2d top Jefferson official to leave, for Temple

Arthur M. Feldman, who has been chair of the department of medicine at Jefferson Medical College, is moving to Temple next month.

Effective Sept. 1, Feldman will become executive dean of the Temple University School of Medicine and chief academic officer of Temple University Health System.

That makes him the second-in-command on the academic side of the health system to Larry Kaiser, who took charge of the system and medical school in April.

Feldman, 61, earned a doctorate in biology and physiology before going to medical school and becoming a cardiologist.

Early in his career, he was director of the Belfer Laboratory for Molecular Biology of Heart Failure and of the Heart Failure Research program at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. In 1994, he became chief of the division of cardiology and director of the Cardiovascular Institute of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and Health System. He went to Jefferson in 2002.

Last month, Robert Barchi, the president of Thomas Jefferson University, announced that he would step down next year.