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Ellie J.C. Goldstein, M.D.
Director, R. M. Alden Research
Laboratory
Clinical Professor of Medicine
UCLA
School of Medicine
2021 Santa Monica Blvd. #640-E
Santa Monica, CA 90404-2208
Phone: 310/315-1511
FAX: 310/315-3662
E-mail: ejcgmd@aol.com
A native New Yorker, Dr. Goldstein is
Clinical Professor of Medicine, UCLA School of Medicine and Director of the
R.M. Alden Research Laboratory, Santa Monica, CA. He trained in Infectious
Diseases at the VA Wadsworth-UCLA Medical Center under Drs. Sydney M. Finegold,
Vera Sutter, PhD and Dr. William Hewitt. Consequently, a major focus of his
clinical and research activities has involved anaerobic bacteria and their
infections. For thirty years, he has pursued his interest in human and animal
bite wounds, and has published seminal studies defining their bacteriology,
both aerobic and anaerobic as well as their clinical presentations,
complications and therapy. Along with Diane M. Citron, Associate Director of
the R.M. Alden Research Laboratory, they have pursued many clinical and
laboratory research interests including the aerobic and anaerobic bacteriology
of intra-abdominal infections, diabetic foot infections, in vitro
susceptibility of fastidious and anaerobic bacteria to new antimicrobial
agents. Collaborating with colleagues at The University of Aachen, Leipzig
University, the University of Wales, Michigan State University, they have
studied pathogenicity factors in Bacteroides fragilis, molecular
characteristics of unusual isolates leading to the description of several new
genera and species, and pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of new agents.
He has published over 300 articles and book chapters.
Besides his research activities, Dr.
Goldstein is in full time clinical practice of Infectious Diseases at St. Johns’
Health Center of Santa Monica, Santa Monica-UCLA Medical Center and Kindred
Hospital-Los Angeles. He is Chief of Infection Control at Kindred Hospital-Los
Angeles and sits on their National Medical Advisory Board for the 68-hospital
system. He has received the Stern Teaching Award twice from the residents of
Santa Monica-UCLA Medical Center.
Dr. Goldstein is an Associate Editor of the
Journal of Medical Microbiology and a Section Editor for Clinical Infectious
Diseases and Anaerobe. He served as Associate Editor for Clinical Infectious
Diseases from 1989 to 2000 and Senior Editor for Infectious Diseases in Clinical
Practice. He has been a reviewer for numerous journals including Antimicrobial
Agents and Chemotherapy, Journal of Clinical Microbiology, and Journal of
Antimicrobial Chemotherapy
In addition, Dr. Goldstein was elected as a
Councilor of the Infectious Diseases Society of America [1992-1994] and has
served on virtually every IDSA Committee at some time. He was a founding member
and later Chair of the Clinical Affairs Committee of IDSA and with George
Thornton helped organize the IDSA State and Regional Society Council. He
received the “IDSA Clinician of the Year Award” in 1995. He founded and served
as President of the Infectious Diseases Association of California, the IDSA
affiliated regional society. He co founded the Anaerobe Society of the Americas
with Dr. Finegold and severed as its second President and is currently
Treasurer.
He is a member of
numerous societies and organizations including the American Society for
Microbiology, the Surgical Infection Society, and the Society for Anaerobic
Microbiology. He is also involved in a variety of community activities and has
served as Chairman of the Board of Directors of his children’s school, President
of his synagogue, Young Israel of Santa Monica, Board member for Help Our Mobil
Elderly [helping memory impaired older women] and as an advisor to Freeplay, an
organization dedicated to off-leash dog parks
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