Joel Edward Goldberg MD MPH, FACS

Summary

• Dr. Joel Goldberg is a colon and rectal surgeon in Boston, MA. He is the Director of Colon and Rectal Surgery at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School. He is affiliated with Brigham and Women's Hospital and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. He specializes in minimally invasive sphincter sparing robotic surgery for Rectal cancer.
  
  He graduated from Cornell University with a A.B cum laude in American History (1988) then received his MD from Tulane University School of Medicine (1992) and his MPH from Harvard School of Public Health (2015). He has been in practice for 25 years. He did his residency at the BIDMC (1992-1999) and a surgical oncology NIH T32 fellowship at Brigham and Women's Hospital (1995-1997 and a Colorectal surgery fellowship at University of Minnesota (2004-2005).
  
  His practice is focused on Sphincter sparing surgery for Rectal Cancer and Robotic surgery as it is applied to Colon and Rectal Cancer, Ulcerative Colitis, Crohn’s disease, Familial Polyposis, and Lynch Syndrome (HNPCC).