Ary L. Goldberger, MD
Harvard Medical School
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Boston, Massachusetts

Presentation Title
The System as Target: Rethinking Pharmacologic Assays (Summary of Presentation)

Ary L. Goldberger is a graduate of Harvard College and Yale Medical School.  He is Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Associate Director of the Division of Interdisciplinary Medicine and Biotechnology at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.
 
He is also founding and current Director of the Margaret and H.A. Rey Institute for Nonlinear Dynamics in Physiology and Medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and the Program Director of the NIH Research Resource for Complex Physiologic Signals. The “PhysioNet” resource makes freely available open access databases and open source software for the scientific community (www.physionet.org).
 
Dr. Goldberger and his colleagues have been internationally recognized for their role in the application of concepts from nonlinear dynamics and fractal analysis to basic cardiopulmonary physiology and bedside medicine, and for their work in the emerging field of complex signals informatics.
 
Dr. Goldberger, a cardiologist by training, is also a leading figure in the field of electrocardiographic (ECG) analysis. He has written two widely-used textbooks that have been translated into multiple languages.  
 
Dr. Goldberger and his colleagues were the original creators of the Heartsongs project involving the mapping of heartbeats into music as part of a more general project entitled the “Biology of Imagination.”  This work has been written up in the New York Times and featured at the Boston Museum of Science.
 
Most recently, along with colleagues Dr. Madalena Costa and Dr. C.-K. Peng,  Dr. Goldberger has been involved in the development of the concept and implementation of dynamical biomarkers, a new approach to testing drug toxicity and efficacy.