Steven Goldman, MD, is Professor of Medicine at the UA Sarver Heart Center. A native of Ohio, he received his undergraduate education at Cornell University and his Medical Doctorate from The University of Cincinnati Medical School. His residency training was at The University of Illinois, The University of Chicago and Stanford University. He received his cardiology training at the Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco, California. He came to The University of Arizona in 1975 from California. Dr. Goldman is a member of the American Heart Association, the American College of Cardiology, the American Federation for Clinical Researchers, the American Physiologic Society, and the American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics. He has a VA Merit Review Grant entitled Control of cellular function in heart failure. He is currently the Co-Chair of a VA cooperative study: Radial artery venus saphenous vein graft in CABG. His major research interests are in cardiovascular physiology and pharmacology. To this end, he is actively investigating cell-based therapy for heart failure using stem cells seeded on a biodegradable patch as potential treatment for heart failure. Dr. Goldman has won numerous awards for teaching over the years. In 2008 Dr. Goldman was named the Founders Day Speaker University of Arizona. This award is given each year to a faculty member with a long successful research career at the University of Arizona. In 2010 he was awarded the Charles W. Hall, Jr. Memorial Cardiology FellowshiTeaching Award. His research laboratory has received funding from the Veterans Administration, National Institutes of Health, American Heart Association, the Arizona Biomedical Research Commission, the biotechnology industry, and private foundations. His laboratory has supported the development of several young investigators.