Dr. James S Goodwin MD
Geriatrician | Geriatric Medicine
301 University Blvd Galveston TX, 77555About
Dr. James Goodwin practices Geriatric Medicine in Galveston, TX. Geriatricians prevent, manage, and develop care plans that address the special health problems of the elderly. Dr. Goodwin works as part of a team with other healthcare providers, to address the natural aging that goes on within the body and to manage multiple medical problems and ensure social support.
Education and Training
Harvard Med Sch, Boston Ma 1971
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Ambling towards Nirvana.
- Developing a geriatric business plan for an academic medical center.
- Survival of women after breast conserving surgery for early stage breast cancer.
- Geographic variations in breast cancer survival among older women: implications
- Language and medicine: thinking and talking about Alzheimer's disease.
- Handgrip strength and mortality in older Mexican Americans.
- Diabetes mellitus as a risk factor for hip fracture in mexican american older adults.
- The interaction of cognitive and emotional status on subsequent physical functioning in older mexican americans: findings from the Hispanic established population for the epidemiologic study of the elderly.
- Regular mammography use is associated with elimination of age-related disparities in size and stage of breast cancer at diagnosis.
- Population-based assessment of hospitalizations for toxicity from chemotherapy in older women with breast cancer.
- Discrepancy between consensus recommendations and actual community use of adjuvant chemotherapy in women with breast cancer.
- Using Medicare data to estimate the prevalence of breast cancer screening in older women: comparison of different methods to identify screening mammograms.
- Bringing the patient back in. Guidelines, practice variations, and the social context of medical practice.
- Hospice use by older women dying with breast cancer between 1991 and 1996.
- Measuring the performance of screening mammography in community practice with Medicare claims data.
Fellowships
- Rheumatology, University of New Mexico 1976
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