About ASN

Biography Dr. Goldfarb is a Professor of Medicine and Physiology at NYU Grossman School of Medicine, Clinical Chief of the Nephrology Division at NYU Langone Health, and Chief of the Nephrology Section at the New York VA Medical Center in Manhattan. He serves as the Director of the Kidney Stone Prevention Program at NYU Langone and at New York VA Medical Center. He graduated from Yale College and the Yale School of Medicine and trained in Internal Medicine at New York VA and NYU, and Nephrology at New York University. He is the principal investigator of the Rare Kidney Stone Consortium's cystinuria project, and served as the President of the NY Society of Nephrology (1999) and of the ROCK Society (Research on Calculus Kinetics, 2016). He was vice-chair of the American Urological Association's guideline panel, representing the American Society of Nephrology, on Medical Management of Kidney Stones, and co-authored the last set of guidelines on that topic. In 2023, he earned a certificate from the Yale School of Public Health for their course on "Climate Change and Health". He is the NKF's representative to the EXTRIP Workgroup, "Extracorporeal Treatments in Poisoning". He is the ASN's representative to the ISN's GREEN-K initiative (Global Environmental Sustainability in Kidney Care) and the chair of the ASN's committee on sustainability. He is on the editorial boards of JASN, CJASN, Kidney International, Urolithiasis and Current Opinion in Nephrology and Hypertension. He was selected as "Stone Crusher of the Year" in 2014 by the Oxalosis and Hyperoxaluria Foundation and "Nephrologist of the Year" in 2016 by the American Kidney Fund. He has had three calcium oxalate stones.