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Jack Goldberg, PhD, MA, BA |
Research Professor, Epidemiology
Jack Goldberg, PhD, is Research Professor in the Department of Epidemiology in the School of Public Health and Community Medicine at the University of Washington and Interim Director of the Vietnam Era Twin (VET) Registry at the Seattle VA Epidemiologic Research and Information Center. He obtained his undergraduate degree in Geography and History from the State University of New York at Binghamton and a Ph.D. in Epidemiology from the University of Illinois-Chicago. He served as Lead Epidemiologist at the Hines VA Cooperative Studies Program Coordinating Center, developing and maintaining the VET Registry from 1983-2001. From 1985-2001 was as a faculty member in the Division of Epidemiology at the University of Illinois-Chicago, School of Public Health. He is a member of the American Epidemiological Society and a Fellow of the American College of Epidemiology. He is currently a member of the Twins Committee of the Institute of Medicine.
Contact Information
Seattle ERIC/VET Registry
Box 359780
1730 Minor Avenue, Suite 1760
Seattle, WA 98105-1597
Tel: 206-543-4667
Fax: 206-543-8643
goldie1@u.washington.edu
Research Interests
Dr. Goldberg's primary research focus is on twin research. He has devoted more than 20 years to the construction of twin registries that serve as a platform for investigating the genetic and non-genetic basis of disease. He was one of the founders of the Vietnam Era Twin Registry which is one of the largest population-based samples of adult twins in the United States. He also co-founded the Black Elderly Twin Study (BETS) and the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Twin Registry. He has recently established a UW Twin Registry consisting of nearly 2,500 adult twins living in Washington State. His work includes univariate and multivariate classical twin studies as well as co-twin control studies examining exposure and disease associations. He has published widely on the relationship of service in Vietnam and combat exposure with the long-term physical and psychological health of veterans.
Teaching Interests
Dr. Goldberg currently teaches Epi 420 - Introduction to Epidemiology during Spring Quarter. Dr. Goldberg, as part of his role as director of the Methods Core of the Native Elder Research Center based at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, trains Native American junior faculty in epidemiologic methods.
Education
PhD, Epidemiology, University of Illinois, School of Public Health 1983
MA, Geography, University of Chicago 1976
BA, Geography, State University of New York Binghamton 1973
Projects
Dr. Goldberg has an active portfolio of research involving studies of adult twins. These studies include investigating the long-term course and consequences of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder in Vietnam era veterans, a co-twin control study of psychiatric disorders and cardiovascular disease, and classical twin and co-twin control studies of sleep and eating patterns.
Selected Publications
Goldberg J, Gelfand HM, Levy PS: Registry evaluation methods: a review and case study. Epidemiologic Reviews 1980;2:210-20.
Goldberg J, True WR, Eisen SA, Henderson WG: A twin study of the effects of the Vietnam conflict on post-traumatic stress disorder. Journal of the American Medical Association 1990;263:1227-32.
Goldberg J, Henderson WG, Eisen SA, True WR, Ramakrishnan V, Lyons MJ, Tsuang MT: A strategy for assembling samples of adult twin pairs in the United States. Statistics in Medicine 1993;12:1693-1702.
Goldberg J, Miles TP, Furner S, Meyer JM, Hinds A, Ramakrishnan V, Lauderdale DS, Levy PS. Identification of a cohort of male and female twins age 65 years or more in the United States. American Journal of Epidemiology 1997;145:175-83.
Goldberg J, Curran B, Vitek ME, Henderson WG, Boyko EJ. The Vietnam Era Twin (VET) Registry. Twin Research 2002;5:476-81.
Roy-Byrne P, Arguelles L, Vitek ME, Goldberg J, Keane T, Pittman R. Persistence and change of PTSD symptomology: a longitudinal co-twin control analysis of the Vietnam Era Twin Registry. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology 2004;39:681-85.
Goldfarb DS, Fischer ME, Keich Y, Goldberg J. Twin study of genetic and dietary influences on nephrolihiasis: a report from the Vietnam Era Twin (VET) Registry. Kidney International 2005;67:1053-61.
Furner SE, Wallace K, Arguelles LM, Miles T, Goldberg J. Twin study of depressive symptoms among older African-American women. Journals of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences 2006;61B:355-61.
Afari N, Noonan C, Goldberg J, Edwards K, Gadepalli K, Osterman B, Evanoff C, Buchwald DS. University of Washington twin registry: construction and characteristics of a community-based twin registry. Twin Research and Human Genetics 2006;9:1023-9.
Keich-Cloonan Y, Holt V, Goldberg J. A twin study of male factor infertility. Pediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology 2007;21:229-34.
Links
Native Elder Research Center at the University of Colorado Health Science Center
Seattle Epidemiologic Research and Information Center