 Steven
Goodman, M.D., M.H.S., Ph.D.
Steven N. Goodman, M.D., M.H.S., Ph.D., is a Professor
of Oncology in the Division of Biostatistics of the Johns Hopkins
Kimmel Cancer Center, with appointments in the Departments of Pediatrics,
Biostatistics and Epidemiology in the Johns Hopkins Schools of
Medicine and Public Health. Dr. Goodman received an AB from Harvard,
MD from NYU, trained in Pediatrics at Washington University in
St. Louis, and received an M.H.S. in Biostatistics and Ph.D. in
Epidemiology from Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. In the
ncology Center he directs the Biostatistics cores of the SPORE
grants in GI and Head and Neck Cancer and consults on numerous
clinical research projects. As part of the Head and Neck SPORE,
he is overseeing the production of HAND (Head And Neck Database),
which will integrate clinical, pathologic, molecular, genetic and
epidemiologic information on all patients with these types of cancer
seen at Johns Hopkins. This is being designed to conform to cross-institutional
standards developed within the EDRN - Early Detection Research
Network.
In addition to his activities in Oncology, Dr. Goodman is an active
leader and teacher in a variety of departments and programs within
the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions. He is co-director of the
PhD program in the Department of Epidemiology and of the Johns
Hopkins Evidence-Based Practice Center, and is on the core faculties
of the Johns Hopkins Bioethics Institute, the Center for Clinical
Trials, and the Graduate Training Program in Clinical Investigation
(GTPCI). He directs Project ImpACT (Important Achievements of Clinical
Trials), a project to identify, compile and profile the 100 most
important clinical trials ever performed, across all disciplines
of medicine and public health. He runs a yearlong doctoral seminar
for all epidemiology PhD students, teaches a course on Meta-analysis
in the Epidemiology department, and is a director of the 2 week
Methods in Clinical Research course taught every summer under the
auspices of the GCRC (General Clinical Research Center) and GTPCI.
He is a regular lecturer in several courses on research ethics
and research methods given throughout the year. He chairs the Department
of Epidemiology curriculum committee and serves as a statistician
for the pediatric clinical research unit of the GCRC.
Dr. Goodman is very active outside of Johns Hopkins in a variety
of editorial and advisory capacities. He is the Editor-in-chief
of Clinical Trials: Journal of the Society for Clinical Trials,
and has been Statistical Editor of the Annals of Internal Medicine
since 1987. He has served on a wide variety of national panels,
including the Institute of Medicine's Committee on Veterans and
Agent Orange, Committee on Immunization Safety, the Medicare Coverage
Advisory Commission, and the Surgeon General's committees to write
the 2001 and 2002 reports on Smoking and Health. He served as a
consultant to the President¹s Advisory Commission on Human
Radiation Experiments. He chairs a national panel on the health
outcomes of children born using assisted reproductive technologies,
sponsored by the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American
Society for Reproductive Medicine. He represents the American Academy
of Pediatrics on the Medical Advisory Panel of the National Blue
Cross/Blue Shield Technology Evaluation program, and was recently
appointed to succeed Dr. David Eddy as scientific advisor to the
group. He is on the Board of Directors of the Society for Clinical
Trials and was co-director of the Baltimore Cochrane Center from
1994-1998. He writes and teaches extensively on evidence synthesis,
and inferential, methodologic and ethical issues in epidemiology
and clinical trials.
Publications
In the June 5, 2002 issue of JAMA, Steve Goodman, with
colleagues, writes about statistical
expertise in medical research.
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