Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Adjunct Professor of Medical Science

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Michael G. Goldstein, MD is an Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at Alpert Medical School. He is board certified in Internal Medicine, Psychiatry, and Obesity Medicine. Since September, 2010, he has served as Associate Chief Consultant for Preventive Medicine at the Veteran Health Administration's National Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention. Michael was formerly Chief of the Mental Health and Behavioral Sciences Service at the Providence VA Medical Center and an Investigator at the Centers for Behavioral and Preventive Medicine (CBPM) at The Miriam Hospital. Currently, Michael co-leads an elective for first and second year medical students at Brown, The Healer's Art, based on the course developed by Rachel Remen, MD.

Previously, Michael was Medical Director of Behavioral Medicine at the Miriam Hospital and an Associate Director for Clinical Education and Research at the Institute for Healthcare Communication, a non-profit foundation in New Haven, CT. Michael has previously served as Co-Course Director for preclinical Social and Behavioral Sciences courses at Alpert Medical School, and as Principal Investigator for several NIH-funded research grants which tested educational/implementation-based interventions to enhance clinician delivery of preventive counseling interventions in primary care settings. Michael served on the Tobacco Dependence Clinical Practice Guideline Panel for the U.S. Public Health Service and was a member of the Risk Communication Advisory Committee for the Food and Drug Administration. Michael also served as President of the Society of Behavioral Medicine and has been recognized as a Fellow of the Society of Behavioral Medicine, the American Psychiatric Association, and the Academy of Communication in Healthcare. 

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