Yale psychiatrist Matthew Goldenberg wonders if, given the long-term neuropsychiatric risks, we should still be playing football.
Matthew Goldenberg
About Matthew Goldenberg
Matthew Goldenberg, M.D., is a psychiatrist who has been on the faculty at Yale and the staff of Yale-New Haven Hospital since 2013. He is the medical director of the Psychiatry Observation Unit and serves as an attending psychiatrist in the Yale-New Haven Hospital emergency department's Crisis Intervention Unit.
A native of Birmingham, Alabama, Dr. Goldenberg graduated from Yale College in 1999 with a degree in history and received the Potter and Clement prizes for his senior thesis, Touchdown, Brown: Race, Football and the Desegregation of Birmingham Schools, 1954-1980. He received his medical degree from Yale in 2003 and then completed residency training in general psychiatry at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill where he also served as chief resident.
Contact him at [email protected].