Edward B. Goldman, J.D.
Edward Goldman has been Health Systems Attorney, University of Michigan since 1978. Currently he serves as Associate Vice President and Deputy General Counsel for the University and as Adjunct Professor at the University of Michigan Medical School and the University of Michigan School of Public Health. Mr. Goldman enjoys a diverse career combining the practice of law, teaching, writing, and community service.
Mr. Goldman's writing covers such important areas as refusing treatment, informed consent for breast cancer therapy and blood transfusion, Jehovah's Witnesses, medico-legal issues in pulmonary medicine, the law of emergency care in neonatal emergencies and privacy issues. He has also published in the areas of genetics, wrongful birth, fetal versus maternal rights, medical education, and non-custodial parents' rights in their children's health care. In 1980, the Michigan Society of Hospital Attorneys recognized his contributions with its "First Annual Award for Outstanding Contributions to Health Law Literature."
In 1993 Mr. Goldman was a member of the White House legal audit task force on health care reform. In 1999 he was named chair of the Governors Commission on Genetic Privacy and Progress, whose report served as the basis for Michigan legislation that has been called a model for State legislation. In August 2001 he served as the public policy expert for the American College of Medical Genetics Task Force on Newborn Screening. Mr. Goldman has served on Michigan State Bar Committees on Medical-Legal Issues and Rights of the Mentally Disabled, on the Planning Committee for the American Health Lawyers Association Academic Medical Centers conference, and on the editorial board of the Journal of Critical Care. In June of 2002 he received the W. Quinn Jordan award from the American Association of Blood Banks for his contributions to the law of transfusion medicine.
Besides teaching health law, medical and research ethics, confidentiality and more at the UM Medical School and School of Public Health, since 1996 he has been a visiting professor at the University of Indiana's Poynter Center where he teaches research ethics.
In his spare time he does community service for local charities, practices yoga, cooks and avoids practicing the classical guitar.
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