VA Palo Alto Health Care System
Geriatrics Research Education & Clinical Center (GRECC) 182-B
3801 Miranda Avenue
Palo Alto, CA 94304

CHP/PCOR
Stanford University
117 Encina Commons
Stanford, CA 94305-6019

goldstein@stanford.edu
(650) 858-3933 (voice)
(650) 496-2505 (fax)

Research Interests
development, implementation, and evaluation of quality improvement strategies in primary care; medical informatics; quality of life (health preference/utility) assessment for older adults

Mary K. Goldstein is a CHP/PCOR core faculty member and the clinical director of the Geriatrics Research Education and Clinical Center (GRECC) at the VA Palo Alto Health Care System. Dr. Goldstein is professor of medicine (PCOR) in the medical center line and professor, by courtesy, of Health Research and Policy at Stanford. She directs the Primary Care Policy and Practice Advancement program at PCOR, the Stanford/VA Palo Alto Geriatric Medicine Fellowship Program, and the Special Fellowship Program in Advanced Geriatrics at VA Palo Alto. She also serves as associate director for the Physician Post-Residency Fellowship Program in Health Services Research and Development, and for the Postdoctoral Fellowship in Medical Informatics, both at VA Palo Alto.

Goldstein studies innovative methods of implementing evidence-based clinical practice guidelines for quality improvement. She leads the ATHENA Decision Support System project that has developed and implemented an automated clinical decision support system for primary care clinicians, using hypertension as a model. She also leads a project implementing and evaluating a program of group medical visits for patients with hypertension. Goldstein's research also explores older adults' health preferences (health utility) for application to cost-effectiveness analysis.

Goldstein is a fellow of the American Geriatrics Society, and an emerita of the Society's board of directors, and she is a former vice-president of the American Board of Family Medicine. Goldstein has received a number of honors and awards including an Advanced Career Development award from the Department of Veterans Affairs Health Services Research and Development (HSR&D) program. She serves on numerous national grant review groups and other committees. She received a BA in philosophy and an MD, both from Columbia University, and completed a residency in family medicine at Duke University Medical Center. At the Stanford School of Medicine she completed an AHRQ-funded fellowship in general internal medicine and earned an MS in health services research.

Other affiliations
Geriatrics Research Education and Clinical Center (GRECC), VA Palo Alto Health Care System