Vilcek-Gold Award honoree Dr. Vivek Murthy at 2020 AAMC Annual Meeting
The Vilcek-Gold Award for Humanism in Healthcare, created jointly by the Gold Foundation and the Vilcek Foundation, is awarded to each year’s honoree at the AAMC Annual Meeting. The AAMC’s Annual Meeting: Learn Serve Lead is going virtual this year, November 16-18. Keynote speakers include 19th U.S. Surgeon General and 2020 Vilcek-Gold Award recipient Dr. Vivek Murthy, NIAID Director Dr. Anthony Fauci, journalist Ann Curry, author and historian Dr. Ibram X. Kendi, journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones, and many others.
At the AAMC Annual Meeting, the 2020 Vilcek-Gold Award will be presented to Dr. Vivek Murthy, the 19th U.S. Surgeon General and author of Together. He will give brief remarks and then join in a virtual fireside chat with Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha, the 2019 Vilcek-Gold Award recipient who helped bring national attention to the Flint water crisis. Mark your calendar for this session: 1-2 p.m. ET on November 17!
Learn more and register on the AAMC website.