Susan Dorr Goold is Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine, Division of General Medicine, Director of the Bioethics Program (est. September 2000) and Associate Director for Ethics and Health Policy, Program in Society and Medicine at the University of Michigan Medical School. She is a board-certified internist with additional graduate work in bioethics and health management and policy. Her work focuses on the ethics of health care financing and organization at both the micro- and macro- levels. In 1995 she was named a Picker-Commonwealth Scholar to pursue work on valid consent to managed care decision making, and in 1999 she was named a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Generalist Faculty Scholar.  Along with Marion Danis, MD and Multilogue, Inc., Dr. Goold designed CHAT "Choosing Healthplans All Together,"(c) a simulation exercise in which ordinary citizens and consumers can be involved in and educated about health insurance decision making.  CHAT was used in the Allina Foundation's A Consumer Health System: Study and Reform Proposal in 2000.  Dr. Goold's research interests include ethics and managed care, finances and the doctor-patient relationship, ethics of healthcare organizations, allocating scarce resources, citizen participation in health policy, and interpersonal and institutional trust in healthcare contexts.

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•      Ethics and managed care
•      Finances and the doctor-patient relationship
•      Ethics of healthcare organizations
•      Allocating scarce resources
•      Citizen participation in health policy
•      Interpersonal and institutional trust

Education

     University of Colorado BA, Molecular Biology, 1983

     University of Michigan Medical School MD, 1987

     University of Michigan School of Public Health, Health Services Management and Policy MHSA, 1992

     Michigan State University, Department of Philosophy, MA 1994

Training

     1987 - 1990 Categorical Internal Medicine Residency Training Program - University of Pittsburgh Health Center,Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

     1990 - 1992 Health Services Research Fellow - Division of General Medicine, University of Michigan Medical Center, Ann Arbor, Michigan

Appointments and Offices (selected)

     Lecturer, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of General Medicine, University of Michigan Medical School, 1992-4

     Assistant Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of General Medicine, University of Michigan Medical School, 1994-present

     Associate Director for Ethics and Health Policy, Program in Society and Medicine, University of Michigan Medical School, 1994-present

     Program Chair, Society for Health and Human Values, 1996-97

     Awards Chair, American Society for Bioethics and Humanities, 1997-98

     Director, Bioethics Program, University of Michigan Medical School, 2000-

    Associate Editor, Journal of Health Politics Policy and Law, 1999-
 
 

Honors and Awards

     Generalist Faculty Scholar, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, 1999-
 
     Picker-Commonwealth Scholars Award, 1995

     Lyle C. Roll Fellow, 1992-4

Selected Bibliography (full bibliography available upon request)

     1.  Goold SD, Arnold RM, Siminoff LA. Discussions About Limiting Treatment in a Geriatric Clinic. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, March
     1993, 41(3):277-281.

     2. Goold, SD, Hofer T, Zimmerman M, Hayward R. Measuring Physician Attitudes Towards Cost, Uncertainty, Malpractice, and Utilization Review.
     Journal of General Internal Medicine, 1994; 9:544-549.

     3. Goold SD. Allocating Health Care Resources: Cost Utility Analysis, Informed Democratic Decision making, or the Veil of Ignorance? Journal of Health
     Politics, Policy and Law, Spring 1996, 21(1):69-98.

     4. Ubel PA, Goold SD. Recognizing Bedside Rationing: Clear Cases and Tough Calls. Annals of Internal Medicine , 1997, 126(1):74-80.

     5. Ubel PA, Goold SD. Does Bedside Rationing Violate Patients’ Best Interests? An Exploration of the Moral Relevance of "Moral Hazard" Archives of
     Internal Medicine 104(1):64-68, 1998.

     6.Pellegrino ED, Caplan A, Goold, SD.  Doctors and Ethics, Morals and Manuals.  Annals of Internal Medicine  (Invited Commentary)  1 April 1988;128(7):569-571.

     7. Goold, SD: Money and Trust: Relationships between physicians, patients and plans. Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law (Invited Commentary)  Aug. 1998;23(4):687-695.

     8.Goold SD.  “Of Mice and Men:  Reflections on the Exterminator-Client Relationship. Journal of General Internal Medicine  July, 1998;13(7):498.

     9. Goold SD.  Trust and Physician Payment.  Healthcare Executive  July/Aug 1998;13(4):40-41
 
     10. Goold, SD, Vijan, S.  Normative Issues in Cost-Utility Analysis.  Journal of Laboratory Clinical Medicine  November 1998;132(5):376-382.

     11. Goold, SD, Lipkin, M.  The Doctor- Patient Relationship:  Challenges, Opportunities, and Strategies.  Journal of General Internal Medicine  January 1999;14(suppl. 1):S26.

     12. Eiser, AR, Goold, SD, and Suchman, AL.  The Role of Bioethics and Business Ethics.  Journal of General Internal Medicine  January 1999;14(suppl. 1):S58.

     13. Suchman AL, Eiser AR, Goold, SD, Stewart K.  Rationale, Principles, and Educational Approaches of Organizational Transformation.  Journal of General Internal Medicine  January 1999;14(suppl. 1):S51.

     14. Axelrod D,Goold SD.  Maintaining Trust in the Surgeon-Patient Relationship:  Challenges for the New Millennium.  Archives of Surgery  Jan. 2000;135(1):55-61.

     15. Goold SD, Williams B, Arnold RM.  Conflicts Around Decisions to Limit Treatment:  A Differential Diagnosis.  JAMA  Feb. 16, 2000;283(7):909-914.

     16. Goold SD, Cohen N, Sefanskey S, Kamil L.  Outline of a Process for Organizational Ethics Consultation.  Healthcare Ethics Committee Forum  Feb. 2000;12(1):  Reproduced in Ethics in Formation

     17. Goold SD.  Collective Action by Physicians:  Beyond Strikes.  Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics.  2000; 9(4):498-503.

     18. Goold SD, Klipp G.  Managed Care Members Talk About Trust.  Social Science and Medicine.  In press

     19. Peck BM, Asch DA, Goold SD, McIntyre L, Roter DL, Ubel PA, Abbott KH, Hoff J, Koropchak CM, Tulsky JA.  Measuring Patient Expectations:  Does the Measurement Instrument Affect the Number of Expectations Elicited or Patient Satisfaction?  Medical Care  In press.

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