Dr. Robert J. Goldberg, Ph.D., is Professor and Chief, Division of Epidemiology of
Chronic Diseases and Vulnerable Populations, in the Department of Quantitative Health
Sciences at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. He is also Program Director
of the medical school's Masters of Science in Clinical Investigation (MSCI) Program.
Dr. Goldberg has been actively involved in community-based studies of the natural history
and primary and secondary prevention of coronary heart disease, heart failure, and deep
venous thrombosis for more than three decades. He and several clinical researchers
established the Worcester Heart Attack Study in the early 1980s. Through the current
period of federal funding support, they are examining more than three-decade-long trends
(1975-2007) in the incidence rates, in-hospital and long-term survival, and therapeutic
approaches used in the management of more than 14,000 greater Worcester, Mass. residents
hospitalized with acute myocardial infarction at all medical centers in the Worcester
metropolitan area. He also presently serves as the Co-PI on a population-based
surveillance project that is examining changing trends in the incidence, hospital and
long-term case-fatality rates, and management practices of in and outpatients with venous
thromboembolism among residents of the Worcester metropolitan area. He is also receiving
funding support from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute to develop
community-wide hospital and outpatient surveillance for heart failure in greater
Worcester residents. Dr. Goldberg serves as the senior epidemiologist for the Global
Registry of Acute Coronary Events (GRACE) Project, which is a large multinational
coronary disease registry examining differences in the management practices, hospital,
and post-discharge outcomes of more than 50,000 patients hospitalized in 14 countries
with an acute coronary syndrome.

Articles

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Contemporary Prevalence and Correlates of Incident Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction (with Jerry H. Gurwitz, David J. Magid, David H. Smith, David D. McManus, Larry A. Allen, Jane S. Saczynski, Micah L. Thorp, Grace Hsu, Sue Hee Sung, and Alan S. Go), The American journal of medicine (2013)
 

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Recent Trends in the Incidence, Treatment, and Prognosis of Patients With Heart Failure and Atrial Fibrillation (the Worcester Heart Failure Study) (with David D. McManus, Jane S. Saczynski, Darleen M. Lessard, Menhel Kinno, Rahul Pidikiti, Nada Esa, and Josephine Harrington), The American journal of cardiology (2013)
 

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Response to Comment on: Goldberg et al. Circadian Variation in the Response to the Glucose Challenge Test in Pregnancy: Implications for Screening for Gestational Diabetes Mellitus. Diabetes Care 2012;35:1578-1584 (with Chang Ye, Mathew Sermer, Philip W. Connelly, Anthony J. G. Hanley, Bernard Zinman, and Ravi Retnakaran), Diabetes care (2013)
 

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Atrial fibrillation and outcomes in heart failure with preserved versus reduced left ventricular ejection fraction (with David D. McManus, Grace Hsu, Sue Hee Sung, Jane S. Saczynski, David H. Smith, David J. Magid, Jerry H. Gurwitz, and Alan S. Go), Journal of the American Heart Association (2013)
 

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Greater knowledge and appreciation of commonly-used research study designs (with David D. McManus and Jeroan J. Allison), The American journal of medicine (2013)
 

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Contributions to Books

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Coronary Heart Disease: Epidemiology, Risk Factors, and Temporal Trends (with Jorge L. Yarzebski), Lifestyle Medicine (1999)
 

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Factors Associated with Prehospital Delay and Overview of Community Trials to Reduce the Duration of Prehospital Delay in Patients with Symptoms of Acute Coronary Disease (with Voula Osganian), Textbook of Coronary Thrombosis and Thrombolysis (1997)
 

Presentations and Posters

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Improved Survival after Heart Failure: A Community-based Perspective (with Kristy T. Webster, Samuel W. Joffe, David D. McManus, MIchael S. Kiernan, Darleen M. Lessard, Jorge L. Yarzebski, Chad E. Darling, and Joel M. Gore), Senior Scholars Program Presentation Day (2013)
 

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Impact of medical and neurological ICU complications on moderate-severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) (with Susanne Muehlschlegel, Raphael A. Carandang, Cynthia Ouillette, Wiley R. Hall, and Frederick A. Anderson Jr.), Clinical and Translational Science Research Retreat (2012)
 

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Incidence rates of ICU complications in moderate-severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) (with Susanne Muehlschlegel, Raphael A. Carandang, Cynthia Ouillette, Wiley R. Hall, and Frederick A. Anderson Jr.), Clinical and Translational Science Research Retreat (2012)
 

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Serum sodium values and their association with adverse outcomes in moderate-severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) (with Lucia Rivera Lara, Susanne Muehlschlegel, Raphael A. Carandang, Cynthia Ouillette, Wiley R. Hall, and Frederick A. Anderson Jr.), Clinical and Translational Science Research Retreat (2012)
 

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Admission Hyperglycemia in Setting of Acute Heart Failure is Associated with Increased In-hospital Mortality Among Patients without Diabetes (with Nicholas J. Maselli, Chad E. Darling, David D. McManus, Darleen M. Lessard, and Jane S. Saczynski), Senior Scholars Program (2012)
 

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