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Lee Goldman, (6 January 1948 – present) is a professor and epidemiologist known for his work assessing patients with chest pain and for determining the risk of cardiac arrest during surgery. He and his colleague Robert M. Wachter are also known for coining the term 'hospitalist' for those physicians that specialize in hospital medicine.

The Goldman Index is a method for appraising the cardiac risk involved in non-heart surgeries. The Goldman Criteria is an algorithm to help medical professionals decide whether patients with chest pain require immediate hospital admission.

Early life and education
Lee Goldman was born in 1948 in Philadelphia.

He completed his bachelor degree in science from Yale in 1963. He earned both his masters degree in public health and medical degree from Yale in 1973. His residency at the University of California at San Francisco concluded in 1974.

Career
In 2006, Dr. Goldman was appointed executive vice president for health and biomedical sciences and dean of the faculties of health sciences and medicine at Columbia University.