IN THIS ISSUE

  • Nominate a foreign-born leader of humanism for the 2022 Vilcek-Gold Award
  • 2020 Pearl Birnbaum Hurwitz Award Ceremony honors Hoonani (Nani) Cuadrado
  • New Gold Human InSight Webinar: “Clinicians’ Perceptions & Healthcare Disparities for People with Disability”
  • Henry Schein CEO Stan Bergman shares reflections on White Coat Ceremony
  • Two opportunities to be part of the 2022 Gold conference, hosted by GHHS
  • New benefit for Gold Partners Council: Large-scale fine art prints in your institution
  • November-December edition of Research Roundup features 11 studies
  • Gold Foundation bookshop is now open
  • Register for a Mindful Practice workshop in 2022
Do you know a foreign-born leader who has made an extraordinary impact on humanism in healthcare in America?

Nominate them today for the 2022 Vilcek-Gold Award for Humanism in Healthcare, a joint honor from the Gold and Vilcek foundations. The award, which includes a cash prize of $10,000, is presented at the AAMC Annual Meeting.

Deadline: Jan. 24, 2022
This special virtual ceremony celebrates Hoonani (Nani) Cuadrado, 2020 recipient of the Gold Foundation’s Pearl Birnbaum Hurwitz Humanism in Healthcare Award. Ms. Cuadrado, Director of Valley Health Partners (VHP) Street Medicine in Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania, is a leader in street medicine & human trafficking prevention and survivor ally. The video presentation also includes Gold Foundation President and CEO Dr. Richard I. Levin, benefactor Dr. Ron Arky, and Pearl’s daughter, Julie Seelig.

A wonderful “Advocacy & Grassroots Change” session at the 2021 Humanism & Healing Conference follows their remarks, which features five Pearl Birnbaum Hurwitz Award honorees in conversation - Veda Johnson, MD, Nancy Oriol, MD, Dinali Fernando, MD, Mardge Cohen, MD, and our 2020 honoree, Nani Cuadrado, PA. These remarkable women share how they identified a problem within healthcare for at risk populations and successfully advocated for change.
As we wake to a deeper understanding of disparities in our society, Dr. Lisa Iezzoni’s recently published study of what physicians believe and perceive about people with disabilities is eye-opening. In this powerful fireside chat, Dr. Iezzoni and Marcus Engel, M.S. Narrative Medicine, discuss their experiences and Dr. Iezzoni’s findings that over 80% of physicians surveyed hold negative bias about the quality of life of patients with disabilities. This fireside chat offers a greater depth of introspection into how we can offer more humanitarian treatment, beginning with our very own perceptions. 
Stan Bergman, Chairman and CEO of Henry Schein, a Gold Corporate Council member, gave an inspiring keynote address based on "10 Life Lessons" at the White Coat Ceremony of New York Institute of Technology College of Osteopathic Medicine, which is a Gold Partners Council member.

In a new essay sparked by that White Coat Ceremony experience, Mr. Bergman reflects on the global pandemic and its role in highlighting the importance of the human connection in healthcare. The essay was cross-published on both the Gold Foundation website and Mr. Bergman's popular LinkedIn webpage.
We are busy already planning for the next Gold conference, which will be held virtually in May 2022. Would you like to present or be involved in the event? Here are two opportunities.

1) Do you have a wellness-related project you recently implemented at your institution?

For a conference panel session, the GHHS Wellness Committee is seeking projects that work toward changing the culture of wellness in medicine. If you would like to share your work on a project that addresses the physical, social, or emotional wellbeing of any community of healthcare professionals, please complete this form by Feb. 15, 2022

2) Are you interested in helping facilitate a workshop on grief at our May 2022 conference?

Kat Hurley, LMSW, APHSW-C, a Palliative Care Social Worker at Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital of New York-Presbyterian, will lead a session of GHHS members and the larger Gold community in an interactive workshop where participants in small, intimate groups will be prompted to reflect, write, and share individual reflections and discover personally useful coping tools they can draw on in the future. If you are interested in collaborating with Kat Hurley to create the session or serve as a facilitator, please complete this form.
We are delighted to announce that Dr. Harry Agress Jr., a retired radiologist and now professional photographer, is generously donating large-scale fine art prints of his photographs to select Gold Partners Council hospitals and healthcare institutions. The photographs provide solace for patients, families, and staff alike.

Gold Partners Council members at the Hippocrates and Blackwell levels are invited to select one or more photographs for display in patient areas, at no charge.­ The only expense is for the hospital to hang the photograph. This is a generous new benefit created in partnership with Dr. Agress, and we encourage Hippocrates and Blackwell-level members to contact Chief Development Officer Stuart Chizzik at schizzik@gold-foundation.org to begin the process.

Read the full announcement and a Q&A with Dr. Agress.
The latest edition of the Jeffrey Silver Humanism in Healthcare Research Roundup features 11 recently published papers on humanism in healthcare, compiled by Dr. Bharat Kumar.

These papers tackle important questions, including:

  1. Is physician implicit bias associated with differences in care by patient race for metastatic cancer-related pain?
  2. What is an innovative approach for integrating mandatory, longitudinal spirituality training into the medical school curriculum?

Glance through previous 2021 Jeffrey Silver Humanism in Healthcare Research Roundups, edited and compiled by Dr. Kumar.

The Gold Foundation is excited to announce that the books on our annual Summer Reading Lists for Compassionate Clinicians are now available to order through a Gold Foundation Bookstore on Bookshop.org. 10 percent of every purchase from that bookstore goes to support the nonprofit Gold Foundation, and a matching 10 percent goes to independent bookstores. 

Curious about Mindful Practice? Mindful Practice co-founders Dr. Ron Epstein and Dr. Mick Krasner invite you to attend a 3.5-hour introduction to Mindful Practice on Jan. 22 or March 12, or a longer, three-day virtual retreat Feb. 2-5. Use the code GOLD0421 for 5% off.


Wishing you could bring Dr. Epstein and Dr. Krasner to your institution? You can! The Gold Foundation helps facilitate workshops for our Gold Partners Council institutions. Reach out to Pia Pyne Miller, MPH, Senior Director of Strategy and Business Development, for more information at pmiller@gold-foundation.org.
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