Dr. Goto is an assistant professor at University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine and an infectious diseases staff physician at Iowa City VA Medical Center. He completed internal medicine residency at University of Kentucky, infectious diseases fellowship at University of Iowa, and VA Quality Scholars fellowship program at Iowa City VA Medical Center. He is currently an awardee of AHRQ K08 Career Development Grant to develop prediction models for antimicrobial resistance, and co-director of Patient Safety Center for Inquiry to develop metrics for antimicrobial stewardship. His research interests include epidemiology of healthcare-associated infections and multidrug-resistant organisms, identification of effective interventions for infectious diseases prevention and outcome improvement, and effects of healthcare policies on hospital epidemiology practice.