Robert Goldberg, MD

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Get to know Thoracic Surgeon Dr. Robert Goldberg, who serves wound care patients in Los Angeles, California.

A highly trained Cardiothoracic Surgeon, Dr. Goldberg is affiliated with Vohra Medical Group.

Vohra Medical Group is a highly regarded group of wound care specialists with headquarters located in Miramar, Florida. It is the largest, most active physician wound management group in the US – delivering over a million patient encounters per year by hundreds of highly trained surgeons all over the US.

Born and raised in Russia, Dr. Goldberg completed 5 years of medical school at the Russian State Medical University in Moscow and was building his career as a Cardiac Surgeon. However, in 2008 he immigrated to the United States and had to redo his entire education from scratch, earning his medical degree from Cooper Medical School of Rowan University in 2016. He was then trained in adult and congenital Cardiothoracic Surgery for four years at LAC + USC Medical Center.

Attributing his success to perseverance and having always been inspired by the medical field, Dr. Goldberg served as a congenital cardiothoracic surgery research fellow at Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles until December 2019. In 2020, he left Cardiothoracic Surgery to pursue a different career path. Thereafter, from 2020 until 2022, he worked as a traveling physician for Signify Health. He started his wound care practice later in 2022.

On a more personal note, Dr. Goldberg is fluent in both English and Russian and is pursuing his passion in acting.

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