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Dr. Marianne E. Felice is Chair of the Department of Pediatrics and Professor of Pediatrics and Obstetrics & Gynecology at the University of Massachusetts Medical School and Physician-in-Chief of the UMass Memorial Children’s Medical Center. Dr. Felice graduated summa cum laude from Carlow University in Pittsburgh, PA and received her medical degree from the Pennsylvania State University School of Medicine. She completed her pediatric residency at the Harrisburg Polyclinic Hospital and a Fellowship in Behavioral Pediatrics/Adolescent Medicine at the University of Maryland. After fellowship, Dr. Felice joined the University of Maryland faculty and created a Behavioral Pediatrics Training Program for the pediatric housestaff. She was then recruited to the University of California, San Diego, where she developed a new Division of Adolescent Medicine. After eleven years in California, Dr. Felice was recruited back to the University of Maryland to become Chief of the Division of Adolescent Medicine and Vice-Chair of the Department of Pediatrics, positions she held until 1998 when she was recruited to the University of Massachusetts for her current position. From 2001-2002, she served as the Interim Chief Executive Officer of UMass Memorial Health Care while the Board of Trustees recruited a permanent CEO.
Dr. Felice is a highly respected clinician and has been elected consistently to the list of Best Doctors in America for many years. She is strongly committed to medical education and teaches and mentors medical students and housestaff on a regular basis. She has authored about 150 articles, chapters, monographs and abstracts related to adolescent health, particularly adolescent sexuality and teen pregnancy. She is a frequent invited speaker at national/international medical meetings. She has been awarded more than $25 million in private, state, and federal agency grant funds for service, training, or research programs in child health. In 2007, as the Principal Investigator, Dr. Felice led a team of accomplished UMass researchers to secure NIH funding to identify UMass Medical School as one of 35 centers for the National Children’s Study.
As an advocate for children and youth, Dr. Felice has served on many local and national committees and boards, and has testified often before state and national government bodies on behalf of children’s issues. For example, since 2002, Dr. Felice has served as Chair of the Worcester Infant Mortality Reduction Task Force, a multi–agency, citywide committee to address high infant mortality rates locally. Dr. Felice has been an officer of the major professional societies in her field. In 1983, she was president of the Society for Adolescent Medicine, the youngest person to hold that position. For several years, she was Chair of the Committee on Adolescence of the American Academy of Pediatrics. Currently, Dr. Felice is immediate Past President of the Association of Medical School Pediatric Department Chairs, serves on the Steering Committee of the National Children’s Study, and is an elected member of the Board of Directors of the Society for Adolescent Medicine. Dr. Felice has received numerous awards including the Pennsylvania State University Alumni Fellow Award in Medicine in 1988, the American Academy of Pediatrics Adele Hofman Award for outstanding achievement in Adolescent Health in 1996. In 2004, she was the 200th Orator for the Massachusetts Medical Society; the third woman to receive such an honor. In 2006, Dr. Felice received the Katherine Erskine Award for Medicine or Science from the YWCA and, in 2008, she was given the Lois B. Green Achievement Award for Leadership from the United Way. In 2009, she was honored by Carlow University as an University Laureate for leadership in her field and by the March of Dimes for leadership in infant health.
In her spare time, Dr. Felice enjoys a vigorous game of tennis, learning to play jazz on the drums, or traveling with her husband, John M. Giles, III. |
