Robert Joel Goldberg PhD

Dr. Robert J. Goldberg, Ph.D., is Professor and Chief, Division of Epidemiology of Chronic Diseases and Vulnerable Populations, in the Department of Quantitative Health Sciences at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. He is also Program Director of the medical school's Masters of Science in Clinical Investigation (MSCI) Program. Dr. Goldberg has been actively involved in community-based studies of the natural history and primary and secondary prevention of coronary heart disease, heart failure, and deep venous thrombosis for more than three decades.

Dr. Goldberg serves as the senior epidemiologist for the Global Registry of Acute Coronary Events (GRACE) Project, which is a large multinational coronary disease registry examining differences in the management practices, hospital, and post-discharge outcomes of more than 50,000 patients hospitalized in 14 countries with an acute coronary syndrome.