Goodman, Louis S., M.D.

Dr Goodman was born in Portland Oregon in 1906. Dr Goodman received both his B.A. from Reed College in 1928 and his M.A. and M.D. from the University of Oregon Medical School in 1932. Dr Goodman completed his Internship at Johns Hopkins Hospital 1932-1933. Dr Goodman was National Research Council Fellow in Pharmacology at Yale in 1934 where he became Instructor in Pharmacology (1935) and Assistant Professor (1937). Dr Goodman left Yale in 1943 when named Professor and Chair of the Department of Pharmacology and Physiology at the University of Vermont. Dr Goodman came to the University in 1944 as Professor and the first Chair of the Department of Pharmacology serving in that capacity until 1971. Dr Goodman co-authored the seminal textbook, The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics, more commonly referred to as "Goodman and Gilman's". Dr Goodman died in 2000. The portrait of Dr Goodman was painted by Alvin L. Gittins in 1965, and is located on the south wall on the main floor portrait gallery of the Eccles Health Sciences Library.