Director, Kidney Stone Prevention Programs
NYU School of Medicine
Dr. Goldfarb graduated from Yale College with a B.A. in biology and received his MD from the Yale School of Medicine. He completed his residency in internal medicine and his fellowship in nephrology at NYU Langone Medical Center and the New York VA Medical Center. He is the Chief of Nephrology at the New York Harbor VA Healthcare System, the Clinical Chief of Nephrology at NYU Langone Medical Center, and Professor of Medicine and Physiology at NYU School of Medicine. He directs kidney stone prevention clinics at NYU and the New York VA. He is currently the medical director of the hemodialysis unit at the New York VA. He is currently on the editorial boards of the Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, Kidney International and Urolithiasis. He is the principal investigator of the cystinuria component of the Rare Kidney Stone Consortium, funded by the National Institutes of Diabetes, Digestive and Kidney Diseases and the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences. He is the former president of the New York Society of Nephrology and of the ROCK Society (Research on Calculus Kinetics) and serves on the medical advisory board of the National Kidney Foundation Serving Greater New York and the Oxalosis and Hyperoxaluria Foundation. He is a member of the Kidney & Adrenal Health Committee of the Urology Care Foundation. He is the co-editor of 2 books on kidney stones published in 2014. He has also had three calcium oxalate stones.
Friday, May 3
1:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Saturday, May 4
2:10 PM – 2:40 PM