Matthew Goldenberg, MD, MSc
Associate Professor of PsychiatryCards
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Co-Director, Medical Student Clerkship, Biopsychosocial Approach to Health-Psychiatry, Psychiatry
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Psychiatry
184 Liberty Street
New Haven, CT 06519
United States
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Additional Titles
Co-Director, Medical Student Clerkship, Biopsychosocial Approach to Health-Psychiatry, Psychiatry
Contact Info
Psychiatry
184 Liberty Street
New Haven, CT 06519
United States
Appointments
Additional Titles
Co-Director, Medical Student Clerkship, Biopsychosocial Approach to Health-Psychiatry, Psychiatry
Contact Info
Psychiatry
184 Liberty Street
New Haven, CT 06519
United States
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Associate Professor of Psychiatry
Co-Director, Medical Student Clerkship, Biopsychosocial Approach to Health-Psychiatry, Psychiatry
Biography
Matthew Goldenberg, M.D., M.Sc., is a psychiatrist who has been on the faculty at Yale and the staff of Yale-New Haven Hospital since 2013. He serves as an attending psychiatrist in the YNHH emergency department's Crisis Intervention Unit. He is active in medical student education at Yale, serving as a member of the steering committee for the inegrated Primary Care and Psychiatry Clerkship and a regular lecturer, seminar leader and tutor to medical and physician associate students.
Prior to arriving at Yale, he was a faculty member at Uniformed Services University (USUHS) and Dartmouth Medical School, and served as the director of the medical student psychiatry clerkship directors at both institutions. He also directed the psychiatric emergency and consultation/liaison services at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center. He also earned a MSc in Global Mental Health from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine/King's College London in 2013.
A native of Birmingham, Alabama, Dr. Goldenberg graduated from Yale College in 1999 with a degree in history and received the Potter and Clement prizes for his senior thesis, Touchdown, Brown: Race, Football and the Desegregation of Birmingham Schools, 1954-1980. He received his medical degree from Yale in 2003 and then completed residency training in general psychiatry at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill where he also served as chief resident.
Dr. Goldenberg’s professional interests include medical student and resident education, emergency psychiatry, physician political behavior/advocacy, race in medicine, health promotion, as well as international and refugee mental health. He received a certificate in Global Mental Health from the Harvard Program in Refugee Trauma in 2009. He is a member of the American Psychiatric Association (APA) and the Association of Directors of Medical Student Education in Psychiatry (ADMSEP).
He is the author of A is for Artisanal: An Alphabet Book for the Hip, Modern Baby, published in 2013.
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Psychiatry
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Education & Training
- MSc
- King's College London (2013)
- Residency
- Univeristy of North Carolina (2007)
- MD
- Yale University School of Medicine (2003)
- BA
- Yale College, History (1999)
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Kirsten Wilkins, MD
Pnina Weiss, MD, MHPE
Tanvee Varma
Publications
2022
Physician-Legislators in Federal and State Government in 2022
Varma T, Goldenberg M. Physician-Legislators in Federal and State Government in 2022. JAMA 2022, 328: 2450-2452. PMID: 36342708, PMCID: PMC9641586, DOI: 10.1001/jama.2022.20830.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchCitationsAltmetricDisaster Victims and the Response to Trauma
Goldenberg M, Benedek D, Ursano R. Disaster Victims and the Response to Trauma. 2022, 443-455. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-10239-4_32.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsMental health professionalsTraumatic eventsMental health impactPsychological impactHealth professionalsProfound tollPost-disaster settingsBehavioral effectsTreatment resourcesDisaster victimsSocial valuesAdverse sequelaeCOVID-19 pandemicSuch effectsEnhanced preventionDisaster preparednessProfessionalsCommunity psychiatristsSpanish fluPsychiatristsHealth impactsVictimsDisaster eventsSignificant problemDisasters
2020
When Doctor Means Teacher: An Interactive Workshop on Patient-Centered Education
Mitchell T, Goldenberg M. When Doctor Means Teacher: An Interactive Workshop on Patient-Centered Education. MedEdPORTAL 2020, 16: 11053. PMID: 33324753, PMCID: PMC7732137, DOI: 10.15766/mep_2374-8265.11053.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchCitationsAltmetricMeSH Keywords and ConceptsConceptsPatient-centered educationPatient-centered communication skillsPatient-centered modelClerkship medical studentsDiscussion of skillsTwo-session workshopHealth careMedical providersRole-playing exercisesEducating patientsInteractive curriculumCurricular gapsInteractive workshopMedical educationDemonstration of confidenceMedical studentsPublished curriculaGroup discussionsCommunication skillsDidactic instructionDecision-makingTwo-sessionTeaching modalitiesSessionsWorkshopPhysicians' political party affiliation and clinical management of obesity
Zatz L, Hersh E, Gudzune K, Thorndike A, Goldenberg M, Bleich S. Physicians' political party affiliation and clinical management of obesity. Clinical Obesity 2020, 10: e12396. PMID: 32803863, DOI: 10.1111/cob.12396.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchCitationsAltmetricMeSH Keywords and ConceptsConceptsObesity management optionsMedical recordsPrimary care physicians' reportsEvidence-based careCross-sectional surveyObesity careClinical managementFollowing outcomesPhysician reportsProvider characteristicsClinical careObesityPatient vignettesPatientsManagement optionsSecondary analysisCareTime courseHealth risksPCPMedicationsOptionsLikelihood
2019
11. MISTREATMENT OF PEDIATRIC RESIDENTS BY PATIENTS AND THEIR FAMILIES IS COMMON AND REQUIRES MORE EFFECTIVE INTERVENTIONS
Shaikh H, Hatfield M, Ciaburri R, Wilkins K, Bjorkman K, Goldenberg M, Weiss P. 11. MISTREATMENT OF PEDIATRIC RESIDENTS BY PATIENTS AND THEIR FAMILIES IS COMMON AND REQUIRES MORE EFFECTIVE INTERVENTIONS. Academic Pediatrics 2019, 19: e7-e8. DOI: 10.1016/j.acap.2019.05.025.Peer-Reviewed Original Research
2016
Democratic and Republican physicians provide different care on politicized health issues
Hersh ED, Goldenberg MN. Democratic and Republican physicians provide different care on politicized health issues. Proceedings Of The National Academy Of Sciences Of The United States Of America 2016, 113: 11811-11816. PMID: 27698126, PMCID: PMC5081578, DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1606609113.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchCitationsAltmetricMeSH Keywords and ConceptsConceptsPrimary care physiciansHealth issuesCare physiciansPatient careSalient health issuesPatient populationPhysician demographicsTreatment decisionsPatient vignettesFirearm safetyTreatment planDrug useUnwarranted variationDifferent carePhysiciansRegistration databaseCareSexual behaviorPatientsManagement optionsFaster, Higher, Stronger: How Sports Science Is Creating a New Generation of Superathletes—And What We Can Learn From Them By Mark McClusky
Goldenberg M. Faster, Higher, Stronger: How Sports Science Is Creating a New Generation of Superathletes—And What We Can Learn From Them By Mark McClusky. Psychiatry 2016, 79: 318-319. DOI: 10.1080/00332747.2016.1222216.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchA professional opinion: You don't need a psychiatrist to know there's something wrong with Donald Trump
LA Times Op-Ed:http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-goldenberg-trump-mental-health-20160823-snap-story.htmlPeer-Reviewed Original ResearchYour Surgeon is Probably a Republican, Your Psychiatrist Probably a Democrat
New York Times (Margot Sanger-Katz): http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/07/upshot/your-surgeon-is-probably-a-republican-your-psychiatrist-probably-a-democrat.html?_r=0Peer-Reviewed Original Research
2015
House Calls
Goldenberg MN. House Calls. Southern Medical Journal 2015, 108: 657-661. PMID: 26539942, DOI: 10.14423/smj.0000000000000366.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchCitationsAltmetricMeSH Keywords and Concepts
Academic Achievements and Community Involvement
activity Association of Directors of Medical Student Education in Psychiatry
Professional OrganizationsMemberDetailsMember of Global Mental Health (Chair), Faculty Development and Research Task Forces06/13/2009 - Presentactivity American Psychiatric Association
Professional OrganizationsMemberDetails07/01/2003 - Presenthonor MedEd Portal Award
National AwardAssociation of Directors of Medical Student Education in PsychiatryDetails06/15/2013United States
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- July 08, 2024
Goldenberg Elected President of Association of Directors of Medical Student Education in Psychiatry
- December 14, 2023Source: The New England Journal of Medicine
Antiracist Documentation Practices — Shaping Clinical Encounters and Decision Making
- December 06, 2022
Coming Together to Address the Mistreatment of Health Care Staff by Patients
- November 07, 2022Source: JAMA
Physician-Legislators in Federal and State Government in 2022
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184 Liberty Street
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