| Dr. Goldberg's full Curriculum Vitae can be downloaded by clicking on the PDF located below her photograph to the right. The following is a brief summary of her education and experience:
Dr. Goldberg has been licensed in the State of California since 2003 (PSY 18491). She earned her PhD in clinical psychology at the University of Cincinnati in June 2000, specializing in assessment of children and adolescents. Her post-doctoral training in clinical neuropsychology was conducted at the Harbor-UCLA Medical Center from 2004-2006. From 2000 until 2006 Dr. Goldberg conducted psychological and neuropsychological assessments of children and adolescents under Dependency Court jurisdiction as referred by the Los Angeles County Department of Child and Family Services.
In 2006, Dr. Goldberg became a member of the professional staff at Olive View-UCLA Medical Center as an attending neuropsychologist in the Department of Psychiatry, then developed the Psychology and Neuropsychology Training program, and built the Neuropsychology Service. The service has quadrupled in consult capacity over the past four years and receives referrals from the Departments of Medicine, Neurology, and Psychiatry.
In 2008 Dr. Goldberg was appointed to the faculty of the UCLA School of Medicine as an Assistant Clinical Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences. She is also an Associate Clinical Professor at the Fuller Graduate School of Psychology Dr. Goldberg is actively involved in research and is currently developing the infrastructure to provide post-doctoral fellowships and internships in neuropsychology at Olive View-UCLA Medical Center in the Department of Psychiatry.
Dr. Goldberg's research is focused on developing and validating measures to accurately identify noncredible cognitive performance on neuropsychological testing and she has co-authored papers and a book chapter examining how patients with serious mental illnesses perform on those types of measures.
Dr. Goldberg was asked to review and critique pre-publication MMPI-2 Restructured Form (MMPI-2-RF) Interpretive Test Reports during test development by The University of Minnesota Press and Pearson Assessments, who own and publish the measure, respectively. She has expertise in the use and interpretation of the MMPI-2 and the MMPI-2-RF in a range of clinical and non-clinical settings, and is currently conducting research examining the relationship between cognitive test scores and MMPI-2 RF scores in psychiatric and neurology patients.
In 2009, Dr. Goldberg co-conducted a 3-hour CEU workshop with Drs Yossef Ben-Porath and Kyle Boone at the AACN 2009 Conference in San Diego on "Uses of the MMPI Instruments in Neuropsychological Assessment."
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