An Elsevier Author, Lee Goldman, M.D., MPH, joined Columbia in 2006 as the Harold and Margaret Hatch Professor, Executive Vice President for Health and Biomedical Sciences, and Dean of the Faculties of Health Sciences and Medicine. He received his BA, MD, and MPH degrees from Yale. He did his internal medicine training at UCSF and MGH, and his cardiology training at Yale. From 1978-1995, positions at Harvard included Professor of Medicine and Professor of Epidemiology, while positions at Brigham and Women's Hospital included Vice Chair of Medicine and Chief Medical Officer. From 1995-2006, he was the Julius R. Krevans Professor, Chair of Medicine, and Associate Dean for Clinical Affairs at UCSF.

Dr. Goldman's research focuses on cardiac risk in non-cardiac surgery, determining which patients with chest pain require hospital admission, establishing priorities for the prevention and treatment of coronary disease, and the scientific basis for the now ubiquitous chest-pain evaluation units and the first academic hospitalist program. More than 45 trainees first-authored peer-reviewed publications under his mentorship.

Dr. Goldman is a member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation; past President of the Association of American Physicians, the Society of General Internal Medicine, and the Association of Professors of Medicine; and a member of the Institute of Medicine. He received the highest awards of the Society of General Internal Medicine (the Glaser Award), the American College of Physicians (the John Phillips Award), and the Association of Professors of Medicine (the Williams Award). Dr. Goldman is the lead editor of the Cecil Textbook of Medicine.

Andrew Schafer was born in Budapest and at the age of nine escaped with his

family to the west following the collapse of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution. He

received his B.S. from Northeastern University, and was educated and trained in

medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, University of Chicago, and Harvard. He

has become one of the most distinguished hematologists in the world, and

continues to be fully engaged in clinical practice, research, and education of the

next generations of medical students and advanced trainees at Cornell Medical

College.

Among his many professional honors has been election to the presidencies of the

American Society of Hematology, the Association of Professors of Medicine, the

American Clinical and Climatological Association, and the National Academy of

Medicine. He has been chairman of three departments of medicine: Baylor, the

University of Pennsylvania, and Cornell and served as physician-in-chief of their

major teaching hospitals. While he has edited or written several major textbooks

of medicine and authored 250 original scientific publications in major medical

journals, Unclean Hands is his first foray into historical fiction.

Dr. Schafer lives in New York City (and also Annapolis, Maryland) with his wife of

50 years, Pauline. He is the proud father of three wonderful children, Erica, Pam,

and Kate, and six even more wonderful grandchildren, Evan, Samantha, Nathaniel,

Patrick, Caroline, and Meghan. As he has said many times, “if I knew my

grandchildren would be this much fun, I would have had them first.” His hobbies

include opera, sports of any kind, especially soccer, world history, Broadway plays

and musicals, and travel to new places.