Stanley Goldfarb, MD
Board Chair
Dr. Stanley Goldfarb is board chairman of Do No Harm. He has had a long career in academic medicine as a Professor of Medicine at the Perelman School of Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania. During that career, Dr. Goldfarb was funded by the National Institutes of Health to conduct research in the mechanism of kidney disease. Dr. Goldfarb has published over 100 articles in peer reviewed medical journals such as the New England Journal of Medicine and the Journal of Clinical Investigation. He has also published over 150 invited reviews and commentaries. He has served on a number of editorial boards of important medical journals such as the Journal of Clinical Investigation, the Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, the journal Diabetes, and as Editor in Chief of the journal NephSAP, published by the American Society of Nephrology. Dr. Goldfarb has also been active in the world of medical education as the Associate Dean for Curriculum at the Perelman School of Medicine at Penn.
Dr. Goldfarb helped found Do No Harm after publication of his book, Take Two Aspirin and Call Me By My Pronouns: a call to action to eliminate discriminatory practices in healthcare, including elevating diversity above meritocracy in the admission of students to medical school and the hiring of faculty members. As chairman of Do No Harm, Dr. Goldfarb has been published widely in various periodicals including the Wall Street Journal, City Journal, The New York Post, and The Free Press on the threats to medical education and medical care in the United States posed by introduction of critical race theory into these enterprises.
In addition, Do No Harm has been at the forefront of organizations combating the experimental treatment of children and adolescents with so-called “gender affirming care” in the absence of scientific evidence showing its efficacy. Do No Harm is committed to the welfare and safety of these children by demanding that healthcare institutions follow the science and severely restrict this potentially harmful form of treatment.
Authored Content
Op-Ed
‘DEI’ Is an Enemy of Free Speech, Not a Friend
How do you know when the good guys are winning? When the bad guys start denying what they’re really doing. Such is the case with the most ardent defenders of “diversity,…
Media Mention, Video
Culture War | Medical Societies Captured by Woke Worldview
Dr. Stanley Goldfarb joins the Moms on a Mission Podcast again to discuss his book, “Take Two Aspirin And Call Me By My Pronouns” and the infection of social justice…
Op-Ed
How DEI Inspires Jew Hatred
Hell hath no fury like a donor scorned. In recent days, a generous supporters have withdrawn or threatened to withdraw financial support from the University of Pennsylvania, where…
Op-Ed
The Danger of Elevating Diversity over Quality in Medicine
We now have even more evidence that a lowering of standards in service of diversity is doing real harm to the medical profession. Diversity is good, but it should never come…
Op-Ed
Medical Doctors, or Social Workers?
Can your doctor cure poverty? How about homelessness? Food insecurity? For that matter, does your doctor treat the legacy of slavery and racial discrimination?…
Op-Ed
Medical Education Is Infected with DEI
University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine
A few months ago, I was summarily fired as an editor-in-chief of the kidney section of the most widely used medical reference. UpToDate is used by tens of thousands of physicians…
Testimony and Comments
Do No Harm Responds to Proposed HIPAA Privacy Rule To Support Reproductive Health Care Privacy
Do No Harm has submitted a comment on a proposed rule by the Health and Human Services Department that impacts the practice of experimental gender medicine on minors. Read…
Op-Ed
Cancel Culture Comes for Philly’s Weirdest Museum
Is a 9-foot human colon a symbol of colonialism? Don’t laugh. That question threatens to destroy a beloved and bizarre institution in Philadelphia. The Mütter Museum has housed medical oddities…
Op-Ed
Prescription for Failure
The research establishment studying racial disparities in health care has a big problem. It has made a concerted effort to ignore any literature that contradicts the narrative that racial animus…
Op-Ed
How America’s Obsession with DEI Is Sabotaging Our Medical Schools
‘I spent over 50 years as a physician and educator at Penn Med. Now I’m using civil rights legislation to protect the profession—and American patients.’ For better or worse, I…
Commentary
Dr. Stanley Goldfarb Comments on the Biden Administration’s Suit Against the State of Tennessee for Attempting to Protect Minors from Gender Ideology
“Yet again, the Biden administration has chosen to put gender ideology and the demands of radical activists ahead of the wellbeing of children and adolescents. This week, the Department of…
Podcast
S1E9: Standing Up Against Woke Ideology
Dr. Stanley Goldfarb and Benita Cotton-Orr discuss the role of government in implementing a woke approach in healthcare.
Commentary
My Testimony to the Kansas House – And How the State Legislators Reacted To It
On February 1, I provided testimony to the Kansas State Legislature’s House Health and Human Services Committee (HHHSC) to present Do No Harm’s position opposing the radical ideologies based on…
Op-Ed
Forcing Diversity When Lives Are on the Line
Our physicians should be the best of the best. It’s heartening to see leaders of a prominent medical school acknowledge reality (“Med Schools Are Wrong on…
Podcast
S1E7: The Healthcare System’s Two Paths
Dr. Stanley Goldfarb and Dr. Benita Cotton-Orr examine the two paths that our healthcare system can take as we move ahead to the future.
Press Release
Statement About Harvard’s Ranking Decision
The U.S. News and World Report magazine’s ranking system for medical schools has long presented a problem for prestigious institutions like Harvard and Penn, where I used to teach. These…
Op-Ed
Florida medical schools should teach medicine, not extremism
Have Florida’s taxpayer-funded colleges and universities embraced divisive and even discriminatory ideas? That’s the question Gov. Ron DeSantis ordered them to answer in a Dec. 28 letter his administration sent to…
Commentary
A Response To JAMA’s Defense of Racial Discrimination
The Journal of the American Medical Association recently published an outright defense of racially discriminatory admissions practices at medical schools, under the guise of “affirmative action.”…
