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Rob Goodman, MBBCh, MBA, BMSc

Professor of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging
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Chair, Radiology and Biomedical Imaging

Radiologist-in-Chief, Yale New Haven Health

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Professor of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging

Chair, Radiology and Biomedical Imaging; Radiologist-in-Chief, Yale New Haven Health

Biography

Rob Goodman, MB BChir, MBA is the Chair of the Department of Radiology & Biomedical Imaging at Yale School of Medicine, Chief of Radiology at Yale New Haven Hospital and Radiologist-in-Chief at Yale New Haven Health System.

Dr. Goodman joined Yale in 2004 from the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford, UK, where he was lead clinician for its radiology department. He obtained his medical degree from Cambridge University in 1988 and an MBA in Healthcare from Yale in 2017. Upon completing his residency at the Central Oxford Hospitals in the UK, he did a fellowship in pediatric radiology at The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto.

After his relocation from Europe to the United States, he was struck by the marked differences in radiation awareness between the two countries, which is particularly relevant in pediatric radiology due to children’s susceptibility to the effects of radiation. He subsequently played a major role in the movement to reduce radiation exposure from CT scans in children, as well as adults. As a way to reduce radiation exposure, his clinical interests also included improved utilization of ultrasound in pediatric imaging. He has published and lectured on these topics nationally and is the Pediatric Community of Practice President for the American Institute for Ultrasound in Medicine, and sits on its Board of Governors. He has been involved in developing national consensus guidelines for such topics as neonatal echoencephalography, pediatric spinal ultrasound, hip ultrasound, and imaging in pregnant patients.

During his tenure at Yale, Dr. Goodman has overseen the expansion of pediatric radiology services, spearheaded the installation of a dedicated pediatric MRI scanner at Yale New Haven Children’s Hospital, implemented a critical test result reporting system, and identified mechanisms to improve the radiology peer review process. He recently helped execute an imaging industry relationship with Siemens Healthcare for Yale New Haven Health System.

As Chair, Dr. Goodman is building upon the department’s clinical strengths and world-class research taking place in such areas as novel MR pulse sequences, functional MRI, MR spectroscopy, novel PET tracers, and advanced image processing. By including industry partners, he is eager to expand its translational research program to help convert basic science discoveries into clinical applications that improve patient care.

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Education & Training

MBA
Yale University (2017)
Fellow
The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada (1998)
Attending
Oxford Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, UK (1997)
MBBCh
Clare College, Cambridge University (1988)
BMSc
Dundee University (1986)
Resident
Central Oxford Hospital, Oxford, UK

Research

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Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)

Pediatrics

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Yale Co-Authors

Frequent collaborators of Rob Goodman's published research.

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Clinical Care

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Rob Goodman, MBBChir, MBA, chair of Radiology & Biomedical Imaging at Yale Medicine, enjoys helping improve children’s health and wellbeing. “Being able to talk to children during their imaging, put them at ease and make them smile is just the frosting on the cake,” he says.

Dr. Goodman, who is also a professor of Radiology & Biomedical Imaging at Yale School of Medicine, recognizes the pivotal role diagnostic imaging plays in health care today. MRIs, CT-scans, X-rays and ultrasounds are instrumental in helping radiologists make diagnoses in both pint-sized and adult patients so that proper treatment can begin.

Keeping children safe during imaging is of paramount importance to Dr. Goodman and the entire pediatric radiology team. “We have worked hard at making sure the radiation dose received by pediatric patients having CT-scans at Yale New Haven Children's Hospital are some of the lowest in the country,” he says.

“Parents are reassured by being reminded that this is a children's hospital where everyone and everything is geared around the needs of their child. Patients are reassured by knowing that they get a prize at the end of an imaging study!”

Clinical Specialties

Pediatric Radiology

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Radiology & Biomedical Imaging

PO Box 208042

New Haven, CT 06520-8042

United States

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Locations

  • Tompkins East Building

    Academic Office

    789 Howard Avenue, Ste 2 Floor

    New Haven, CT 06519

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