Steven D. Goodman, Ph.D.
Scientific Advisory Board Co-chair
Steven D. Goodman, Ph.D. is a Professor of Pediatrics at The Ohio State College of Medicine, Director of the Oral GI Microbiology Research Affinity Group, and Principal Investigator in the Center for Microbial Pathogenesis in the Abigail Wexner Research Institute of Nationwide Children’s Hospital. Dr. Goodman spent 20 years on the faculty at the Ostrow School of Dentistry of the University of Southern California where he was the Chair of the division of Biomedical Sciences and Director of the university-wide Microbial Systems Institute. He has published 79 peer review manuscripts and a recognized expert on the formation, structure, and function of Exopolymeric Substances (EPS) and gene regulation in bacterial biofilms. Dr. Goodman is a biochemist by training, receiving his doctoral degree from the Bloomberg School of Public Health at the Johns Hopkins University.