Kenneth W. Goodman, Ph.D., is co-director of the University of Miami’s Ethics Programs, including its Business Ethics Program, and founder and director of the Bioethics Program and its Pan American Bioethics Initiative. The Ethics Programs have recently been designated a World Health Organization Collaborating Center in Ethics and Global Health Policy, one of three such in the world and the only one in the United States.

Dr. Goodman is a Professor of Medicine at the University of Miami with appointments in the Department of Philosophy, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, School of Nursing and Health Studies and Department of Anesthesiology.

He chairs Ethics Committees for the American College of Epidemiology and the American Medical Informatics Association, for which organization he co-founded the Ethical, Legal and Social Issues Working Group.

His research has emphasized issues in health information technology and in epidemiology and public health. He has published a book about ethics and evidence-based medicine for Cambridge University Press, co-authored a book of case studies in ethics and health computing for Springer-Verlag and co-authored another volume of case studies, in ethics in public health, for the American Public Health Association. He has also co-authored a book on artificial intelligence, edited a book on ethics and medical computing, co-edited a volume on artificial intelligence, and published and presented articles in bioethics, the philosophy of science, and computing.

Current funded work includes research and consulting on ethics and personal health records supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation as part of its Project HealthDesign initiative.