Stephen L. DeFelice, M.D.
Founder, and ChairmanStephen L. DeFelice, M.D., Founder and Chairmen, 1976 First generation Italian American, son of Italian immigrants Temple University, B.A. degree, 1957 Jefferson Medical College, 1961 Primarius, Phi Alpha Sigma Fraternity Joseph’s College and Villanova University, Philadelphia: Courses in Philosophy Physician on call for the Philadelphia Grand Opera Company NIH Fellow in Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolic Disease, Jefferson Medical College Pfizer Fellow in Clinical Pharmacology at St. Vincent’s Medical Center. Brought carnitine into the United States and conducted the first U.S. clinical study in patients with hyperthyroidism. Obtained four patents on carnitine for cardiology and oncology claims. Carnitine is now FDA approved for the treatment of Primary Carnitine Deficiency, a fatal disease in children. Captain, U.S. Army: Chief of Clinical Pharmacology at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR) during the…
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Carnitine: An FDA Approved Natural Substance Therapy for Children Shows Promise for Patients with Pulmonary Hypertension
(A Patient History Following the Moderna Covid booster shot) Stephen L. DeFelice, M.D. It all began in late 2021 after Patricia Anne Connell, the woman whom I love, received the Moderna Covid vaccine booster shot. What followed were chronic devastating, painful attacks on her multiple body systems so much so that she, over a year and a half later, has been, with the exception of periodic short stays at home, hospitalized or in a physical therapy facility. Three times her medical team strongly recommended to her the Hospice option which I would not permit simply because there were promising options.… Read More
April 2020
COVID-19 and Beyond: Presents An Historic Opportunity for the FDA Commissioner to Create a Two-Tier System to Accelerate the Discovery of Cures and Breakthrough Therapies for Diseases and Disabilities Stephen L. DeFelice, M.D., Chairman SUMMARY Covid-19 is a national overdue wake-up call to the disturbing reality that, despite the richness of our technology and abundance of creative scientists and physicians, the major weapon we currently have is quarantine. And few have asked the question why. And few have also asked, despite such richness and creativity, why there are so few cures for diseases and disabilities in general. There is one… Read More
March 17, 2017
The Doctornaut
Reform Proposal is Released
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Who can argue that the most efficient path to reduce health care costs is best done by accelerating the discovery of cures of diseases and disabilities? The need for doctor visits, pharmaceuticals, diagnostic tests such as CAT scans and hospitalizations will be substantially reduced. The recently enacted 21st Century Cures Act by Congress, however, is an unfortunate misnomer for it will not deliver the misleading promise of its title. But there is something that will. The Doctornaut Act will do the job resulting in the accelerated discovery of cures accompanied by a substantial reduction of costs in all… Read More
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Dr. Defelice on Family
Prominent Research Physician Points to Cures As Key to Holding down Medical Costs
WESTFIELD, N.J., May 23, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Stephen L. DeFelice, M.D., Founder and Chairman of FIM, The Foundation for Innovation in Medicine, released a new video criticizing mainstream health care cost projections of Medicare, Medicaid and Obamacare, among others, because they omit the discovery of cures. He…Read More