Dr. Goldstein graduated from the Koret School of Veterinary Medicine, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel in 1993. He completed an internship at the same institution. Dr. Goldstein completed a residency in Small Animal Internal Medicine at the University of California, Davis, in 1998. He spent two years in a private specialty practice in Southern California and one year as a faculty member at the Koret School in Israel, before joining the faculty at Cornell in September of 2001. He is currently an Associate Professor of Small Animal Internal Medicine at Cornell and is board-certified in small animal internal medicine by the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine. He is also certified by the European College of Veterinary Internal Medicine – Companion Animals. His clinical and research interests are centered around small animal nephrology. Much of his research focuses on infectious diseases of the canine kidney: Leptospirosis and Lyme Nephritis, as well as on canine and feline genomics.