General Psychiatry Residency Program

Dr. Goldberg joined the residency and Research Training Program from University of Massachusetts Medical School and the Brown University Department of Engineering where she worked with Drs. Matthias Walz, MD, FCCP and Robert Brown, Jr., DPhil, MD (UMASS) and Dr. Leigh Hochberg, MD, PhD (Brown) to develop a technology-based protocol for addressing the communicated needs of non-speaking ICU patients. She was the first author of ‘Development of a manually operated communication system (MOCS) for patients in intensive care units’ published in Augmentative and Alternative Communication. Dr. Goldberg had summer research experiences at the Speak Your Mind Foundation in Providence, RI, and the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering in Boston, MA where she worked on the development of assistive communication technology for persons with severe physical disabilities impacting movement and speech and designed, administered, and analyzed results of a novel behavioral intervention for autistic adolescents designed to introduce natural emotional expressions in a supportive learning environment.