New CEO/President at TheArnold P. Gold Foundation

Richard I. Levin, MDhas been selected as thefirst external Presidentand CEO of the GoldFoundation. Aninternationally recognizedphysician scientist,scholar, cardiologist andeducator, Dr. Levin has aremarkable range of

experience leading academic medicalinstitutions in the joint missions of education,research, patient care and advocacy, andvoluntary health organizations in program andphilanthropic development. (Bio)

ABOUT BIENNIAL CONFERENCE 2012➢ Idea from Biennial Turned Into Something Much LargerDr. Pedro “Joe” Greer, Jr., MD, recipient of the MacArthur “Genius” Fellowshipand awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Obama,reminded the audience at the 5th GHHS biennial conference that we can andare obliged to make the world a better place. Why? Because someone has to!Because you are a physician! Because the bar must be set as high as possible!

GHHSmembers at NYMC seized Greer’s idea and raised the bar higher!Originally, New York Medical College’s (NYMC) GHHS chapter planned to collectmini toiletries from 4th-year medical students’ residency interview travels anddonate to a local homeless shelter. Mini, unused toiletries are perfect for thehomeless who often need to carry all of their belongings. But when the Northeastwas battered by Hurricane Sandy, they raised the bar by joining together asprofessionals and reaching out to their entire community to participate in their“Spreading Hope with Soap” campaign. Not only did they gather soap, shampoo,toothpaste, razors, and other toiletries, they collected winter clothing, blankets,candles, flashlights, batteries, and diapers to help Westchester County Center andMetropolitan Hospital with their local relief efforts.

➢ Recent Rush GHHS Graduates Invited to HoldSelf-Reflection Workshop at Biennial

During 2012, the Rush Medical College chapter of GHHS initiated an evening ofmedical student self-reflection, allowing students to discuss experiences with“non-humanistic” behavior and personally challenging encounters.

Open to all third year medical students, the GHHS chapter invited students toparticipate in an evening of reflection on their first year of clinical experiences.In a small group setting, GHHS members and fourth year student volunteers ledall participants through the NEJM “Into the Water” article which discusses theeffect clinical clerkships have on medical student professional development.Students shared situations of inappropriate behavior exhibited by senior teammembers’ concern over patient/team member treatment as well as rewardingexperiences. Group discussion focused on how to voice concern regarding non-humanistic behavior and student coping strategies.

Feedback on the sesson was overwhelmingly positive and the institutionresponded immediately to the feedback by integrating regular self-reflectionsessions into medical student curriculum and instituting a multi-modelreporting system for inappropriate behavior.

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Maria C. Savoia, MD — GHHS National ChairJacqueline A. Mintz, PhD — Executive Dir.Norma Wagoner, PhD — Dir. Emerita

Harriet Turner — Program AssociateMichele Silver — Program AssistantContact us: GHHS@gold-foundation.org

P: 201-567-7999 Ext. 13F: 201-567-7880

VOLUME XVI, FALL 2012

What do we want?Compassionate patient care!

When do we want it?

NOW!GHHS SOLIDARITY DAY

FEBRUARY 14, 2013Solidarity Day buttons sent on request withsubmission of your activity and distributionplan. Watch for further instructions.

Resident and Advisory Council member LaurenSteele encourages all to organize a SolidarityDay event citing two examples:· hosting a speaker to talk about humanism· spending an extra five minutes with patients

For other events visitwww.humanism-in-medicine.org/ghhs

CongratulationsBilly Ballard, MD, DDS (GHHS 2004 MeharryMedical College) received the National MedicalAssociation’s Scroll of Merit award during the2011 NMA Annual Convention & ScientificAssembly in Washington, DC.

Amy J. Kreykes, MD (GHHS 2011 U Colorado-Denver) received the 2012 Doctoring Award “inrecognition of a senior (medical student) whohas written an outstanding student narrativecapturing the values of compassion, humanityand respect…”

Aaron McGuffin, MD (GHHS 2000 Marshall U)became a reviewer for Academic Medicinethis year.

Wayne J. Riley, MD, MPH, MBA, MACP (GHHS2011 Meharry Medical College) has been electedto the Institute of Medicine, one of the highesthonors in the fields of health and medicinerecognizing individuals who have demonstratedoutstanding professional achievement andcommitment to service.

Darshana Shah, PhD (GHHS 2012 Marshall U) hasbeen selected to participate on the Associationof American Medical Colleges Group on Womenin Medicine & Science CommunicationsSubcommittee.

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About Biennial Conference 2012An effort was spearheaded to create a new standing committee at Rushdesigned to advocate for humanism in medicine and provide students with asafe environment to report mistreatment. It is composed of M1-M4s as well asfaculty dedicated to keep lines of communication open. The hope is that thiscommittee will provide a blueprint for other colleges.

➢ A Biennial Roundtable Discussion:Radio Rounds, Wright State U Boonshoft SOM

Stories, traditionally, are structured with a beginning, a middle, and an end. Inmedicine, though, where patients' and physicians' stories convey the humanisticfoundation of the profession, those stories are instead ongoing, limitless, andalways evolving. We created and launched "Radio Rounds," a medical-studentrun radio program that shares stories from patients, physicians, authors, andleaders in healthcare, e.g., a spinal surgeon battling his own paralysis, the storyof a physician describing the personal grief he witnessed in Haiti following theirdevastating 2010 earthquake. The show has grown to air on a local NPR affiliatestation and to produce free iTunes podcasts of every episode.

Radio Rounds airs weekly on www.RadioRounds.org and on select radiostations. It is a not-for-profit organization aiming to offer a fresh, unique voiceto the jumbled cacophony of voices within health care media. Each episodefeatures medical students and young physicians engaged in a conversation witha special guest. Past guests include social activist Patch Adams, Pulitzer Prizewinning author Tracy Kidder, and iconic novelist Samuel Shem. We share ourepisodes for free, on iTunes and on our website where we encourage interactionwith our listeners. Themes explored on Radio Rounds include global health, healthcare policy, technology in medicine, and many more, but the underlying theme is"humanism in medicine" -- another intangible that we strive to make tangible bythe words of the stories we share and the memories we create. Radio Rounds aimsto add an extra dimension beyond classroom learning to blend our professionalgrowth as physicians with our personal growth as human beings.

Over 100 stories have aired since April 2009, ranging from an episode featuring asurgeon's emotional war-time stories in Iraq to a child's heartbreaking battle withterminal illness. Health care is, after all, delivered and experienced throughdiverse prisms of experience provided by individuals from all walks of life. And inexploring story after story, our enthusiasm for medicine has changed only in thatit has been made stronger by enhancing our capacity for empathy and forunderstanding the core values that led us to this profession in the first place.Nothing is more intrinsically human than a story. Through the lens of tomorrow's

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Gold Humanism Honor SocietyInductee at AAMC Meeting

Chin-To Fong, MD, Associate Professor inthe Department of Pediatrics at theUniversity of Rochester SOM and Dentistryand Chief of the Division of Genetics atGolisano Children’s Hospital of RochesterMedical Center, was honored as this year’srecipient of The Arnold P. Gold FoundationHumanism in Medicine Award. Selected bythe Organization of StudentRepresentatives for exemplifying thequalities of a compassionate doctor andmentor, Dr. Fong spoke eloquently at theOSR luncheon co-sponsored by AAMC andThe Arnold P. Gold Foundation. Hismessage to students was to think moreabout being a good doctor than about thegoal of self-achievement. “Patients remainour teachers and true heroes.”

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Celebrating 10 Years of GHHS at the biennial was icing on the cake

Resident Chapter Pilots Take OffAfter more than a year of planning and preparation, GHHS selected ten

institutions to pilot our newest program: resident chapters. In 2011, a task forcededicated to promote residents’ voices in GHHS described the mission ofresident chapters: to foster residents’ and fellows’ sense of community andhumanism in the workplace, to nurture members’ wellness, and to providecontinuity of experience for those selected into GHHS as medical students.

In early 2012, the Task Force embarked on a pilot program and received aheartening number of enthusiastic proposals for resident chapters of GHHS. Inselecting the pilot chapters, the Task Force looked to support a diversity ofinstitutions including those where medical school chapters of GHHS exist, thoseaffiliated with medical schools where there are not yet medical school chapterspresent, and those that are based at hospitals with multiple academic affiliations.

The pilot chapters include:• Baylor College of Medicine• Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (Harvard)• University at Buffalo (SUNY)• University Hospitals Case Medical Center• University of Colorado-Denver• George Washington University• Kaiser Permanente Northern California• New York University• Texas A&M Health Science Center (Scott & White)• Yale New Haven Hospital (Yale University SOM)

Over the academic year, advisors and members from the ten pilot chapters willwork together to adapt GHHS selection processes to the graduate medical educationarena and to define the types of activities that best serve residents throughout theirtraining. At this early phase, we are already hearing of plans for resident wellnessprograms, institutional Grand Rounds focusing on humanistic doctoring, community-building programs and even apps to enhance patient-centered care!

We anticipate that when the pilot concludes, we will be able to extend theopportunity to form resident chapters to more institutions across the country.

Our deep appreciation to the Resident Task Force Members - JonathanAmiel (Chair), Rosemarie Fisher, Laura Kenkel, James Sargent, Fred Schiffman,Scott Shaffer and Stuart Slavin.

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About Biennial Conference 2012doctors, we are then left to explore thosecountless stories, which we plan to share everyweek on Radio Rounds, undefined entirely bythose traditional parameters of a beginning, amiddle, and an end. ~ Lakshman Swamy

For further information:lswamy@radiorounds.org

www.radiorounds.orgTwitter: @RadioRounds

➢ Healing on the Way HomeFor Howard Silverman, MD, Arizona U-Phoenix, theflight home from the biennial was a mystical event.

An announcement was made for a physician tohelp a passenger who felt light-headed. Ievaluated her BP, pulse; everything was fine.I sat next to her and we chatted. The womanhad received chemotherapy in Chicagothe day before for ovarian cancer.(My mother died of ovarian cancer.)After the conversation, she said she felt fine.Somehow, all of the humanistic energy fromthe conference had flowed forth through meand truth be told, it was I who felt healed.

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A Pre-Holiday GiftA limited number of DVDs of theaward-winning off-Broadway playBill W and Dr. Bob, which tells thestory of the relationship between twomen that led to the founding ofAlcoholics Anonymous, are availableon a first come-first serve basis.A great success story about thesuffering of isolation and the healingpower of good connections.

Submit a grant proposal for aviewing of the film and we’ll

fund refreshments for the event.See Grants on our website forguidelines.

IMPORTANT:Chapter Advisors please advise usof any changes to your contactinformation.

Biennial Conference 2012

Thank you to the sponsors of the 5th GHHS Biennial ConferenceJosiah Macy, Jr. Foundation • American Hospital Association • The Adler Aphasia Center • American Association of Colleges of OsteopathicMedicine (AACOM) • Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) • American Academy of Pediatrics • American Board of OrthopedicSurgery • Massachusetts Medical Society • S. Parker Hardware Mfg. Corp. • American Board of Internal Medicine Foundation (ABIM)• Richard T. Sarkin M.D. Foundation for Medical Education • Ronald A. Arky, M.D. • Anthony J. Silvagni, D.O. • Howard Part, M.D. • Paul B.Roth, M.D. • Elliot J. Sussman, M.D. • Peter W. Carmel, M.D. and Jacqueline A. Bello, M.D. • Paul J. Carniol, M.D. • James A. Clever, M.D. andLinda Hawes Clever, M.D. • Michael H. Cohen, M.D. • Dorothy Levine, M.D. and Alvin Rosenfeld, M.D. • John M. Lorenz, M.D. • Walter J.Molofsky, M.D. • Donna L. Moreau, M.D. • Gary D. Ri5in, M.D. • Kirk L. Smith, M.D. •Joseph Tenenbaum, M.D. • Myron L. Weisfeldt, M.D.• Harvey L. Hecht, M.D. and Gail E. Solomon Hecht, M.D. • Jack G. Shiller, M.D. • Harvey Strauss, DPM • Jack H. Vitenson, M.D.