Bonni Goldstein, MD is the Medical Director of Canna-Centers Wellness & Education, a leading cannabis medicine specialty practice, and the CEO of GoldsteinWellness.com, an educational platform dedicated to helping licensed healthcare professionals incorporate medical cannabis into their practices.

Dr. Goldstein completed her internship and residency at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, where she also served as chief resident. After years of practicing Pediatric Emergency Medicine, she became interested in the science of medical cannabis following the profound improvements she witnessed in a seriously ill friend using cannabis.

Dr. Goldstein has evaluated thousands of patients for medical cannabis treatment over the past 17 years. She has a special focus on treating children with intractable epilepsy, autism, and cancer. She has co-authored numerous papers on the use of pharmacometabolomics to study the impact of medical cannabis on the behavioral symptoms associated with autism. Dr. Goldstein is the author of the book Cannabis is Medicine: How Medical Cannabis and CBD are Healing Everything from Anxiety to Chronic Pain, and serves on the board of the International Alliance for Cannabinoid Medicine and Autism Safe Haven. Additionally, she is a medical advisor to Cannformatics and Weedmaps. She has been the medical director for the CannMed Conference Medical Practicum since 2022.