| Dr. Goldstein is the former Dean of the University of Pittsburgh’s Graduate School of Public Health and is currently a professor in the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health. Dr. Goldstein serves as the Chair of the UPACE Advisory Committee.
Dr. Goldstein’s research interests include risk assessment, toxicology, workplace hazards, internal medicine, preventive medicine, occupational and environmental medicine, and environmental health policy. He has conducted research on air quality and leukemia and various aspects of public health decision-making.
Dr. Goldstein was the founder and former Director of the Environmental and Occupational Sciences Institute at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. Dr. Goldstein also served as Assistant Administrator for Research and Development at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. He received his M.D. from the New York University School of Medicine. Dr. Goldstein was elected to the Institute of Medicine in 1991 (Section 9) and has served as a member and Chair of numerous committees for The National Academies which address subjects including risk assessment methodology, exposure to radioactive materials, and biological markers.
He currently serves as Chair of the NRC Standing Committee on Risk Assessment and Reviews; as Chair of the IOM/NRC Committee on Effectiveness of National Biosurveillance Systems: BioWatch and the Public Health System; and Chair of the IOM Interest Section on Environmental and Occupational Health and Toxicology. He is also a member of the IOM Roundtable on Environmental Health Sciences, Research and Medicine. |
