Michael A. Goldfarb

Michael A. Goldfarb MD, partially grew up in Brooklyn. When he was eight he saw his camp counselor place a beating frog heart, on a dock. That same year he cut away his Grandfather’s pajama bottom from a wound stuck to his thigh. Those formative events inspired him to become a surgeon. On the road to that goal, he attended Hobart College, New York University School of Medicine and a five year General Surgery residency at The Beth Israel Medical Center, in New York City. He then served as a Major in the United States Army. As the Surgical Director of Wound Ballistics, at Edgewood Arsenal, Maryland, he helped direct the development and testing of Kevlar body armor and established the standard for bullet proof body armor.

Dr. Goldfarb then entered private practice at Monmouth Medical Center, in Long Branch New Jersey. Since then he has been immersed in resident and student teaching and was appointed Professor of Surgery (Drexel University) in 2006. He served as Chairman and Program Director of the Department of Surgery from July 2000 until July 2014. He has helped train over 700 surgeons. As a surgeon, his experience has concentrated on compassionate interactions and meticulous techniques, to promote excellent clinical results.

Dr. Goldfarb has multiple publications in peer-reviewed journals and books and developed patents for surgical inventions. He is a member of multiple surgical societies, hospital committees and a recent Governor of the American College of Surgeons. Currently, he edits the column on New Innovations in Surgery, in General Surgery News. He is on the Advisory Boards of several medical companies.

Dr. Goldfarb is married to Barbara and they have two sons and four grandchildren. His hobbies are writing Haiku, photography, magic, golf, travel and understanding their Rhodesian Ridgebacks, Dartagnan and Poet.

He continues to grow up in New Jersey where his travels and hobbies have provided the substrate to write, “Japan Inscape.”