David Goldenberg, MD, FACS

About Me

David Goldenberg, MD, FACS, is a head and neck surgical oncologist. He was educated at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel. He completed a residency in otolaryngology – head and neck surgery at the Rambam Medical Center in Haifa, Israel, and then went on to do a three-year fellowship in head and neck surgery and oncology at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore.

Currently professor and chair of the Department of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery at Penn State Health and Penn State College of Medicine, Dr. Goldenberg combines a busy surgical practice with teaching and research. His clinical practice includes head and neck cancers, thyroid cancers and parathyroid disease, and radiofrequency ablation of thyroid nodules. His clinical research focus is on outcomes and etiology of the rise in incidence of thyroid cancer and his basic research lab and basic research focuses on thyroid cancer genomics in familial nonmedullary thyroid cancer as well as radiation induced thyroid cancer.

Dr. Goldenberg is an accomplished and prolific author of over 260 journal articles, 40 book chapters, and seven books in the field of head and neck and thyroid oncology and surgery. His latest book, "Head & Neck Endocrine Surgery - A Comprehensive Textbook, Surgical, and Video Atlas (Thieme 2021) is the most comprehensive textbook to date on the subject of thyroid and parathyroid surgery.