Dr. Gretchen Wagner Gooding

Dr. Gretchen Wagner Gooding, MD, graduated in 1957 magna cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Biology from St. Mary of the Springs (now Ohio Dominican University). In 1961, she earned her Doctor of Medicine degree cum laude from The Ohio State University College of Medicine. Gooding served her internship at University Hospitals in Columbus; was a research fellow at Boston City Hospital; received a training grant from the National Institute of Health (Allergy and Infectious Diseases); and served her residency in Diagnostic Radiology at the University of California, San Francisco.

She became a member of the radiology faculty at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) in 1975, and was appointed Professor in Residence in 1986, the first woman ever to be so honored in Diagnostic Radiology at UCSF. From 1987 until 2003, she was Vice Chairman of the Department of Diagnostic Radiology, UCSF, and was Chief of Radiology at the Dept. of Veteran Affairs Medical Center in San Francisco, the first woman in that position.

An expert in the use of diagnostic ultrasound, Dr. Gooding is an honorary member of the Cuban, Pakistani and Hungarian Radiological Societies. She received the Distinguished Alumni/ae Award from Ohio Dominican and the Distinguished International Faculty Award from the Indian Radiological and Imaging Association, and was honored as the San Francisco Bay Area's Most Outstanding Professional Federal Employee in 1987 and 1995. Both she and her husband, Charles A. Gooding, MD, are Distinguished Alumni/ae recipients of The Ohio State University College of Medicine, the only couple ever to have received this prestigious honor. She is Past President of the San Francisco Radiological Society and the American Association for Women Radiologists, the recipient in 2003 of the Alice Ettinger Distinguished Achievement Award of that organization. She has a wealth of original papers, book chapters, and multiple speaking engagements throughout the world in her work as a radiologic leader, mentor and educator.

She and Charles are the proud parents of three children, Gunnar, a lawyer, Justin, an interventional radiologist, and Britta, a cross sectional imaging radiologist. They have three lovely grandchildren in Southern California.