Humanism and Medicine Lecture at the Annual Meeting of the AAMC

With support from the Healthcare Foundation of New Jersey, the Gold Foundation sponsors a lecture on humanism and medicine each year at the annual meeting of the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC). Prominent medical educators are invited to speak on a topic related to humanism and medicine.

Boston University School of Medicine

2009
Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, M.D., M.B.A.
President and CEO, The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Transforming Healthcare for the Betterment of Patients

2008
Samuel Shem, M.D. (pen-name of Stephen Bergman, M.D., Ph.D.)
Harvard Medical School faculty for 35 years
Author, The House of God and The Spirit of the Place
Staying Human: The House of God and The Spirit of the Place

2007
Jerome Groopman, M.D.
Recanati Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Chief of Experimental Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Author, How Doctors Think
How Doctors Think

2006
Jerry Avorn, M.D.
Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Chief, Division of Pharmacoepidemiology & Pharmacoeconomics, Brigham & Women's Hospital
Author, Powerful Medicines
The Sacred Act of Prescribing: Humanism Welded to Science

2005
Abraham Verghese, M.D.
Joaquin Cigarroa Jr. Chair and Marvin Forland Distinguished Professor,
Director, Center for Medical Humanities and Ethics
The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
In Search of the Medical in Medical Humanities

2004
Rachel Naomi Remen, M.D.
Director
Institute for the Study of Health and Illness
Professor, University of California - San Francisco School of Medicine
The Search for Compassion and Meaning in Medicine

2003
Kenneth I. Shine, M.D.
Director
Rand Center for Domestic and International Health Security
Former President, the Institute of Medicine
Medical Education: Knowing and Understanding Patients

2002
David Leach, M.D.
Executive Director
The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME)
The Power of Community in Academic Medicine

2001
Daniel Federman, M.D.
Senior Dean for Alumni Relations and Clinical Teaching
Harvard Medical School
A Humanistic Ethic for Medical Education

2000
Edward Hundert, M.D.
Dean, School of Medicine & Dentistry
Professor of Psychiatry & Medical Humanities
University of Rochester School of Medicine & Dentistry
Humanism, Mentoring and The Golden Rule