Nieca Goldberg, M.D.
Cardiovascular and Women's Health Expert

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Women Are Not Small Men: Women and Heart Disease

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Nieca Goldberg's Key Accomplishments Include . . .
Nieca Goldberg, M.D. is a cardiologist and a nationally recognized pioneer in women’s heart health. Her New York City practice Total Heart Care is primarily focused on caring for women. Dr. Goldberg is the author of the award winning and highly acclaimed book WOMEN ARE NOT SMALL MEN: Life Saving Strategies for Preventing and Healing Heart Disease which is now revised with over 25% new material and entitled THE WOMEN’S HEALTHY HEART PROGRAM – Lifesaving Strategies for Preventing and Healing Heart Disease published by Ballantine Books, February 1, 2006. She is the Chief of Women’s Cardiac Care at Lenox Hill Hospital and holds the positions of Co-Medical Director of the 92nd Street Y’s Cardiac Rehabilitation Center and is an Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine at The New York University School of Medicine. In addition Dr. Goldberg is a national spokesperson for the American Heart Association’s “Go Red” campaign.

Dr. Goldberg received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Barnard College and her medical doctor degree from SUNY Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn. She completed her medical residency at St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital Center and a cardiology fellowship at SUNY Downstate.


More About Nieca Goldberg . . .
Dr. Goldberg’s research and publications are concerned with exercise, exercise imaging and cardiovascular disease in women. She is often asked for her expert interpretation regarding current studies and news by the media and has appeared many times on The Today Show as well as The View, Good Morning America, The Early Show and CBS Nightly News. In addition she has been featured and interviewed by reporters from The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The New York Post, The New York Daily News, Fitness Magazine, More, Glamour, Good Housekeeping and many others discussing women and heart disease. She serves on the Women’s Day Editorial Advisory Board. In New York Magazine’s “Best Doctors” issue of 1999, Dr. Goldberg was the only woman in their top ten “Hall of Fame of Physicians.” Dr. Goldberg has been the recipient of numerous awards for her advocacy for women’s heart health that include the American Heart Association’s “Dr. With Heart” award, Woman’s Day magazine’s “Red Dress” award and Jewish Women International’s “Women to Watch” award. She returned to New York Magazine’s “Best Doctors” list in 2000, 2001, 2004, 2005 and 2006. In 2005 Dr. Goldberg became part of an effort by General Mills to educate the public about the lifestyle changes necessary to help prevent heart disease. Her book cover, WOMEN ARE NOT SMALL MEN, appeared on the back of over 3 million boxes of Wheat Chex and Multi-Bran Chex cereal.