Anatoly Goldstein, Ph.D.
Computer Systems Coordinator II
Phone: 617-643-8404
agoldstein1@partners.org

Anatoly Goldstein, Ph. D. is currently a Computer Systems Coordinator II at the Center for Laryngeal Surgery and Voice Rehabilitation (Voice Center) at the Massachusetts General Hospital. Dr. Goldstein joined Dr. Zeitels and Dr. Hillman when they established the MGH Voice Center in July 2004. Dr. Goldstein is currently working on development of a Clinical and Research Database on Voice Disorders using Visual Basic 6 as front end and Microsoft SQL Server 2000 database management system as back end. He is also providing support for network and database users at the MGH Voice Center.

Educational and Professional Background. Mr. Goldstein received his Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry (1985) from Moscow University, Moscow, Russia. The topic of his PhD thesis was "Computer Solution of Thermochemical Data Networks". Dr Goldstein developed numerous relational database applications for High Temperatures Inst. of the Russian Academy of Sci.(in 1976-1988, Moscow, Russia), Russian Administration of Metallurgy (1988 - 91, Moscow, Russia), "Zievert Systems Co. " affiliated with Nuclear Safety Institute (1991-94, Moscow, Russia), CB Commercial/Torto Wheaton Research (1995-96, Boston MA).

Database Projects at the Voice Lab, Mass Eye & Ear Infirmary. From 1996 to 2004 Dr Goldstein worked first as dB Analyst/Network Administrator and then as Senior Programmer/Engineer at the Voice & Speech Lab, Mass. Eye & Ear Infirmary under the direction of Dr. Robert Hillman, the Voice Lab Director, an elected Fellow of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association. While working in the Voice Lab Dr Goldstein administered and supported the lab's clinical database system (VoiceBase) which kept data on more than 7000 patients and automatically generated patient reports. Dr. Goldstein performed various types of complex parametric queries on the database to obtain lists of patient records which met different criteria corresponding to numerous research projects running at the lab. He also provided remote administration of the lab's Windows NT Server Network that included over 20 PC users. As network administrator he was monitoring server backups, restores, and remote access services and providing technical support to the network users. He developed a new Report Generator for VoiceBase that generated patient reports in MS Word format with attached graphs in GIF format both for internal use and for sending out to health insurance companies. He has also developed a conversion utility (VB6/VBA/OLE) that allowed him to convert all patient reports accumulated in the lab since 1993(over 3,000 reports) from WordPerfect format with linked bitmap graphs into MS Word with linked graphs in GIF format. He ported two sound file conversion utilities needed for a lab's research project from C/UNIX to MS Visual C. He's developed, tested and released the lab's Intranet and associated VB6 ActiveX components using such Microsoft technologies and tools as Active Server Pages, VB6/VBA, VBScript, ActiveX Data Objects, MS SQL Server, IIS, MTS, as well as HTML 4 & CSS. The Intranet has been used in the lab to search for patient/visit information, to enter/edit diagnosis/referral information in Microsoft SQL Server database, and to generate patient reports in MS Word format. As a part of work on the Intranet Dr. Goldstein has developed and implemented a Patient Diagnosis/ Referral database running under Microsoft SQL Server. He performed MS SQL Server dB Administration including dB backups, restores, as well as dB & Intranet security management.