CAMDEN………………Allen S. Goldman, M.D., 88.died at the Sussman House in Rockport, Maine on April 9,
2018. Born in Providence, RI on October 25, 1929, he graduated from Classical High School where he
studied Latin, Greek and the Sciences. He graduated from Brown University, cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa,
Sigma Xi and the Presidents premium in Greek with an AB in Chemistry and MA in Biology. He worked
on his PhD at Yale in Zoology, Biochemistry and Biophysics. Goldman spent his summers at the Marine
Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, contemplating a career in marine biology. When a place opened
up at the last minute at the Medical School of the State University at Syracuse, he sought and obtained
his M.D. He received MA honoris causa from the University of Pennsylvania, and had 220 publications in
the top 50 scientific journals.
Dr. Goldman had a straight Pediatrics internship at Grace New Haven Community Hospital and Yale
University. He did a pediatric residency at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and the
University of Pennsylvania (UofP). He was Senior Physician and Teratologist at CHOP. Teratology is the
field of specialization in the causes and prevention of birth defects. He was Professor of Pediatrics and
Professor of Pharmacology of UofP where he performed National Institutes of Health-funded research
until 1986.
In 1986, he was chosen to be the director of the Craniofacial Center and Senior Physician at the
University Of Illinois College Of Medicine at Chicago (UofI). He was Professor of Pediatrics and Professor
of Genetics at the UofI where he also performed NIH-funded research.
Dr. Goldman received numerous honors and awards and was a member of several professional
societies. He was past president of many boards in the Chicago and Philadelphia areas including those
of Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Beta Kappa Associates, Spruce Hill Community Center and the University of City
Arts League.
Dr. Goldman had training analysis in Freud and studied Jungian analysis. He was granted a commission
in the Public Health Service in which he served until he was discharged in 1998. “Those also serve who
stand and wait.”
Dr. Goldman retired in 1999 and moved to Camden, Maine, where he served as Treasurer of the
Camden Yacht Club and served on the Board of Directors of the Mid-Coast Mental Health Association
and Youthlinks, both of which meant a great deal to him.
Dr. Goldman was married to Rachel Bok-Goldman. He is survived by three sons by his first marriage,
Jonathan, Benjamin and Adam; two step-sons, Jefferson and Curtis Kise, and two nieces; 10
grandchildren. He was predeceased by an infant brother, sister and brother-in-law.
During his retirement, Dr. Goldman translated from Greek: the Odyssey, the Iliad, some of Herodotus,
and a little from Argonautica; and then from Latin, even littler of the Aeneid. He and his wife, travelled a
great deal, one trip, completing a boyhood dream to circumnavigate the world (in 120 days gratis
Cunard).

For his 50 th Reunion at Brown, he wrote a Synopsis of his life which said: “I am somewhat humbled by
the fact that I have been able to accomplish almost all of the things I set out to do. These include
becoming of the dozen or so Pediatric Teratologists, cruising in my 34’ Mason sloop along the eastern
seaboard from Long Island Sound to the Bay of Fundy and up the St. John River, in successfully adjusting
to retirement after 40 years, during which I was fully funded by the National Institutes of Health….My
experience at Brown, for both and AB and MA, changed my life. I acquired knowledge, learned
manners, and developed lifelong friendships. Brown helped me in the transition from grindingly
impoverished childhood to being able to become whatever I was to become.
Private services were held. Condolence may be shared at www.longfuneralhome.com . Arrangements
are with the Long Funeral Home, 9 Mountain Street, Camden, Maine.

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