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.

Three titans of humanism to be awarded Gold medals

The National Humanism in Medicine Medal will be awarded at the 2021 Gala to:

  • Dr. Anthony Fauci, Iconic Leader in U.S. Healthcare, Global Pioneer in Infectious Disease Research, and Compassionate Advocate of the American People during the COVID-19 Pandemic
  • Dr. Wayne J. Riley, Celebrated 17th President of SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University, Luminary of Medical Education Educator, and Transformative Leader for Health Equity and Humanism in Healthcare
  • Dr. Eric Topol, Renowned Molecular Cardiologist and Geneticist, World Leader in Medical Research, Humanist Practitioner, and Bestselling Author on the Future of Medicine
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Nominations are open for the 2021 Vilcek-Gold Award

This award, presently jointly by the Gold and Vilcek foundations, recognizes a foreign-born professional who has made extraordinary contributions to humanism in healthcare in America.

Submit your nomination by January 24, 2021.

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Humanism and Healing: Structural Racism and its Impact on Medicine

Gold Humanism Honor Society announces its 2020 National Initiative, which encourages members to use their leadership roles to start or extend conversations about racism and its impact on medicine/healthcare in their local communities and beyond. The launch coincides with the debut of Gold Connection: A GHHS Podcast. The first episode features four GHHS representatives in a conversation around racism in medicine. Listen on Apple iTunes or Spotify.

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Gold Foundation awards $10,000 grant to myCovidMD, an initiative by two GHHS members to expand free testing
December 22, 2020
The Arnold P. Gold Foundation is pleased to announce a $10,000 grant to support the Shared Harvest Foundation’s myCovidMD initiative, which offers free COVID-19 testing in communities hardest hit by the pandemic.
Dr. Jillian Horton joins the Gold Foundation for Humanistic Healthcare, Canada
December 16, 2020
The Gold Foundation for Humanistic Healthcare, Canada, Board Chair Dr. Richard Cruess has announced a new appointee to the Board of Trustees: Dr. Jillian Horton, an extraordinary physician leader and voice of humanistic care in Canada.
Teladoc Health joins the Gold Corporate Council
December 9, 2020
The Arnold P. Gold Foundation is pleased to announce that Teladoc Health, the global leader in whole person virtual care, has joined the Gold Corporate Council, a group of leading ... chevron_right Read more
Business leaders Pascal Montilus and Alice Vilma join the Board of Trustees
December 8, 2020
The Arnold P. Gold Foundation Board Chair Richard C. Sheerr has announced two new appointees to the Board of Trustees: Pascal Montilus, a business leader and vice president at Colgate ... chevron_right Read more
Nani Cuadrado, leader in street medicine & human trafficking prevention and survivor ally, to be honored with the 2020 Pearl Birnbaum Hurwitz Award
October 14, 2020
The Arnold P. Gold Foundation is pleased to announce that the 2020 Pearl Birnbaum Hurwitz Humanism in Healthcare Award will be presented to Hoonani (Nani) Cuadrado, Director of the Valley Health Partners (VHP) Street Medicine in Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania.
Nani Cuadrado
Humanism in healthcare demands we address racism
June 3, 2020
As a leader of humanism in healthcare, The Arnold P. Gold Foundation condemns racism and call upon us all, in this fraught and historic moment, to help correct the long-standing inhumanity that harms people of color.
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For Aloys
December 21, 2020
"I recall Aloys’s first visit clearly. His eyes had the empty, distant look of those who have witnessed war firsthand.  But there was something more." An essay by Dr. Elizabeth Toll, who participated in the 2020 Gold Writing Workshop.
I am from
December 21, 2020
A poem by Gisel Bello, participant in the Gold Writing Workshop, a fourth-year medical student and Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion Fellow at the Warren Alpert School of Medicine.
The birth of the Gold Writing Workshop
December 21, 2020
Launched at the end of October 2020, the Gold Foundation Writing Workshop allowed 10 physicians not only to reflect on the dual pandemics of COVID-19 and racism that we are experiencing with such intensity right now, but on the many influences on their lives. They wrote in response to prompts about where they were from, secrets and lies, what made them angry, what they bowed down to. They wrote about first times, the stories their hands could tell, what they know for sure.
12 Gold ways we cared in 2020
December 16, 2020
As we bid 2020 goodbye, and hope for a healthier and more just 2021, we reflect here on the milestones we crossed this year with your help.
Q&A with professors of Humanism in Health & Healthcare course live cohort
August 7, 2020
Earlier this year, The Arnold P. Gold Foundation launched the free virtual course “Humanism in Health and Healthcare,” developed in partnership with Oakland University’s William Beaumont School of Medicine and ... chevron_right Read more
#ColoringCare pages by GHHS member Dr. Mike Natter
May 5, 2020
Coloring and creative expression can be cathartic, and the ongoing COVID crisis calls for both a celebration of our healthcare professionals and calming activities that help us all get through ... chevron_right Read more
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