Dr. Goodman  is a graduate of the University of Oxford, England, where he received his D. Phil, and Harvard Medical School, where he received his M.D. He completed his Internal Medicine training at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, and his Gastroenterology and Hepatology training at Massachusetts General Hospital. He is an Instructor at Harvard Medical School.

Dr. Goodman clinical expertise is in liver disease (hepatology). He sees and treats patients with  all forms of liver disease including viral hepatitis, alcohol-related liver disease, primary biliary cholangitis (PBC), and patients with abnormal liver imaging and liver tumors. He has a particular interest in genetic causes of liver disease such as Wilson's disease, and in liver disease related to metabolic disorders. 

Dr. Goodman is actively engaged in basic research relating to metabolic causes and consequences of liver disease.