Dr. Goldstein is an emergency physician who specializes in neurologic emergencies. He received both his M.D. and Ph.D. from the University of Connecticut in 2000, and completed his residency at the Harvard Affiliated Emergency Medicine Residency in 2005. He then completed a research fellowship in Vascular and Critical Care Neurology at Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham & Women’s Hospital. He is currently the Vice Chair for Faculty Affairs and the Director of the Center for Neurologic Emergencies in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital; a Professor of Emergency Medicine at Harvard Medical School; and the MGH Endowed Chair in Emergency Medicine Research.
He is a Fellow of the Neurocritical Care Society, the American Heart Association, the American College of Emergency Physicians, and the American Academy of Emergency Medicine.

Dr. Goldstein manages a clinical research program integrating neurology, hematology, neurocritical care, and emergency medicine. His team is funded by NIH, foundations and industry. He has served as an invited speaker at many national and international forums, has published over 250 peer reviewed articles in journals such as Stroke, Neurology, and Lancet, and over 40 reviews and book chapters. Finally, he coauthored the AHA Guidelines on Intracerebral Hemorrhage, and directs a CME course on Neurologic Emergencies (the largest of its kind) that draws over 180 participants from across the world annually.