Munish Goyal, MD

Munish Goyal, MD, FACEP, is an attending physician in the Emergency Department at MedStar Washington Hospital Center and Professor at the Georgetown University School of Medicine. Within the Emergency Medicine service line, he is the director of the Section of Critical Care, Research, and Faculty Education. Dr. Goyal has been selected "Clinical Teacher of the Year", "Faculty of the Year", “Mentor of the Year” and "Nurses Choice - Physician Collaborator" while at MedStar Health.

Dr. Goyal has served as Principal Investigator for over a dozen studies and published over 50 manuscripts, reviews, and book chapters. He is chair of the MedStar Health Research Institute (MHRI) Institutional Review Board and leads the MedStar Summer Scholars summer research program for rising 2nd year Georgetown medical students. He also serves as the co-chair of the MedStar Health P+T Committee. Through his many roles, he works to bridge research and clinical care to develop a learning healthcare system.

Before his time at MedStar Health, Dr. Goyal was an attending physician at the University of Pennsylvania in the Emergency Department and Surgical ICU and was co-director of the Clinical Center for Resuscitation Science. He completed his medical degree from the Medical College of Virginia/Virginia Commonwealth University, residency at Christiana Care, and fellowship at the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center/University of Maryland. In addition, Dr. Goyal has an executive leadership certificate from the Aresty Institute at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

Research Interests

Dr. Goyal's research interests include:

Resuscitation, septic shock, cardiac Arrest, peri-intubation care, mind-body medicine, human factors in healthcare. 

Selected Research

Protocolized Care in Early Septic Shock (ProCESS)

Dr. Goyal was a site principal investigator on the ProCESS study. This 5-year, multicenter study of alternative resuscitation strategies for septic shock was funded by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences. Dr. Goyal's team had the sixth highest enrollment rate of the 26 sites in this study.
Anatomic site-specific complication rates of central venous catheter insertions.

Dr. Goyal guided a team of medical students to study site-specific central venous catheter complication rates establishing a patient-oriented, overall complication rate of CVC insertion.

View Dr. Goyal's publications on PubMed