Sidney Goldstein, MD

Sidney Goldstein, MD, is Professor of Medicine at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine in Cleveland, Ohio, and Division Head, Emeritus, of the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, Michigan. Dr. Goldstein received his medical education at Cornell University Medical School. He completed both an internship and residency at the New York Hospital - Cornell Medical Center, where he served as a research fellow sponsored by the New York Heart Association. Before moving to Henry Ford Hospital, and then to Case Western, he served as head of the cardiology division at Rochester General Hospital in Rochester, New York, and Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Rochester.

Dr. Goldstein’s major areas of research have been in clinical trials, ischemic heart disease and prevention of sudden cardiac death, and the treatment of heart failure. He served as chairman of the steering committee of the Beta-Blocker Heart Attack Trial and was a principal investigator in the Aspirin Myocardial Infarction Study, the Cardiac Arrhythmia Suppression Trial and the Asymptomatic Cardiac Ischemia Pilot Study. He has carried out extensive research on the mechanism and prevention of sudden death supported by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. His current research interests are directed at understanding the basic mechanism of heart failure. He is Co-Principal Investigator of Metoprolol CR Randomized Interventional Trial in Heart Failure (MERIT-HF).

Widely published, he is the author or co-author of more than 250 peer-reviewed articles, editorials and book chapters. He is co-editor of Heart Failure Reviews a journal examining the spectrum of research in heart failure from basic science to clinical research. He is medical editor of Cardiology News and currently serves on the editorial boards of the American Journal of Cardiology, American Journal of Geriatric Cardiology and Internal Medicine News.

Dr. Goldstein is a fellow of the American College of Cardiology and a past member of its board of trustees and chairman of the Workforce and Credential Committees. He is also a member of the Council of Clinical Cardiology and Epidemiology of the American Heart Association and a fellow of the American College of Physicians, and a member of the American Federation for Clinical Research and the Central Society for Clinical Research and the Association of University Cardiologists.