Ira J. Goldberg MD

Dr. Ira J. Goldberg, MD, received his undergraduate degree from MIT and his medical degree from Harvard Medical School. He was an intern and resident in medicine at New York University-Bellevue Hospital Medical Center. He was appointed to the faculty of the Department of Medicine at Columbia University in 1983 and was Chief of the Division of Preventive Medicine and Nutrition and the Dickinson Richards Professor of Medicine.

Dr. Goldberg has published over 200 articles. These include writing numerous book chapters, editorials, and reviews. Dr. Goldberg’s research has focused on abnormalities of lipoprotein metabolism, macrovascular disease in diabetes, and the role of triglycerides in atherosclerosis. He is an associate editor of both the Journal of Lipid Research and the Journal of Clinical Lipidology.

Among Dr. Goldberg’s honors is a MERIT Award from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. He was chosen to give the 2007 R. Levy Lecture of the NPAM Council and the 2017 L. Duff Lecture of the ATVB Council of the American Heart Association, the E. Bierman Lecture on diabetes and heart disease at the 2010 American Diabetes Association Meeting, and the 2016 D. Rubinstein Lecture of the Canadian Lipoprotein Conference. He has previously served as chair of the NIH Metabolism and CADO (cellular aspects of diabetes and obesity) study sections and is currently a standing member of the MIM (myocardial ischemia and metabolism) study section.