Elaine Goodman, MD, MBA

Dr. Goodman is a practicing internal medicine physician who has worked in health technology across many settings including academic centers, health IT start-ups, venture capital investing, pharmaceutical companies, payors, and providers.

She is passionate about democratizing access to technology for all patients and addressing technology’s contribution to clinician burnout. She previously worked as the Associate Chief Medical Officer for the healthcare IT start-up Wellframe, where she helped lead the company from the seed stage through Series C funding. For the last year she has focused on the COVID pandemic and serves as the director of the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) respiratory illness/COVID clinic. She is also the Director of Urgent Care and After Hours Innovation at for the MGH Division of Primary Care, where she is designing new, post-COVID urgent care models incorporating virtual care, new triage tools within the EHR, and access to services such as at-home urgent care and remote patient monitoring to prevent Emergency Department visits. Dr. Goodman is also the Mass General Brigham Venture Fellow where she is a member of the AI and Digital Innovation Fund leadership team. This fund invests in early-stage companies from outside Mass General Brigham and facilitates strategic collaborations between these start-ups and the health system. She continues to advise many start-ups as an expert mentor for the Harvard Innovation Lab.