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Professor
- Organization:
- West Virginia University School of Medicine
- Department:
- Behavioral Medicine & Psychiatry
- Classification:
- Faculty
Professor, Infectious Diseases
- Organization:
- West Virginia University School of Medicine
- Department:
- Medicine
- Classification:
- Faculty
Professor
- Organization:
- West Virginia University School of Medicine
- Department:
- Department of Neuroscience
- Classification:
- Faculty
Professor
- Organization:
- West Virginia University School of Medicine
- Department:
- Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute (SOM)
- Classification:
- Faculty
Education
- MD, Rush Medical College
Publications
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2024 Fredericksen RJ, Baker R, Sibley A, Estadt AT, Colston D, Mixson LS, Walters S, Bresett J, Levander XA, Leichtling G, Davy-Mendez T, Powell M, Stopka TJ, Pho M, Feinberg J, Ezell J, Zule W, Seal D, Cooper HLF, Whitney BM, Delaney JAC, Crane HM, Tsui JI. Motivation and context of concurrent stimulant and opioid use among persons who use drugs in the rural United States: a multi-site qualitative inquiry. Harm Reduct J 2024;21(1):74. PMID: 38561753. PMCID: PMC10985853. DOI: 10.1186/s12954-024-00986-z Heo M, Norton BL, Pericot-Valverde I, Mehta SH, Tsui JI, Taylor LE, Lum PJ, Feinberg J, Kim AY, Arnsten JH, Sprecht-Walsh S, Page K, Murray-Krezan C, Anderson J, Litwin AH; HERO Study Group. Optimal hepatitis C treatment adherence patterns and sustained virologic response among people who inject drugs: The HERO study. J Hepatol 2024:S0168-8278(23)05374-6. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 38242324. DOI: 10.1016/j.jhep.2023.12.020 Lopes SS, Pericot-Valverde I, Arnsten J, Lum PJ, Taylor LE, Mehta SH, Tsui JI, Feinberg J, Kim AY, Norton BL, Page K, Murray-Krezan C, Anderson J, Moschella P, Heo M, Litwin AH. Self-reported and measured adherence to hepatitis C direct-acting antiviral therapy and sustained virologic response among people who inject drugs: The HERO study. Int J Drug Policy 2024;123:104288. PMID: 38103458. DOI: 10.1016/j.drugpo.2023.104288 Lopes SS, Pericot-Valverde I, Lum PJ, Taylor LE, Mehta SH, Tsui JI, Feinberg J, Kim AY, Norton BL, Page K, Murray-Krezan C, Anderson J, Karasz A, Arnsten J, Moschella P, Heo M, Litwin AH. Overreporting of adherence to hepatitis C direct-acting antiviral therapy and sustained virologic response among people who inject drugs in the HERO study. BMC Infect Dis 2024;24(1):251. PMID: 38395747. PMCID: PMC10893697. DOI: 10.1186/s12879-024-09124-3 2023 Ballard AM, Falk D, Greenwood H, Gugerty P, Feinberg J, Friedmann PD, Go VF, Jenkins WD, Korthuis PT, Miller WC, Pho MT, Seal DW, Smith GS, Stopka TJ, Westergaard RP, Zule WA, Young AM, Cooper HLF. Houselessness and syringe service program utilization among people who inject drugs in eight rural areas across the USA: a cross-sectional analysis. Harm Reduct J 2023;20(1):157. PMID: 37880724. PMCID: PMC10601138. DOI: 10.1186/s12954-023-00892-w Batchelder AW, Heo M, Foley JD, Sullivan MC, Lum P, Pericot Valverde I, Taylor LE, Mehta SH, Kim AY, Norton B, Tsui JI, Feinberg J, Page K, Litwin AH; HERO Study Group. Shame and stigma in association with the HCV cascade to cure among people who inject drugs. Drug Alcohol Depend 2023;253:111013. PMID: 37951006. DOI: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2023.111013 Estadt AT, Miller WC, Kline D, Whitney BM, Young AM, Todd Korthuis P, Stopka TJ, Feinberg J, Zule WA, Pho MT, Friedmann PD, Westergaard RP, Eagen KV, Seaman A, Ma J, Go VF, Lancaster KE. Associations of hepatitis C virus (HCV) antibody positivity with opioid, stimulant, and polysubstance injection among people who inject drugs (PWID) in rural U.S. communities. Int J Drug Policy 2023:104222. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 37806839. DOI: 10.1016/j.drugpo.2023.104222 Ibragimov U, Livingston MD, Young AM, Feinberg J, Korthuis PT, Akhtar WZ, Jenkins WD, Crane HM, Westergaard RP, Nance R, Miller WC, Bresett J, Khoury D, Hurt CB, Go VF, Nolte K, Cooper HLF. Correlates of Recent HIV Testing Among People Who Inject Drugs in Rural Areas: A Multi-site Cross-Sectional Study, 2018-2020. AIDS Behav 2023. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 37515742. DOI: 10.1007/s10461-023-04140-x Jenkins WD, Friedman SR, Hurt CB, Korthuis PT, Feinberg J, Del Toro-Mejias LM, Walters S, Seal DW, Fredericksen RJ, Westergaard R, Miller WC, Go VF, Schneider J, Giurcanu M. Variation in HIV Transmission Behaviors Among People Who Use Drugs in Rural US Communities. JAMA Netw Open 2023;6(8):e2330225. PMID: 37603331. PMCID: PMC10442709. DOI: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2023.30225 Karasz A, Merchant K, Arnsten J, Feinberg J, Kim AY, Lum PJ, McKee MD, Mehta SH, Meissner P, Norton BL, Page K, Pericot-Valverde I, Singh R, Stein E, Taylor LE, Tsui JI, Wagner K, Litwin A. A Video-Observed Treatment Strategy to Improve Adherence to Treatment Among Persons Who Inject Drugs Infected With Hepatitis C Virus: Qualitative Study of Stakeholder Perceptions and Experiences. J Med Internet Res 2023;25:e38176. PMID: 37266986. PMCID: PMC10276322. DOI: 10.2196/38176 Levander XA, Foot CA, Magnusson SL, Cook RR, Ezell JM, Feinberg J, Go VF, Lancaster KE, Salisbury-Afshar E, Smith GS, Westergaard RP, Young AM, Tsui JI, Korthuis PT. Contraception and healthcare utilization by reproductive-age women who use drugs in rural communities: a cross sectional survey. Journal of General Internal Medicine 2023;38:98-106. PMID: 35731368. PMCID: PMC9849531. DOI: 10.1007/s11606-022-07558-6 Macmadu A, Gurka KK, Linn HI, Smith GS, Feinberg J. Factors associated with non-evidence-based overdose responses among people who use prescription opioids non-medically in rural Appalachia. Substance Use & Misuse 2023;58(2):163-170. PMID: 36546533. DOI: 10.1080/10826084.2022.2135967 Page K, Feinberg J. What Hepatitis C (HCV) diagnostic tools are needed to advance diagnosis of current HCV infection in outreach settings and in a non-clinical setting? J Infect Dis 2023:jiad269. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 37739782. DOI: 10.1093/infdis/jiad269 Pericot-Valverde I, Lopes SS, Nahvi S, Thrasher JF, Karasz A, Taylor LE, Mehta SH, Lum PJ, Tsui JI, Page K, Feinberg J, Kim AY, Norton BL, Arnsten JH, Fernandez-Artamendi S, Heo M, Litwin A; HERO Research Group. Reduction in Depressive Symptoms in People who Inject Drugs who Are Cured of Hepatitis C Virus Infection: The HERO Study. Open Forum Infect Dis 2023;10(11):ofad498. PMID: 38023556. PMCID: PMC10644781. DOI: 10.1093/ofid/ofad498 Person AK, Armstrong WS, Evans T, Fangman JJW, Goldstein RH, Haddad M, Jain MK, Keeshin S, Tookes HE, Weddle AL, Feinberg J. Principles for ending human immunodeficiency virus as an epidemic in the United States: a policy paper of the infectious disease society of America and the HIV medicine association. Clinical Infectious Diseases 2023;76(1):1-9. PMID: 35965395. DOI: 10.1093/cid/ciac626 Rockett IRH, Ali B, Caine ED, Shepard DS, Banerjee A, Nolte KB, Connery HS, Larkin GL, Stack S, White FMM, Jia H, Cossman JS, Feinberg J, Stover AN, Miller TR. Escalating costs of self-injury mortality in the 21st century United States: an interstate observational study. BMC Public Health 2023;23(285). PMID: 36755229. PMCID: PMC9906586. DOI: 10.1186/s12889-023-15188-8 Schmidt RD, Horigian VE, Shmueli-Blumberg D, Hefner K, Feinberg J, Kondapaka R, Feaster DJ, Duan R, Gonzalez S, Davis C, Vena A, Marín-Navarrete R, Tross S. High suicidality predicts overdose events among people with substance use disorder: A latent class analysis. Front Public Health 2023;11:1150062. PMID: 37261240. PMCID: PMC10228506. DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2023.1150062 Tsui JI, Lum PJ, Taylor LE, Mehta SH, Feinberg J, Kim AY, Norton BL, Niu J, Heo M, Arnsten J, Pericot-Valverde I, Thomas A, Blalock KL, Radick A, Murray-Krezan C, Page K, Litwin AH, HERO Study Group. Injecting practices during and after hepatitis C treatment and associations with not achieving cure among persons who inject drugs. Drug and Alcohol Dependence 2023;247:109878. PMID: 37150144. DOI: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2023.109878 Tsui JI, Whitney BM, Korthuis PT, Chan B, Pho MT, Jenkins WD, Young AM, Cooper HLF, Friedmann PD, Stopka TJ, de Gijsel D, Miller WC, Go VF, Westergaard R, Brown R, Seal DW, Zule WA, Feinberg J, Smith GS, Mixson LS, Fredericksen R, Crane HM, Delaney JA; Rural Opioid Initiative Consortium. Methamphetamine use and utilization of medications for opioid use disorder among rural people who use drugs. Drug Alcohol Depend 2023;250:110911. PMID: 37549545. DOI: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2023.110911 2022 Baus A, Calkins A, Feinberg J, McManaway K, Moser S, Pollard C, Sutphin R. Using Health Information Technology to Create Pathways for Hepatitis C Treatment and Cure in West Virginia. Perspect Health Inf Manag 2022;19(1):1j. PMID: 35440923. PMCID: PMC9013224 Bhandari R, Alexander T, Annie FH, Kaleem U, Irfan A, Balla S, Wiener RC, Cook C, Nanjundappa A, Bates M, Thompson E, Smith GS, Feinberg J, Fisher MA. Steep rise in drug use-associated infective endocarditis in West Virginia: Characteristics and healthcare utilization. PLoS One 2022;17(7):e0271510. PMID: 35839224. PMCID: PMC9286279. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0271510 Bhandari R, Tiwari S, Alexander T, Annie FH, Kaleem U, Irfan A, Balla S, Wiener RC, Cook C, Nanjundappa A, Bates M, Thompson E, Smith GS, Feinberg J, Fisher MA. Sex Differences in Characteristics of Patients with Infective Endocarditis: A Multicenter Study. J Clin Med 2022;11(12):3514. PMID: 35743584. PMCID: PMC9224802. DOI: 10.3390/jcm11123514 Bradley H, Austin C, Allen ST, Asher A, Bartholomew TS, Board A, Borquez A, Buchacz K, Carter A, Cooper HLF, Feinberg J, Furukawa N, Genberg B, Gorbach PM, Hagan H, Huriaux E, Hurley H, Luisi N, Martin NK, Rosenberg ES, Strathdee SA, Jarlais DCD. A stakeholder-driven framework for measuring potential change in the health risks of people who inject drugs (PWID) during the COVID-19 pandemic. Int J Drug Policy 2022;110:103889. PMID: 36343431. PMCID: PMC9574463. DOI: 10.1016/j.drugpo.2022.103889 Feinberg J, Keeshin S. Prevention and Initial Management of HIV Infection. Ann Intern Med 2022;175(6):ITC81-ITC96. PMID: 35696682. DOI: 10.7326/AITC202206210 Horigian VE, Schmidt RD, Shmueli-Blumberg D, Hefner K, Feinberg J, Kondapaka R, Feaster DJ, Duan R, Gonzalez S, Davis C, Marín-Navarrete R, Tross S. Suicidality as a Predictor of Overdose among Patients with Substance Use Disorders. J Clin Med 2022;11(21):6400. PMID: 36362628. PMCID: PMC9657076. DOI: 10.3390/jcm11216400 Jenkins RA, Whitney BM, Nance RM, Allen TM, Cooper HLF, Feinberg J, Fredericksen R, Friedmann PD, Go VF, Jenkins WD, Korthuis PT, Miller WC, Pho MT, Rudolph AE, Seal DW, Smith GS, Stopka TJ, Westergaard RP, Young AM, Zule WA, Delaney JAC, Tsui JI, Crane HM. The Rural Opioid Initiative Consortium description: providing evidence to Understand the Fourth Wave of the Opioid Crisis. Addict Sci Clin Pract 2022;17(1):38. PMID: 35883197. PMCID: PMC9321271. DOI: 10.1186/s13722-022-00322-5 Korthuis PT, Cook RR, Foot CA, Leichtling G, Tsui JI, Stopka TJ, Leahy J, Jenkins WD, Baker R, Chan B, Crane HM, Cooper HL, Feinberg J, Zule WA, Go VF, Estadt AT, Nance RM, Smith GS, Westergaard RP, Van Ham B, Brown R, Young AM. Association of Methamphetamine and Opioid Use With Nonfatal Overdose in Rural Communities. JAMA Netw Open 2022;5(8):e2226544. PMID: 35969400. PMCID: PMC9379740. DOI: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.26544 Litwin AH, Lum PJ, Taylor LE, Mehta SH, Tsui JI, Feinberg J, Kim AY, Norton BL, Heo M, Arnsten J, Meissner P, Karasz A, Mckee MD, Ward JW, Johnson N, Pericot-Valverde I, Agyemang L, Stein ES, Thomas A, Borsuk C, Blalock KL, Wilkinson S, Wagner K, Roche J, Murray-Krezan C, Anderson J, Jacobsohn V, Luetkemeyer AF, Falade-Nwulia O, Page K. Patient-centred models of hepatitis C treatment for people who inject drugs: a multicentre, pragmatic randomised trial. Lancet Gastroenterol Hepatol 2022;7(12):1112-1127. PMID: 36370741. DOI: 10.1016/S2468-1253(22)00275-8 O'Brien TC, Feinberg J, Gross R, Albarracín D. Supportive environments during the substance use disorder epidemic in the rural United States: Provider support for interventions and expectations of interactions with providers. Soc Sci Med 2022;294:114691. PMID: 35033798. DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2021.114691 Stansbury R, Rudisill T, Salyer R, Kirk B, De Fazio C, Baus A, Aryal S, Strollo PJ, Sharma S, Feinberg J. Provider Perspectives on Sleep Apnea from Appalachia: A Mixed Methods Study. J Clin Med 2022;11(15):4449. PMID: 35956065. PMCID: PMC9369967. DOI: 10.3390/jcm11154449 Stansbury R, Strollo P, Pauly N, Sharma I, Schaaf M, Aaron A, Feinberg J. Underrecognition of sleep-disordered breathing and other common health conditions in the West Virginia Medicaid population: a driver of poor health outcomes. J Clin Sleep Med 2022;18(3):817-824. PMID: 34669570. PMCID: PMC8883087. DOI: 10.5664/jcsm.9692 Wang K, DiChiacchio T, Fang W, Lander L, Feinberg J, Xie C, Winstanley EL, Ubolrat Piamjariyakul. Longitudinal study of impact of medication for opioid use disorder on Hamilton Depression Rating Scale. J Affect Disord 2022;297:148-155. PMID: 34670131. DOI: 10.1016/j.jad.2021.10.018 2021 Akhtar Z, Feinberg J. Chapter 3 - Opioid use disorder and rural America. In Norton BL (ed.), The Opioid Epidemic and Infectious Diseases 2021:25-38. DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-323-68328-9.00003-5 Burrell CN, Sharon MJ, Davis S, Feinberg J, Wojcik EM, Nist J, Lander O, Boley V, Burns J, Martin IBK. Using the electronic medical record to increase testing for HIV and hepatitis C virus in an Appalachian emergency department. BMC Health Services Research 2021;21(1):524. PMID: 34051774. PMCID: PMC8164230. DOI: 10.1186/s12913-021-06482-5 Cafardi J, Feinberg J. Chapter 2 - The case of Scott County: injection drug use and the HIV and hepatitis C virus outbreak. In Norton BL (ed.), The Opioid Epidemic and Infectious Diseases 2021:11-24. DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-323-68328-9.00002-3 Cafardi J, Haas D, Lamarre T, Feinberg J. Opportunistic fungal infection associated with covid-19. Open Forum Infectious Diseases 2021;8(7):ofab016. DOI: 10.1093/ofid/ofab016 Davis SM, Stover AN, Linn H, Dower J, McCawley D, Winstanley EL, Feinberg J. Establishing Peer Recovery Support Services to Address the Central Appalachian Opioid Epidemic: The West Virginia Peers Enhancing Education, Recovery, and Survival (WV PEERS) Pilot Program. J Appalach Health 2021;3(3):36-50. PMID: 35770037. PMCID: PMC9192111. DOI: 10.13023/jah.0303.04 Feinberg J, Pearce S. Opportunities for hepatitis B vaccination by SUD treatment programs. Alcoholism & Drug Abuse Weekly 2021;33(21):5-6. DOI: 10.1002/adaw.33082 Hodder SL, Feinberg J, Strathdee SA, Shoptow S, Altice FL, Ortenzio L, Beyer C. The opioid crisis and HIV in the USA: deadly synergies. Lancet 2021;397(10279):1139-1150. PMID: 33617769. DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(21)00391-3 Pollini RA, Paquette CE, Drvar T, Marshalek P, Ang-Rabanes M, Feinberg J, Haut MW. A qualitative assessment of discharge against medical advice among patients hospitalized for injection-related bacterial infections in West Virginia. International Journal of Drug Policy 2021;94:103206. PMID: 33765516. DOI: 10.1016/j.drugpo.2021.103206 Zibbell JE, Peiper NC, Duhart Clarke SE, Salazar ZR, Vincent LB, Kral AH, Feinberg J. Consumer discernment of fentanyl in illicit opioids confirmed by fentanyl test strips: Lessons from a syringe services program in North Carolina. International Journal of Drug Policy 2021;93:103128. PMID: 33487527 DOI: 10.1016/j.drugpo.2021.103128 |
Awards
Honors and Achievements
2020 You Make a Difference Award, Community Liver Alliance, Pittsburgh
2015 Cincinnati Healthcare Hero, finalist and winner, Community Outreach
Additional Info
PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS:
American College of Physicians (Fellow)
Infectious Diseases Society of America (Fellow)
American Society for Microbiology
American Association for the Advancement of Science
International AIDS Society
International Society for Antiviral Research
Society for Clinical Trials
American Academy of HIV Medicine
HIV Medical Association
International Network on Hepatitis in Substance Users
American Public Health Association
College on Problems of Drug Dependence
About Judith Feinberg
In 2005, Dr. Feinberg was the first physician in metropolitan Cincinnati to recognize that opioid injection drug use had emerged as a health threat, based on increased admissions for infective endocarditis. She became involved in harm reduction efforts and, in 2014, after a nine-year effort she established Ohio's 3rd syringe exchange and its 1st true syringe services program, the Cincinnati Exchange Project.
West Virginia has the highest rates of acute hepatitis B, acute hepatitis C, Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome, and overdose deaths in the U.S. After a long career in HIV/AIDS, she came to WVU in late 2015 to focus on ending these opioid-related epidemics at their epicenter. As Professor of Behavioral Medicine & Psychiatry and Professor of Medicine/Infectious Diseases, she is working hard to turn the tide on opioid misuse and opioid-related epidemics. She has federal funding from National Institute on Drug Abuse, the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Initiative, the Appalachian Regional Commission, and state funding from the WV Bureau for Public Health for these efforts. Dr. Feinberg was recently named the first E.B. Flink Vice Chair for Research in the Department of Medicine.