Anthony A. Goodman

Anthony A. Goodman, born in 1940, is an American surgeon who specialises in breast cancer and who also writes books and teaches. He earned a bachelor's degree at Harvard College and his medical degree at Cornell Medical College, then trained in surgery at the University of Michigan Medical Center and at Boston-area hospitals, finishing as chief resident. He spent twenty years as a general surgeon in south Florida and served as a clinical associate professor of surgery at the University of Miami. He also served as a surgeon with the United States Army Medical Corps during the Vietnam War and on the hospital ship Project HOPE, and was a visiting professor of surgery in Christchurch, New Zealand. He is an adjunct professor at Montana State University, has recorded medical courses for The Great Courses, and has written a book on breast cancer and several novels.