The Arnold P. Gold Foundation

03/11/2026

We are hiring! The Gold Humanism Honor Society (GHHS) is seeking a highly organized, detail‑driven Program Coordinator to support national GHHS programming, chapter engagement, communications, and day‑to‑day operations. This role is ideal for someone who thrives in a mission‑driven environment, communicates beautifully, and enjoys keeping complex programs running smoothly.

Job Type: Full-Time
Location: Hybrid / Fort Lee, NJ

Learn more: https://www.gold-foundation.org/about-us/careers-2/

02/17/2026

We are now accepting applications for a 2026/2027 Gold Humanism Scholar at the Harvard Macy Institute Program for Educators!

The Gold Foundation will provide partial funding of $5,000 to this highly interactive faculty development program. We are seeking a medical or nursing educator whose work helps develop or evaluate educational projects that support humanistic patient care.

This is a blended program: one week virtual (October), monthly continuity sessions, one week in-person at Harvard (May).

Deadline for Gold applications: April 6, 11:59 p.m. PT.

Please pass this opportunity on to your medical and nursing faculty colleagues!

https://www.gold-foundation.org/programs/gold-humanism-scholars-harvard-macy/

02/05/2026

Wonderful message from Dr. Mill Etienne, the 2025 recipient of the Arnold P. Gold Foundation Humanism in Healthcare Award at the AAMC. Thank you to Dr. Etienne and AAMC!

12/23/2025

Some moments in medicine stay with you forever.
.. a patient who takes an unexpected turn
.. a long walk to deliver life-changing news

What carries physicians, nurses, and healthcare professionals through these moments is more than training.

It’s the human connection.

The Gold Foundation helps ensure healthcare professionals have the tools and pathways to sustain themselves and their patients through the hardest moments.

Your support keeps humanism at the center of healthcare.

Give today at https://www.gold-foundation.org/get-involved/donate/ or via Venmo at ArnoldPGoldFoundation

12/09/2025

I felt like a body being tended to. Retreating to my mind was the only autonomy I had. The Arnold P. Gold Foundation

11/13/2025

Think of a moment when kindness made all the difference… for you or for someone you love.

This World Kindness Day, take a moment to remember your why.

Screenshot the image below and set it as your phone wallpaper: a daily reminder that kindness heals.

Your support for the Gold Foundation helps ensure that every caregiver can bring compassion to the bedside — and that the next generation will, too.

Give today at https://www.gold-foundation.org/get-involved/donate/ or via Venmo

11/05/2025

Now out as a podcast episode! Listen to the fascinating conversation with Gunnar Esiason, cystic fibrosis and rare disease patient leader, alongside host Dr. Neda Frayha and Gold President Dr. Kathleen Reeves at the 2025 Gold Humanism Summit — just released as an episode on Hippo Education's Monthly Rounds podcast!

Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or on the Gold website via the link below.

Boomer Esiason Foundation Cystic Fibrosis Foundation University of Maryland School of Medicine

Listen on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. In this special conversation recorded live at the 2025 Gold Humanism Summit in Baltimore, Monthly Rounds podcast host Dr. Neda Frayha interviewed Gunnar Esiason, alongside Gold ... chevron_right Read more

10/17/2025

Why does humanism in healthcare matter? What questions from clinicians help create a humanistic appointment for patients?

Hear Gold Foundation President and CEO Dr. Kathleen Reeves discuss the great impact of humanism in healthcare with host Brian Southwell on The Measure of Everyday Life - WNCU:

Our healthcare system comprises people -- including patients who need help and healthcare professionals who help them -- and yet our discussions about healthcare in the U.S. often focus on abstract concepts such as financial cost or new technologies. On this episode, we talk with the leader of....

10/17/2025

Congratulations to the students on their White Coat Ceremony, and thank you for your oath to humanistic patient care!

10/17/2025

Congratulations to the new members of the Gold Humanism Honor Society! Thank you for your kind, safe, trustworthy patient care, and thank you to the Healthcare Foundation of New Jersey for your support!

On Wednesday, October 1, the Healthcare Foundation of NJ Center for Humanism and Medicine hosted the Gold Humanism Honor Society (GHHS) Induction Ceremony for the NJMS Class of 2026. Student inductees are selected by their peers as being exemplars of compassionate care, clinical excellence, and humanism in their practice of medicine. Congratulations to all new inductees!

08/14/2025

We at the Gold Foundation were saddened to hear about recent passing of Leonard Tow, philanthropist, great champion of humanism in healthcare, and beloved friend of our co-founders, Drs. Arnold and Sandra Gold. Dr. Tow died Sunday at age 97.

Dr. Tow believed deeply in the power of medicine and science, as well as education and the arts. Thanks to his vision and generosity through The Tow Foundation, hundreds of humanistic physicians have been recognized with the Leonard Tow Humanism in Medicine Award. More than a hundred medical schools bestow this award as their highest recognition of humanism.

Here are a few of the sentiments we heard when we asked honorees what the Tow Award meant to them:

"Receiving the Leonard Tow Humanism in Medicine Award was very meaningful. I received it during my first year as a faculty member. It signaled to me that, despite my imposter syndrome, I was on the right track and connected me to a network of like-minded physicians and physicians in training. I'm so grateful for Dr. Tow's legacy." - Dr. Erin Miller

"One of my proudest moments was to receive the Leonard Tow Humanism in Medicine Award at the Medical College of Wisconsin! It was such an honor to be recognized for what I cherish most in patient care. Humans caring for humans. His legacy will surely live on in all our hearts." - Dr. Wendy Peltier

We are grateful to Dr. Tow for his support of humanism in healthcare and the Gold Foundation, and we send our deepest condolences to his family, friends, and colleagues.

(Pictured below: dear friends Leonard Tow and Sandra Gold)