Glen K.
Goodman, M.D.

Glen Goodman, MD

 

Dr. Glen Goodman brings decades of eye care experience home to the Milford and Franklin Massachusetts area.

Glen K. Goodman, M.D. is the founder of Goodman Eye Center. He is board certified by the American Board of Ophthalmology and is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons. He has delivered several presentations and published numerous abstracts and articles in the field of ophthalmology.

Dr. Goodman received his medical doctorate from Boston University in 1978 after earning an A.B. in Medical Science (magna cum laude) as part of the combined six-year Liberal Arts Accelerated Medical Education Program.

 

His post-graduate training began with an internship in Internal Medicine at Nassau Hospital on Long Island, New York, for which he received the Outstanding Intern Award. He then went on to undertake an Ophthalmology Residency at University of Louisville Affiliated Hospitals in Kentucky, where he was Chief Resident in his final year (1981-82). Dr. Goodman went on to undertake a Fellowship in Cornea and External Disease at Boston University Affiliated Hospitals.

 

Since then, Dr. Glen Goodman has strived to improve his professional skills and keep abreast of the latest advances in the field. He became certified in LASIK and PRK and became the first physician in the area to provide excimer laser surgery. He also completed the Lancaster Course in Ophthalmology at the prestigious Massachusetts Eye & Ear Infirmary as well as professional education courses in small-incision no-stitch cataract surgery and pediatric ophthalmology.  With this training, Dr. Goodman became the first surgeon to perform medical laser at Milford Hospital and the first in the area to offer patients no-stitch cataract surgery.

Dr. Goodman's Philosophy of Patient Care

"In all of our endeavors, your welfare is pre-eminently important to us.  No effort will be spared on your behalf to ensure quality examinations and a surgical experience that will at least meet, or hopefully exceed, your expectations."

 

Educational Scholarship Benefactor

Dr. Goodman has established, as a tribute to his late father, Kenneth G. Goodman, an annual scholarship program for the National Honor Society Science Students graduating from King Philip Regional High SchoolDr. Goodman has provided thousands of dollars in scholarship money to his high school alma mater

 

Dr. Goodman's professional memberships include:

  • American Academy of Ophthalmology
  • Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology
  • Contact Lens Association of Ophthalmologists
  • American Medical Association
  • New England Ophthalmologic Society
  • Thurber Medical Society
  • Massachusetts Medical Society
  • Norfolk District Medical Society

 

Hospital staff appointments:

  • Milford-Whitinsville Regional Hospital
  • Caritas Norwood Hospital
  • MetroWest Framingham Union Hospital
  • Sturdy Memorial Hospital
  • University of Massachusetts Medical Center
  • Tufts New England Medical Center