The Gold Connection: A GHHS Podcast The Arnold P. Gold Foundation

In this next conversation in our Gold Student Summer Fellows series, Gold Assistant Director of Program Initiatives Michelle Sloane interviews Preethi
Reddi, who is a 2022 Gold Student Summer Fellow and a medical student at the Medical College of Georgia. Preethi grew up in rural Iowa, where she
developed a passion for health promotion and advocacy by seeing first-hand the impact healthcare professionals made in her community. As an undergraduate at Emory University, she conducted research through the Grady Trauma Project, which studies the impacts of stress, trauma, and resilience factors on health outcomes. She also spent a summer in London studying the British National Health Service. Preethi hopes to eventually make an impact on community health just like the physicians in her hometown, including her own mom.

Through her research project titled, “A Community-Based Approach to Addressing the Rural Georgia Maternal Health Crisis by Understanding Barriers to Early Antenatal Care,” Preethi surveyed pregnant women in Brunswick, Georgia, a rural coastal community, to learn about barriers to antenatal care. She is working on developing interventions to help alleviate these barriers.

The Gold Connection is produced by the Gold Humanism Honor Society, a program of The Arnold P. Gold Foundation,  a nonprofit that champions humanism in healthcare. On this podcast, we share stories of humanism in action, as well as tools and lessons for students, clinicians, and leaders.

In this next conversation in our Gold Student Summer Fellows series, Gold Assistant Director of Program Initiatives
Michelle Sloane interviews Maylis Basturk, a 2022 Gold Student Summer Fellow and medical student at Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California. Before medical school, she worked as a lab technician in a Drosophila lab at Columbia University Irving Medical Center and as a Research Associate at the Silicon Valley genetic testing startup company Color Health. Maylis's research and clinical interests include examining the intersection of chronic health conditions and incarceration at Los Angeles County Jail and developing patient education interventions.

Through her service project, titled “Keck Transitions in Health: Creating Patient Education Tools for Self-Management Workshops to Improve Health Outcomes in People Experiencing Incarceration and Chronic Health Conditions in Los Angeles," Maylis designed a community needs assessment to develop self-management workshops for justice-involved individuals experiencing type II diabetes and hypertension.


The Gold Connection is produced by the Gold Humanism Honor Society, a program of The Arnold P. Gold Foundation,  a nonprofit that champions humanism in healthcare. On this podcast, we share stories of humanism in action, as well as tools and lessons for students, clinicians, and leaders.

In this next conversation in our Gold Student Summer Fellows series, Gold Assistant Director of Program Initiatives Michelle Sloane interviews Mollie Marr, who is a 2022 Gold Student Summer Fellow and medical student in the Medical Scientist Training Program at the Oregon Health & Sciences University School of Medicine. at Oregon Health & Science University. Her PhD is in Behavioral and Systems Neuroscience, and her dissertation examined the intergenerational transmission of childhood maltreatment. She plans to be a child and adolescent psychiatrist.

Through her service project, titled “Creating a care pathway for children and adolescents presenting with self-harm or suicidality,” Mollie created and piloted a vast array of resources for youth in acute care settings. In collaboration with a team from social work, nursing, and child and adolescent psychiatry, along with input from patients themselves, Mollie developed psychoeducational materials, individualized trauma-informed plans, therapeutic interventions including motor breaks, and staff training materials, each geared to support adolescents, their families, and an interprofessional team of caregivers.

The Gold Connection is produced by the Gold Humanism Honor Society, a program of The Arnold P. Gold Foundation,  a nonprofit that champions humanism in healthcare. On this podcast, we share stories of humanism in action, as well as tools and lessons for students, clinicians, and leaders.

This  episode continues a series of conversations with winners of the Gold  Foundation's Hope Babette Tang Humanism in Healthcare Essay Contest. Molly Fessler, who won second place for nursing students students in the 2022 contest,  reads her essay, "Every Patient After." That reading is followed by a conversation with Molly and Gold Foundation Editor in Chief Brianne Alcala, exploring the writing process. Molly is a four-year student at the University of Michigan Medical School and a member of the Gold Humanism Honor Society.

Extra thanks to the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC)  and the Academic Medicine podcast for sharing Molly's reading of her  essay. All winning Hope Babette Tang Humanism in Healthcare Essay  Contest are published in both Academic Medicine, the journal of AAMC,  and the Journal of Professional Nursing, published by the American  Association of Colleges of Nursing.

Dr. Hope Babette Tang-Goodwin, the namesake of our essay contest, was  an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, whose devotion to the care of the  children and infants with HIV infection in New York City was an  inspiration to her colleagues and her students. Her approach to medicine  combined a boundless enthusiasm for her work, intellectual rigor, and  deep compassion for her patients. In sum, Dr. Tang-Goodwin was an  exemplar of excellent, compassionate, and respectful patient care.

The Gold Connection is produced by the Gold Humanism Honor Society, a program of The Arnold P. Gold Foundation,  a nonprofit that champions humanism in healthcare. On this podcast, we  share stories of humanism in action, as well as tools and lessons for  students, clinicians, and leaders.

This episode continues a series of conversations with winners of the Gold Foundation's Hope Babette Tang Humanism in Healthcare Essay Contest. Jessica Pierce, who won first place for nursing students students in the 2022 contest, reads her winning essay, "As the Sun Sets." That reading is followed by a conversation with Jessica and Gold Foundation Editor in Chief Brianne Alcala, exploring the writing process. Jessica is pursuing her doctoral degree in Nurse Anesthesia at Oregon Health & Science University.

Extra thanks to the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) and the Academic Medicine podcast for sharing Jessica's reading of her essay. All winning Hope Babette Tang Humanism in Healthcare Essay Contest are published in both Academic Medicine, the journal of AAMC, and the Journal of Professional Nursing, published by the American Association of Colleges of Nursing.

Dr. Hope Babette Tang-Goodwin, the namesake of our essay contest, was an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, whose devotion to the care of the children and infants with HIV infection in New York City was an inspiration to her colleagues and her students. Her approach to medicine combined a boundless enthusiasm for her work, intellectual rigor, and deep compassion for her patients. In sum, Dr. Tang-Goodwin was an exemplar of excellent, compassionate, and respectful patient care.

The Gold Connection is produced by the Gold Humanism Honor Society, a program of The Arnold P. Gold Foundation, a nonprofit that champions humanism in healthcare. On this podcast, we share stories of humanism in action, as well as tools and lessons for students, clinicians, and leaders.

This episode begins a series of conversations with winners of the Gold Foundation's Hope Babette Tang Humanism in Healthcare Essay Contest. Mason Blacker, who won first place for medical students in the 2022 contest, reads his winning essay, "The Light." That reading is followed by a conversation with Mason and Gold Foundation Editor in Chief Brianne Alcala, exploring the writing process. Mason is a medical student at NYU Grossman School of Medicine.



Extra thanks to AAMC and the Academic Medicine podcast for sharing Mason's reading of his essay. All winning Hope Babette Tang Humanism in Healthcare Essay Contest are published in both Academic Medicine and the Journal of Professional Nursing. 



Dr. Hope Babette Tang-Goodwin, the namesake of our essay contest, was an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, whose devotion to the care of the children and infants with HIV infection in New York City was an inspiration to her colleagues and her students. Her approach to medicine combined a boundless enthusiasm for her work, intellectual rigor, and deep compassion for her patients. In sum, Dr. Tang-Goodwin was an exemplar of excellent, compassionate, and respectful patient care.



The Gold Connection is produced by the Gold Humanism Honor Society, a program of The Arnold P. Gold Foundation, a nonprofit that champions humanism in healthcare. On this podcast, we share stories of humanism in action, as well as tools and lessons for students, clinicians, and leaders.