Goldstein, Judy

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Goldstein, Judy

PERSONAL:

Education: Attended City College of New York and State University of New York Downstate Medical Center.

CAREER:

Physician and author, 2006—. Attending medical staff, Lenox Hill Hospital; adjunct assistant clinical professor and assistant attending physician, Mount Sinai Hospital; clinical adjunct assistant professor of pediatrics, Mount Sinai School of Medicine; assistant attending pediatrician, New York Hospital.

MEMBER:

American Academy of Pediatrics, New York State Medical Society, New York Academy of Medicine, New York County Medical Society, Phi Beta Kappa.

AWARDS, HONORS:

Cited as one of the Best Doctors of New York, New York magazine, l999, 2000, 2004, and 2005; cited as one of the Top Doctors, New York Metro Area, Castle Connolly Guide, 200l, 2002, 2003, and 2004; America's Top Pediatricians citation, Consumers Research Council of America, 2002-03; Best Doctors in America citation, 2005-06; named honorary police surgeon, Police Department of the City of New York.

WRITINGS:

(With Sebastian Stuart) 24-Karat Kids (fiction), St. Martin's Press (New York, NY), 2006.

SIDELIGHTS:

In 24-Karat Kids, pediatrician Judy Goldstein and her coauthor Sebastian Stuart tell the story of Shelley Green, a doctor from a middle-class background who earns a position with an exclusive practice in Manhattan. She is quickly caught up in the madness of rich, self-obsessed parents and their clinically disturbed children. "Her world," wrote a Kirkus Reviews contributor, "is about to change, and not just because she's surrounded by svelte doctors wearing Chanel suits and Manolo Blahnik heels." "This is a delightful book that deliciously dishes on rich, overindulgent parents," declared Michelle Singletary in the Washington Post. "The fictitious parents parading in and out of the posh pediatric practice in 24-Karat Kids, confirm what we real penny-pinching parents know. Love of money and prestige often spoils a child." "Thankfully," Singletary continued, "Goldstein and Stuart deliver that medicinal message in an entertaining book." 24-Karat Kids, stated Amy Brozio-Andrews in the Library Journal, is "a modern reminder about the grass not necessarily being greener on the other side." "Kids is a light, superficial read," stated Entertainment Weekly critic Tina Jordan, "but a fun one." "For readers looking for a laugh," concluded Iris Blasi writing on the Chick Lit BookPage Web site, "this is just what the doctor ordered."