Dr. Paul Goldiner, the medical director of BMCC’s Respiratory Therapy program, was featured in the April edition of Anesthesiology News.
In the story, written by Christina Frangou, Goldiner spoke about his position at BMCC, where he is responsible for organizing course work for roughly 45 students in the program, along with teaching two hours a week.
“One of the things I really teach is how to deal with physicians,” he told Anesthesiology News. “When they go out to the hospitals, they will be on rounds and I try to teach them how to handle themselves in the hospital setting.”
Goldiner came to BMCC in 2004. After retiring as head of the Department of Anesthesiology at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City, he was looking to keep himself busy professionally. Luckily, BMCC was hiring.
He is currently in the process of setting up a program at BMCC to train respiratory therapists as sleep technologists, who study how to improve the quality of sleep for people.
However, the work at BMCC is not all he does. Goldiner also serves as vice chair at Applied Measurement Professionals, Inc. (AMP), the testing outlet of the National Board for Respiratory Care. Moreover, he conducts site visits for the Committee on Accreditation for Respiratory Care, is business manager of the PostGraduate Assembly of the New York State Society of Anesthesiologists, and serves on the Committee on Respiratory Care of the American Society of Anesthesiologists.
“I’m quite involved, but on my time,” said Goldiner. “You can’t have a lifetime of being very active professionally and just turn it off.”
Goldiner and his wife spend much their free time with family. They have two grandsons in New York City, and spend four months a year at their home in California visiting family, especially their granddaughter. They also make time for traveling, and Goldiner himself plays poker, his favorite hobby, a few times a week.
However, that’s not enough for to keep Goldiner busy.
“Retirement is great, but I would not be happy if I was going nothing professional,” he said.
