Mr. Goebel is President of Paul W Goebel Consulting, Inc., an independent consulting firm in Monrovia, Maryland.

Mr. Goebel was Vice President of Chesapeake Research Review, an independent IRB in Columbia, Maryland.

Mr. Goebel was the Senior Education Coordinator for the Office for Human Research Protections (OHRP).

Previously, he was Associate Director for Human Subject Protection in the Office of the Commissioner, FDA. He coordinated FDA policy for protection of human subjects of research, was Chair of FDA’s IRB and editor of the 1998 update of the FDA Information Sheets for Institutional Review Boards and Clinical Investigators.