He was the director of the Division of Pediatric Neurosurgery at Montefiore Health System[1] and Professor of Clinical Neurological Surgery, Pediatrics, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine,[2] and gained worldwide recognition for performing multiple successful separations of conjoined twins.
He assisted in two craniopagus separations with Dr. Alferayan A in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, with the first one done May 5, 2014 (Rana and Raneem) and the second one done February 14, 2016 (Tuga and Yageen).
[7] Goodrich developed a multi-stage approach to separate such twins, of which he did seven times during his tenure and of which 59 total had been performed in the world as of March 2020.
After months of planning, Goodrich led a team of 16 doctors during a 17-hour surgery to separate the twins in 2004.
In 1982, he was elected a member of the American Osler Society,[11] an organization of physicians and historians devoted to the celebration of the extraordinary humanistic, scientific, and bibliophilic achievements of Sir William Osler, one of the founding members of Johns Hopkins University.