Draft:Heidi M. Feldman

Feldman earned her BA degree from the University of Pennsylvania, majoring in psychology, in 1970. She spent a gap year in Panama, working as a research assistant at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. She then returned to the University of Pennsylvania to complete a PhD in developmental psychology in 1975.{{cite web|url=https://med.stanford.edu/profiles/heidi-feldman#bio|title=Stanford Medicine–Heidi M. Feldman|website=Stanford Profiles|access-date=May 5, 2025}} In 1979, she received an MD from the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, where she also completed her internship and residency, followed by fellowship training in developmental-behavioral pediatrics at Boston Children's Hospital in 1984.

In 1984, Feldman joined the faculty of the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and the Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh. She moved to Stanford University School of Medicine and Lucile Packard Children's Hospital in 2006.{{Cite web|url=https://cap.stanford.edu/profiles/viewCV?facultyId=7783&name=Heidi_Feldman|title=CV–Heidi Feldman|website=Stanford Profiles|access-date=May 5, 2025}}

Feldman has been the president of the Society of Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics.{{cite web |title=Past Presidents |url=https://sdbp.org/about/past-presidents/ |website=Society for Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics}}

Feldman has studied the development and resilience of language in children with atypical experiences or neurodevelopmental risks, including those who are deaf, have early brain injury, experience chronic otitis media, are born preterm, or have developmental-behavioral conditions.

Feldman examined how children develop communication in the absence of language models through a longitudinal observation study that evaluated deaf children of hearing parents who were not exposed to sign language or verbal language. The results showed that the children created a manual-gestural system called "home sign," a structured system that included many features of spoken language.{{cite journal |last1=Coppola |first1=Marie |title=Homesign Research, Gesture Studies, and Sign Language Linguistics: The Bigger Picture of Homesign and Homesigners |journal=Topics in Cognitive Science |date=11 November 2024 |doi=10.1111/tops.12766}}{{cite journal |last1=Goico |first1=Sara A. |title=A Linguistic Ethnography Approach to the Study of Deaf Youth and Local Signs in Iquitos, Peru |journal=Sign Language Studies |date=2020 |volume=20 |issue=4 |pages=619–643 |doi=10.1353/sls.2020.0021}}

Feldman investigated how properties of white matter in the brain relate to language and reading outcomes in children born preterm. Her research addressed the elevated risk of neurodevelopmental disorders, including impairments in language, cognition, and reading, among children born very or extremely preterm.{{cite web |title=The Matter of Language |url=https://dbpeds.stanford.edu/content/dam/sm/neonatology/documents/InternationalInnovationPreemieLanguageStudy.pdf |website=Stanford University |access-date=27 May 2025}} Using diffusion MRI (dMRI) to characterize white matter, she conducted observational studies that combined neuroimaging and behavioral assessments to explore whether disruptions in white matter might underlie these outcomes.{{cite news |title=After the NICU: Studying Connections Between Prematurity and Development |url=https://lpfch.org/impact-stories/after-the-nicu-studying-connections-between-prematurity-and-development/ |website=Lucile Packard Foundation for Children's Health |date=19 November 2014|title=After the NICU: Studying Connections Between Prematurity and Development}} Her findings showed that children born preterm exhibited specific difficulties in linguistic processing speed, verbal memory, and reading comprehension, with group differences in white matter microstructure remaining stable across childhood.{{cite journal |url=https://doi.org/10.1007/s00429-016-1302-1 |title=White matter properties differ in 6-year old Readers and Pre-readers |first1=Katherine E. |last1=Travis |first2=Jenna N. |last2=Adams |first3=Vanessa N. |last3=Kovachy |first4=Michal |last4=Ben-Shachar |first5=Heidi M. |last5=Feldman |journal=Brain Structure and Function |volume=222 |issue=5 |pages=1685–1703 |date=2017 |doi=10.1007/s00429-016-1302-1 |pmid=27631434 |pmc=5352545 |via=Springer}}

• 2012 – C. Anderson Aldrich Award, American Academy of Pediatrics{{Cite journal|url=https://publications.aap.org/aapnews/article-abstract/33/10/27/10123/C-Anderson-Aldrich-Award?redirectedFrom=fulltext|title=C. Anderson Aldrich Award|journal=AAP News|date=October 2012 |volume=33 |issue=10 |pages=27 |access-date=May 5, 2025}}
• 2016 – Clinical Research Award of Excellence, Stanford University{{cite web|url=https://med.stanford.edu/pediatrics/recognition-mentoring/previous-awards-day-winners.html|title=Stanford University Department of Pediatrics–Previous Pediatrics Faculty and Staff Winners|website=Stanford Medicine|access-date=May 5, 2025}}
• 2020 – Inaugural Fellow, National Academy of Distinguished Educators in Pediatrics

• {{cite book |title=The Parent's Guide to Speech and Language Problems |year=2007 |isbn=978-0071482455}}
• {{cite book |title=Redesigning Health Care for Children with Disabilities: Strengthening Inclusion, Contribution, and Health |year=2013 |isbn=978-1598572346}}
• {{cite book |title=Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics, Fifth Edition |year=2022 |isbn=978-0323809726}}

• {{cite journal|title=Clinical practice guideline: diagnosis and evaluation of the child with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder|last1=Committee on Quality Improvement|last2=Subcommittee on Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder|journal=Pediatrics|volume=105|issue=5|pages=1158–1170|date=2000|doi=10.1542/peds.105.5.1158|pmid=10836893 }}
• {{cite journal|title=Clinical practice guideline: treatment of the school-aged child with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder|last1=Subcommittee on Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder|last2=Committee on Quality Improvement|journal=Pediatrics|volume=108|issue=4|pages=1033–1044|date=2001|doi=10.1542/peds.108.4.1033|pmid=11581465 }}
• {{cite journal|title=Academic and educational outcomes of children with ADHD|first1=I. M.|last1=Loe|first2=Heidi M.|last2=Feldman|journal=Journal of Pediatric Psychology|volume=32|issue=6|pages=643–654|date=2007|doi=10.1093/jpepsy/jsl054|pmid=17569716 }}
• {{cite journal|title=ADHD: clinical practice guideline for the diagnosis, evaluation, and treatment of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder in children and adolescents|last1=Subcommittee on Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder|last2=Steering Committee on Quality Improvement and Management|journal=Pediatrics|volume=128|issue=5|pages=1007–1022|date=2011|doi=10.1542/peds.2011-2654|pmid=22003063 |pmc=4500647 }}
• {{cite journal|title=Tract profiles of white matter properties: automating fiber-tract quantification|first1=J. D.|last1=Yeatman|first2=R. F.|last2=Dougherty|first3=N. J.|last3=Myall|first4=B. A.|last4=Wandell|first5=Heidi M.|last5=Feldman|journal=PLOS ONE|volume=7|issue=11|pages=e49790|date=2012|doi=10.1371/journal.pone.0049790|doi-access=free |pmid=23166771 |pmc=3498174 |bibcode=2012PLoSO...749790Y }}
• {{cite journal|title=Family Navigation for Children with Autism: A Scoping Review of Quantitative and Qualitative Evidence|first1=I. Y.|last1=Lin|first2=A. C.|last2=Morgan|first3=C. D.|last3=Stave|first4=Heidi M.|last4=Feldman|first5=L. C.|last5=Huffman|journal=Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders|pages=1–23|date=2025|doi=10.1007/s10803-025-06798-9|pmid=40100561 }}

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