William Goodwin
WebMD/ASMI Sports & Fitness Bureau Chief
From his office at the American Sports Medicine Institute (ASMI) in Birmingham, Alabama, Bill Goodwin identifies germane sports medicine topics, conducts research and interviews, and writes stories for WebMD's Sports & Fitness channel. With full access to ASMI's staff of sports medicine researchers and the world-renowned osteopaths of the Alabama Sports Medicine and Orthopaedic Center, Bill works at the epicenter of much of what is current in sports medicine, fitness, nutrition, pain management, and other topics relevant to the health of WebMD readers.
Immediately prior to joining WebMD in 1999, Bill was the writer in the creative and marketing team of the Stratagene Corporation, a Southern California biotechnology firm. He has also written educational materials for institutions as diverse as an international graduate school of physical therapy and the University of Phoenix. As a journalist for almost a decade, he wrote a monthly column for a national boating magazine, hundreds of articles for a variety of trade, industrial, nautical, and regional magazines, and several articles a week on science, personalities, and business for two newspapers. For two years Bill was a staff writer for a Southern California publisher of business books and a frequent contributor to publications of the Greater San Diego Chamber of Commerce. His books on Mexico, India, teen violence, and small craft navigation are still in print, and he was co-author of a book on building better business relationships. He also wrote the script for a nationally distributed educational boating video.
Before his writing career, Bill owned a sailing and navigation school in San Diego. For three years he designed and built boats. He was intimately involved in two America's Cup campaigns in San Diego, where he was skipper of the luxurious VIP boat of the French syndicate while covering the races for local papers. Prior to his boating business, Bill was a high school science teacher at three different overseas American schools, which gave him the opportunity to live in three different countries and travel extensively through forty more.
Bill was a premed student at UCLA when he fell in love with biochemistry and changed his direction. He went to graduate school and conducted research in the molecular biology of diabetes at the University of California at Santa Barbara.