Karyn A. Goodman

Dr. Goodman is a board-certified radiation oncologist specializing in cancers of the gastrointestinal tract, including malignancies of the esophagus, stomach, pancreas, and liver as well as colorectal and anal cancers. She recently joined the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai as a Professor in the Department of Radiation Oncology and Associate Director of Clinical Research in the Tisch Cancer Institute. Dr. Goodman had been at the University of Colorado Cancer Center for four years after serving as the head of Gastrointestinal Radiation Oncology at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center for over eight years. Her initial faculty position was in the Department of Radiation Oncology at Stanford University School of Medicine.

Dr. Goodman obtained her undergraduate and medical degrees from Stanford University and spent a year as a Research Fellow at the Division of Reproductive Health of the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta. She completed her residency training in Radiation Oncology at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center where she served as Chief Resident. She earned a Master's in Epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health in 2006.

Dr. Goodman’s interests include image-guided radiation therapy, stereotactic body radiotherapy, and intensity-modulated radiotherapy treatment planning for gastrointestinal cancers with the intent of reducing toxicity and improving results with radiation therapy. She has also focused her research on the quality of life and late effects after radiotherapy. In addition to her interest in technical advances in radiation oncology, she is involved in the development of therapeutic protocols combining radiation, chemotherapy, and targeted agents for gastrointestinal cancers. She has been selected for inclusion in Castle Connolly’s list of America’s Top Doctors for several years.