Director Emeritus, Institute for Bioethics and Health Policy; Director Emeritus, UM Ethics Programs
Kenneth W. Goodman, PhD, FACMI, FACE, is founder and director emeritus of the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine’s Institute for Bioethics and Health Policy and director emeritus of the university’s Ethics Programs. The Institute has been designated a World Health Organization Collaborating Center in Ethics and Global Health Policy, one of 14 in the world and the only one in the United States.
Dr. Goodman retired from the University of Miami in June 2025, after 34 years.
He is a Professor Emeritus of Medicine at the University of Miami where he enjoyed appointments in the Department of Philosophy, School of Nursing and Health Studies and Department of Public Health Sciences. He co-directed the program in Data Ethics + Society for the university's Institute for Data Science and Computing.
He is past chair of the Ethics Committee of AMIA (American Medical Informatics Association), for which organization he co-founded the Ethical, Legal and Social Issues Working Group. He is a Fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics (FACMI), a Fellow of the American College of Epidemiology (FACE), and past chair of its Ethics Committee, and of the Hastings Center.
He directed the Florida Bioethics Network and chaired the UHealth/University of Miami Hospital Ethics Committee and the Adult Ethics Committee for Jackson Memorial Health System.
Dr. Goodman’s research has emphasized issues in health information technology and in epidemiology and public health. His most recent book, Ethics, Medicine, and Information Technology: Intelligent Machines and the Transformation of Health Care (Cambridge University Press 2016) identifies and analyzes a number of issues in biomedical informatics. He has edited a book on the Terri Schiavo case for Oxford University Press, 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 numerous papers in bioethics, including end-of-life care, the philosophy of science, and computing.
Selected Publications
E-mail: kgoodman@miami.edu
Tel: 305-243-5723
UM Ethics Programs
PO Box 016960 (M825)
Miami, FL 33101
