Andrew P. Goldberg, M.D.
GRECC Director
Professor and Head, Division of Gerontology
University of Maryland School of Medicine
Baltimore Veterans Affairs Medical Center
Co-Director, UM Center for Research on Aging

Andy  Goldberg received his medical degree from the State University of New York, completed his residency at New York University-Bellevue Medical Center, and received fellowship training in the Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Nutrition at University of Washington, Seattle in 1977. He was Assistant Professor of Preventive Medicine at Washington University in St. Louis from 1977-1983, Associate Professor and Director of Research in the Division of Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine from 1983-1990 before moving to the University of Maryland School of Medicine as Professor of Medicine in 1990, where he established the Division of Gerontology and Baltimore VA GRECC.

Dr. Goldberg leads research programs in the Baltimore VA GRECC and UMB Claude D. Pepper Older American Independence Center that investigate the hypothesis that some of the functional declines and medical diseases associated with aging in Western society are not the result of aging per se, but are contributed to significantly by physical deconditioning and the development of obesity, i.e. lifestyle habits, as well as genetic and ethnic factors. Aging and obesity have many medically- related similarities, and there is progressive relationship between obesity, physical deconditioning, aging, and risk for diabetes, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, and their arteriosclerotic-thrombotic complications.