Northeast College Welcomes Renowned Neuroscientist, Author and Speaker Dr. David Felton

Northeast College of Health Sciences welcomed prominent neuroscientist and speaker Dr. David Felton to campus on May 24 for an academic event held in conjunction with Keuka College.

The preeminent speaker and educator, also the author of the widely used and award-winning book "Netter's Atlas of Neuroscience, Dr. Felton presented "Neural Communication with the Immune System: Moving a New Field Forward When You Don't Know Where It's Going" in the packed Delavan Theater on Northeast's Seneca Falls, N.Y. campus. 

The first Distinguished Scholar in Residence in the Division of Applied Health and Wellness at Keuka College, Dr. Felton's contributions to neuroscience helped to establish the fields of neural-immune signaling, and psychoneuroimmunology as a foundation for the physiological understanding of complementary and integrative medicine.

"The field of neuroscience is endlessly fascinating and endlessly challenging," says Dr. Felten. "How the brain works is still one of the awesome fields of knowledge we don't know. And I have said that, even after 50 years, I have the equivalent understanding of how the brain works as perhaps a teaspoonful of water out of the Pacific Ocean."

Dr. Felten is currently the Associate Dean of Clinical Sciences at University of Medicine and Health Sciences (UMHS), headquartered in New York City.

Among Dr. David Felton's Many Accomplishments:

• Author of more than 200 peer-reviewed publications in research, medicine and business, most on links between the nervous system and immune system.
• Presenter of more than 100 major addresses and presentations at national and international symposia and scientific meetings.
• Past chairman of the board and chair of the Scientific and Medical Advisory Board of Clerisy Corp, a biotech corporation in Pittsford, N.Y.
• Former vice president for research, and medical director of the Beaumont Research Institute at the Beaumont Health System in Royal Oak, Mich.
• Past associate dean for research and clinical research professor (neuroscience), Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine in Oakland County, Mich.
• Supervised the establishment of a Core Molecular Laboratory, a BioBank, and the core infrastructure for the Research Institute, and worked with physicians and bench scientists to help investigate key clinical questions through clinical translational research.