Dr. Goldstein is the Dean of the University
of Pittsburgh’s Graduate
School of Public Health. He
served as the Director of the Environmental and Occupational Health
Sciences Institute, a joint program of Rutgers University and
the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ)-
Robert Wood Johnson Medical School from 1986-2001. He was the Chair of the Department of Environmental and Community
Medicine, UMDNJ-Robert
Wood Johnson
Medical School
from 1980-2001.
Dr. Goldstein earned his B.S. degree
at the University of
Wisconsin in 1958 and
his M.D. degree at New York University School of Medicine in 1962. He is a physician, board certified in Internal
Medicine and Hematology; board certified in Toxicology.
Dr. Goldstein is also Immediate Past
President for the Society for Risk Analysis, Vice President of
the Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment (SCOPE),
and a member of the NIH National Advisory Environmental Health
Sciences Council (NAEHS). Dr.
Goldstein was Assistant Administrator for Research and Development,
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 1983-1985. His past activities include Member and Chairman
of the NIH Toxicology Study Section and EPA’s Clean Air Scientific
Advisory Committee; Chair of the Institute of Medicine Committee
on the Role of the Physician in Occupational and Environmental
Medicine, the National Research Council Committees on Biomarkers
in Environmental Health Research and Risk Assessment Methodology
and the Industry Panel of the World Health Organization Commission
on Health and Environment. He
is a Member of the Institute
of Medicine where he
has chaired the Section on Public Health, Biostatistics, and Epidemiology
and he has been a Member of the Institute
of Medicine Committee
on Environmental Justice: Research, Education, and Health Policy
Needs. He was the first Principal Investigator of the
Consortium of Risk Evaluation with Stakeholder Participation (CRESP). Dr. Goldstein served as Acting Dean of the UMDNJ-School
of Public Health from 1998 to 1999, the first year of its formation.
He is the author of over two hundred articles and book
chapters related to environmental health sciences and to public
policy.
