Dr. Stanley Goldfarb
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
Podcast
S1E12: The Dangerous Influence of the Anti-Racism Movement on Society
Dr. Stanley Goldfarb and Benita Cotton-Orr discuss how the woke movement towards anti-Racism has transformed how Americans view one another, shifting from a perspective of opportunity to one of oppression.
Op-Ed
Medical Reparations Have Arrived
Changes designed to increase black patients’ access to kidney transplants pervert good medicine and punish white patients to right nonexistent wrongs. The Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network…
Video
A Physician’s Journey to Combat The Risk of Radical Politics in American Healthcare
Dr. Stanley Goldfarb joined the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons:…
Podcast
S1E11: Pushing Back Implicit Bias Training With Professionalism
Dr. Stanley Goldfarb explains the false premises behind Implicit Bias Training and details Do No Harm’s efforts in the states and Washington, D.C. to educate policymakers and leaders that this…
Podcast
S1E10: Optimal Outcomes vs The Equality Approach
Dr. Stanley Goldfarb and Benita Cotton-Orr discuss how we should refocus the health care reform conversation on improving outcomes for all patients rather than the current race-based approach to treatment.
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. Despite the federal bureaucracy’s embrace of woke ideology, they see hope in…
Commentary
A Response to the BMJ article “Gender Dysphoria in Young People is Rising – And So Is Professional Disagreement”
It is vitally important to continue the fight to save young children, particularly adolescent girls, from hormonal treatments that may permanently alter their bodies, and surgeries that may lead to…
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…
Commentary
Oklahoma Medical Schools Should Educate, Not Indoctrinate
Oklahoma State University, University of Oklahoma, University of Tulsa
Are Oklahoma’s taxpayer-funded universities pushing divisive and even discriminatory ideas? That’s what Oklahoma State Superintendent Ryan Walters asked all 25 state colleges and universities in a…
Podcast
S1E8: Standing Up Against Woke Ideology
Dr. Stanley Goldfarb and Benita Cotton-Orr share best practices for standing up against the woke ideology that is infiltrating health care. From helping professors push back against DEI requirements for…
Commentary
This Is What Passes As “Continuous Knowledge” at the American Board of Family Medicine
The American Board of Family Medicine (ABFM) offers Self-Assessment and Lifelong Learning in a number of topics that many physicians use to obtain and maintain their…
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, including considerations for access and how…
Op-Ed
Even progressive Europe won’t go as far as America in child transgender treatments
What do Europeans know that American medical elites don’t — or, worse, won’t even consider? Western and Northern European countries are generally much more restrictive in transgender treatments for children,…
Commentary
Race-Based Medicine and “Gender-Affirming Care:” Two Faces of the Corruption of Medicine
We at Do No Harm are devoted to combating divisive ideology in health care. To date, we’ve focused on the rise of race-based medicine, most notably Critical Race Theory and…
Podcast
S1E6: Academic Journals and the Infusion of Censorship, Bias, and Bad Research
Dr. Stanley Goldfarb and Senior Fellow Benita Cotton-Orr expose how medical journals are excluding research that doesn’t align with diversity, equity, and inclusion – representing a massive intrusion of racial…
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…
