Meet Dr. Feingold
Heart Psychologist founder, Dr. Kim Feingold, is a cardiac psychologist with more than 25 years of experience at top heart hospitals helping patients navigate their cardiac journey by attending to the emotions, stressors, and unique needs of cardiac patients. She addresses risk factor reduction, health anxiety, post-operative depression, stress management and tools to live life more fully with heart disease.
Dr. Feingold is the founder and director of the Cardiac Behavioral Medicine Service at Northwestern Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute and she serves on the faculty at Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University. She is a top-rated clinician, educator, speaker, consultant, researcher, and media expert.
Dr. Feingold is grateful to be a part of patients' health journeys and allow them to realize their strength, resilience, and capacity to transform amidst challenge. Dr. Feingold's research interests have focused on the intersection of stress, depression, and heart disease. Her research has addressed less traditional forms of stress management among cardiopulmonary patients, including acupuncture, relaxation techniques, humor, and optimism. Her research has been published in top medical journals including The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Health Psychology, and Heart & Lung: The Journal of Acute and Critical Care.
Dr. Feingold is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate from the University of Michigan with a degree in Psychology and Communications. She holds a Ph.D. in clinical health psychology from the Ohio State University. She completed a health psychology internship at Rush University Medical Center (RUMC) in Chicago. While there, she saw an unmet need in cardiology and advocated to create and implement a post-doctoral psychology fellowship in cardiac psychology where she focused on several cardiac populations including preventive cardiology, advanced heart failure and transplant, electrophysiology, interventional cardiology, general cardiology, pulmonary hypertension, and women’s heart disease. Following her fellowship, she was hired as assistant professor at RUMC where she directed the Cardiac Psychology service within Cardiology for several years. In 2005, she was hired by Northwestern University to establish and direct a Cardiac Behavioral Medicine program at Northwestern Medicine, where she has treated cardiac and cardiac surgery patients for the past 20 years. To this day, Northwestern Medicine remains one of only a few medical centers in the country to house clinical cardiac psychologists within the division of cardiac surgery. She is a licensed clinical psychologist in the state of IL and is authorized by the PSYPACT Commission to provide telepsychology services in PSYPACT participating states.
Dr. Feingold has consistently pushed boundaries in her career to advocate for cardiovascular care that includes the emotional and behavioral aspects of heart disease. With Heart Psychologist, Dr. Feingold arms cardiac patients, loved ones, and providers everywhere with information to ensure that cardiac health incorporates both the heart and the mind. She lives in Chicago with her husband and two children.
Get to Know Dr. Feingold
Favorite sound: the surf, laughter
Favorite smell: fresh cut grass, lavender, permanent marker
Favorite color: green
Favorite mood boosters and stress busters: walking outside, talking with a friend, helping someone, exercising, taking a few slow deep breaths, a spritz of eucalyptus spray in a hot shower, 3-2-1, watching comedy
Favorite things: the last moment of a sunset, belly laughter, spicy food, ski towns in summer, a rugged coastline, live music and theater, sarcasm, sunny days, exercising, cheering on the kids from the sidelines, meeting new people, helping others, traveling, game nights, couch time with the family.
Is Heart Psychologist Right for You?
Dr. Feingold has experience working with nearly all types of cardiac and cardiac surgery patients at various stages of their medical journey, including paients with athlerosclerosis, valve disease, electrical or rhythm disorders, hypertension, hypercholesterolemia, non-cardiac chest pain, dysautonomias including POTS, connective tissue disorders, atrial fibrillation, cardiomyopathies, sudden cardiac death, SCAD, takotsubo cardiomypathy, acute coronary syndrome including heart attack, adult congential heart disease, advanced heart failure, heart transplant and VAD, pulmonary hypertension, brugada syndrome, aneurysm, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, and more. Heart Psychologist was created with folks like you in mind.
