Sidney Goldstein, M.D.
Henry Ford Hospital
Division Head, Emeritus
Professor of Medicine - Wayne State University
Member since 2010

Sidney Goldstein, M.D., is division head emeritus of the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit.

He received his bachelor's degree and his medical degree at Cornell University.  Following an internship and residency at the New York Hospital Cornell Medical Center, he was a research fellow sponsored by the New York Heart Association at New York Hospital Cornell Medical Center.  Before joining Henry Ford Hospital, he was 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 basic and clinical research have been in the area of ischemic heart disease, the mechanism 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 conducted 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 and treatment of heart failure.

He is author or co-author of more than 250 peer-reviewed articles, numerous editorials and book chapters.  He is co-editor of Heart Failure Reviews, a journal examining the spectrum of research in heart failure from basic sciences to clinical research.  He is the medical editor of Cardiology News and has serve on the editorial boards of the American Journal of Cardiology, the American Journal of Geriatric Cardiology and the Internal Medicine News.  Dr. Goldstein is a fellow of the American College of Cardiology and a past member of its board of trustees. He was the 2015 recipient of the Life Time Achievement  Award of the Heart Failure Society of America.