Born and raised in Wisconsin, Dr. Goldstein obtained his Bachelor of Science degree in Psychology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He then worked in a Sleep Medicine Lab at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston before attending medical School at Ross University on the island of Dominica. He completed his psychiatry residency at Temple University in Philadelphia and his Forensic Psychiatry fellowship at the Oregon Health and Sciences University in Portland, Oregon. He testified on conservatorship matters in Sonoma County after fellowship for nearly two years. He has been a psychiatrist at the Winnebago Mental Health Institute in Oshkosh, Wisconsin for the past seven years, recently becoming the Medical Director.