Alvan Feinstein

Alvan Feinstein
Born(1925-12-04)December 4, 1925
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US
DiedOctober 25, 2001(2001-10-25) (aged 75)
Alma materUniversity of Chicago
Known forclinical epidemiology
clinimetrics
Academic work
InstitutionsIrvington House Institute
Yale University

Alvan Feinstein (December 4, 1925 – October 25, 2001) was an American clinician, health informatician, and epidemiologist who had a significant impact on clinical investigation, especially in the field of clinical epidemiology that he helped define. He is regarded as one of the fathers of modern clinical epidemiology.