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Professor and Chair
Hershey Med Center & Penn State Univ
David Goldenberg, MD, FACS, is a Head and Neck Surgical Oncologist. He was educated at the Ben Gurion University in Israel. He completed a residency in Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery at Rambam Medical Center in Haifa, Israel, and then went on to do a three-year fellowship in Head and Neck Surgery and Oncology at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. He then came to Penn State Hersey and has been here for 18 years.
Currently, Professor and Chair of the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery at the Penn State Health Hershey Medical Center as well as Vice President, Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery Services at Penn State Health
David combines a busy surgical practice with teaching and research. His clinical practice includes head and neck cancers, thyroid cancer, and parathyroid disease. In addition, David actively teaches medical students, residents, and fellows and is a Penn State College of Medicine Distinguished Educator.
Dr. Goldenberg is an internationally recognized expert on thyroid cancer, thyroid, and parathyroid surgery and radiofrequncy ablation of thyroid nodules. He is a funded researcher, and his clinical research focuses on outcomes and etiology of the rise in the incidence of thyroid cancer. In addition, his basic research lab and translational research focus on Head and neck and thyroid cancer genomics.
Dr. Goldenberg is an accomplished and prolific author of over 260 journal articles, 40 book chapters, and seven books in the field of Head and neck and thyroid oncology and surgery. His most recent work is a comprehensive textbook entitled “Head & Neck Endocrine Surgery: A Comprehensive Textbook, Surgical, and Video Atlas published by Thieme.