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Adeline Goss, M.D.

Neurologist Writer Podcast Host

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Adeline ("Addie") Goss, M.D. is a neurohospitalist and the Associate Chief of Neurology at Highland Hospital, a public teaching hospital and Level I Trauma Center in Oakland, California. She completed neurology residency and neurohospitalist fellowship at UCSF, medical internship at Massachusetts General Hospital, and medical school at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine. Her interests include neuropalliative care and neuroethics.

Addie previously worked as a public radio reporter in Washington D.C., West Africa, and Wyoming. She co-founded the American Neurological Association's podcast ANA Investigates and hosted and executive produced 80 episodes of the show between 2019 and 2026.

Contact

Email adgoss@alamedahealthsystem.org LinkedIn linkedin.com/in/adeline-goss Instagram instagram.com/adelinegoss Twitter x.com/addiegoss

Essays & Reported Features

Writing

The New Yorker

Was Ray Howell Responsible for His Crimes?

June 2026

A small-town doctor’s abuse of power shocked his community and family. Then he was diagnosed with a rare neurological condition, leaving his culpability in doubt.

The Boston Globe

What should we think of the new Alzheimer’s drugs?

July 2024

“Losing the myriad parts of my mom — it’s like stars fading in the morning. Even scanning the sky, you can’t catch them right as they disappear.”

JAMA

Trust Falls

April 2022

“I can see, beneath me, the stream we all travel in. It helps me to savor my own life, to use my time well, to love, to notice, to forgive.”

JAMA

How becoming a doctor made me a worse listener

March 2020

“What I hadn’t accounted for was how their stories would be flattened by the pace of the work.”

Academic Publications

Research

ORCID 0000-0002-8427-6180

2025

Goss AL, Creutzfeldt CJ. Communicating with Families after Severe Acute Brain Injury. Neurocrit Care. 2025; 43:671–681.

2023

Goss A, Ge C, Crawford S, Goostrey K, Buddadhumaruk P, Hough CL, Lo B, Carson S, Steingrub J, White DB, Muehlschlegel S. Prognostic Language in Critical Neurologic Illness: A Multicenter Mixed-Methods Study. Neurology. 2023 Aug 1;101(5):e558–e569.

2023

Goss AL, Voumard RR, Engelberg RA, Curtis JR, Creutzfeldt CJ. Do They Have a Choice? Surrogate Decision-Making After Severe Acute Brain Injury. Crit Care Med. 2023 Mar 27.

2022

Goss A, O'Riordan DL, Pantilat SZ. Inpatients With Dementia Referred for Palliative Care Consultation: A Multicenter Analysis. Neurol Clin Pract. 2022 Aug;12(4):288–297.

2021

Goss AL, Creutzfeldt CJ. Neuro-Palliative Care in the Inpatient Setting. Semin Neurol. 2021 Oct;41(5):619–630.

2020

Goss AL, Rethy L, Pearl RL, DeLisser HM. The “difficult” cadaver: weight bias in the gross anatomy lab. Med Educ Online. 2020 Dec;25(1):1742966.

2019

Goss A, Viswanathan V, DeLisser HM. Not Just a Specimen: A Qualitative Study of Emotion, Morality, and Professionalism in One Medical School Gross Anatomy Laboratory. Anatomical Sciences Education 12(4):349–359.

2017

Dao DK^*, Goss AL^*, Hoekzema AS^*, Kelly LA^*, Logan AA^*, Mehta SD^*, Sandesara UN^*, Munyikwa MR^*, DeLisser HM. Integrating theory, content, and method to foster critical consciousness in medical students: A comprehensive model for cultural competence training. Academic Medicine 92(3):335–344. * co-first authorship

Press & Public

Media

Podcast Hosting

ANA Investigates is the official podcast of the American Neurological Association. Addie co-founded, hosted, and executive produced 80 monthly episodes between 2019 and 2026. Full episode archive

ANA Investigates · August 2025

ANA Investigates: 75 Years of NINDS

Interview with Dr. Walter Koroshetz, Director of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke.

ANA Investigates · August 2024

Psychedelics & Unlocking Critical Periods

Interview with Dr. Steve Zeiler of Johns Hopkins University and Dr. Gul Dölen of UC Berkeley.

ANA Investigates · November 2023

Chronic Pain

Interview with Dr. Prasad Shirvalkar of the University of California San Francisco.

ANA Investigates · July 2023

Fetal Therapy

Interview with Dr. Jennifer Cohen of Duke University Health System.

ANA Investigates · February 2022

Curing Coma

Interview with Dr. Romer Geocadin of Johns Hopkins University and Dr. Claude Hemphill of UCSF.

ANA Investigates · February 2021

Detection & Management of Neurologic Complications from COVID-19 Vaccines

Interview with Dr. Avindra Nath, intramural Clinical Director of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke.

ANA Investigates · April 2020

Neurologists & COVID-19: It’s Personal

Interview with Drs. Romer Geocadin, Jim Siegler, and Megan Richie.

Radio and Podcast Interviews

NPR Here and Now · August 2024

Neurologist struggles with mom’s Alzheimer’s diagnosis

NPR Weekend Edition · December 2020

A Doctor, Who Is Breastfeeding, Explains Complex Choice To Get COVID-19 Vaccine

BMJ Talk Medicine · June 2020

Covid-19 in the U.S.: Returning to Work in a Pandemic

Journal Podcast Interviews

Neurology Journal Podcast · September 2023

Language Use in Neurocritical Illness Prognostication

Neurology Journal Podcast · September 2022

Palliative Care for Inpatients with Dementia