Jaime Goldberg

Jaime Goldberg, PhD, MSW, LCSW is a Research Specialist with the Kruser Research Lab at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health. She is working on a National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant to improve communication and decision-making in the intensive care unit (ICU) setting.

Jaime earned her PhD in Social Welfare from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She completed a qualitative dissertation for which she interviewed adult children who were harmed by a parent in childhood who are serving as caregivers for that parent through serious illness or the end of life. Jaime earned a Bachelor of Arts (BA) with High Honors and High Distinction from the University of Michigan and her Master of Social Work (MSW) from Washington University in St. Louis, where she focused her studies in gerontology and healthcare.

Jaime previously served as Social Work Specialist for the Cedars-Sinai Supportive Care Medicine team and Palliative Care Social Worker for the Veterans Administration Greater Los Angeles Inpatient Palliative Care Consultation service, where she also completed her post-MSW palliative care fellowship. Jaime was a member of the core faculty and developed the psychosocial training curriculum for the Palliative Care Fellowship Program at both hospitals.

She is currently Adjunct Faculty in the University of Maryland-Baltimore Online Interprofessional Master of Science and Certificate Program in Palliative Care. Jaime was previously a Lecturer at the California State University-Long Beach School of Social Work.

Jaime has been invited to speak and teach locally, nationally, and internationally about palliative care and hospice topics, and has co-authored several articles and book chapters.