Chief of Geriatrics
Portland VA Medical Center
3710 SW US Veterans Hospital Rd
Portland
ORUSA
97207
Biographical Sketch: Sarah Goodlin, M.D. is chief of Geriatrics at the Portland VAMC and Associate Professor of Medicine at OHSU. Dr. Goodlin has practiced geriatric medicine since 1987.While a faculty member at Dartmouth Medical School she was funded as a faculty scholar by the Project on Death in America, from 1995-1998, to develop and implement improvement in care for the dying at the major teaching hospitals for Dartmouth Medical School.
Dr. Goodlin also developed the New Hampshire End of Life Project, a two-year collaborative to improve end- of- life care and develop outcome measures for care of persons near the end of life. She moved to Utah in 1998 and initiated quality improvement projects for care of the frail elderly and for persons with advanced heart failure. In 2002 and 2003 Dr. Goodlin directed two consensus conferences on Palliative and Supportive Care in Advanced Heart Failure, funded by the Agency for Healthcare Quality and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
Dr. Goodlin was a member of the Board of Directors of the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine from 2003-2006 and is a fellow of the AAHPM and of the American College of Cardiology. Dr. Goodlin serves on the American College of Cardiology Foundation-American Heart Association Physician Consortium for Performance Improvement® Heart Failure Work Group, and is an expert committee member of the American Board of Internal Medicine Primary Palliative Care Practice Improvement Measure.
Dr. Goodlin has authored and co-authored numerous articles on palliative and supportive care for patients with advanced heart failure. They include ÂPalliative Care in Congestive Heart Failure. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2009;54(5):386-396 and ÂEthics in the Treatment of Advanced Heart Failure: Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues. Congestive Heart Failure.2011;17:235-240.