Dr. Goldberg received his BSc degree in physics from McGill University in 1975. After pursuing various activities, he returned to academic life in 1982 and obtained an MSc in 1985 and a PhD in 1991 from McGill University, both degrees were in epidemiology and biostatistics. He is currently an associate professor at McGill University in the Department of Medicine and associate member in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, the McGill School of Environment, and the Department of Oncology. He also holds an Investigator Award from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research.

Dr. Goldberg’s main interests in research have been in occupational and environmental epidemiology, focusing especially on environmental and occupational causes of cancer. Some notable studies include cancer incidence and mortality in a cohort of synthetic textiles workers, health effects arising from exposures to ambient biogas produced in municipal solid waste sites, occupational risk factors for breast cancer and colon cancer, environmental risk factors for lung cancer, and the long- and short-term health effects from exposures to pollutants in ambient air. With regards the latter, he was a member of the team that reanalysed the Harvard Six Cities Cohort and the American Cancer Society studies on the long-term effects of air pollution on mortality.

Dr. Goldberg’s current research includes a panel study in congestive heart failure to determine whether air pollution affects essential indicators of health status, a longitudinal study of the short-term health effects of air pollution, a study of traffic-related air pollution and socioeconomic gradients in the incidence of cancer, and a case-control study to investigate gene-environment interactions in postmenopausal breast cancer.

He has also pursued other lines of research, including long-term health effects for having adolescent idiopathic scoliosis, for which he and his colleagues were awarded the 1993 Russell Hibbs Award for Clinical Medicine from the Scoliosis Research Society. Dr. Goldberg has been involved in research related to the effects of smoking on back pain, the health effects of diagnostic radiographs in women diagnosed with scoliosis, and health services related to treatment for cancer. He is a member of a large research team developing a multi-university research consortium to develop a clinical informatics infrastructure to be used in patient follow-up and clinical and population-based research.

Dr. Goldberg has published over 70 papers in scientific peer-review journals, sits on a number of scientific review panels, is a member of Health Canada’s Science Advisory Board, and has also sat on a number of expert committees of the U.S. National Academies.

Dr. Goldberg lives with Dr. Nancy Mayo, an epidemiologist at McGill University, and has two children together, aged 17 and 19. He spends most of his free time with his family. His hobbies include astrophysics, golf, and coaching hockey.