[1] Goldberg studied biostatistics at the Harvard School of Public Health, earning a master's degree in 1967 and completing her doctorate (Sc.D.)
After three years as a research statistician for the HIP Health Insurance Plan of New York, she became an assistant professor of biostatistics at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine from 1975 to 1983.
[2] From 1983 to 1995, she worked at Lederle Laboratories, in the pharmaceutical division of American Cyanamid, as executive director of statistics and data management.
After American Cyanamid was purchased, broken up, and reorganized in the mid-1990s, she became vice president for biostatistics and data management for Bristol Myers Squibb from 1995 to 1999.
[5] She was the 2015 recipient of the Janet L. Norwood Award for Outstanding Achievement by a Woman in the Statistical Sciences, given annually by the School of Public Health of the University of Alabama at Birmingham.