Dr Elliot R Goodman:

Dr. Elliot R. Goodman was born in England and received his undergraduate and medical school education at Cambridge University. He moved to the USA in 1990 and trained in general surgery at Maimonides Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY from 1990 to 1996. He spent two years as a research fellow at Columbia University working with Mark Hardy, MD, in the field of cellular transplantation and immunology. During his fellowship, he presented his findings at various national and international meetings and published his work in many peer-reviewed journals.

Dr. Goodman joined the medical staff of Beth Israel Medical Center in New York City in early 2004. Before this, he was Chief of Bariatric Surgery at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx, New York. He is currently on the surgical faculty of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. From 1997 to 1999, he was on the faculty of the New Jersey Medical School and was the co-director of the University Institute for the Surgery of Morbid Obesity in Newark, NJ. Dr Goodman is an active member of the American Society of Bariatric Surgery. He lectures throughout the country on the topic of obesity surgery and trains surgeons in techniques of bariatric surgery from all over the USA.