American College Of Physicians And American Heart Association Award Top Clinical Honors To Columbia University Evp Lee Goldman, M.D.
Goldman Known for Development of Analytical and Computer Models Now Widely Used to Assess Public Health and Clinical Medicine Outcomes
NEW YORK – A noted national health outcomes expert and dean of one of the nation’s leading medical schools has been honored by both the American College of Physicians and the American Heart Association for his career contributions to the analysis of clinical medicine and to improvements in healthcare delivery.
Lee Goldman, M.D. Lee Goldman, M.D., executive vice president of Columbia University and dean of the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, was awarded the 2007 John Phillips Memorial Award by the American College of Physicians (ACP). The honor was announced April 21 at “Internal Medicine 2007,” ACP’s annual medical education meeting held in San Diego. Established by the ACP to honor Dr. Phillips, a governor and regent of the ACP who died in a fire at the Cleveland Clinic, the award is bestowed for outstanding work in clinical medicine, including all phases of clinical research or the practice of medicine.
Dr. Goldman was also honored by the American Heart Association (AHA). The AHA Quality of Care and Outcomes Outstanding Achievement Award was presented at the AHA’s Scientific Forum on Quality of Care and Outcomes Research in Cardiovascular Disease and Stroke in Washington, D.C. on May 9.
A pioneer in the application of epidemiologic and statistical analysis to key areas of clinical medicine, Dr. Goldman has developed innovative predictive models used by clinical investigators and practicing physicians throughout the world. The most widely used of these models are the Goldman Index for assessing cardiac risk involved in non-cardiac surgeries and the Goldman Criteria to determine which patients with chest pain require hospital admission. Another of his analytical products, the Coronary Heart Disease Policy Model, established priorities for preventing and treating coronary disease. At the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), he also created the first academic program for hospitalists - physicians with solely hospital inpatient practice.
After receiving his undergraduate and medical degrees from Yale University, where he also earned a masters degree in public health, Dr. Goldman did his clinical training at UCSF and Massachusetts General Hospital, and in cardiology at Yale New Haven Hospital. Before joining Columbia he was the Julius R. Krevans Distinguished Professor and chair of the department of medicine and associate dean for clinical affairs at the UCSF School of Medicine. Prior to moving to San Francisco, he served as professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, professor of epidemiology at Harvard School of Public Health, and vice chair of the department of medicine and later chief medical officer at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
Dr. Goldman was a creator of the Harvard Program in Clinical Effectiveness, which was one of the models for an NIH program that trains physician investigators at academic medical centers throughout the country. He has published more than 450 journal articles, was the editor-in-chief of the American Journal of Medicine, and is currently editor of Cecil’s Textbook of Medicine. He has served as president of the Society of General Internal Medicine, and has been the recipient of the group’s highest honor, the Glaser Award. He was also president of the Association of American Physicians, from which he received the Blake Award. Dr. Goldman was president of the Association of Professors of Medicine and was a director of the American Board of Internal Medicine. He is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies of Sciences.
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