Mass General physician named state commissioner of public health

Robert Goldstein, MD, PhD, has been appointed commissioner of the Massachusetts Public Health Department.

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Dr. Goldstein currently serves as a senior policy advisor at the CDC, an infectious disease physician at Massachusetts General Hospital and as a professor at Harvard Medical School, both in Boston, according to an April 4 news release from the state’s health department.

Dr. Goldstein will step into the role April 18. 

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