Steven N. Goodman, M.D., M.H.S., Ph.D., is Associate 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 a B.A. from Harvard, an M.D. from NYU, trained in Pediatrics at Washington University in St. Louis, received his M.H.S. in Biostatistics, and his Ph.D. in Epidemiology from Johns Hopkins University. He is currently Co-Director of the Johns Hopkins Evidence-Based Practice Center, is on the Board of Directors of the Society for Clinical Trials, was Co-Director of the Baltimore Cochrane Center from 1994-1998, and is on the core faculties of the Johns Hopkins Berman Bioethics Institute, the Center for Clinical Trials, the Graduate Training Program in Clinical Investigation and the Johns Hopkins Center for the History and Philosophy of Science. He is the editor of Clinical Trials: Journal of the Society for Clinical Trials, has been Statistical Editor of the Annals of Internal Medicine since 1987 and for the Journal of General Internal Medicine from 1999-2000. He has served on a wide variety of national panels, including the Institute of Medicine's Committee on Veterans and Agent Orange, and is currently on the IOM Committee on Vaccine Safety, the Medicare Coverage Advisory Commission, and the Surgeon General's committees to write the 2001 and 2002 reports on Smoking and Health. He currently chairs a panel assessing the long-term outcomes of assisted reproductive technologies, established by the Genetics and Public Policy Institute and sponsored by the American Society for Reproductive Medicine and the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP). He represents the AAP on the Medical Advisory Panel of the National Blue Cross/Blue Shield Technology Evaluation program, and served as a consultant to the President s Advisory Commission on Human Radiation Experiments. He has published over 90 scientific papers, and writes and teaches on evidence evaluation and inferential, methodological, and ethical issues in epidemiology and clinical research. |