, Washington, D.C, September, 1995.
  5. 8/96 - "A Collaborative Approach to Psychological and Spiritual Issues in Rehabilitation".
  6. Paper presented with Iacono, M.at the American Psychological Association Convention, Toronto, Canada.
  7. 10/96 - "A Collaborative Approach to Psychological and Spiritual Issues in Rehabilitation". Poster presented with Iacono, M., at the American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine, Chicago, Illinois.
  8. 12/99 - "The Psychobiology of Chronic Pain and PTSD" Short Course at the 7th International Congress on Ericksonian Hypnosis and Psychotherapy. Phoenix, AZ, December, 1999.
  9. 12/01 - "The Neurobiology of Pain and Hypnosis". Short Course at the 8th International Congress on Ericksonian Hypnosis and Psychotherapy.  Phoenix, AZ.
  10. 3/02 - "The Neurobiology of Pain Processing, Affect, and Hypnosis". Annual Meeting, American Society of Clinical Hypnosis (ASCH), Indianapolis. IN, March, 2002.
  11. 12/02 - "The ABC's of Rehabilitation". Short Course at The Brief Therapy Conference, Orlando, FL, December, 2002.
  12. 12/03 - "Executive Coaching". Short Course at The Brief Therapy Conference, San Francisco, CA.
  13. 3/06 - "Application of recent findings in the neurobiology of pain and affect to the practice of hypnosis". 48th Annual Meeting, American Society of Clinical Hypnosis, Orlando, FL.
  14. 6/06 - "The brain and the perception of pain", Brain and the Law Section, The Fourth June Orton Memorial Lecture and Symposium, Wake Forest University School of Medicine.
  15. 1/07 - "Utilizing multiple brain pathways for healing: expanding hypnotic pain management to the affective dimension of pain", Scientific symposium. ASCH-SCEH Joint Annual Meeting, Dallas TX.
  16. 12/07 - "Expanding hypnotic pain management to the affective dimension of pain”. Short Course: The Tenth International Congress on Ericksonian Hypnosis and Psychotherapy, Phoenix, AZ.
  17. 10/10 - "Integrative Awareness Training", Poster Presentation, Annual Meeting, Consortium of Academic Health Centers for Integrative Medicine, Alberquerque, NM.
  18. 10/12 - “Integrating Eastern and Western Approaches in Teaching Self Awareness and Self Care to Medical Students: Integrative Awareness Training: Washington, D.C., International Congress for Educators in Complementary & Integrative Medicine.
  19. 10/13 – “Introducing Mind-Body Approaches to Inexperienced Patients – A Diaphragmatic Breathing/Concentration Meditation Approach”, Accepted Workshop, International Congress for Clinicians in Complementary and Integrative Medicine, Chicago, Ill. Published in:  Global Adv Health Med. 2013;2(Suppl):19B. DOI: 10.7453/gahmj.2013.097CP.S19B
  20. 03/15 – “The Rhythmic Finger Focus Hypnotic Induction Technique: The Utilization And Entrainment Of Interacting Neurological Processes To Transform Sympathetic To Parasympathetic Nervous System Activation And Coherence” Accepted Workshop, the 57th American Society of Clinical Hypnosis Scientific Meeting and Workshops, Jacksonville, FL.
  21. 12/15 – “The Rhythmic Finger Focus Hypnotic Induction Technique: The Utilization And Entrainment Of Interacting Neurological Processes To Transform Sympathetic To Parasympathetic Nervous System Activation And Coherence”. Short Course, The 12th International Congress on Ericksonian Approaches to Psychotherapy, Phoenix, AZ.   
  22. 12/16 – Two brief hypnotic techniques to generate emotional coherence through Ericksonian utilization and psychophysiological entrainment, Short Course, The Brief Therapy Conference, San Diego, CA.
  23. 3/19 – Two hypnotic techniques that utilize energy medicine concepts as a bridge to integrative medicine and health, Accepted workshop, the 61st American Society of Clinical Hypnosis Annual Scientific Meeting and Workshops, San Antonio, TX.

 

Contact
Website
https://school.wakehealth.edu/Faculty/F/Jeffrey-B-Feldman
Presentations/ teachings
Qualifications

Invited Presentations and Seminars:

  1. 2/85 - “Ericksonian Hypnosis and Indirect Suggestion”, New York, N.Y., Invited Workshop, American Group Psychotherapy Association.
  2. 12/86 - "The Utilization of Cognition in Psychotherapy: A Comparison of Ericksonian and Cognitive Therapy". Phoenix, AZ, Invited presentation, Third International Congress on Ericksonian Approaches to Hypnosis and Psychotherapy.
  3. 2/88 - “Ericksonian Hypnosis and Indirect Suggestion”, New York, N.Y., Invited Workshop, American Orthopsychiatric Association.
  4. 12/88 - "Combining Ericksonian & Cognitive Therapy", San Francisco, CA, Invited workshop, Fourth International Congress on Ericksonian Approaches to Hypnosis and Psychotherapy.
  5. 12/94 - "Ericksonian Methods of Behavioral Medicine". Los Angeles, CA, Invited workshop, Sixth International Congress on Ericksonian Approaches to Hypnosis and Psychotherapy; also served on a supervision panel, topical panel, and as a small group supervisor.
  6. 8/97 - "Psychological Evaluation of Chronic Pain". Hilton Head, SC, Advanced Course: Pain & Disability. American Academy of Disability Evaluating Physicians.
  7. 9/97 - "The Worker’s Compensation Patient: A Paradoxical Cognitive-Behavioral Approach to Rehabilitation". Orlando, FL, Invited presentation, 52nd Annual Florida Worker’s Compensation Educational Conference.
  8. 12/04 - "Pain processing, affect and hypnosis: implications for treatment", Phoenix, AZ, Invited workshop, 9th International Congress on Ericksonian Hypnosis and Psychotherapy.
  9. 9/08 – “Expanding hypnotic pain management to the affective dimension of pain", Chapel Hill, NC, Invited workshop, NC Society of Clinical Hypnosis.
  10. 12/11 - “Emotion-focused hypnotherapy for coping with pain” Phoenix, AZ, invited short course, The Eleventh International Congress on Ericksonian Approaches to Psychotherapy.
  11. 12/12 - “Emotion focused hypnotherapy for coping with pain”, invited short course, San Francisco, CA, Brief Therapy, Lasting Solutions, conference sponsored by the Milton H. Erickson Foundation.
  12. 9/18 – “CBT techniques for chronic pain”, 3 invited experiential workshops, Greenville, SC, Pain Society of the Carolinas Annual Meeting and Scientific Sessions.
  13. 12/19 – Getting in touch with the Energy within: Ericksonian utilization and joins energy medicine and neuroscience with a BHAM. Invited workshop, The 13th International Congress on Ericksonian Approaches to Psychotherapy, Phoenix, AZ.   
  14. 12/19 – Introducing mind-body approaches for pain management to the wary patient. Clinical demonstration, The 13th International Congress on Ericksonian Approaches to Psychotherapy, Phoenix, AZ.   

Media Presentations:

Featured in a three-part television series Success Over Stress, and a 30-minute Health Matters segment produced by Medstar Communications Inc. and aired on seventy stations throughout the U.S. and Canada. (1998)