IN THIS ISSUE

  • Gold Trustee Dr. Kimberly Manning will host the Annual Gala on June 10
  • Nurse Felicia Temple will perform at the Annual Gala
  • Gala sponsorships and tickets are now available
  • Watch a new Gold Human InSight Webinar with 2 nursing leaders on resilience
  • Check out the amazing speakers at the 2021 Humanism & Healing Conference
  • Enter to win a Gold mask that reads "Behind this mask is a person who cares"
  • Going to the AACOM conference? Don't miss the GHHS session
  • Sign up to attend the International Nurses Day virtual celebration on May 14
  • Watch video of "Black In the Ivory: Writers Confront Racism" co-hosted with BLR
  • Research Roundup: 9 recently published studies on humanism in healthcare
  • Cultivate your attention in the next Mindful Practice retreat-like online workshop
  • The Patient & the Practitioner in the Age of Technology series continues
  • Bonus: 5 links we recommend
The Arnold P. Gold Foundation is thrilled to announce that the host for our Annual Gala on June 10th will be Gold Trustee Dr. Kimberly Manning, a spectacular champion of humanism in healthcare who has been a national advocate for a deeper understanding of vaccine deliberation throughout the pandemic. Dr. Manning is a general internist/hospitalist at Grady Memorial Hospital and Associate Vice Chair of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion for the Department of Medicine at Emory University School of Medicine, where she is a Professor of Medicine and residency program director. Follow her and her wonderful stories of humanism in action at @gradydoctor on Twitter.
And there's more! We are also excited to share that Registered Nurse Felicia Temple will be performing at the Annual Gala. Ms.Temple’s music has that magical quality that only reveals itself after overcoming years of hardship. A cancer survivor and Registered Nurse who went on to work in the ICU during the depths of the Covid-19 crisis, her powerful story has endeared her to fans around the world.

Along with Dr. Manning and Ms. Temple, the Annual Gala will be honoring hundreds of additional healthcare professionals for their immense contributions to humanistic care during the COVID-19 crisis. And, as we've announced earlier, the Gold Foundation will also bestow the National Humanism in Medicine Medals to three titans of humanism in healthcare for their decades of leadership supporting compassionate, collaborative, scientifically excellent care: Dr. Anthony Fauci, Dr. Wayne Riley, and Dr. Eric Topol. Read more in our medal announcement.
Learn more about the Annual Gala and reserve your sponsorship or tickets today.
The Humanism & Healing Conference: Structural Racism & Its Impact on Medicine, hosted by GHHS, has an amazing and growing lineup of speakers, including Dr. Quinn Capers, New York Times bestselling author Dr. Michele Harper, NYU Rory Meyers School of Nursing Dr. Eileen Sullivan-Marx, and Howard University College of Nursing and Allied Health Sciences Dean Gina S. Brown. In addition, there will be a Virtual Poster Hall, a Virtual Art Gallery, a live Clinical Improv session, and a screening of Black Men in White Coats. Plus, many incredible projects from Gold Humanism Honor Society chapters and panel discussions. This is just a small sampling!

Artists are welcome to exhibit their work in the Virtual Art Gallery. Learn more and submit your application here.

The LIVE sessions will be May 6, 7, 8 from 11:45 a.m. EDT, wrapping up around 7 or 8 p.m. EDT. Please mark your calendar and join us! Prerecorded videos will also be available to watch at your convenience April 26 to May 10.

Look for an email soon that announces the opening of registration! General registration will be $100. Students and residents will have a special price of $5.
From top left, Gold Trustee Dr. Kimberly Manning, Tell Me More champion Dr. Taranjeet Ahuja, Gold Foundation President/CEO Dr. Richard I. Levin, and Humanism in Health & Healthcare Course instructor Dr. Hedy Wald.
On March 11, the one-year anniversary of the global pandemic, the Gold Foundation recognized the care and compassion shown throughout this long crisis with new face masks that read, "Behind this mask is a person who cares." Many thanks to William Kassing for his generous donation, which allowed these masks and this humanism initiative to be possible, and to Gold Trustee Dr. Kimberly Manning, who coined #humanismalways.

We invite you to join us in sharing stories on social media that illustrate the caring you've experienced or shared "behind the mask,." Please use the hashtag #humanismalways and tag the Gold Foundation. Later this spring, we'll be selling the mask in our forthcoming online store. If you’d like to be notified when the masks are available to buy, please fill out this form.
Finally, we will be giving away 10 masks to our wonderful humanistic readers of News & Notes! For a chance to win a mask, click here.
In the current environment of a global pandemic and national social unrest, resilience is needed to face the challenges of daily life. In this Gold Human InSight Webinar fireside chat, Dr. Cynthia Sweeney of The DAISY Foundation and Dr. Cynda Hylton Rushton of Johns Hopkins University examined the issues nurses face on the front line of care, as witnesses to a dynamic and often chaotic environment for practice. They explored how various dimensions of resilience can be resources to meet the challenges of their everyday practice and how meaningful recognition of extraordinary compassionate care delivered in this environment fuels and leverages resilience. This webinar was taped on March 2 and the recording is now available.
The Gold Human InSight Webinars are virtual innovative sessions that the Gold Foundation has hosted with its wonderful partners in humanism. The 2020-2021 theme is “Care, Compassion, and Collaboration during the Dual Pandemics.” If you are interested in collaborating with the Gold Foundation on a webinar, please contact Host Pia Pyne Miller, MPH, Senior Director for Strategy and Business Development, at pmiller@gold-foundation.org
Leaders of DO schools: Do you have a GHHS chapter? Learn more at a GHHS session at AACOM conference
Are you interested in learning how to advocate for health, equity, and inclusion, serve health communities, develop faculty for the future, or care for the carers? If so, be sure to register for the AACOM's annual conference, Educating Leaders. With nearly 80 sessions and 200 presenters, this virtual conference has something for everyone. Get ready to delve deep about race in medicine, interpersonal connections, and COVID-19.

The representatives from Gold Humanism Honor Society will presenting on April 21 in a session titled "The Gold Humanism Honor Society: Identifying the Next Generation of Leaders in Humanism." Two GHHS Chapter Advisors and one GHHS student leader from osteopathic medical schools will share how to establish a successful GHHS chapter and inspire the next generation of leaders in humanism.

Learn more about Educating Leaders 2021: The AACOM Annual Conference, hosted by AACOM.
Celebrate the vast impact of nurses on May 14 from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. EDT when Nurses With Global Impact, founded by Gold Trustee Deb O'Hara-Rusckowski, hosts its annual awards celebration event. The Gold Foundation is proud to sponsor this event again, as well as to have nominated one of the honorees, Dr. Cathy Miller, a nursing leader who has worked with anti-human trafficking organizations for more than a decade. Registration is $75 and all registration fee proceeds will be donated to train more healthcare professionals about identifying and combating human trafficking. Elissa Ladd, PhD, RN, FNP‐BC, Associate Professor MGH Institute of Health Professionals, will speak on “Nurses on the Front Line." Author Jenna McKaye, who founded the Jenna McKaye Foundation after overcoming the pain & trauma of being sex trafficked, will tell her story. Participants who attend the entire event will be awarded 2.0 contact hours. Registration closes May 7. Learn more about International Nurses Day Virtual Celebration.
The Bellevue Literary Review and the Gold Foundation brought together six physician-writers on for an exploration of how writing can – or cannot – confront racism in academia and healthcare. The conversation was moderated by Dr. Damon Tweedy, incoming BLR Nonfiction Editor, and Dr. Danielle Ofri, BLR Editor-in-Chief. The event, which included Drs. Michele Harper, Kevin Gutierrez, Esther Choo, and Ofole Mgbako, was live in February, and the recording is now available to watch.
The latest edition of Jeffrey Silver Humanism in Healthcare Research Roundup features 9 recently published papers on humanism in healthcare

These papers tackle important topics, including:

  1. Can clear masks help improve communication between patients and physicians?
  2. What are the lived experiences of Latinx individuals who have survived COVID-19?
  3. How well-represented are women on National Institutes of Health study sections, which determine grant awards and scientific agendas?


If you would like to receive an email alert when future Research Roundups are published, please sign up here.
Mindful Practice co-founders Dr. Ron Epstein and Dr. Mick Krasner have shifted their transformative workshops online. The next Mindful Practice Workshop will be held Wednesday, April 28, through Saturday, May 1. Sessions begin 9 a.m. and run till 5:30 p.m. EST. Download a brochure about the workshop. Early bird pricing ends April 10.

This retreat-like workshop is designed to improve the quality of care that clinicians provide while improving their own resilience and well-being. It offers an experiential learning environment, with a focus on developing the capacity for self-awareness in stressful and demanding situations. No prior experience is required; however, experience with meditation or other contemplative practices is desirable.
Join The Alpert Medical School for a virtual conference series on the impact of the electronic healthcare record and health information technologies on the patient-practitioner relationship. The conference is led in part by Dr. Elizabeth Toll, a GHHS Advisory Council Member, Gold grantee and long-time supporter.

The fifth of five sessions, "Working with Governments, Institutions, & Stakeholders to Support Healing Relationships & Human Capitol; Ethical Stewardship of Shared Data," will be held on May 7. CME credits are available.

Still reading? A bonus for you: 5 links we recommend
[1] "Combating Anti-Asian Sentiment — A Practical Guide for Clinicians" by Dr. James H. Lee in The New England Journal of Medicine | Read

[2] "You Are Med," a new podcast from GHHS member Gisel Bello, a Brown medical student, a "re-affirmation that yes URM, you belong here" | Listen

[3] "COVID-19 Vaccine And The Black Community: A Tyler Perry Special" with Gold Trustee Dr. Kimberly Manning & Dr. Carlos del Rio | Watch

[4] "Finding Space for Reflections" by Ian Sabroe and Dr. Lottie Corr in Commentary, published by the Royal College of Physicians | Read

[5] Dr. Geoff Stetson & Dr. Jennifer Spicer have teamed up as #MedEdTwagTeam on Twitter to offer super practical mini lessons on Tuesdays; a recent one focused on how to give feedback to a "struggling learner" (first tip: Don't use that term!) | Read

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