The Arnold P. Gold Foundation Board Chair Richard C. Sheerr has announced a new appointee to the Board of Trustees: Dr. Rachel Cramton, Professor of Pediatrics and Program Director of the Pediatric Residency at University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson (UACOMT) and Banner Diamond Children’s Medical Center. Dr. Cramton serves on the Board in her role as Chair-Elect of the Gold Humanism Honor Society Advisory Council.
Dr. Rachel Cramton
“We are very pleased to welcome Dr. Cramton to the Gold Foundation’s Board of Trustees,” said Mr. Sheerr. “She brings deep expertise in medical education at every level and a passionate commitment to advancing our mission of humanism in healthcare. We have greatly valued her service on the GHHS Program Committee and look forward to her keen insights now as a Trustee.”
Dr. Cramton became an advisor of the Gold Humanism Honor Society (GHHS) Chapter at UACOMT in 2016 and was chosen as speaker at GHHS’ Solidarity Day for Compassionate Patient Care in 2020. She joined the GHHS Advisory Council in 2021 and inducted into GHHS as a faculty member in 2022.
“I have been in awe of the work of the Gold Foundation and am humbled and honored to be able to learn from and hopefully contribute to this esteemed group,” said Dr. Cramton. “Now, more than ever, the work of the Foundation to support the value of humanistic care is essential in our troubled world.”
A bit of a clinical unicorn, Dr. Cramton is a pediatric hospitalist, member of the child abuse team, and a pediatric palliative care physician. An educator at heart, she is delighted to teach and work with medical students and residents at every level of training from MS1 to fellowship.
Before embarking on her medical career, Dr. Cramton was a Teacher of the Deaf for a decade. She attended medical school at Temple University, where Gold President and CEO Dr. Kathleen Reeves was one of her mentors. She completed her residency in pediatrics at Hasbro Children’s Hospital at Brown University, and a year as Chief Resident at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center before relocating to the deserts of Arizona in 2009.
Dr. Cramton is also a Board member of the Arizona Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics. She serves as Board secretary of Live Theatre Workshop, a nonprofit that produces diverse and accessible theatre and theatre education for the Tucson community.
The Gold Foundation is a nonprofit organization that champions humanism in healthcare. For more than 30 years, the foundation has worked to foster kind, safe, trustworthy care care by engaging medical schools, health systems, companies and individual clinicians around the world. The foundation created the now iconic White Coat Ceremony, which marks the start of training by emphasizing the importance of humanistic care, and the Gold Humanism Honor Society, which has about 50,000 members.
