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Bernard D. Goldstein
Biography
[EPA press release - November 21, 1983]
Dr. Bernard D. Goldstein, EPA Assistant Administrator for Research and Development for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
Goldstein, 44, is a physician and a research scientist who has written dozens of scientific journal articles on environmental medicine. He has served as a scientific advisor to EPA since 1978, and he has been chairman of the agency's Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee since 1982.
"The Senate's confirmation of Dr. Goldstein means the agency's critical research and development projects will be in the hands of a scientist with exceptional skills," said EPA Administrator William D. Ruckelshaus. "Bernie is one of this country's leading authorities on environmental medicine. His outstanding work in this field will add immeasurably to EPA's scientific objectives."
Goldstein has been chairman of the Department of Environmental and Community Medicine of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey-Rutgers Medical School since 1980.
During the same period, he has served as chief of the Division of Environmental and Community Medicine of Middlesex General Hospital and as an associate professor of the Department of Environmental Medicine at the New York University Medical Center.
Between 1975 and 1980, Goldstein was an associate professor of the Medicine and Environmental Medicine Departments of New York University's School of Medicine. He was a National Institutes of Health Senior International Fellow at the Department of Biochemistry at Brunel University and at the Department of Community Medicine at St. Thomas' Hospital and Medical School in London, England.
Goldstein received his B.S. from the University of Wisconsin in 1958 and his M.D. from New York University School of Medicine in 1962. He is married and has two children.