THE LITERARY SALON - the virtual 'book club hour' for Fairfield University - Dr. Nieca Goldberg, Tuesday, January 25 at 12:00 PM

Date: 01-25-2022

Time: 12:00 PM

Free virtual event; Registration is required at https://events.fairfield.edu/events/the-literary-salon-dr-nieca-goldberg-215049838857

THE LITERARY SALON - the virtual 'book club hour' for Fairfield University

In association with Meryl Moss Media, Westport

Dr. Nieca Goldberg

Cardiologist, Women's Health Advocate, Author

"Start off 2022 with Heart - Everything you need to know about women's heart health"

Dr. Nieca Goldberg is Medical Director of Atria New York City and Clinical Associate Professor of medicine at NYU Grossman School of Medicine. She is also the Co-Medical Director of the 92nd Street Y’s Cardio Rehab Program, a cardiologist, author, radio show host on Doctor Radio SIRIUS XM 81 of “Beyond the Heart,” and a nationally recognized pioneer in women’s heart health. Dr. Goldberg is a national spokesperson for the American Heart Association and started the “Go Red For Women” campaign. Before joining Atria New York City, she was medical director of NYU Women’s Heart Program, Senior Advisor of Women’s Health Strategy NYU Langone Health, the founder and Medical Director of the Joan H. Tisch Center for Women’s Health at the NYU Langone Medical Center.

Dr. Goldberg is the author of Dr. Nieca Goldberg’s Complete Guide to Women’s Health. She has also authored the award winning and highly acclaimed book Women Are Not Small Men which was updated and titled the Women’s Healthy Heart Program – Lifesaving Strategies for Preventing and Healing Heart Disease published by Ballantine Books.

Dr. Goldberg’s research and medical publications focus on cardiovascular disease in women, exercise imaging and exercise. She is often asked by the media for her expert interpretation of current studies and medical news. Dr. Goldberg has made numerous appearances on programs such as, The Today Show, The View, Good Morning America, The Early Show, and CBS Evening News. In addition, she has been featured and interviewed by reporters from The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The New York Post, The New York Daily News, Fitness Magazine, More, Glamour, Good Housekeeping and many others discussing women’s health and heart disease. She serves on the Woman’s Day Editorial Advisory Board. Since 2008, Dr. Goldberg has been hosting a weekly radio show on SiriusXM Doctor Radio for Women’s Health called Beyond the Heart.

Through the years Dr. Goldberg was celebrated, again and again, on New York Magazine’s “Best Doctors” list. In 1999, she was the only woman in their top ten “Hall of Fame of Physicians”. The recipient of numerous awards for her advocacy for women’s heart health, she received the American Heart Association’s “Dr. with Heart” award, Woman’s Day magazine’s “Red Dress” award, Jewish Women International’s “Women to Watch” award and The Women at Heart 2006 Honoree Award from the Links Greater New York Chapter.

Dr. Goldberg is a graduate of Barnard College and SUNY Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, she completed her medical residency at St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital Center and a cardiology fellowship at SUNY Downstate.

About the Literary Salon

The Literary Salon is the virtual 'book club hour' for Fairfield University.

Knowing of the Quick Center's diverse areas of focus, we've invited senior media/ publishing - expert Meryl Moss to broaden our reading lists. With her successful agency's fingertip gauging the pulse, we will have extended seminar class sessions, with authors who are young, new and also widely established. Please join us and become active community participants.

Meryl Moss is founder and president of Meryl Moss Media, an international literary media relations and marketing firm. For more than 27 years from their little black building on Saugatuck Avenue in Westport, the team at Meryl Moss Media, has been promoting and branding authors and their books through media exposure, speaking engagements, social media, influencer introductions, creative marketing initiatives and solutions. Whether debut writers, midlist or even occasional bestsellers. Rather than focus on the household names you read about everywhere, BookTrib.com’s mantra is to give voice to those authors that really need to be heard – and read.

"Appreciating the diverse interests of our Open MINDS Institute class programs, we want to create special conversations with fellow book habituates and seekers of ideas," says Dr. Philip Eliasoph, program director.

For more information, contact Quick Center Box Office / 203-254-4010 / quickboxoffice@fairfield.edu