Goldstein Named Associate Dean for Medical Education

Joshua Goldstein, MD, has been named associate dean for medical education at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. He will also become vice president and Accreditation Council on Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) Designated Institutional Official for the McGaw Medical Center.

These roles constitute the primary leadership position for graduate medical education (GME) at Northwestern. Goldstein has served in an interim capacity for the past year, succeeding Sharon Dooley, MD, who held the post for a decade.

Goldstein studied in New York, graduating from Hamilton College before receiving a Doctor of Medicine degree from the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry. He then completed pediatric residency and neurology/pediatric neurology training at Washington University in St Louis, and a pediatric epilepsy fellowship at McGaw/Children’s Memorial Hospital. In 2002, he joined the Feinberg faculty as an assistant professor of pediatrics. His clinical and scholarly interests are in pediatric neurocritical care.

As pediatric neurology residency program director, associate program director of the pediatrics residency, and a member of the McGaw Graduate Medical Education Committee, Goldstein has been actively involved in GME throughout his career.