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.

Save the date: May 6-8 for GHHS Conference

We’re excited to announce the 2021 GHHS Virtual Conference, which draws upon the National Initiative of Humanism and Healing: Structural Racism and its Impact on Medicine. Prerecorded sessions, videos, & extras will be available April 26-May 10. Live sessions will be held May 6-8. The gathering is open to the entire Gold community. Please mark your calendar!

Registration opens in early March.

2021 Hope Babette Tang Essay Contest opens

Medical and nursing students are invited to enter our annual Hope Babette Tang Humanism in Healthcare Essay Contest. The prompt this year is a quote from a poem by Youth Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman.

Deadline: March 15

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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Dr. Marie-Ève Goyer selected as the 2021 AFMC-Gold Humanism Award recipient

February 11, 2021

Together with the Association of Faculties of Medicine of Canada (AFMC), the Gold Foundation for Humanistic Healthcare, Canada is pleased to announce the recipient of the 2021 AFMC-Gold Humanism Award and Lecture: Dr. Marie-Ève Goyer, a leader in caring for people with addiction and an exemplar of humanism in healthcare.

Tweet collection from Solidarity Week 2021

February 10, 2021

Check out tweets from GHHS chapters and organizations participating in the 2021 Solidarity Week for Compassionate Patient Care.

The Gold Corporate Council aspires to help shift healthcare to be inclusive, equitable and just

February 9, 2021

Learn more about how these eight leading healthcare companies — BD, CVS Health, Henry Schein, Inc., IBM Watson Health, Medtronic, Quest Diagnostics, Siemens Healthineers, Teladoc Health — will be actively supporting humanistic care through shared goals for 2021 and beyond.

Jeffrey Silver Humanism in Healthcare Research Roundup – December 2020-January 2021

January 27, 2021

This edition of Research Roundup includes studies on empathic listening styles, building trusting, and the implications of removing race from estimates of kidney function.

Apply now for 2021 Gold Student Summer Fellowships

January 27, 2021

The Gold Student Summer Fellowship program offers opportunities for medical students to complete a research or service project related to community health. The deadline for 2021 applications is March 26.

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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What She Carried

February 26, 2021

A beautiful essay by Dr. Laura Vater on the many things a patient carries in the face of a diagnosis.

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.

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

#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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