Editor's note: If you would like to contribute to Dr. Goldberg's charitable and educational efforts, please call: 215-955-6227, or email barry.goldberg@Jefferson.edu, or write to:
Barry B. Goldberg
Jefferson Ultrasound Institute
Thomas Jefferson University

132 South 10th St.
Philadelphia, PA 19107

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Biographical Sketch

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Barry B. Goldberg, M.D.


Barry B. Goldberg, MD, graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1959 and earned his medical degree in 1963 from the same university. He served his internship (1963-1964) and radiology residency (1964-1967) in Philadelphia at the Albert Einstein Medical Center, where he developed his interest in ultrasound.

In 1977 Dr. Goldberg came to Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, where he was named Professor of Radiology. There, he established the ultrasound division that would grow to become one of the largest ultrasound facilities in the world, performing more than 40,000 examinations a year in 20 clinical examination rooms. In 1992 the University created the Jefferson Ultrasound Research and Education Institute (JUREI), with Dr. Goldberg as its Director. The Institute has opened seventy-two affiliated ultrasound education programs and training centers around the world through funding from foundations, corporations, and U.S. Government agencies. Recognized by the World Health Organization as its only Collaborating Center for Continuing and General Education in Diagnostic Ultrasound, JUREI has trained more than 15,000 physicians, scientists, and educators world-wide.

Dr. Goldberg has written 95 chapters, 25 books, and 304 peer-reviewed papers and has received more than 145 grants from government, foundations and industry. He is a Past President of the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine and the World Federation of Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology, a global organization of ultrasound societies which has more than 50,000 members.

The RSNA recognized Dr. Goldberg's research accomplishments when they granted him the Outstanding Researcher award in 1998, and his educational achievements when they granted him the Outstanding Educator award in 2001. The Philadelphia Roentgen Ray Society named him Outstanding Educator in the same year. He has been named as a Fellow of the American College of Radiology, the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine, the American Heart Association, the Council of Cardiovascular Radiology, and the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering. In 2000 he received an honorary medical degree from the University of Bologna, Italy, in recognition of his contributions to ultrasound research and education, and in 2001 he received an honorary fellowship in the Royal College of Radiologists, London, England.

In 2002 Dr. Goldberg was elected President of the Radiology Outreach Foundation (ROF), a non-profit foundation whose goal is to help improve healthcare in developing countries by providing radiology educational materials and equipment. Also in 2002 Dr. Goldberg founded, with a group of world recognized physicians and scientists, a non-profit foundation, the International Certification and Educational Accreditation Foundation (ICEAF), to provide certification in medical ultrasound to physicians internationally and to establish accreditation for educational programs, with a special emphasis on underserved and developing countries. He currently serves as its President. In 2003 Dr. Goldberg founded the Global Ultrasound Equipment Donation Foundation (GUEDF). Its mission is to provide donated ultrasound equipment to needy clinics, hospitals, and teaching facilities in emerging and developing countries around the world. He currently serves as its President.

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