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Recent Professional Activities:

Attendance at a training course for the new Pelleve Radiofrequency Procedure for noninvasive treatment of facial and neck wrinkles, skin tightening and toning in Phoenix, Arizona.

Dr. Goodman was asked to be on the speaker's bureau of Boeringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, speaking and educating on female sexual dysfunction, and Novogyne Pharmaceuticals, United States, speaking and educating on hormone therapy for peri- and post-menopause.

Presentation of endocrine grand rounds at Stanford University in March of 2010 on transdermal versus oral estrogen replacement for post-menopausal women.

Faculty member of the first Global Conference on Female Genital Cosmetic Surgery at the American Academy of Cosmetic Surgery meeting, Orlando, Florida, January 25, 2010. Dr. Goodman contributed to presentations and moderated discussion groups on ethical and patient protection issues in female genital plastic surgery as well as sexual issues in vaginal tightening procedures.

Attendance at and faculty member of the 30th annual North American Menopause Society meeting n San Diego, California in October of 2009. Dr. Goodman presented his poster presentation on the use of oral versus transdermal hormone therapy.

Faculty member at the annual International Society for the Study of Women's Sexual Health meeting in St. Petersburg, Florida, participating in the "Great Debate" on female sexual dysfunction and presenting a paper on his large nationwide female genital plastic surgery study.

Dr. Goodman was invited to give Grand Rounds at Sutter Hospital in Davis, Ca in October. His topic was "Transdermal (Bioidentical) Hormone Therapy".

Dr. Goodman was quoted in "Endocrine Today".  http://www.endocrinetoday.com/view.aspx?rid=44251

Dr. Goodman was the senior author of two recently published peer-reviewed medical journal articles, "Is Elective Plastic Surgery Ever Warranted, and What Screening Should be Conducted Preoperatively," published in the Journal of Sexual Medicine,  (2007;4:269-276) and  "Female Cosmetic Genital Surgery," published in the journal, Obstetrics and Gynecology (2009;113: 156-159). 

The first chapter in a U. S. textbook on female genital aesthetic surgery, "Female Genital Plastic Surgery"  authored by Dr. Goodman, will be published in the new text, "Female Reproductive and Sexual Medicine" due out Fall, 2009.