Across 41 years, Allan Goldman, MD, has treated patients, taught and advised students and residents, chaired the Department of Internal Medicine, directed Graduate Medical Education, connected with alumni, taught environmental and occupational health to public health students, and been a mentor and leader to teams of staff and colleagues across the USF Health Morsani College of Medicine.
“I extend a very special thank you for passing on excellence to so many generations of our students, residents and fellows to whom you have been a tireless mentor, and for bolstering scholarship funding to support deserving medical students,” said Charles J. Lockwood, MD, MHCM, senior vice president for USF Health and dean of the Morsani College of Medicine.
“Congratulations on a job well done and a retirement well deserved.”
Dr. Allan Goldman.
Dr. Goldman joined USF in the summer of 1974. MCOM’s founding internal medicine chair Roy H. Behnke, MD, recruited him to direct the College’s first Division of Pulmonary Disease in the Department of Internal Medicine and as chief of the pulmonary section at the James A. Haley Veterans’ Hospital. Dr. Goldman directed the division for 23 years.
Dr. Goldman also set up a pulmonary disease training program for residents. For years, most practicing pulmonologists in Tampa were graduates from the USF program, since USF had the only such training program in the region.
In 1994, following Dr. Behnke’s retirement, Dr. Goldman was named interim chair and later took the job fulltime. He holds a joint appointment as professor in the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, College of Public Health.
Dr. Goldman provided some of the earliest collaborations with Tampa General Hospital, helping lay the foundation for TGH becoming USF’s primary teaching hospital. He also was the founding director of the Thoracic Oncology and Lung Cancer Center at Moffitt Cancer Center.
In his four decades at USF, Dr. Goldman had a consistent and lasting impact on the growth of the Morsani College of Medicine and USF Health.
“Allan is a man of integrity, compassion and his word,” said Richard F. Lockey MD, FACP, professor and director of the Division of Allergy and Immunology in the USF Health Morsani College of Medicine and holder of the Joy McCann Culverhouse Chair of Allergy and Immunology.
“He is a physician’s physician, a person with whom you would trust as a family member. Allan is a life-long friend, a person with the utmost integrity. He has always promoted what is best for the patient and for USF.”
Among the events planned to honor Dr. Goldman, there was a thank-you video created and a reception at CAMLS July 22 was hosted and included many familiar faces: fellow chairs, division directors, MCOM alumni, colleagues, staff, friends and family.
Dr. John Sinnott (left) and Dr. Charles Lockwood (right) at the celebration for Dr. Goldman at CAMLS.
Dr. Lockwood helped set the congratulatory tone of the evening, offering heartfelt thanks to Dr. Goldman for providing strong leadership across four institutions: USF Health, Tampa General Hospital, Haley VA Hospital and Moffitt Cancer Center and throughout the community.
“His life’s work has been marked by the pursuit of excellence,” Dr. Lockwood said.
Current Department of Internal Medicine Chair John Sinnott, MD, reflected on how he was mentored by Dr. Goldman as an intern and resident.
“I learned so much from the gentle, intelligent way he taught me about caring for patients,” Dr. Sinnott said. “In the same way, he treated the nurses, respiratory therapists and all the hospital staff with dignity… I realized whenever I rounded with Dr. Goldman as a resident that he was always happy. The pleasure he took in his job is how we should all approach medicine.”
Guests described Dr. Goldman as being a constant learner and educator, fully engaged in life, calm and “unflappable.”
Building on those, Neil Fenske, MD, chair of the Department of Dermatology and Cutaneous Surgery, said with a laugh, “I only saw Allan Goldman stressed one time – and that was when the Dean said he was going to take the Dermatology Department away from Internal Medicine and make it a department.”
Charles Paidas, MD, vice dean for Clinical Affairs and Graduate Medical Education at MCOM, reminded guests of the breadth of Dr. Goldman’s impact.
“So many physicians, nurses and other health care professionals working in our affiliate hospitals were mentored by him in some way throughout his career,” Dr. Paidas said. “I have every intention of continuing to consult with Dr. Goldman frequently.”
Mr. and Mrs. Goldman.
Dr. Goldman then thanked everyone for the kind words.
“I survived five deans as division director and five deans as chair – that may be a record,” Dr. Goldman said. “I always learned something from each of them. Over the years, our (College of Medicine) goal became not only to become a first-class educational institution for the community, but also to focus on good patient care and research….. Now with leaders like Dr. Lockwood and Dr. Sinnott, the institution is poised for tremendous growth and excellence in all those areas.”
Dr. Phil Marty, Dr. Allan Goldman and Dr. Richard Lockey.
Dr. Allan Goldman with Dr. Jay Wolfson.
There was also a celebration for Dr. Goldman on the main campus that drew more friends and colleagues.
Dr. Bryan Bognar and Dr. David Solomon applaud Dr. Goldman at the celebration on campus in the USF Health Rotunda.
Dr. and Mrs. Worth Boyce and Dr. Allan Goldman.
Staff and colleagues presented Dr. Goldman with a thank you gift, focusing on golf, of course.
The golf theme continued with a creative cake.
Dr. Goldman earned his medical degree from the University of Minnesota Medical School and conducted an internship at the Wadsworth VA Hospital in Los Angeles, CA, a residency in internal medicine at Brooke General Hospital in San Antonio, TX, and a fellowship in pulmonary disease at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, DC.
He is board certified in internal medicine, pulmonary disease and critical care medicine, has participated in and/or lead more than 100 committees, programs and organizations, has been the editor, reviewer and consultant for dozens of journals, and has authored more than 220 publications.
Photos by Eric Younghans, USF Health Office of Communications
