Matthew Gooden is a Protocol Monitoring Specialist in the NINDS Clinical Trials Unit (Quality Assurance and Data Management Office). As a Protocol Monitoring Specialist, he provides auditing and monitoring expertise for intramural NINDS clinical trials and natural history studies. Matthew also provides mentorship and guidance to research trainees within the NINDS Clinical Trials Unit. Additionally, he develops methods
to quantify events of non-compliance across NINDS to identify trends in events that can be reduced by targeted trainings and education and ultimately improves the safety of participants enrolled in clinical trials.
His research focus centers around: 1) Elucidating the importance of site initiation visits on the occurrence of non-compliance events in human subjects research; and 2) Optimizing the percentage of subjects needed to review during a routine audit.
Matthew received his Bachelor of Science degree in Exercise Science from Rutgers University in 2018 and his Master of Science degree in Biomedical Sciences from Tufts University School of Medicine in 2020. Matthew was also an Intramural Research Training Award Fellow in the NINDS Clinical Trials Unit from 2019 to 2021.
Publications:
Gooden, M. J., Norato, G., Martin, S. B., Nath, A., & Reoma, L. (2021). Reducing Events of
Noncompliance in Neurology Human Subjects Research: the Effect of Human Subjects
Research Protection Training and Site Initiation Visits. Neurotherapeutics : the journal of
the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics, 18(2), 859–865.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s13311-020-01003-4