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Robert C. Goldszer, MD, MBA, first came to BWH and HMS in January 1979 as a research and clinical fellow in Renal Medicine. His next 30 years at BWH were marked by his commitment to safe and quality care and his leadership in shepherding quality improvement projects hospital-wide.
In a complete surprise during Wednesday’s Thomson Leadership and Compassionate Care Award Ceremony, Goldszer, BWH’s associate chief medical officer and director of primary care, received the first ever Dennis Thomson Lifetime Achievement Award.
“This award recognizes a member of our staff, who, over the course of his career, has made exemplary contributions and has a deep commitment to compassionate leadership,” BWH Chief Medical Officer Andy Whittemore, MD, said in presenting the award to Goldszer.
In addition to the surprise of the award itself, members of Goldszer’s family were ushered into front-row seats just prior to the award presentation. His parents, Beatrice and Louis Goldszer, flew from Pittsburgh to Boston for the Thomson event. His wife, Madalyn Mann, and daughter, Sarah, were on hand, too, for this special celebration of Goldszer’s three decades of service to BWH, its patients and clinicians.
“I said no surprises,” said a teary-eyed Goldszer, who has served as the chairman of the Thomson award committee for its entire nine-year history at BWH. “I am deeply grateful and thoroughly surprised.”
He added, “My parents were just telling me how they don’t like to travel, and they just walked in here!”
Goldszer, who also has served as BWH’s director of Specialty Services and vice president for Clinical Services, is leaving in May for Miami’s Mount Sinai Medical Center where he will be chief medical officer and senior vice president of Academic and Research Affairs.
“BWH is the whole package, and there is no place better,” he said. “When I get to Miami, I am going to work to achieve what we have achieved here. There is no place like this.”