Steven Goldman, M.D., holds the C. Leonard Pfeiffer Endowed Chair in Cardiovascular Medicine at the UA Sarver Heart Center, University of Arizona. Dr. Goldman has won numerous awards for teaching over the years. In 2008, Dr. Goldman was named the Founders Day Speaker at the University of Arizona College of Medicine - Tucson. This award is given each year to a faculty member with a long successful research career at the University of Arizona. In 2010, he was awarded the Charles W. Hall, Jr. Memorial Cardiology Fellowship Teaching Award. His research laboratory has received funding from the Sarver Heart Center, the Tech Launch Arizona, the Veterans Administration, National Institutes of Health, American Heart Association, the Arizona Biomedical Research Commission, the biotechnology industry, and private foundations. His laboratory has supported the development of several young investigators.
A native of Ohio, he received his undergraduate education at Cornell University and his medical doctorate from The University of Cincinnati Medical School. His residency training was at The University of Illinois, The University of Chicago and Stanford University. He received his cardiology training at the Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco, California. He came to The University of Arizona in 1975 from California. He was Chief of Cardiology at the Southern Arizona VA Health System for over 35 years.
In In 2016, Dr. Goldman and Dr. Jordan Lancaster, who obtained his PhD in the Goldman Lab, founded Avery Therapeutics, a company that focuses on developing new treatments for cardiovascular disease. The laboratory work that formed the foundation of Avery Therapeutics was done in Dr. Goldman’s laboratory at the Southern Arizona VA Health Care Center and the Sarver Heart Center, at the University of Arizona. Dr, Goldman’s laboratory is currently focusing on developing immunomodulatory biologic therapeutics to treat heart disease.