Lee R. Goldberg, MD, MPH, FACC, FAHA, FHFSA is Professor of Medicine at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He is Chief of the Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Section in the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine. He is Vice Chair of Medicine for Informatics at the University of Pennsylvania and in this role is responsible for the implementation and optimization of the electronic medical record as well as coordinating quality and operational data across the Department of Medicine. Dr. Goldberg is board certified (and re-re-certified) in Internal medicine, Cardiovascular Disease and Advanced Heart Failure and Cardiac Transplant. He was the Principle Investigator of an AHRQ sponsored RO1 grant evaluating the impact of different technology models on heart failure disease management. He is formerly a Co-PI of an NIH sponsored RO1 grant studying behavioral economics as part of heart failure remote monitoring and is the current PI of the REST Trial evaluating the impact of a phrenic nerve stimulator to treat central sleep apnea. He is a Trustee of the American College of Cardiology. He is past Chair of the Member Section Steering Committee of the American College of Cardiology and served as the past Chair of the Heart Failure and Cardiac Transplant Leadership Council. He is past Chair of the Heart Failure and Transplant Medicine Council of the International Society of Heart and Lung Transplantation. He is a past member of the Health Information Technology Task Force, Digital Steering Committee and Cardiovascular Management Council, Lifelong Learning Committee and the Digital Transformation Committee of the American College of Cardiology. He is co-chair of the International Sessions for the ACC Annual Meeting Program Committee. He is a member of the AHA Get with the Guidelines Heart Failure Clinical Workgroup and the ACC CMP for Advanced Heart Failure Evaluation Question Writing Committee.
Dr. Goldberg earned his medical degree cum laude from Boston University School of Medicine. He completed an internal medicine internship and residency at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania followed by fellowships in cardiovascular disease and heart failure and transplantation at Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard University. He received his Master of Public Health Degree concentrating in Clinical Effectiveness from the Harvard University School of Public Health.
The author over 120 peer reviewed manuscripts and numerous, abstracts and reviews, Dr. Goldberg’s work has been published in Circulation, Circulation – Heart Failure, Journal of the American College of Cardiology, JAMA, Internal Medicine, JACC Basic to Translational Scient, Lancet, Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, Cardiovascular Drugs and Therapy, American Journal of Cardiology, The Journal of Heart Lung Transplantation and The American Heart Journal. He is on the Editorial Board for JACC-Heart Failure serves as a reviewer for publications including The New England Journal of Medicine, Journal of the American College of Cardiology, European Journal of Cardiology, Annals of Internal Medicine, the Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation, and the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine.
Dr. Goldberg is a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology, Fellow of the American Heart Association and Fellow of the Heart Failure Society of America. He is a member of the International Society of Heart and Lung Transplantation. He is a frequent invited lecturer on topics including health information technology, congestive heart failure, sleep apnea and heart failure, heart failure disease management and remote monitoring, ventricular assist devices and cardiac transplantation.