Medical Education: 
University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine

Internship, Residency, & Fellowship: 
Residency: Oregon Health Sciences University
Fellowship, Cardiology:  University of California, San Francisco
Fellowship, Cardiology Research: University of California, San Francisco

James A. Goldstein, MD, FACC, FSCAI is a renowned professor and pioneer in cardiovascular hemodynamics, pericardial diseases, and CT coronary angiography. He previously served as Director of Cardiovascular Research and Education at Beaumont Health and is a Professor of Medicine at Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine.

Dr. Goldstein graduated from the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine in 1976 and completed his Clinical and Research Cardiology Fellowships at the Cardiovascular Research Institute at the University of California, San Francisco, in 1982. He went on to join the Cardiology Division at Stanford University and later worked in Interventional Cardiology at Washington University-Barnes Hospital, where he also directed the Heart Failure and Transplant service.

An active researcher in heart attack, heart failure, and various other areas of cardiology, Dr. Goldstein has published over 200 peer-reviewed papers and contributed to 25 book chapters. He serves on the editorial boards of Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions and Cardiovascular Revascularization Medicine. Dr. Goldstein has authored several landmark papers that have shaped modern cardiology practice, including his 2000 New England Journal of Medicine paper on multiple complex coronary plaques in acute myocardial infarction patients, and the CT-STAT trial published in JACC in 2011.

At Millennium Cardiology, Dr. Goldstein leads the Cardiomyopathy Clinic, focusing on oncology patients undergoing cardiotoxic treatments, as well as those with infiltrative heart diseases like cardiac sarcoidosis, cardiac amyloidosis, and hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.