A journalist and entrepreneur, Thomas helps people understand messy things through stories, data and design.
Thomas is the creator of Drug Story, a new podcast about the disease business, one drug at a time (selected by Apple as a featured New Show). He is a senior Impact Fellow at the UC Berkeley School of Public Health.
As a journalist, Thomas was the executive editor at WIRED, which he led to a dozen National Magazine Awards (print and digital) from 2001 to 2013. He is the author of two award-winning books, and his writing has been repeatedly selected for the Best American Science Writing and Best Technology Writing anthologies. He was also a reporter at the Wall Street Journal and the Village Voice. (IYKYK)
As an entrepreneur, Thomas is co-founder of Building H, a nonprofit research project that accounts for how companies impact consumer health. He was recently the Chief of Research at GoodRx, the nation's leading resource for affordable healthcare, where he created GoodRx Research and GoodRx Health. Previously he co-founded Iodine, the Webby-award winning "Yelp for medicine" that helped people understand which medications work best for them. Iodine was acquired by GoodRx (GDRX) in 2016.
He served as the first Entrepreneur-in-Residence for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, where he founded Flip the Clinic, a project to transform the doctor-patient encounter. He also served as Curator-in-Residence for the Adobe Digital Museum. His 2010 TED talk on visualizing medical data has been viewed many, many times.
Goetz holds a Master of Public Health degree from the University of California, Berkeley, and a Master's in American literature from the University of Virginia. He graduated from Bates College, and lives in San Francisco.
His LinkedIn is here (most used these days).
Thomas is on Twitter here (which was once great.)
For speaking engagements, contact the BrightSight Group here.