Who We Are
Medical Director: Martin Adam Goldstein MD
Dr. Goldstein is board-certified in both Neurology and Psychiatry, and holds sub-specialty certification in Behavioral Neurology and Neuropsychiatry. A graduate of the College of Arts and Sciences of Cornell University, he earned his Medical Doctor degree from the State University of New York School of Medicine at Stony Brook. Dr. Goldstein completed his internship in Internal Medicine, and residency training in both Neurology and Psychiatry, at The New York Hospital – Cornell Medical Center. He was the Ronald Coles Fellow in Neuropsychiatry at Harvard Medical School, and completed fellowship training in brain imaging under an NIH training grant in the Functional Neuroimaging Laboratory of the Weill Cornell Medical College.
Dr. Goldstein served as Attending Neurologist at The Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City from 2004 through 2018. He was the founding director of the Center for Cognitive Health at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine. Identified as a strategic initiative by the medical school, Dr. Goldstein built an inter-disciplinary program composed of neurologists, neuropsychiatrists, neuropsychologists, and other subspecialists bridging across multiple brain-focused departments. The program’s architecture thereby enabled formation of a central portal for cognitive patient care, training, and research missions.
Beginning in 2005, Dr. Goldstein’s program was one of the earliest in New York City to focus on the neuropsychiatry of neuromodulation, including deep brain stimulation (DBS). In 2013, Dr. Goldstein’s group was the first in New York State to deploy amyloid-PET brain scan imaging for diagnostic clarification of suspected Alzheimer’s Disease.
As an Associate Professor at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, Dr. Goldstein served as Director of Medical Student Education in Neurology from 2007-2012. He launched a newly-developed Fellowship in Behavioral Neurology and Neuropsychiatry, earning accreditation from the United Council for Neurologic Subspecialties in 2015.
In 2021, Dr. Goldstein was recruited to the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York City as Director of Cognitive Health and Non-Invasive Neuromodulation to develop programs focused on the intersection of cognition and motor performance.
Dr. Goldstein’s research focus is emotional modulation of cognitive control, including the application of fMRI to identify neural mechanisms of the interaction of emotion and cognition. He has published multiple neuroscientific research articles and book chapters.
Dr. Goldstein is a Diplomate of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology (ABPN), and a Diplomate of the United Council of Neurologic Subspecialties (UCNS). He is a member of the American Academy of Neurology, American Neuropsychiatric Association, and Cognitive Neuroscience Society, and is a Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association.
By peer-selection, Dr. Goldstein has been recognized by New York Magazine Best Doctors in 2024, 2023, 2021, 2019, 2018, 2016, and 2015, and has been identified as a Castle Connelly Top Doctor since 2014. He is the recipient of multiple teaching awards, including recognition for teaching excellence by the American Academy of Neurology. Dr. Goldstein has received >$2 million in philanthropic grant support for program development across academic medical centers and the New York Center for the Advancement of Cognitive Brain Health.
Dr. Goldstein lives in New York. Outside of work, he is better known as Sam & Liesl’s Dad.
Joan DiLieto
Born and raised in NYC, with art studios in Red Hook, Brooklyn and Capri, Italy, Joan brings her New York roots with a multi-cultural perspective to both her creative and healthcare work. Raised in an Italian-American home, family was a centrally-organizing principle. Hers was a} multi-generational experience – generations actually living together. This arrangement comprised a developmental foundation for providing awareness of, and appreciation for, the fundamental importance of caregiving across the lifespan. The longitudinal experience of family caregiving came full-circle when Joan chose to care for her elderly parents including through their home hospice.
A Battery Park City resident since 1988, Joan has a profound connection to this unique community across a history extending from remarkable heights to historically-tragic lows resiliently rebounding to inspiring rebirth. Her passion for painting led her to study at The School of Visual Arts in NY, with summer study in Urbino, Italy. In September 2007, she was diagnosed with Stage 4 multiple myeloma, the first wave of blood cancers to emerge following exposure to carcinogens associated with September 11th, 2001.
As her treatment progressed, Joan's appreciation for the intersection of art and science deepened. She continued to paint during those painful and often treacherous years, and she believes that art/creative process balanced/buffered the trauma and meaningfully helped bridge her to wellness. Joan wanted to apply this insight engendered by her illness-to-health journey to substantively bring art into patients' conscious awareness to facilitate healing. She consequently created ”Project Miele”, a permanent painting installation on view at the Hess Center for Science & Research at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York.
Joan therefore has the unique capacity to combine ALL of this - family-centered approach, frontline caregiving experience, focus on innovative approaches to healing, and deeply rooted in Battery Park community – to her work as a Battery Park City healthcare manager.
Project Miele. A permanent painting installation at The Hess Center for Science & Research at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York.
