Dr. Goldstein graduated from Yale College and received an M.D.-Ph.D. in Behavioral Sciences from Johns Hopkins. After a medical internship and residency at the University of Washington, he came to the NIH as a Clinical Associate in the NHLBI, obtaining tenure as a Senior Investigator in 1984. He joined the NINDS in 1990 to head the Clinical Neurochemistry Section and founded the Clinical Neurocardiology Section (name changed to Autonomic Medicine Section in 2019). He has received Yale's Angier Prize for Research in Psychology, the Laufberger Medal of the Czech Academy of Sciences, two NIH Merit Awards, the Founders Award of the Bakken Heart-Brain Institute, the Distinguished Investigator Award of the Society for Clinical and Translational Science, and the NIH Distinguished Clinical Teacher Award. He is author of more than 600 research articles and several books, including "Adrenaline and the Inner World: An Introduction to Scientific Integrative Medicine," ”Dysautonomias: A Handbook for Patients,” "Stress, Catecholamines, and Cardiovascular Disease," "The Autonomic Nervous System in Health and Disease,” and the e-book, "Principles of Autonomic Medicine." Dr. Goldstein also directs the UCNS-accredited Clinical Fellowship in Autonomic Disorders at the NIH Clinical Center.