Jeremy Goodwin, MS, MD
Dr. Goodwin was born and raised in London, where his father, a prominent comedy writer for the BBC wrote for such luminaries as Bob Hope, Jack Benny, and Peter Sellers. And later, due to his stepfather’s work, he enjoyed time with members of The Who, The Faces, and in Cat Stevens’ villa in Corfu, Greece. Recently, he revisited his youth as contributor and editor of an historical work, “The Who: Concert Memories from the Classic Years, 1964-1976”. Genzolini, E. Pubs: Schiffer Books (2022).
At 17, he moved to California, graduating from UC Davis with a BA in psychology and a MS in comparative (neuro) pathology. And after attending medical school at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, he completed his neurology training at Stanford followed by a combined adult & pediatric pain fellowship at Harvard. Initially mentored by internationally known professors Richard Payne and Robert W. Wilmott, he later worked in Boston under the renowned Professor Charles B. Berde. All three instilled in him the importance of fighting for the underrepresented and disadvantaged whether it be the result of poverty, racial prejudice, age, sex or gender.
After his fellowship, Dr. Goodwin was recruited as Chief, Division of Pain Medicine, Department of Neurosurgery at the Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) where he held joint appointments in Neurology and Pediatrics. There, he formed the first collaborative University Pain Group from specialists throughout the institution previously in competition. While continuing to teach part-time, he left academia to set up his own pain clinics in in Ashland, OR and Mt. Shasta, CA. In 2022, he joined Sonoma Neurology, Pain & Headache to expand our range of services, and is looking forward to more public speaking and teaching workshops and expanding our adolescent care.
Dr. Goodwin has contributed to public policy providing testimony to the State of Oregon’s 69th Legislature Task Force on Pain & Symptom Management, and the Oregon Health Plan (Medicaid) Task Force on Treatment of Migraine & Non-Migraine Headaches. He has published peer-reviewed articles and textbook chapters, and has lectured across the US and Canada. He has been a peer reviewer for the Journal of Pediatrics, and Headache: The Journal of Head & Face Pain, serving too as neurology section editor for Pain Physician, the journal of the American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians (ASIPP). He has twice been on faculty for the National Pain Medicine Board Certification Review Course run by ASIPP.
His professional interests include medical ethics, racial & socioeconomic disparities in health care, artificial discs for spine surgery, PTSD, epigenetics and psychiatry as well as endocrine and sleep disorders as they pertain to pain & headache. He is experienced in neuromodulatory treatments for intractable, chronic pain such as spinal cord and peripheral nerve stimulators, and intrathecal pain and anti-spasticity pumps.
Outside of work he is an ardent Arsenal Football Club supporter watching English and European football weekly, and he’s an advocate for animal rights and wildlife conservation. He’s worked in an animal sanctuary and on a farm with rabbits, birds, reptiles, cows and goats coming very close to a career in veterinary medicine. He lives with his partner Aimee and their three rescued dogs Cooper, Blaze and Jewel in the wine country in the San Francisco Bay Area.
