Erica Goldstein is a palliative medicine physician at North Shore University working within an interdisciplinary team that specializes in serious illness across a breadth of clinical conditions. She has particular interests in care coordination and accessibility, health policy and management, physician engagement, global partnerships, social medicine, and diversity and inclusion within the health field.
Her training includes medical school at NYU Langone, emergency medicine residency at McGovern Medical School (formerly known as the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston), and palliative medicine fellowship at NYU Winthrop. She took time between years in medical school to complete a Master of Public Administration degree in Health Policy and Management at the NYU Wagner School of Public Service, which developed her skills of managing and working within teams, conducting program analysis and evaluation, communicating patients’ needs to essential decision-makers and stakeholders, and understanding the business of medicine.
In the emergency department, she worked in what is often the gateway to the US healthcare system at the height of the COVID epidemic in Houston, which was one of the cities that was hardest hit. During that time, she was in the EMRA Leadership Academy and completed the Texas College of Emergency Physicians Leadership and Advocacy Fellowship. The latter, she sat in on board meetings of an organization with over 2000 members and proposed and founded the Diversity and Health Equity (DIHE) task force. These experiences provided insight to the world of organizational medicine and policy change. Within her residency training program, she also had roles as Vice Chair of Administration and Vice Chair of Community Engagement. She has written multiple pieces for the EM Resident + Policy Prescriptions Journal Club and for SheMD and was awarded the EMRA FIX Travel Scholarship to attend the FemInEM Idea Exchange (FIX) in 2020, which unfortunately was cancelled due to COVID.
She looks forward to continuing to serve patients and their families within the hospital and bolstering education around symptom management and ensuring that patients' care is aligned with their values and preferences. Down the road, she has ideas of making transparent the realities of people with serious illness to advocate on their behalf and to help others better understand what to expect when they or their loved ones fall ill.
Outside of work, Erica enjoys traveling, learning about other cultures, reading, writing, hiking, dance, music, and theater.