Department: Pediatrics Division: Cardiology Clinic: UNM Department of Pediatrics

Dr. Goens received her MD Degree from the University of Colorado School of Medicine.  She completed both her residency training in Pediatrics and a fellowship in Pediatric Cardiology at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center.  She did a postdoctoral fellowship in Molecular Cardiology at the National Institutes of Health - National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute.  She did additional clinical training in echocardiography, specializing in fetal diagnosis and research applications of echocardiography at the Children's National Medical Center (CNMC) in Washington, DC.  She was an instructor on the faculty after completing her fellowship (7/95 - 2/96).

Before arriving in New Mexico, she was on the faculty at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland (2/96 - 9/99).  Dr. Goens is board certified in Pediatrics and Pediatric Cardiology. She is an associate professor at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics where she is interim chief of Pediatric Cardiology and the director of the Pediatric Echocardiography Laboratory.

Education:

Medical School: University of Colorado, SOM, 1986
Internship/Residency: Pediatrics, University of Colorado, SOM, 1989
Fellowship:

Pediatric Cardiology, University of Colorado, SOM, 1992
Molecular Cardiology, NHLBI, 1994
Echocardiography, CNMC, 1994

Board Certifications:

Pediatrics, 1989
Pediatric Cardiology, 1992

Specialties:

Pediatric Cardiology
Pediatric and Fetal Echocardiography