Bradley Goldberg, MD

Co-director of Disaster Management and Threat Mitigation
Attending Physician
Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics, Keck School of Medicine of USC

Brad Goldberg is a Pediatric Emergency Medicine physician at the University of Southern California / Children’s Hospital Los Angeles. Before joining Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, Dr. Goldberg completed his residency training in New York where he also completed a chief residency year while serving as an attending within the division of hospitalist medicine. Dr. Goldberg’s research and administrative efforts are focused around disaster preparedness and management. He volunteers as a disaster physician for the State of California through EMSA/CAL-MAT and deployed with them to Paradise, CA in response to the Camp Fire disaster, the worst in the state’s history. He is a member of disaster planning and management groups within CHLA and regional multi-state organizations. This includes surge planning and operational guidelines for the COVID-19 pandemic.

Clinical Interests

Disaster Preparedness and Management, Technology in Healthcare, Pre-hospital medicine/EMS, Wilderness Medicine

Education

Medical School

Sackler School of Medicine

Internship

Stony Brook Children’s Hospital

Residency

Stony Brook Children’s Hospital

Fellowship

Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles

Accomplishments

Certifications

General Pediatrics, Board Eligible in Pediatric Emergency Medicine

Professional Memberships

Section on Emergency Medicine - American Academy of Pediatrics
Council on Disaster Preparedness and Recovery (CoDPR) – American Academy of Pediatrics

Publications

Schmidt, A. R., Pham, P. K., Liu, D. R., & Goldberg, B. S. (2020). Surge activation by the emergency department for COVID-19. The American Journal of Emergency Medicine. (ISSN: 0735-6757; DOI: 10.1016/j.ajem.2020.07.024) 

Goldberg B, Austin-Page L, Chronic Lung Disease Exacerbations. Fleischer and Ludwig’s 5-Minute Pediatric Emergency Medicine Consult, 2nd Edition. 
Heatwole C, Johnson N, Goldberg B, Martens W, Moxley R 3rd, Laboratory abnormalities in patients with myotonic dystrophy type 2. Archives Neurol. 68(9): 1180-4, 2011. (PMID 21911698)

Research

Disaster Preparedness, Communication in Disasters, Management and Continuation of Services during Disasters