Senior Faculty

Elliot Goodman, MD, MBA is a board-certified surgeon and internationally recognized medical educator with over two decades of leadership in undergraduate and graduate medical education. He currently serves as Visiting Professor of Surgery at Bar-Ilan University and Senior Demonstrator in Anatomy at both the University of Cambridge and King’s College London, with prior senior academic appointments at Mount Sinai, the City University of New York School of Medicine, and the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Dr. Goodman has directed surgical clerkships, led undergraduate surgical education programs, and held multiple dean-level roles, combining deep expertise in anatomy, surgical education, and curriculum innovation with a strong focus on mentorship, performance assessment, and educational outcomes.

Eliene Augenbraun, DO, PhD spent most of her career as a medical and science journalist leading multimedia teams at Scientific American and producing stories for ABC, NBC, CBS, Forbes, and Discovery. She has interviewed thousands of scientists and business leaders and distilled their findings into stories that reached hundreds of millions of general public viewers. She has taught and tutored medical students and nurses, science journalism students, and many, many others at a diverse array of universities from University of Delaware to NYU, University of Pennsylvania, and Columbia University.