Who We Are

Matthew L. Goldman, MD, MS, FAPA, is the Crisis Systems Medical Director for King County in the Seattle metro area where he provides clinical leadership for a continuum of crisis services. Prior to joining King County, he was the Medical Director for Comprehensive Crisis Services in the San Francisco Department of Public Health where he had direct clinical and administrative oversight of a crisis call center and adult and child mobile crisis teams, led planning for 988 implementation, and advised on the development of a new crisis stabilization unit. Dr. Goldman is a Clinical Associate Professor in the University of Washington Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, he serves as a board member of the American Association of Community Psychiatry, and he serves on the National Council for Mental Wellbeing’s Medical Director Institute where he co-chairs a committee on crisis services. He is also a physician scientist, with over 50 academic publications, 3 book chapters, and multiple presentations at national meetings. He is currently studying mental health and substance use crisis services and suicide prevention in California, Arizona, Georgia, and Ohio, with grant funding from the National Institute of Mental Health (PI: R03) and others. From 2018-2019 he was a Policy Fellow in the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration through the Health and Aging Policy Fellowship. He graduated from Pomona College and the UC Berkeley – UCSF Joint Medical Program, and he completed his residency and chief residency in psychiatry at Columbia University and the New York State Psychiatric Institute as well as the Public Psychiatry Fellowship at UCSF.

Education

UC Berkeley-UCSF Joint Medical Program
Psychiatry Residency and Chief Residency, Columbia University/New York State Psychiatric Institute
Public Psychiatry Fellowship, University of California, San Francisco