Kenneth W. Goodman, PhD, is founder and director of the University of Miami's Bioethics Program. He holds appointments in the university's department of medicine, department of philosophy, department of epidemiology and public health, and School of Nursing. His research has focused on ethical issues in medical informatics, including bioinformatics or computational genomics.
He is founder of the American Medical Informatics Association's Working Group on Ethical, Legal and Social Issues; has advised the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on an ethics training program; has served on the National Academy of Sciences' project "Strategies to Protect the Health of Deployed U.S. Forces," has worked on an Institute of Medicine study requested by the Department of Defense; and is developing an NIH-sponsored short course on "especially difficult ethical challenges in epidemiology and human subjects research."
He is the editor of Ethics, Computing and Medicine: Informatics and the Transformation of Health Care and co-author of books on artificial intelligence and public health ethics. He is writing a book about ethics and evidence-based medicine for Cambridge University Press and with a colleague, collecting and commenting on case studies in health informatics for a volume for Springer Verlag. Recent articles have addressed ethics and bioinformatics, computational epidemiology (including molecular epidemiology), and the news media's role in the public understanding of bioethics.