University of Nevada School of Medicine
For immediate release: July 10, 2006
Contact: Mark N. Levine
Senior Director, Health Science Communication
702-671-6455
mlevine@unr.edu

University of Nevada School of Medicine names distinguished physician educator Daniel Goodenberger, M.D., as Chairman of Internal Medicine

LAS VEGAS, Nev: - Daniel Goodenberger, M.D., FACP., FACCP is joining the University of Nevada School of Medicine as Chair of the Department of Internal Medicine. Dr. Goodenberger will lead a department that currently provides patient care to approximately 3,500 patients in the hospital at UMC and 20,000 office visits annually. The department is responsible for training approximately 45 internal medicine residents as well as third and fourth year medical students.

“Dr. Goodenberger brings a very impressive educational, scholarly and clinical background to the School of Medicine. He has provided great leadership at Washington University for the past 14 years, and we are delighted he is willing to help join the effort of creating the University of Nevada Health Sciences Center. I know no one better qualified that Dr. Goodenberger to lead the growth of our undergraduate and postgraduate medical education programs to better serve the needs of the people of Nevada”, noted Dean John McDonald.

Dr. Goodenberger is currently Professor of Medicine and Chief of the Division of Medical Education at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. He is the Medical Director of the Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia Center, and an expert in breathing disorders associated with neuromuscular disorders such as ALS and muscular dystrophy. Dr. Goodenberger directs the Internal Medicine Residency Program at Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis, medical student training in internal medicine, and physician continuing medical education. He is also responsible for indigent care by residents. His division is responsible for the largest selling medical textbook in the world, the Washington Manual of Medical Therapeutics. Under his leadership, the division’s faculty and residents produced twenty additional books, including The Manual of Ambulatory Therapeutics, The Intern Survival Guide, seven specialty internship manuals, and eleven subspecialty consultation manuals.

A native of Nebraska, he received his B.S. from the University of Nebraska and earned his M.D. from Duke University. He trained in internal medicine at Harvard at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston, followed by fellowship training in immunology at the National Institutes of Health.

From 1982-1985, he served as Assistant Professor of Medicine and Education Director in the Emergency Department at the Georgetown University Hospital. He started the first paramedic-level rescue service in Virginia and the metropolitan D.C. area and served for twelve years as an examiner for the American Board of Emergency Medicine.

Dr. Goodenberger is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians and the American College of Chest Physicians. He is a member of the AMA and the American Thoracic Society. He is also a member of the Alpha Omega Alpha medical honorary society and served as Washington University chapter president.

He is the author of more than fifty scholarly publications and serves on the Editorial Board of Advanced Studies in Medicine and the Scientific and Medical Advisory Board of the Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia Foundation International.

His appointment will be presented to the Board of Regents for approval