John R. Goldblum, MD

2023 USCAP Board’s Distinguished Pathologist

Dr. John R. Goldblum was born and raised in Pittsburgh, PA. He earned his BS, MD, and did his AP residency and fellowship with Dr Sharon Weiss at the University of Michigan. He moved to Cleveland Clinic in 1993 and has been doing GI and soft tissue pathology since then. In 2002 Dr. Goldblum became Chairman of the Department of Pathology at Cleveland Clinic. The department is one of the busiest of its kind in the country with approximately 200,000 surgicals and 120,000 cytology specimens.

Dr. Goldblum is the coauthor of Enzinger and Weiss’ Soft Tissue Tumors, 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th editions, with Dr. Sharon Weiss, and now also Dr. Andrew Folpe. He has written more than 400 peer-reviewed articles, mostly on GI and soft tissue pathology. He has also edited numerous books including Odze and Goldblum’s Surgical Pathology of the GI tract, liver, biliary tract and pancreas with Dr. Robert Odze; Rosai and Ackerman’s Surgical Pathology, 11th edition textbook; Foundations In Diagnostic Pathology (now in the 4th edition); and Surgical Pathology Clinics. Dr. Goldblum has served on the editorial boards of AJSP, Modern Pathology, and Human Pathology.

Dr. Goldblum has served as faculty for many short courses in both GI and soft tissue pathology for ASCP, CAP, and USCAP and has received career teaching awards from all three. In addition, he has served as Short Course Coordinator for USCAP; served as Chair of the Education Committee for the USCAP (with the longest tenure as member and Chair of EC in history of USCAP); served as President for USCAP in 2015-2016 and as a member of the Board of Directors for USCAP from 2013-2017. Dr. Goldblum has received 2 major USCAP awards (the Mostofi Distinguished Service Award and the Harvey Goldman USCAP Teaching Award).

In his free time, Dr. Goldblum has seen Bruce Springsteen in concert 77 times! But he considers his most important achievement to be successfully raising 4 children – Drew, Ryan, Janavi, and Raedan (ages 21-30) – and being married to a wonderful woman, Asmita, for 32 years! He is now a crazed dog person and has 2 dogs, Thor and Luna, who follow him everywhere.