The Vilcek-Gold Award for Humanism in Healthcare is presented at Learn Serve Lead: The AAMC Annual Meeting, where the recipient also presents as part of the Voices of Medicine & Society lecture series. The Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) has been a champion for immigrant physicians and their contributions to academic medicine.
2023 AAMC Learn Serve Lead Conference
Dr. Maria Elena Bottazzi will lead a session of the AAMC Learn Serve Lead conference in November 2023 in Seattle, Washington. You must be registered for the conference to attend this session. Learn more and register here.
Past presentations at Learn Serve Lead
In 2022, Dr. Mona Fouad shared her story of training in an underserved, rural town outside of Alexandria, Egypt, which opened her eyes to what she would later know as the social determinants of health, leading to her contributions to health disparities research in and around Birmingham, Alabama. Read more about her lecture here.
In 2019, Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha shared her story as part of the Voices in Medicine and Society lecture series during Learn Serve Lead. To learn more about Dr. Hanna-Attisha’s lecture, click here.
In 2020, Dr. Vivek Murthy was presented the Vilcek-Gold Award at the AAMC Learn Serve Lead and then engaged in a wide-ranging conversation with Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha. Watch here: