Dr. Katherine (Katie) Goodenberger joined the Division of Hospital in July 2024. She graduated from Washington University with a bachelor’s degree and pursued a graduate degree in biological anthropology in New York. In her previous career, she studied early primate evolution through the fossil record, conducting fieldwork in Kenya and Wyoming. She also taught human gross anatomy to medical and dental students. After deciding to pursue medicine, she obtained a post-baccalaureate premedical certificate at Washington University and worked as a research assistant in the Division of Infectious Diseases. She then attended Washington University School of Medicine as a Distinguished Student Scholar and Danforth Scholar. As a medical student, she served on multiple curriculum committees and the Committee on the Oversight of Medical Education. She completed her Internal Medicine Residency at the University of Michigan School of Medicine in 2024, focusing her research on socioeconomic determinants of chronic lung disease outcomes. She received recognition from the American Thoracic Society for her work.
Education
- BA, Anthropology: Washington University, St. Louis, MO (2008)
- MA, Anthropology: Stony Brook University, Long Island, NY (2012)
- Post-Baccalaureate Premedical Certificate, Washington University, St. Louis, MO (2015)
- Residency, Internal Medicine: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (2024)
Research Interests
Social determinants of health outcomes in chronic lung disease, medical education
Board Certifications
- American College of Physicians
- American Thoracic Society
- American Medical Association
Publications
Ross I, Mejia C, Melendez J, Chan PA, Nunn AC, Powderly W, Goodenberger KE, et al. 2017.
Awareness and attitudes of pre-exposure prophylaxis among physicians in Guatemala. PLOS
ONE. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0173057
Goodenberger KE, DM Boyer, CM Orr, RL Jacobs, JC Femiani, BA Patel. 2015. Functional
morphology of the primate hallucal metatarsal with implications for inferring grasping ability in extinct primates. American Journal of Physical Anthropology: 156(3):327-348.
Goodenberger K, Bose S, Murray S, Curtis JL, Han MK, Labaki WW. Food insecurity is
associated with higher COPD prevalence and mortality. In preparation for submission to Chest.
Non-Peer Reviewed Publications
Abstracts
Goodenberger K, Bose S, Murray S, Curtis JL, Han MK, Labaki WW. Food insecurity is
associated with higher COPD mortality. Submitted for Presentation at American Thoracic Society, San Diego, CA 2024.
Patel RR, Chan PA, Goodenberger KE, et al. Missed Opportunities to Prescribe PrEP by Primary
Care Physicians in Saint Louis. 2016. Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections.
Boston, MA.
Ross I, Melendez J, Goodenberger K, Mejia C, Powderly W, Chan P, Patel R. 2016. Awareness
and attitudes of prescribing pre-exposure prophylaxis for HIV prevention among medical
providers in Guatemala: implications for country-wide implementation. Annals of Global Health: 82(3):554-555.
Patel RR, Goodenberger KE, Stoner BS. 2015. Using qualitative research methods to elucidate
“emic” constructions of risk and seroadaptive behaviors among men who have sex with men
(MSM). Poster presentation at the World STI and HIV Congress. Australia.
Goodenberger KE, Orr CM, Boyer DM, Jacobs RL, Femiani JC, Patel B. 2013. Functional
morphology of the primate hallucal metatarsal (Mt1) and implications or inferring grasping
capability in fossil primates. American Journal of Physical Anthropology: S56:33.
Patel BA, Goodenberger KE, Boyer DM, Jungers WL. 2013. Hallucal reduction in sloth lemurs
and morphological convergence on orang-utans by Palaeopropithecus. American Journal of
Physical Anthropology: S56:217.
Goodenberger K. 2011. Primate evolution in Pittsburgh. Evolutionary Anthropology: 20(2): 41-42.
Goodenberger, KE, Seiffert, ER, Simons, EL 2010. A distal humerus of the strepsirrhine primate
Karanisia from the late Eocene of Egypt. American Journal of Physical Anthropology: 50:103A.
Borths, MR, Seiffert, ER, Goodenberger, KE, Simons, EL 2010. The oldest Fayum creodont:
dental and humeral morphology of a new proviverrine hyaenodontid from the earliest late Eocene of Egypt. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology: 30:63A.