The Arnold P. Gold Foundation infuses the human connection into healthcare. We engage schools, health systems, companies, and individual clinicians in the joy and meaning of humanistic healthcare, so that they have the strength and knowledge to ensure patients and families are partners in collaborative, compassionate, and scientifically excellent care.

Announcing the 2019 Essay Contest winners

We are thrilled to announce this year’s Hope Babette Tang Humanism in Healthcare Essay Contest winners and honorable mentions from both nursing and medical schools. Congratulations!

Register for the Gold Humanism Summit

Join us at the inaugural Gold Humanism Summit this October in Orlando! GHHS members & MTL grantees are invited to a pre-conference symposium, and a separate Gold Executive Leadership Track is designed exclusively for healthcare executives. Space is limited. Have you registered yet?

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Jeffrey Silver Humanism in Healthcare Research Roundup – June 2019

June 24, 2019

The Jeffrey Silver Humanism in Healthcare Research Roundup features summaries of recently published studies on humanism in healthcare. To receive email notification of new studies once per month, enter your information here and select “Jeffrey Silver Research Roundup” ... Read more

We must take up the banner for humanism: Dr. George Thibault’s remarks at the 2019 Golden Thread Gala

June 21, 2019

Dr. George Thibault received the 2019 National Humanism in Medicine Medal at the Golden Thread Gala on June 13, 2019, in New York City. These are his acceptance remarks: I ... Read more

Eight medical students chosen as 2019 Gold Student Summer Fellows

May 31, 2019

From California to Zambia, Gold fellows will be working with underserved populations through humanistic-based projects by Louisa Tvito The Arnold P. Gold Foundation is pleased to announce that eight medical ... Read more

2019 Gold Student Summer Fellows

Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha, Flint whistleblower, receives inaugural award for immigrant healthcare leaders

May 20, 2019

Foreign-born pediatrician honored by Vilcek and Gold foundations for demonstrating extraordinary humanism in healthcare The Vilcek Foundation (New York, NY) and The Arnold P. Gold Foundation (Englewood Cliffs, NJ) are ... Read more

MSU's Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha.

2019 DeWitt C. Baldwin Jr. Award presented to 3 institutions

March 8, 2019

March 8, 2019 — The DeWitt C. Baldwin Jr. Award, in its fourth year, is presented by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) and The Arnold P. Gold ... Read more

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At 2019 Bud Baldwin winner Middlesex Health, resident physicians are part of a small-town community

June 25, 2019

Each year, the Gold Foundation and the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) recognizes institutions that foster a respectful, humanistic environment for resident physicians by awarding the ACGME and ... Read more

A choiceless choice: Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha on standing up and speaking out

May 28, 2019

This story was first published on The Vilcek Foundation website. For Flint whistleblower Mona Hanna-Attisha, speaking up for the city’s children was “a choiceless choice,” she says. When the pediatrician ... Read more

Photo courtesy of MSU Division of Public Health, College of Human Medicine

“N” is for Next Steps

April 25, 2019

by Karen Knops, MD “Sometimes the smallest step in the right direction ends up being the biggest step of your life. Tip-toe if you must, but take a step.” – ... Read more

Q&A with Dr. Jeffrey Turnbull, inaugural AFMC-Gold Humanism Award recipient

April 11, 2019

This article was originally published on the uOttawa website. Dr. Jeff Turnbull doesn’t spend very much time at Ottawa Inner City Health’s (OICH) administrative office in Lowertown. This is evident ... Read more

Dr. Jeffrey Turnbull

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