Richard Goldstein

Dr. Richard Goldstein is currently the Chief Medical Officer for the Northeast Medical Group and a Vice President of Yale Health. Until recently and for the past five years, he served as the President of Central Maine Medical Group and President of the Medical Staff of Central Maine Medical Center. Central Maine Medical Center is the flagship hospital of Central Maine Healthcare. The medical center has 250 inpatient beds and offers a broad and robust range of services that include, among others, a Level II trauma center, neurosurgery, cardiovascular medicine, vascular and cardiac surgery, a bariatric center of excellence, medical and radiation oncology.

Prior to his most recent role, Dr. Goldstein served as the Vice Dean Clinical Affairs and Professor of Surgery at the University of Louisville. At the University of Louisville, he held the Kenneth F. vonRoenn, M.D. Family Chair in Surgical Endocrinology. As the CEO/CMO for University Physician Associates (UPA) Services, he was directly responsible for all the Commercial Payor Contracting and Credentialing of the 450+ full-time clinical faculty of University of Louisville.

​Dr. Goldstein also co-founded Edumedics, LLC, a company committed to the development and deployment of innovative health delivery solutions. Edumedics is focused on the management of populations with chronic disease conditions. Edumedics works both with entities that self-fund their health plans and with Medicare populations.

Dr. Goldstein was an Associate Professor of Surgery (with tenure) at Vanderbilt from 1997 - 2002. He holds an M.D. (Medicine) from Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, (1982); a Ph.D. in Molecular Physiology and Biophysics from the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine (1994); and a BA from Amherst College (1978). He completed his Residency in Surgery at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine (1990) and he completed a Masters in Health Care Management at Harvard University (2010).