Department of Pediatrics

Clinical Interests

Skeletal dysplasias, achondroplasia, connective tissue disease

Education

• BS, Magna Cum Laude Dominic Dean Award Honors Diploma, Christian Brothers University, 2012
• MD, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, 2016

Training

• Resident, Chief Resident , University of Alabama at Birmingham, 2016 - 2020

Licensure and Board Certification

• AL
• MO, Medical License
• IL, Medical License
• 2020American Board of Pediatrics

Recent Publications view all (10)

1. Carvajal HG, Gooch C, Merritt TC, Fox JC, Pourney AN, Kumaresan HD, Canter MW, Eghtesady P. Mid-Term Outcomes of Heart Transplantation in Children with Genetic Disorders. Ann Thorac Surg. 2022. PMID:35007503 
2. Gooch C, Rudy N, Smith RJ, Robin NH. Genetic testing hearing loss: The challenge of non syndromic mimics. Int J Pediatr Otorhinolaryngol. 2021;150:110872. PMID:34433113 
3. Donohue KE, Gooch C, Katz A, Wakelee J, Slavotinek A, Korf BR. Pitfalls and challenges in genetic test interpretation: An exploration of genetic professionals experience with interpretation of results. Clin Genet. 2021;99(5):638-649. PMID:33818754 
4. Gooch C, Wright C, Nelson K, Robin N. Inherited cause of in utero digital malformations. BMJ Case Rep. 2020;13(3). PMID:32209574 
5. Gooch C, Dean SJ, Marzullo L. Repeatedly in Rhabdomyolysis. Pediatr Emerg Care. 2020. PMID:32205805 
6. Gooch C, Robin NH, Hurst ACE. Editorial: Neonatal management of achondroplasia: one hospital's geosocial approach to improve patient outcomes. Curr Opin Pediatr. 2019;31(6):691-693. PMID:31693574 
7. Wright BT, Gluszek CF, Heldt SA. The effects of repeated zolpidem treatment on tolerance, withdrawal-like symptoms, and GABAA receptor mRNAs profile expression in mice: comparison with diazepam. Psychopharmacology (Berl). 2014;231(15):2967-79. PMID:24531568 
8. Megan Yabumoto, Jessica Kianmahd, Meghna Singh, Maria F Palafox, Angela Wei, Kathryn Elliott, Dana H Goodloe, S Joy Dean, Catherine Gooch, Brianna K Murray, Erin Swartz, Samantha A Schrier Vergano, Meghan C Towne, Kimberly Nugent, Elizabeth R Roeder, Christina Kresge, Beth A Pletcher, Katheryn Grand, John M Graham Jr, Ryan Gates, Natalia Gomez-Ospina, Subhadra Ramanathan, Robin Dawn Clark, Kimberly Glaser, Paul J Benke, Julie S Cohen, Ali Fatemi, Weiyi Mu, Kristin W Baranano, Jill A Madden, Cynthia S Gubbels, Timothy W Yu, Pankaj B Agrawal, Mary-Kathryn Chambers, Chanika Phornphutkul, John A Pugh, Kate A Tauber, Svetlana Azova, Jessica R Smith, Anne O'Donnell-Luria, Hannah Medsker, Siddharth Srivastava, Deborah Krakow, Daniela N Schweitzer, Valerie A Arboleda . Novel variants in KAT6B spectrum of disorders expand our knowledge of clinical manifestations and molecular mechanisms Molecular Genetics and Genomic Medicine. 2014. PMID:34519438 
9. Angela Lee, Samuel Cortez, Peter Yang, Diane Aum, Prapti Singh, Catherine Gooch, Matthew Smyth . Neonatal hydrocephalus: an atypical presentation of malignant infantile osteopetrosis Childs Nervous System. 2014. PMID:34519872 
10. Catherine Gooch 1, Jaclyn Paige Souder 2, Matthew L Tedder 3, Jennifer Kerkhof 4, Jennifer A Lee 3, Raymond J Louie 3, Bekim Sadikovic 4 5, Robin S Fletcher 3, Nathaniel H Robin 1. Near complete deletion of KMT2D in a college student American Journal of Medical Genetics Part A. PMID:35040536