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

Podcast

  • December 16, 2022

S1E4: The Hippocratic Oath

Dr. Stanley Goldfarb explains the history of the Hippocratic Oath, and how it is the foundation of Do No Harm’s work.

Op-Ed

  • November 18, 2022

A Woke Panic on Maternal Mortality

Is there an epidemic of black mothers dying in the delivery room? So it would seem, given the drumbeat of academic studies and media stories over the past few years, …

Podcast

  • November 11, 2022

S1E2: Politics in Medicine

In our second episode, Benita Cotton-Orr and Dr. Stanley Goldfarb discuss when—and how—politics became such a big part of medicine.

Podcast

  • October 28, 2022

S1E1: Medical Schools as Institutions

In this inaugural episode, Dr. Stanley Goldfarb joins Benita Cotton-Orr to share his personal journey from practitioner to educator.

Commentary

  • September 19, 2022

Open Letter to Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo of JAMA

Dear Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, Congratulations on your appointment as editor-in-chief of the Journal of the American Medical Association!  You now hold one of the most prestigious positions in the elite world…

Testimony and Comments

  • August 31, 2022

Do No Harm Comment on Medicare Advantage

Do No Harm submitted this request for comment by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Do No Harm, a national association of medical professionals united in protecting…

Op-Ed

  • August 1, 2022

Corruption of healthcare comes to Colorado Springs

The same divisive ideology that’s corrupting K-12 schools and threatening funding for public safety is rapidly taking over healthcare. It goes by many names: “Critical Race Theory,” “anti-racism,” “diversity, equity,…

Media Mention

  • July 19, 2022

The Diversity Delusion Comes To Health Care | Opinion

Follow the evidence. It’s a foundational tenet of health care, as it is of all scientific inquiry. Yet today’s medical establishment is unwilling to confront the consequences of its attempts…