The AAMC Board of Directors has presented Dr. Levin with a Special Recognition Award for his collaborative partnership with the AAMC to help further advance humanism in medicine.
Dr. Levin will be celebrated at the 2024 AAMC Awards Recognition Event on October 30. Register for the free virtual event here
This announcement was first published on the AAMC website.
Ensuring that patients remain at the center of all care interactions is a fundamental aspect of humanism in medicine, and Richard I. Levin, MD, has dedicated much of his career in academic medicine to furthering that noble aim, especially during the last decade while leading the Arnold P. Gold Foundation as president and CEO.
Dr. Richard Levin
Dr. Levin joined the Gold Foundation in 2012, which champions humanism in health care, and served until his retirement on June 30, 2023. During his tenure, he expanded the organization from its roots in medical schools to embrace a wider spectrum of relationship-centered care across the various health professions. The Gold Foundation now reaches nurses and nursing schools, as well as physicians in practice, researchers, and global health care companies through the Gold Corporate Council.
Under his transformative leadership, Dr. Levin deepened the Gold Foundation’s long-standing partnership with the AAMC. That partnership is most vivid at Learn Serve Lead: The AAMC Annual Meeting, which hosts the Arnold P. Gold Foundation Humanism in Medicine Award Lecture, the Gold Humanism Honor Society Workshop, the Jordan J. Cohen Humanism in Medicine Lecture, and previously, the Vilcek-Gold Lecture, which honored immigrant leaders in healthcare. Academic Medicine, journal of the AAMC, partners with the Gold Foundation on the now 25-year-old Dr. Hope Babette Tang Humanism in Healthcare Essay Contest. In short, by uniquely leveraging his international standing in medical education, Dr. Levin provided his thought leadership to advance the necessity for human connection in medicine.
Dr. Levin earned a BS with honors from Yale University in 1970 and graduated from the NYU School of Medicine in 1974 (now the NYU Grossman School of Medicine), where he was elected to Alpha Omega Alpha. He completed a cardiology fellowship at NYU and a postdoc in vascular biology at the Specialized Center for Research in Thrombosis at Cornell University Medical College (now Weill Cornell Medicine).
In 1983, Dr. Levin launched his academic career at NYU School of Medicine, simultaneously caring for patients, conducting research, and teaching the next generations to better help those patients. There, he founded the Laboratory for Cardiovascular Research to foster novel, interdisciplinary research in basic, translational, and clinical cardiovascular sciences. He served as vice dean for education, faculty, and academic affairs, and as professor of medicine. Later, he served as dean of the faculty of medicine and vice principal for health affairs at McGill Faculty of Medicine. He is also a noted health affairs advocate, having served two terms as president of the New York City affiliate of the American Heart Association. He is the recipient of many honors, including Fellowship in the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences and a Doctor of Science honoris causa from Wake Forest University.
Learn more about all the 2024 AAMC Award winners, including the 2024 Arnold P. Gold Foundation Humanism in Medicine Award recipient, Dr. Caroline Harada.
