Professor Charles Feldman obtained his MB BCh degree at the University of the Witwatersrand, in Johannesburg, South Africa, and subsequently d his FCP (SA) from the College of Medicine of South Africa and his PhD and DSc (senior doctorate) degrees from the University of the Witwatersrand. His current position is that of Distinguished Professor of Pulmonology in the Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand. He spent a Medical Research Council Postdoctoral Scholarship as Research Fellow and Honorary Senior Visiting Colleague, Host Defence Unit, Department of Thoracic Medicine, National Heart and Lung Institute, and Royal Brompton Hospital, London, UK in 1988/9 He is a member of a number of national and international societies and has been President of the South African Thoracic Society on two previous occasions. He is very active in the American Thoracic Society (ATS) having held a number of posts, including leadership posts, within the Pulmonary Infection-TB Assembly of ATS. He was elected as a Fellow of the European Respiratory Society in 2014 and a Fellow of the ATS in 2018. Professor Feldman is a National Research Foundation of South Africa A-rated scientist. He undertakes both clinical and laboratory-based research in the area of community-acquired pneumonia He has more than 380 publications. In 2018 Professor Feldman received the Platinum Medal of the Medical Research Council of SA for his “outstanding lifetime scientific achievement in the field of health”.
