Jack Goodman

Jack Goodman, Professor Emeritus, Cardiac Health & Exercise

  • Professor Emeritus, Cardiac Health & Exercise
55 Harbord Street, Toronto, ON M5S 2W6

About Jack

Academic Training

PhD, University of Toronto, 1987 

MSc, University of Toronto, 1983 

BPHE, University of Toronto, 1981 

Graduate Student Recruitment Status
Accepting PhD and MSc students
Research Interests

Cardiac and hemodynamic response to prolonged exercise

Central and peripheral limitations to exercise

Cardiac rehabilitation

Exercise and heart failure  

Selected Publications

Bentley, R. F., Nikolovski, N., & Goodman, J.M. (2024). How Does the Dose and Type of Exercise Impact Acute Cardiovascular Function in Healthy Individuals?. The Canadian journal of cardiology, S0828-282X(24)01261-3. 

Dorian, D., Gustafson, D., Quinn, R., Bentley, R. F., Dorian, P., Goodman, J.M., Fish, J. E., & Connelly, K. A. (2024). Exercise-Dependent Modulation of Immunological Response Pathways in Endurance Athletes With and Without Atrial Fibrillation. Journal of the American Heart Association, 13(6), e033640.

Lewis, J., Bentley, R. F., Connelly, K. A., Dorian, P., & Goodman, J.M. (2024). Are Subjective Reports of Exercise Intensity Accurate in Recreational Athletes?. The Canadian journal of cardiology, S0828-282X(24)01136-X. Advance online publication. 

Vecchiarelli, E., Bentley, R. F., Connelly, K. A., Dorian, P., Yan, A., Mak, S., Sasson, Z., & Goodman, J.M. (2024). Atrial fibrillation in middle-aged athletes: Impact on left atrial, ventricular and exercise performance. PloS one, 19(3), e0294367. 

Wright, S. P., Goodman, J.M., Sasson, Z., Granton, J. T., & Mak, S. (2024). Left atrial reservoir pressure-volume relations during exercise in healthy older adults. Journal of applied physiology (Bethesda, Md. : 1985), 136(4), 901–907.

Bentley, R. F., Dorian, P., Vecchiarelli, E., Banks, L., Connelly, K. A., Yan, A. T., Osman, W., & Goodman, J.M. (2024). The effect of chronic exercise training and acute exercise on power spectral analysis of heart rate variability. Applied physiology, nutrition, and metabolism = Physiologie appliquee, nutrition et metabolisme, 49(2), 148–156.

Djeven & La Gerche, Andre & Akhavein, Farhad & Bentley, Robert & Connelly, Kim & Goodman, J.M, (2020). Left Ventricular Fibrosis in Middle-Age Athletes and Physically Active Adults. Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise.

O'Donnell, E, Goodman, J.M, Floras, JS, Harvey, PJ. Indexes of aortic wave reflection are not augmented in estrogen‐deficient physically active premenopausal women (2020) Indexes of aortic wave reflection are not augmented in estrogen‐deficient physically active premenopausal women. Scand J Med Sci Sports

Banks L, Altaha MA, Yan AT, Dorian P, Konieczny K, Deva DP, LA Gerche A, Akhavein F, Bentley RF, Connelly KA, Goodman, J.M.(2020). Left Ventricular Fibrosis in Middle-Age Athletes and Physically Active Adults. Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise

James McKinney, Amer M. Johri, Paul Poirier, Anne Fournier, Goodman, J.M, Nathaniel Moulson, Andrew Pipe, François Philippon, Taryn Taylor, Kim Connelly, Paul Dorian (2019), Canadian Cardiovascular Society Cardiovascular Screening of Competitive Athletes: The Utility of the Screening Electrocardiogram to Predict Sudden Cardiac Death, Canadian Journal of Cardiology, Volume 35, Issue 11, 2019, Pages 1557-1566

Marzolini Susan, Robertson Andrew D., Oh Paul, Goodman, J.M., Corbett Dale, Du Xiaowei, MacIntosh Bradley J (2019). Aerobic Training and Mobilization Early Post-stroke: Cautions and Considerations. Frontiers in Neurology. Volume 10, Page 1187.

Professional Memberships

Canadian Association of Cardiac Rehabilitation

Canadian Cardiovascular Society

Canadian Society for Exercise Physiology

Cardiovascular Sciences Collaborative Program, University of Toronto 

Heart & Stroke/Richard Lewar Centre of Excellence, University of Toronto

Ontario Camps Association

R.Tait McKenzie Honour Society