Lee Goldman, M.D., is the Dean of Columbia University’s Medical School. An internationally renowned cardiologist, he developed the Goldman Criteria (a set of guidelines for healthcare professionals to determine which patients with chest pain require hospital admission) and the Goldman Index (which predicts which patients will have heart problems after surgery). He’s the author of more than 480 medical articles and the lead editor of Goldman-Cecil Medicine, the oldest continuously published medical textbook in the U.S.