Personal Information:

Born December 2, 1955,  Flushing, NY

Lt. Col (Retired), US Air Force

Education:

1973-1977   Brandeis University, Waltham, MA

A.B. Major in Politics and Philosophy

•   Magna cum Laude with High Honors in Major
•   Dean’s List, all semesters
•   Phi Beta Kappa

1977-1981   Washington University, St. Louis, MO

MD

Surgical Training:

1981-1987   Washington University Medical Center, St. Louis, MO

Categorical Surgery Resident

•   One year in bench research in Pediatric Surgery (1985)

1990-1992   University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN

Surgical Oncology Fellowship

Honors & Awards:

•   1973 National Merit Scholar
•   1996, 1998 Surgical Educator of the Year, David Grant Medical Center
•   2001 Surgical Educator of the Year, University of California, Davis
•   2004 Surgical Educator Award, West Virginia University
•   2005 Nominated for WVU School of Medicine 2006 Distinguished Teacher Award
•   2007 Surgical Educator Award, West Virginia University
•   2007 Outstanding Surgical Attending, West Virginia University
•   2008 Surgical Faculty Educator of the Year, Mercy Medical Center Surgical Residency

Licenses:

•   California, issued 02/08/93, G075957 (inactive due to non-residency)
•   Missouri, issued 11/12/82, R7C39 (inactive due to non-residency)
•   WV, issued 09/10/2001, 20606 (inactive due to non-residency)
•   Iowa, issued 07/11/2007, 37356

Board Certification:

Present Positions:

Diplomate, American Board of Surgery, 02/10/88

Recertified, December 2006

2007 onward                       Mercy Medical Center, Des Moines, Iowa

General Surgery Residency Program Director

Associate Professor of Surgery, Des Moines University

American College of Surgeons Oncology Group

Physician Member

North Central Cancer Treatment Group (Mayo Clinic)

Vice Chairman, Surgery Advisory Committee (Breast and GI Malignancies)

National Board of Medical Examiners

Adjunct Clinical Assistant Professor of Surgery

Surgical Oncology and Breast Surgery
 

Past Positions:

2003-2007                            WVU School of Medicine, Morgantown WV

Associate Professor of Surgery, Divisions of Oncologic and Bariatric Surgery

Director of Surgical Clerkship

Medical Director, WVU Surgical Obesity Program

Chairperson, Clerkship Directors Subcommittee

American College of Surgeons Cancer Liaison Physician

2001-2003                           Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine, Huntington WV

Associate Professor of Surgery
University of California, Davis

Assistant Clinical Professor of Surgery

Gastrointestinal Surgery Division

Surgical Oncology Division

Memberships:

Publications :

Bariatric :

Publications: (Cont.)

Breast Cancer:

Gastrointestinal Cancer:

Sarcoma:

Other GI topics:

Other:

Presentations:

Presentations (cont.):

Presentations (cont.):

1992-1999                          David Grant Medical Center, Travis Air Force Base, CA

(Tertiary medical center with free-standing categorical surgery training program)

Chief, Surgical Oncology

Attending, Hematology-Oncology Service

Cancer Liaison Physician 

American College of Surgeons Commission on Cancer

Chairperson , Cancer Committee

Member, Education and Diagnosis Working Group, Department of Defense (DoD) Breast Cancer Prevention Group

Member, Ethics Committee

1987 –1990                                USAF Medical Center Scott, Belleville, IL

Chairperson, Surgical Case Review/Blood Utilization Committee

Attending .   Nutritional Support Team

                      Vascular Surgery Service

Member,  Tumor Board

Fellow:   American College of Surgeons

                American Society of Clinical Oncology

                American Society of Breast Surgeons

Nguyen NT, Lee S, Goldman CD , et al:  Comparison of Pulmonary Function and Postoperative Pain After Laparoscopic and Open Gastric Bypass.  J or Amer Coll Surg.  192:469-77, April 2001.

Nguyen NT, Furdui G, Flemming NW, Lee SJ, Goldman CD , Singh A, Wolfe, BM.  Effect of Heated and Humidified Carbon Dioxide Gas on Core Temperature and Postoperative Pain: a randomized trial.  Surgery Endosc. 2002 July 16(7):1050-4 

Nguyen NT, Fleming N, Singh A, Lee SJ, Goldman CD , Wolfe BM.  Evaluation of Core Temperature Changes during Laparoscopic and Open Gastric Bypass.   Obesity Surgery:  2001 Oct 11(5), 570-5.

Nguyen NT, Goldman CD , Rosenquists J, et al:  Laparoscopic vs. Open Gastric Bypass:  A randomized study of outcomes, quality of life, and costs.   Ann Surg 2001 Sep 234(3):279-91.

Nguyen NT, Owings JT, Gosselin R, Pevec WC, Lee SJ, Goldman C , Wolfe BM.  Systemic coagulation and fibrinolysis after laparoscopic and open gastric bypass.   Arch Surg. 2001 Aug;136(3):909-16.

Nguyen NT, Ho HS, Flemming NW, Moore P, Lee SJ, Goldman CD , Cole CJ, Wolfe BM.  Cardiac function during laparoscopic vs open gastric bypass .  Surg Endosc.  2002 16: 78-83.

Ngyuyen NT, Goldman CD , Ho HS, Gosselin RC, Singh A, Wolfe BM.  Systemic Stress Response after Laparoscopic and Open Gastric Bypass .  Journal of the Amer College Surgeons 2002; May; 194:557-567

.Nguyen NT, Goldman C , et al:  Clinical Outcomes of Laparoscopic Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass for Super Obesity.   Supplement to Surgical Endoscopy.  15:S95, April 2001.

McNatt S, Longhi J, Goldman CD , McFadden DW. Surgery for obesity: a review of the current state of the art and future directions.  Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery 2007 Mar;11(3):377-97.

Goldman CD , McNatt M. Surgical Issues in Breast Cancer Management. Chapter in Breast Cancer: A Clinical Guide . Jame Abraham, editor.  Lippincott, Williams and Wilkins, 2007.

Current Management of Gastric Cancer

Gastrointestinal Lymphomas

     Surgical Review of Upper Gastrointestinal and Endocrine Disease (DGMC-UC Davis                          kkk Department of Surgery), September 1995, Fairfield, CA.

      Published as Audio-Digest General Surgery , Volume 43, Number 3, Feb 7, 1996.

Goldman CD , Harrison M, Lies H:  Hemangiopericytoma of the Sciatic Nerve Presenting as Sciatica in a Young Adult Male.   Neurosurgery 37:1208-12, 1995.

Goldman CD , Kodner IJ, Fry RD, MacDermott RP:  Clinical and Operative Experience with Non-Caucasion Patient’s with Crohn’s Disease .  Dis Colon Rect 29:317-21, 1986.

Goldman CD , Blocker SH, Ternberg JL, Crouch EC:  Management of Experimental Pneumothorax in the Weanling Rabbit with the Use of Fibrin Glue Sclerosant .  Arch Surg 121:565-58, 1986.

Goldman CD , Rudloff MA, Ternberg JL:  Cytoprotective Agents in Experimental Small Bowel Volvulus .  J Ped Surg 22:260-63, 1987.

Goldman CD , Rudloff MA, Ternberg JL:  Cimetidine and Neonatal Small Bowel Adaptation:  An experimental study.   J Ped Surg 22:484-87, 1987.

Choudry U, Goldman CD .  Can a colectomy cure C.difficile colitis?  Contemporary Surgery. 2006. 62: 181-185.

Goldman CD , Knight J. Small Bowel chapter. Step-Up to Surgery. McFadden D & Zaslau S, editors. Lippincott, Williams and Wilkins (Baltimore), 2009.

Green DM, Whitman DH, Goldman CD :  Platelet Gel as an Intraoperatively Procured

Platelet-Based Alternative to Fibrin Glue.   Published in Stanford University Proceedings, Spring 1997 (Also presented at The Emerging Role of Platelets Symposium, Aspen, CO, Jan 23-24, 1997)

Crohn’s Disease in Blacks

     American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons, May 1985, San Diego, CA 

     Society of Air Force Clinical Surgeons, April 1988, Oakland, CA.

Pneumothorax Treatment with Fibrin Glue

     Saint Louis Surgical Society Fundamental Forum, May 1985, Saint Louis, MO

     Western Surgical Association, November 1985, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN

     Sixth Annual Pediatric Surgical Residents’ Conference, Children’s Hospital,

     November 1985, University of Cincinnati.

Cimetidine and Small Bowel Adaptation

     American Academy of Pediatrics, Surgical Section, November 1986, Washington, DC

Cytoprotective Agents in Experimental Small Bowel Volvulus

     33 ^rd Annual Congress, British Association of Pediatric Surgeons, July 1986         dd Birmingham, England.

Retroperitoneal Trauma in the Child and Young Adult

     Society of Air Force Clinical Surgeons, April 1989, San Antonio, TX

Alternative Management of Pregnancy-Associated Breast Cancer

     Society of Air Force Clinical Surgeons, April 1992, San Antonio, TX

Dose Intensification Using Circadian-Shaped Infusion Pumps:  A Case Study Using FUDR/Velban in Advanced Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma

    Society of Air Force Clinical Surgeons, April 1992, San Antionio, TX

Pseudomyxoma Peritoneii:  case presentation and review of current literature (with K. Cornell)

     Southwest Surgical Society, April 1994, Tuscon, AZ

Early diagnosis and management of mammographically detected non-palpable breast lesions:  combined use of fine needle aspiration cytology and grading of abnormal mammograms (with Rishi M., Hirsch K. et al)

     Poster presentation to International Academy of Pathology, San Francisco, CA March   sss 1993

Early diagnosis and management of mammographically detected non-palpable breast lesions:  combined use of fine needle aspiration cytology and grading of abnormal mammograms (with Rishi M., Hirsch K. et al)

     Poster presentation to American Society of Clinical Pathologists, April 1994, Seattle, WA

Alternative Medical Practices in the Treatment of Cancer:  The Tijuana Connection

     Society of Air Force Clinical Surgeons, April 1994, San Antonio, TX

Timing of Adjuvant Therapy for Locally Advanced Rectal Carcinoma:  Hemangiopericytoma of the Sciatic Notch Presenting as Sciatica in a Young Adult Male (with Leis, H);  Primary Plasmacytoma of the Breast  (with Jenkins, J)

     Society of Air Force Clinical Surgeons, April 1995, Dayton, OH

Fatal 5-FU Toxicity Associated with Hereditary Degradative Enzyme Deficiency

     Southwestern Surgical Congress, April 1996, Phoenix, AZ

DCIS:  Mastectomy?  Lumpectomy?  Radiation?  Observation?  Axillary Node Dissection for Invasive Breast Cancer:  An Unnecessary Relic

     Second Annual Review of Lower GI and Breast Diseases (Depts. Of Surgery, DGMC &    sss UC-Davis), September 1997

Unusual Metastatic Variants of Breast Cancer (with VJ Bindingnavele); Primary Chemotherapy in Early Stage Breast Cancer (with K Subramanian)

     Society of Air Force Clinical Surgeons, April 1998, San Antonio, TX

Surgical Aspects of Breast Cancer Treatment

     DOD Tumor Registrars Annual Meeting, May 1998, Boston, MA

Controversies in Sentinel Node Biopsy for Carcinoma of the Breast

     DOD Annual Breast Cancer Symposium, September 1998, San Diego, CA

Breast Conservation for Central Breast Tumors

     What’s New in General Surgery, UCD 21 ^st Annual Postgraduate Course, January 1999,       

     Sancramento, CA

The Whipple Operation:  Should it be placed on a research protocol?

     Grand Rounds, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, June 1999

Chaos Theory and Oncogenesis

     Grand Rounds, University California-Davis, February 2000

General Surgery in the Morbidly Obese

     What’s New in General Surgery, UCD 22 ^nd Annual Postgraduate Course September   xxx 2000, Squaw Valley, CA

Futile Medical Treatments:  Who Decides?

     Grand Rounds, University California-Davis, March 2001

The Enigma of Obesity Surgery: Why Now?

     Grand Rounds, Charleston Area Med Center (WVU), March 2002

Fulminant Clostridium Difficle Pseudomembranous Colitis (with Umar Choudry, MD),

      Annual Meeting West Virginia Chapter of the American College of Surgeons, May 2004

Complications of Surgery in the Morbidly Obese

        Fall Meeting WV Chapter of the American College of Surgeons, Sept 2004,

        Morgantown, WV

Late Complications of Gastric Bypass Surgery

       Annual Meeting WV Chapter of the American College of Surgeons, May 2005,

       Greenbrier, WV 

Groupthink: Herd Behavior in Medicine from Vaccines to Vioxx

       Grand Rounds, WVU Department of Surgery, July 2005

What’s New in Esophageal Cancer Treatment?

New Developments in the Management of Early Breast Cancer

       Visiting Professorship, Tumor Hospital of the University of Shantou, Shantou, P.R.     

        China, April 2006

Theodor Billroth and the Dawn of Modern Gastric Surgery

        Grand Rounds, WVU Department of Surgery, June 2007

        Visiting Professor, Rosalind Franklin Chicago Medical School, August 2007

Discussant

         Drug Information Agency 7 ^th Annual Contemporary Pharmacovigilance and Risk 

                Management Strategies Conference

         Washington DC, January 2008

Complex Surgical Decision-Making in Malignancy

        Upper Midwest Osteopathic Health Conference 2010

        Des Moines, IA, May 2010