Professor
Virginia Commonwealth University
Lance L. Goetz, MD, is a staff physician at the Richmond VA Spinal Cord Injury & Disorders Center, and Professor, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Virginia Commonwealth University. He served as program director for the VCU/McGuire Spinal Cord Injury Medicine fellowships from 2013-2020 and is currently associate. He also directed the SCI Medicine Fellowship programs at UT Southwestern Medical Center from 2003-2010. He completed his B.S. with high honors and MD from the University of Iowa in 1992, residency training in physical medicine and rehabilitation at the University of Michigan in 1996 and spinal cord injury medicine fellowship at VA Puget Sound Health Care System, Seattle, Washington in 1997.
Dr. Goetz received the William O. McKinley excellence in Teaching Award from VCU PM&R in 2022 and Faculty Excellence Awards in 2020 and 2021. Dr. Goetz served on the American Paraplegia Society Board for 6 years. He was given the APS Excellence Award in 2017. He has served as principal and co-principal investigator on VA Merit Review grants and site investigator for multiple research protocols studying best practices supported employment, exoskeletal assisted walking, erectile dysfunction, clinical practice guidelines for SCI, pressure ulcers, urinary tract infections and other medical complications related to spinal cord dysfunction. He has served as site investigator on 2 VA Cooperative Studies, CSP 535 and 2003. Dr. Goetz serves as ad hoc reviewer for numerous SCI and PM&R journals and has authored or co-authored over 75 peer-reviewed publications, chapters and other works. Dr. Goetz is unmeasurably grateful to work with talented clinical, rehab and research colleagues, for his wife of 23 years, Eva Sonnier, twin boys, Daniel and Devon, and other friends and family who lift him up. Finally, he has benefited from lived experiences with spinal cord injury since 1984.
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