Peter Feig

Biography

 Dr. Feig has spent more than 20 years in various executive roles in the pharmaceutical industry, most recently at Merck Research Laboratories, with responsibility for cardiovascular programs worldwide.  As an executive in the pharmaceutical industry, Dr. Feig has taken several products from Phase I through marketing approval and has had key roles in worldwide in- and out-licensing and development of marketing strategies.  Since 2008, Peter has been a faculty member of the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, an outpatient physician at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital and a teaching faculty member in the Nephrology Division.  Peter trained as a Clinical Fellow (Nephrology) at Beth Israel Hospital, Boston, MA, and as a Research Fellow at Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.  His therapeutic areas of expertise are cardiovascular and metabolic diseases.  He has been the recipient of many public and private research grants and has authored or co-authored more than 90 original articles, reviews, book chapters and abstracts. Peter, a board certified internist and nephrologist, has an M.D. from University of Sao Paulo School of Medicine, Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Research Interest

 Dr. Feig  therapeutic areas of expertise are cardiovascular and metabolic diseases.