Steven A. Goldman, M.D., Ph.D.

Dr. Steven A. Goldman is the URMC Distinguished Professor of Neuroscience and Neurology, and co-Director of Rochester's Center for Translational Neuromedicine. He has a concurrent appointment as Professor of Neuroscience at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark, where he serves as co-director of its sister Center for Translational Neuromedicine, and as Professor of Neuology at its affiliated Copenhagen University Hospital. Goldman moved to Rochester in 2003 from the Weill Medical College of Cornell University, where he was the Nathan Cummings Professor of Neurology, and Attending Neurologist at New York Presbyterian Hospital. A summa cum laude graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, he obtained his PhD with Fernando Nottebohm at the Rockefeller University in 1983, and his MD from Cornell in 1984. Dr. Goldman interned in Medicine and did his residency in Neurology under Fred Plum at New York Hospital-Cornell, and Jerome Posner at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, before joining the Cornell faculty. Goldman moved to Rochester as the Dean Zutes Chair in Biology of the Aging Brain, and as Chief of the Neurology department's Division of Cell and Gene Therapy; he subsequently served as the founding program director for Rochester's neuro-oncology training program, and served as Chairman of the Department (2008-12). Dr. Goldman remains active clinically, with subspecialty interests in stroke, myelin disease and neuro-oncology.

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