Dr. Nieca Goldberg

Nieca Goldberg M.D. is a cardiologist and a nationally recognized pioneer in women’s heart health and her New York City practice Total Heart Care is focused primarily to care for women. Dr. Goldberg is the author of the award winning and highly acclaimed book WOMEN ARE NOT SMALL MEN: Life Saving Strategies for Preventing and Healing Heart Disease published by Ballantine Books and she is the national spokesperson for the American Heart Association’s “Go Red” campaign. Currently she is the Chief of Women’s Cardiac Care at Lenox Hill Hospital and holds the positions of Co-Medical Director of the 92nd Street Y’s Cardiac Rehabilitation Center and an Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine at The New York University School of Medicine.

Dr. Goldberg received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Barnard College and her medical doctor degree from the State University of New York Health Science Center, Brooklyn. She completed her medical residency at St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital Center and a cardiology fellowship at SUNY Downstate.

Dr. Goldberg, an American Heart Association volunteer for over more than ten years, and currently serves as a board member of the American Heart Association in New York City.

Dr. Goldberg’s research and publications are concerned with exercise, exercise imaging and cardiovascular disease in women. Her work has been of considerable interest to the media. She has appeared many times on The Today Show as well as The View, Good Morning America, The Early Show and CBS Nightly News. In addition she has been featured and interviewed by reporters from The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The New York Post, The New York Daily News, Fitness Magazine, More, Glamour, Good Housekeeping and many others discussing women and heart disease. She serves on the Women’s Day Editorial Advisory Board. In New York Magazine’s “Best Doctors” issue of 1999, Dr. Goldberg was the only woman in their top ten “Hall of Fame of Physicians.” She returned to the “Best Doctors” list in 2000 and 2001.