Kristen Goodell, MD, MPH

Kristen Goodell, MD, MPH

Education Director, Harvard Medical School Center for Primary Care
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 Dr. Kristen Goodell serves as an investigator. She is an education Director for the Harvard Medical School Center for Primary Care. Her aim in this role is to enhance and expand primary care education at HMS and affiliated institutions. As the leader of a team of 6-8 faculty members, Dr. Goodell is responsible for providing oversight for multiple team initiatives including development and dissemination of scholarly research and innovation projects, efforts to engage and support primary care residents, the creation of a new “Perspectives in Primary Care” seminar series, and enhanced mentoring and advising in primary care. She is the faculty advisor for our Student Leadership Committee and an active teacher, particularly of interviewing, physical diagnosis and related clinical skills. Dr. Goodell has been practicing family medicine in Medford Square since 2007, and also serves as the school physician for the City of Medford. She is a 2001 graduate of Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. She completed the Tufts University Family Medicine Residency in 2007 and the Tufts Master Teacher Fellowship in 2009. Before coming to Harvard, Dr. Goodell was an assistant professor of family medicine at Tufts University, where she was the assistant director of the Family Medicine Clerkship, chair of the curriculum committee, and the co-creator and course director for the Competency-based Apprenticeship in Primary Care (CAP). Dr. Goodell received the Emerging Leader award from the Family Medicine Education Consortium in 2011, is a fellow of the American Academy of Family Physicians, and has served on the board of the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine. Dr. Goodell currently serves as the Co-Chair of the Leadership Development Task Force of the Council on Academic Family Medicine and is Chair of the federal Council on Graduate Medical Education.