Assistant Clinical Professor

Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences

UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine

Associate Clinical Professor

Fuller Graduate School of Psychology

Director of Psychology and Neuropsychology Training 

Psychology and Neuropsychology Service

Department of Psychiatry

Olive View-UCLA Medical Center

The Psychology and Neuropsychology Service at Olive View-UCLA Medical Center provides consultation and assessment services for patients referred by physicians from the Departments of Psychiatry, Neurology, and General Medicine, and the OB-Gynecology and Infectious Disease Clinics.  Dr. Goldberg's training program accepts up to six advanced level doctoral students annually from psychology graduate programs in the metropolitan area for one year of specialized training in conducting neuropsychological assessments and providing psychological services in a hospital setting. 

Member: National Academy of Neuropsychology (NAN)

Member: International Neuropsychological Society (INS)
Associate/Affiliate Member: American Academy of Clinical Neuropsychology
 
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. She is also conducting research on relationships between neuropsychological tests, symptom validity measures, and the MMPI-2-RF.

Dr. Goldberg reviewed pre-publication MMPI-2 Restructured Form (MMPI-2-RF) Interpretive Test Reports during test development for 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.