Robert M. Goldberg, PhD,
Robert Goldberg is Vice President and co-founder of the Center for Medicine in the Public Interest (www.cmpi.org), a non-profit organization that advocates for consumer access to medical innovation, better health information and personalized healthcare. Over the past 20 years Dr. Goldberg has dedicated himself to improving the health of Americans and promoting medical innovation. He was involved in the first study demonstrating that restrictions on access to drugs actually drove up medical spending and compromised health. That research was instrumental in forcing health plans to open up drug formularies. He helped The Children’s Health Fund establish its Childhood Asthma Initiative in the South Bronx to improve the management of chronic asthma for thousands of medically underserved children and families. His article on how environmental laws would deprive millions of Americans generic asthma inhalers led the government to drop it’s effort to eliminate the insignificant amount of CFC from such products. Dr. Goldberg also participated in a class action lawsuit that forced health plans to provide health parity for eating disorders.
Prior to founding CMPI, Goldberg was Director of the Manhattan Institute’s Center for Medical Progress and Chairman of its 21st Century FDA Task Force that examined the impact of the FDA’s Critical Path Initiative on drug development and personalized medicine. He runs CMPI’s Odyssey Initiative which brings together researchers, policymakers and physicians from around the world to find ways to speed up medical progress. His academic research focuses on the value of personalized medicine and medical innovation to longevity, economic growth and Social Security. At CMPI he’s supported the launch of Iguard.org, a website that helps two million people monitor the safety of their medicines and DestinationRx.com, a website where seniors and other consumers can compare drug prices and lower prescription drug costs. He writes for The Weekly Standard, The American Spectator and The New York Post.
Dr. Goldberg received his PhD in Politics from Brandeis University in 1984 and is a devoted Yankee fan and father of two children, Sara 26 and Zach, 23.
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