Selected Bios

Traci Goodchild, PhD

Dr. Goodchild is a Staff Scientist with SJTRI. Dr. Goodchild received her BA from the University of California at Santa Barbara in 1992. After teaching tennis for many years, she moved to Augusta, Georgia where she worked as a Research Assistant at the Medical College of Georgia in the Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology for Dr. Robert Caldwell in the field of nitric oxide and its role in vascular physiology. Dr. Goodchild went on to graduate school and received her PhD in November 2002 in Biomedical Science from the Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology at the Medical College of Georgia under the mentorship of Dr. Jennifer Pollock.


Her dissertation is titled Endothelin B Receptor Regulation of Nitric Oxide Synthase in the Renal Inner Medulla. Dr. Goodchild joined SJTRI in January 2003 and is currently working assessing the ability of stem cells to repair dysfunctional myocardium along with developing in vitro models of angiogenesis. Dr. Goodchild’s scientific interests include stem cell biology, the influence of oxidative stress in aging and disease, and the role of gender in vascular and cardiac dysfunction.