NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Roberta Goodman, a well respected health care analyst, will join the faculty of the Health Care MBA program at the Owen Graduate School of Management at Vanderbilt University in January. A perennial favorite on lists of top analysts in financial publications including the Wall Street Journal and Institutional Investor, Goodman is now a principal with Nashville-based Health Care Analytics, a strategic consulting firm specializing in the health care services industry.
As first vice president at Merrill Lynch, Goodman was the firm’s senior equity analyst responsible for coverage of the managed care sector from 1997 to 2003. Prior to that, she headed Goldman, Sachs’ health services sector, which encompassed managed care, hospitals, alternate site providers and long-term care, for seven years.
She was recognized as an “All-Star Analyst” by Institutional Investor magazine for 11 consecutive years and was the top-rated analyst in the managed care sector in 1999 and 2000. She also earned special recognition from Institutional Investor for her industry knowledge and earnings estimate accuracy and from the Wall Street Journal for her stock-picking performance.
As an adjunct professor of management at the Owen School, she will bring her more than 20 years of experience as a financial analyst, investment banker and health care consultant to bear in the school’s new Health Care MBA program.
Associate Dean for Health Care Jon Lehman said, “Roberta Goodman certainly knows her way around Wall Street and the health care sector. With her joining the faculty of our new health care management program, we continue to build an incredible team of outstanding professionals with tremendous real world experience and a passion for teaching.”
Goodman is author of the white paper “Healthier, Wealthier and Wiser? Consumer-Driven Health Care,” published earlier this year, and she testified in July at a congressional briefing on consumer-driven health care. She is a regular participant in the Center for Studying Health System Change’s annual “Wall Street Comes to Washington” events, intended to provide the Washington health policy community with insights into market developments in health care that are relevant to policy-makers.
Goodman received an MBA in finance and health care administration from the University of Chicago and a bachelor’s degree in history and economics from Cornell University.
Vanderbilt designed the Health Care MBA curriculum in concert with a panel of health care industry leaders who expressed the need for a different kind of graduate business education. The Owen School program requires a rigorous, structured curriculum of health care-specific courses and immersion in the day-to-day realities of health care through a combination of real-world clinical experiences and strategic projects with health care organizations.
The program, which got underway this fall with the incoming class of 2007, has its students working in close collaboration with professionals at the top-ranked Vanderbilt University Medical Center and with some of the country’s most innovative health care companies.
The Owen Graduate School of Management at Vanderbilt University is ranked as a top institution by Business Week, The Wall Street Journal, U.S. News & World Report, Financial Times and Forbes. For more news about Owen, visit www.owen.vanderbilt.edu.
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