Suzan Goodman, MD, MPH
National Training Director, UCSF Beyond the Pill
Curriculum Director, TEACH Program
Associate Clinical Professor, Department of Family & Community Medicine
Dr. Goodman serves as National Training Director for the UCSF Bixby Beyond the Pill Program, which promotes streamlined access and equity in contraceptive health care, and builds a research foundation to transform patient care experience. She has worked to remove unnecessary procedures in contraceptive care, including unnecessary screening and lengthy protocols for long-acting contraceptives. She has implemented training programs for thousands of reproductive and primary health care providers within public health agencies, clinics, colleges, and hospitals.
Additionally, Dr. Goodman is Co-Founder and Curriculum Director of the TEACH Program which cultivates the next generation of reproductive health champions through training, curriculum, advocacy, and leadership development. She has supported expanded roles of primary care physicians and advanced practice clinicians in comprehensive reproductive health. She has been the primary editor for five editions of TEACH’s Early Abortion Training Curriculum, which is now used in 50 states and 100 countries.
Dr. Goodman is an Associate Clinical Professor at UCSF Department of Family and Community Medicine and Faculty at the Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health. She provides emergency medicine and reproductive health care. She is active in policy through the Society for Family Planning, Physicians for Reproductive Health, CAFP and AAFP, where she has coauthored and advocated for multiple state and national resolutions.
Dr. Goodman served on the Planned Parenthood National Medical Committee (2010-2016), as a Planned Parenthood Director of Medical Education (2003 – 2007), and as Training Director for the California Health Workforce Pilot Project (2005 – 2007), which demonstrated safety and efficacy of uterine aspiration provided by Advanced Practice Clinicians, and informed state policy change. She has provided technical assistance and consulting for Ipas, PPFA, ARMS, ARHP, DOW, IMC, and Center for International Reproductive Health Training. Her international work has focused on capacity building of urban and rural reproductive health providers.
Areas of interest:
- Contraceptive access and autonomy
- Patient-centered counseling, implicit bias, ethics, patient concerns, sharing science
- Medical disparities, underserved communities
- Advances in contraception, emergency and highly effective contraception
- Early pregnancy options
- Management of early pregnancy loss
- Systems based innovation for reproductive health improvements
- Reproductive health training in primary care specialties and predictors of provision
- Faculty development, team-building, interdisciplinary collaboration
- Global capacity building of reproductive health providers
- Emergency and wilderness medicine
- Integrative health, nutrition, and mind body medicine
Ongoing research projects:
- Training outcomes and implementation science, Beyond the Pill Program
- Ongoing evaluation research, TEACH Program
- Simulations for reproductive procedural training and complication management
Education:
- Stanford School of Medicine, M.D.
- UC Berkeley School of Public Health, M.P.H. and Research Fellowship
- UC San Francisco Faculty Development Fellowship
- Family Medicine Residency, Contra Costa Regional (1995-97)
- Obstetrics & Gynecology Residency, University of Washington (1993-95)
- Harvard Post-Baccalaureate Pre-Medical Program
- Hampshire College, Biological Anthropology
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Telehealth for Contraceptive Services During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Provider Perspectives. Womens Health Issues. 2022 Sep-Oct; 32(5):477-483. Rao L, Comfort AB, Dojiri SS, Goodman S, Yarger J, Shah N, Folse C, Blum M, Hankin J, Harper CC. PMID: 35691762; PMCID: PMC9110325.
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Assessing differences in contraceptive provision through telemedicine among reproductive health providers during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. Reprod Health. 2022 Apr 22; 19(1):99. Comfort AB, Rao L, Goodman S, Raine-Bennett T, Barney A, Mengesha B, Harper CC. PMID: 35459218; PMCID: PMC9026031.
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Willing, able, and ready: Medication abortion care for internal medicine resident physicians; MedEdPortal Publications. 2021. Bachorik AE, McClintock AH, Demers LB, . Schwarz EB, Goodman S, Sobota M. View Publication.
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Mental health among outpatient reproductive health care providers during the US COVID-19 epidemic. Reprod Health. 2021 Feb 24; 18(1):49. Comfort AB, Krezanoski PJ, Rao L, El Ayadi A, Tsai AC, Goodman S, Harper CC. PMID: 33627155; PMCID: PMC7903398.
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ARMS Emergency Care Manual. 2020. Affiliate Risk Management Services, PPFA; Goodman S (Contributor). .
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Intrauterine Devices and Sexually Transmitted Infection among Older Adolescents and Young Adults in a Cluster Randomized Trial. J Pediatr Adolesc Gynecol. 2021 Jun; 34(3):355-361. El Ayadi AM, Rocca CH, Averbach SH, Goodman S, Darney PD, Patel A, Harper CC. PMID: 33276125; PMCID: PMC8096684.
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Implementation science: Scaling a training intervention to include IUDs and implants in contraceptive services in primary care. Prev Med. 2020 12; 141:106290. Harper CC, Comfort AB, Blum M, Rocca CH, McCulloch CE, Rao L, Shah N, Oquendo Del Toro H, Goodman S. PMID: 33096126; PMCID: PMC8032203.
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Improving Capacity at School-based Health Centers to Offer Adolescents Counseling and Access to Comprehensive Contraceptive Services. J Pediatr Adolesc Gynecol. 2021 Feb; 34(1):26-32. Comfort AB, Rao L, Goodman S, Barney A, Glymph A, Schroeder R, McCulloch C, Harper CC. PMID: 32730800; PMCID: PMC7385555.
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Early Abortion Training Curriculum. 2020; 188. Goodman S, TEACH Curriculum Working Group. (2020, 2016, 2012, 2007, 2004) . View Publication.
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UCSF Abortion Pill CME. 2019. Schwarz EB, Goodman S, Sobota M. View Publication.
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Training in aspiration abortion care: An observational cohort study of achieving procedural competence. Int J Nurs Stud. 2018 Dec; 88:53-59. Levi A, Goodman S, Weitz T, AbiSamra R, Nobel K, Desai S, Battistelli M, Taylor D. PMID: 30196123.
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The intrauterine device as emergency contraception: how much do young women know? Contraception. 2018 Apr 18. Goodman SR, El Ayadi AM, Rocca CH, Kohn JE, Benedict CE, Dieseldorff JR, Harper CC. PMID: 29679591; PMCID: PMC6546552.
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Training contraceptive providers to offer intrauterine devices and implants in contraceptive care: a cluster randomized trial. Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2018 06; 218(6):597.e1-597.e7. Thompson KMJ, Rocca CH, Stern L, Morfesis J, Goodman S, Steinauer J, Harper CC. PMID: 29577915; PMCID: PMC5970088.
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Contraception after medication abortion in the United States: results from a cluster randomized trial. Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2018 01; 218(1):107.e1-107.e8. Rocca CH, Goodman S, Grossman D, Cadwallader K, Thompson KMJ, Talmont E, Speidel JJ, Harper CC. PMID: 28986072; PMCID: PMC5997454.
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Postgraduate Experiences With an Advanced Reproductive Health and Abortion Training and Leadership Program. Fam Med. 2017 Oct; 49(9):706-713. Block A, Dehlendorf C, Biggs MA, McNeil S, Goodman S. PMID: 29045988.
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Public Funding for Contraception, Provider Training, and Use of Highly Effective Contraceptives: A Cluster Randomized Trial. Am J Public Health. 2016 Mar; 106(3):541-6. Thompson KM, Rocca CH, Kohn JE, Goodman S, Stern L, Blum M, Speidel JJ, Darney PD, Harper CC. PMID: 26794168; PMCID: PMC4816144.
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Funding policies and postabortion long-acting reversible contraception: results from a cluster randomized trial. Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2016 Jun; 214(6):716.e1-8. Rocca CH, Thompson KM, Goodman S, Westhoff CL, Harper CC. PMID: 26692178; PMCID: PMC6005688.
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Simulation for Managing Hemorrhage as a Complication of Uterine Aspiration. MedEdPORTAL Publications. 2015. Goodman S, McNeil S, Shih G. View Publication.
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Reductions in pregnancy rates in the USA with long-acting reversible contraception: a cluster randomised trial. Lancet. 2015 Aug 08; 386(9993):562-8. Harper CC, Rocca CH, Thompson KM, Morfesis J, Goodman S, Darney PD, Westhoff CL, Speidel JJ. PMID: 26091743.
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Protecting Women’s Rights to Basic Reproductive Health Care. California Family Physician. 2014; (Fall). Pollock L, Brode E, McNeil S, Goodman S. .
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Physician Early Abortion Training Sustainability PRH Technical Assistance Report. 2014. Goodman S, Salkowitz T.
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A long-term evaluation of a required reproductive health training rotation with opt-out provisions for family medicine residents. Fam Med. 2013 Mar; 45(3):180-6. Goodman S, Shih G, Hawkins M, Feierabend S, Lossy P, Waxman NJ, Gold M, Dehlendorf C. PMID: 23463431.
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Evidence-based IUD practice: family physicians and obstetrician-gynecologists. Fam Med. 2012 Oct; 44(9):637-45. Harper CC, Henderson JT, Raine TR, Goodman S, Darney PD, Thompson KM, Dehlendorf C, Speidel JJ. PMID: 23027156; PMCID: PMC3745306.
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Counseling women with early pregnancy failure: utilizing evidence, preserving preference. Patient Educ Couns. 2010 Dec; 81(3):454-61. Wallace RR, Goodman S, Freedman LR, Dalton VK, Harris LH. PMID: 21093193.
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Beyond education and training: making change stick. Contraception. 2009 May; 79(5):331-3. Goodman S, Gordon R, Eckhardt C, Osborne S, Grossman D, Spiedel JJ. PMID: 19341842.
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Increasing intrauterine contraception use by reducing barriers to post-abortal and interval insertion. Contraception. 2008 Aug; 78(2):136-42. Goodman S, Hendlish SK, Benedict C, Reeves MF, Pera-Floyd M, Foster-Rosales A. PMID: 18672115.
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Impact of immediate postabortal insertion of intrauterine contraception on repeat abortion. Contraception. 2008 Aug; 78(2):143-8. Goodman S, Hendlish SK, Reeves MF, Foster-Rosales A. PMID: 18672116.
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Abortion training in three family medicine programs: resident and patient outcomes. Fam Med. 2007 Mar; 39(3):184-9. Paul M, Nobel K, Goodman S, Lossy P, Moschella JE, Hammer H. PMID: 17323209.
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HIV, Health, and Your Community: A Guide for Action. 2006. Granich R, Mermin J, contributions by Goodman S.