Candace Feldman, MD, MPH, ScD is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School in the Division of Rheumatology, Inflammation and Immunity. She received her MD from the Yale School of Medicine, her MPH from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and her Doctor of Science degree in Social and Behavioral Sciences from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She completed both her internal medicine/primary care residency and rheumatology fellowship at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Clinically, she is a practicing rheumatologist with an interest in the care of patients with lupus as well as patients with complex medical and social needs. Her research focuses on racial, ethnic and socioeconomic health inequities in rheumatic and musculoskeletal disease care and outcomes and intervention design to reduce these inequities. She was awarded the Mary Betty Stevens Young Investigator Prize by the Lupus Foundation of America, she serves on the Medical and Scientific Advisory Board of the Lupus Foundation of America, she is an Associate Editor at Lupus Science & Medicine and on the Editorial Board of Arthritis Care & Research. She is the Co-Director of Health Equity Initiatives for the BWH Department of Medicine and leads Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Efforts for the Division of Rheumatology. Her current research is supported by grants from the NIH, the Bristol Myers Squibb Foundation and the Arthritis Foundation to study social determinants of health and equity-related issues in systemic rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases.
