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 a new Gold Corporate Council member: Siemens Healthineers

Siemens Healthineers, an innovative medical technology company, has joined the Gold Corporate Council, a group of leading healthcare corporations that support the Gold Foundation and hold a strong commitment to humanism in healthcare.

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Dr. Barbara Lee & Dr. Kimberly Manning join the Gold Board of Trustees

The Gold Foundation Board of Trustees is delighted to announce two new members: Barbara A. Lee, PhD, a lawyer with deep expertise in higher education, and Kimberly D. Manning, MD, Professor of Medicine at Emory and a leading voice of humanism in academic medicine.

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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Education lawyer Dr. Barbara A. Lee & Emory Professor Dr. Kimberly D. Manning join the Gold Board of Trustees

September 5, 2020

The Arnold P. Gold Foundation Board Chair Richard C. Sheerr has announced two new appointees to the Board of Trustees: Kimberly D. Manning, MD, Professor of Medicine and Associate Vice Chair of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at Emory University School of Medicine and a leading voice of humanism in academic medicine, and Barbara A. Lee, PhD, a lawyer with deep expertise in higher education and the Distinguished Professor of Human Resource Management at Rutgers University.

Gold Foundation releases its 2019 Annual Report

August 27, 2020

The 2019 Annual Report is a snapshot of a landmark year for The Arnold P. Gold Foundation.

Dr. Patricia Garcia selected as the 2020 Gold Humanism in Medicine Award at the AAMC recipient

August 24, 2020

Together with the AAMC, the Gold Foundation is pleased to announce that Patricia Garcia, MD, MPH, of Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, has been selected to receive the 2020 Arnold P. Gold Foundation Humanism in Medicine Award at the AAMC.

17 Gold Student Summer Fellows to support patients who are particularly vulnerable in COVID crisis

June 24, 2020

As part of the Gold Foundation’s work to address the wide-ranging impact of COVID-19, these projects were chosen for their focus on populations who are facing healthcare disparities and are particularly vulnerable during this crisis.

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.

New Humanism in Health and Healthcare online course available for free at NextGenU.org

April 29, 2020

Developed in partnership with Oakland University’s William Beaumont School of Medicine, the competency-based course can be easily used by medical and nursing schools or individual students around the globe.

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Icahn medical students create PEERS program to foster resilience and community

September 1, 2020

Co-founders of PEERS, a well-being program for medical trainees at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, share tips for institutions interested in starting their own student-led support program.

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 ... Read more

Led by medical students, Faces of the Frontline project shares stories of clinicians caring in the COVID-19 crisis

July 30, 2020

Faces of Frontlines is digital campaign that began at the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic “to amplify the voices of those keeping us safe.” Learn more in this Q&A with two of the campaign's student leaders.

#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 ... Read more

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