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Craig Goodman CV January 2017

CURRICULUM VITAE

Craig A. Goodman, Ph.D.

Home Address: Petach Tikvah 29 Apt. 14

Netanya, Israel 4246125

Phone (Cellular) 972-52-394-8790

Phone (Home) 972-9-887-1503

Fax (Home) 972-72-236-2947

Email: craiggoodman7@yahoo.com

Website: http://www.drcraiggoodman.com/english Date and place of birth: June 16

th, 1971 U.S.A.

Marital Status: Married + three children

I. Current Profession

2015-present MedAvante Inc. Clinical Medical Trials Clinical Rater

2002-present Lev Hasharon Mental Health Center, Head Psychologist

Psycho-Geriatric Ward and Holocaust Researcher-Lecturer

Survivors Residence, Pardesiyah, Israel

2002-present Sackler Medical School, Tel Aviv University, Israel Instructor

1999-present Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) Reserves, Military Psychologist

Mobile Combat Front-Line Medical Unit -

Gaza and surrounding region

II. Educational Background

San Francisco State University Major: Psychology B.A. 1993

California State University, Northridge Major: Clinical Psychology M.A. 1998

Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Hadassah Medical School Ph.D. 2004

Major: Neurobiology

Technion – Israel Institute of Technology - Postdoctoral Fellowship 2002-2005

Title of Doctoral Dissertation: "Technique for the Analysis of Evoked and

Background EEG Activity applied to Young and Elderly Subjects"

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III. Previous Academic and Professional Experience

2015-2016 Ruppin Academic Center, Senior Lecturer

The School of Social and Community

Sciences, M.A. Program in Clinical

Gerontological Psychology

2008-2009 Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) Operation "Cast Lead" Psychologist

Gaza, Israel

2007-2008 Tel Aviv-Yaffo Academic College, Tel Aviv, Israel Lecturer

2002-2005 Technion University Israel Institute of Technology Postdoctoral-

Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Haifa, Israel Fellowship

2002-2005 Sha’ar Manashe Mental Health Center, Researcher

Brain Behavior Laboratory, Mobile Post Hefer, Israel

2000-2002 Kfar Shaul Mental Hospital, Neurophysiology Lab, Researcher

Jerusalem, Israel

1998-2002 Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Hadassah Medical Researcher

School, Physiology Department, Jerusalem, Israel

1995-1998 California State University Northridge, Director

Psychology Department Neuropsychology Lab,

Mandatory Continuing Education Program for

Psychologists and Psychiatrists - California

Psychological Association (CPA). Northridge, Ca.

1995-1998 Temple Ahavat Shalom, Northridge, Ca. Teacher

Taught, 5th, 6th, and 7th Grades Hebrew and

Jewish Studies.

1994-1995 San Francisco State University, Psychology and Internship

Biofeedback Research Laboratory San Francisco, Ca.

1994-1995 St. Mary's Hospital, McAuley Neuropsychiatric Internship

Adolescent Impatient Program. San Francisco, Ca.

1993-1994 Center For the Advancement of Youth, Internship

Florentine Youth Center. Tel Aviv, Israel

1993 National Federation Of Temple Youth, San Francisco, Ca.

Leader on the Bay Area High School Trip to Israel.

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1992 Jewish Home of the Aged, Psycho-Geriatric Internship

Adult Day Care Center, San Francisco, Ca.

1991-1994 Bureau of Jewish Education, San Francisco, Ca. Teacher

Taught 5th Grade Hebrew.

1991-1995 Temple Sherith Israel, San Francisco, Ca. Teacher

Taught grades; 5th, 7th, 9th, and 10th

. Subjects

taught; Israel, History, Life Cycle, Holidays, and Hebrew.

1993 1992 U.S. National Park Service, Golden Gate Internship

Recreational District, San Francisco, Ca.:

Wrote and led ecological and nature study programs for

students of all ages within the San Francisco School District.

1987-1989 Temple Solael, Woodland Hills, Ca.: Teacher

Teacher and Teaching Assistant for Hebrew and holiday

study. Assistant Youth Group Director.

Skills

Microsoft-Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook)

Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS)

Neuroscan EEG systems.

IV. Grants and Awards

San Francisco State University, Cum Laude (1993)

California State University, Northridge. Department of Psychology, ARF Memorial

Award (Association of Retired Faculty) for outstanding Graduate Student (1997)

California State University, Northridge. Department of Psychology, Received Robert

Rainey Award - Honorable Mention for Academic Excellence and Departmental

Contributions (1998)

Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Hadassah Medical School

Received: Golda Meir Fellowship Award for Research (2001)

Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Hadassah Medical School

Received: Theo & Margot Loewengart Memorial Fellowship Award (2002)

Grant from the Center for Absorption in Science, Ministry of Immigrant Absorption,

State of Israel – Researcher (2002)

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V. Membership in Professional Societies

2012-present Israel Psychological Association, Certified Clinical

Psychologist Ministry of Health, Israel

License Number: 31093

1999-present Ministry of Health, Israel Psychologist License Number: 6043

VI. Teaching and Research Interests:

Neurocognition/ Neuropsychology/ Neurophysiology/ Neuropsychiatry/ Neuro-

pathology/ Cognition and Memory/ Age-related Cognitive Decline/ Psychopathology/

Abnormal Psychology/ Personality Theories/ Clinical Psychology/ Methods of

Psychotherapy/ Cognitive Behavioral Therapy/ Psycho-diagnostic Testing/

Personality Testing/ Research and Experimental Design/ Clinical Treatment in Adults

and Seniors/ Treatment of Anxiety Disorders and Phobias/ Group Dynamics/

Interpersonal Relationships/ Adult Development and Aging/ Life-Span and

Gerontology/ Clinical Geropsychology/ Gerontology/ Positive Gerontology/

Constructive Aging/ Holocaust Survivor Post-Trauma/ Creative Living/ Positive

Psychology/ Psychology of Self-Esteem/ Environmental Psychology/ Psychology and

Humor in Treatment/ Psychology and the Media/ Psychology today

VII. Volunteer Experience

2002-2012 Ezer Mizion, the Israel Health Support Psychologist

Organization: Bnei Brak, Israel

2002-2005 Hadassah Women's Zionist Organization of Lecturer

America: Netanya and Tel Aviv, Israel

2002-2005 Protea Village Retirement Home Lecturer

Tel Mond, Israel

2002-2005 Nofei Sharon Retirement Home Lecturer

Netanya, Israel

2002-Current On-Call Lev Hasharon Emergency Response Psychologist

Medical Unit for the Support of Mass Public

Disasters (Sharon Region)

1998-Current Beit Oleh America Netanya - Association of Lecturer

Americans and Canadians in Israel (AACI)

1992 U.S. National Park Service, Golden Gate Recreational

District, San Francisco, Ca.:

Wrote and led ecological and nature study programs for

children of all ages within the San Francisco School District.

1992-1993 Hillel Foundation, at San Francisco State University,

San Francisco, Ca.: Head of Nature Recreation Program

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VIII. Publications

Rodionov, V., Goodman, C., Fisher, L., Rosenstein, G.Z., & Sohmer, H. (2002). A

New Technique for the Analysis of Background and Evoked EEG Activity: Time and

Amplitude Distributions of the EEG Deflections. Clinical Neurophysiology, 113(9),

1373-1522.

Goodman, C., Rodionov, V., Rosenstein, G.Z., & Sohmer, H. (2003). Analysis of

Evoked and Background EEG Activity in Young and Elderly Subjects. Journal of

Basic and Clinical Physiology and Pharmacology, 14(3), 265-299.

Silver, H., Goodman, C., Knoll, G., Isakov, V., & Modai, I. (2004). Perception Of

Emotions And Violence In Schizophrenia. Israel Journal of Psychiatry, 41(4), 20.

Goodman, C., Knoll, G., Isakov, V., & Silver, H. (2005). Insight Into Illness in

Schizophrenia. Israel Journal of Psychiatry, 41(1), 51.

Finkel, B., Andreev, P., Naser, M., Segev, Y., Goodman, C., Barak, Y., Melamed, Y.,

& Bleich, A. (2004). No weight gain during two years of treatment with atypical and

typical antipsychotics in elderly schizophrenic patients. Israel Journal of Psychiatry,

41(1), 50.

Silver, H., Goodman, C., Knoll, G., & Isakov, V. (2004). Brief emotion training

improves recognition of facial emotions in chronic schizophrenia. A pilot study.

Psychiatry Research, 128(2), 147-154.

Goodman, C., Finkel, B., Naser, M., Andreev, P., Segev, Y., Zadkani, O., Melamed,

Y., & Bleich, A. (2005). Neurocognitive deterioration in Holocaust survivors and

non-survivors with schizophrenia. Israel Journal of Psychiatry,

42(4), 48-49.

Goodman, C., Knoll, G., Isakov, V., & Silver, H. (2005). Negative attitude towards

medication is associated with cognitive impairment in schizophrenia patients. Israel

Journal of Psychiatry, 42(4), 23.

Silver, H., Goodman, C., Knoll, G., Isakov, V., & Modai, I. (2005). Schizophrenia

patients with a history of severe violence differ in perception of emotions but not

cognitive function from non violent schizophrenia patients. Journal of Clinical

Psychiatry, 66(3), 300-308.

Goodman, C., Knoll, G., Isakov, V., & Silver, H. (2005). Negative attitude towards

medication is associated with working memory impairment in schizophrenia patients.

International Clinical Psychopharmacology, 20(2), 93-96.

Goodman, C., Knoll, G., Isakov, V., & Silver, H. (2005). Insight Into Illness in

Schizophrenia. Comprehensive Psychiatry, 46(4), 284-290.

Silver, H., Knoll, G., Isakov, V., Goodman, C., & Finkelstein, Y. (2005). Blood

DHEAS concentrations correlate with cognitive function in chronic schizophrenia

patients: a pilot study. Journal of Psychiatric Research, 39(6), 569-575.

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Silver, H., Goodman, C., Isakov, V., Knoll, G., & Modai, I. (2005). A double-blind,

cross-over comparison of the effects of amantadine or placebo on visuomotor and

cognitive function in medicated schizophrenia patients. International Clinical

Psychopharmacology, 20(6), 319-326.

Silver, H., Goodman, C., Bilker, W.B., Gur, R.C., Isakov, V., Knoll, G., & Feldman,

P. (2006). Related Impaired error monitoring contributes to face recognition deficit in

schizophrenia patients. Schizophrenia Research, 85(1-3), 151-161.

Goodman, C., Finkel, B., Naser, M., Andreev, P., Segev, Y., Kurs, R., Melamed, Y.,

& Bleich, A. (2007). Neurocognitive Deterioration in Elderly Chronic Schizophrenia

Patients with and without PTSD. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 195(5),

415-420.

Silver, H., & Goodman, C. (2007). Impairment in error monitoring predicts poor

executive function in schizophrenia patients. Schizophrenia Research, 94(1-3), 156-

163.

Silver, H., Goodman, C., Bilker, W.B., Knoll, G., Gur, R., & Povar, G. (2007).

Suboptimal processing strategy and working-memory impairments predict abstraction

deficit in schizophrenia. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology,

29(8), 823-830.

Silver, H., & Goodman, C. (2008). Verbal as well as spatial working memory predicts

visuospatial processing in male schizophrenia patients. Schizophrenia Research, 101,

210-217.

Silver, H., Bilker, W., & Goodman, C. (2009). Impaired recognition of happy, sad and

neutral expressions in schizophrenia is emotion, but not valence, specific and context

dependent. Psychiatry Research, 169(2), 101-106.

Finkel, B., Goodman, C., & Melamed, Y. (2009). Differences of Metabolic Side

Effects of Typical and Atypical Antipsychotic Treatment in Elderly Individuals with

Long-term Schizophrenia. Hong Kong Journal of Psychiatry, 19, 103-106.

Silver, H., Goodman, C., & Bilker, W.B. (2009). Age in High-Functioning Healthy

Men Is Associated with Nonlinear Decline in Some Executive' Functions in Late

Middle Age. Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders, 27, 292–300.

Finkel, B., Goodman, C., Melamed, Y., Kurs, R., & Bleich, A. (2010). Effect of

Antiviral Amantadine Treatment on Elderly Chronic Schizophrenia Patients. The

Israel Medical Association Journal, 12(9), 536-538.

Silver, H., Goodman, C., Gur, R.C., Gur, R.E., & Bilker, W.B. (2011). 'Executive'

functions and normal aging: selective impairment in conditional exclusion compared

to abstraction and inhibition. Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders, 31(1), 53-

62.

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Lerner, A.G., Goodman, C., Rudinski, D., & Bleich, A. (2011). Benign and time-

limited visual disturbances (flashbacks) in recent abstinent high-potency heavy

cannabis smokers: a case series study. Israeli Journal of Psychiatry and Related

Science, 48(1), 25-29.

Silver, H., Goodman, C., & Bilker, W.B. (2012). Impairment in associative memory

in healthy aging is distinct from that in other types of episodic memory. Psychiatry

Research, 197(1-2), 135-139.

Rudinski, D., Bor, O., Goodman, C. (2013). Flashbacks and HPPD: A Clinical-

oriented Concise Review. The Israel Journal of Psychiatry and Related Sciences,

51(4): 296-301.

Lerner, A.G., Goodman, C., Bor, O., & Lev Ran, S. (2014). Synthetic Cannabis

Substances (SPS) Use and Hallucinogen Persisting Perception Disorder (HPPD): Two

Case Reports. Israeli Journal of Psychiatry Related Science, 51(4), 277-280.

Lerner, A.G., Rudinski, D., Bor, O., & Goodman, C. (2014). Flashbacks and HPPD:

A Clinical-oriented Concise Review. Israeli Journal of Psychiatry Related Science,

51(4), 296-302.

Lerner, A.G., Goodman, C., Rudinski, D., & Lev Ran, S. (2014). LSD Flashbacks –

The Appearance of New Visual Imagery Not Experienced During Initial Intoxication:

Two Case Reports. Israeli Journal of Psychiatry Related Science, 51(4), 307-309.

IX. Participation and Papers Presented at Scientific Meetings

Goodman, C., Rodionov, V., Sohmer, H., & Rosenstein, G.Z. Technique for the

Analysis of Evoked and Background EEG Activity applied to Young and Elderly

Subjects. Presented at the Israeli Society for Clinical Neurophysiology

Conference; September 6, 2001; Ramat Aviv, Israel.

Goodman, C. Investigation of core neuropsychological impairments in schizophrenia

Presented at the 11th Conference of the Israeli Psychiatric Association;

April 29 - May 1, 2003 - Haifa, Israel.

Silver, H., Goodman, C., Knoll, G., Isakov, V., & Modai, I. Perception Of Emotions

And Violence In Schizophrenia. Presented at the Eighth Annual Meeting of the

Israel Society for Biological Psychiatry & The Third Meeting of the US-Israel

Forum for Academic Psychiatry; March 16-18, 2004 Kfar Giladi, Israel.

Finkel, B., Andreev, P., Naser, M., Segev, Y., Goodman, C., Barak, Y., Melamed, Y.,

& Bleich, A. No weight gain during two years of treatment with atypical and typical

antipsychotics in elderly schizophrenic patients. Presented at the Eighth Annual

Meeting of the Israel Society for Biological Psychiatry & Third Meeting of the

US-Israel Forum for Academic Psychiatry; March 16-18, 2004 Kfar Giladi,

Israel.

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Goodman, C., Knoll, G., Isakov, V., & Silver, H. Insight Into Illness in

Schizophrenia. Presented at the Eighth Annual Meeting of the Israel Society for

Biological Psychiatry & The Third Meeting of the US-Israel Forum for

Academic Psychiatry; March 16-18, 2004 Kfar Giladi, Israel.

Goodman, C., Finkel, B., Naser, M., Andreev, P., Segev, Y., Zadkani, O., Melamed,

Y., & Bleich, A. Neurocognitive deterioration in Holocaust survivors and non-

survivors with schizophrenia. Presented at the Ninth Annual Meeting of the Israel

Society for Biological Psychiatry & The Fourth Meeting of the US-Israel Forum

for Academic Psychiatry; March 15-17, 2005 Hagoshrim, Israel.

Goodman, C., Knoll, G., Isakov, V., & Silver, H. Negative attitude towards

medication is associated with cognitive impairment in schizophrenia patients.

Presented at the Ninth Annual Meeting of the Israel Society for Biological

Psychiatry & The Fourth Meeting of the US-Israel Forum for Academic

Psychiatry; March 15-17, 2005 Hagoshrim, Israel.

X. Reviewer for Scientific Journals

European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience

International Journal of Medicine and Medical Sciences

International Clinical Psychopharmacology

International Journal of Psychiatry and Mental Health

Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

XI. Other Publications

1. HaMahapach (the Revolution) IV - Science Revealing the Truth in The

Torah Author: Zamir Cohen | Publisher: Hidabroot. Contributing Author.

Chapter two; "Freud and the Kabbalah". pp. 32-34