Join us for the 2025 Summit
The 2nd Annual LDHI Humankindness and Health Justice Virtual Summit will be a convening of national thought leaders to share insights, best practices and more about how the science of kindness, compassion, empathy and trust can accelerate health justice.
About the Institute
The Lloyd H. Dean Institute for Humankindness and Health Justice (LHDI) was launched in 2022 to help amplify our belief that health justice starts with humankindness.
CommonSpirit defines humankindness as inspiring change in health care that leads to more empathy, listening and respect – because we believe that humanity holds the power to heal. LDHI serves as a convener and catalyst for health justice and humankindness initiatives, across our ministry and beyond.
The summit experience
The Humankindness & Health Justice Virtual Summit will bring together national thought leaders across the health care landscape to share innovative insights and ways to leverage the science of kindness, compassion, empathy and trust in our everyday lives to create a more just, equitable and kind world.
With an expected 1,000 participants from across the country, the Humankindness & Health Justice Virtual Summit will engage a range of stakeholders, including members of CommonSpirit's National C-suite team, CommonSpirit Health Foundation supporters, community Leaders, members of local businesses and national corporate partners, health care workers, representatives from each of our five regions across 22 states, NGOs, and like-minded individuals passionate about equitable health for all.
The virtual summit will serve as a place to learn and reflect on knowledge of integrating the science of kindness, compassion, empathy and trust across all the work we do in and out of healthcare.
Event goals include:
Educate on the intersection of humankindness and health justice as a way to achieve culturally compassionate, competent care.
Inspire and empower existing humankindness and health justice efforts across CommonSpirit and support the scaling of best practices.
Innovate around novel humankindness and health justice initiative for staff, patients and communities.
Meet the keynote speaker
Stephen Trzeciak, MD, MPH
PHYSICIAN SCIENTIST
AUTHOR
Stephen Trzeciak, MD, MPH is a physician scientist, the Edward D. Viner Endowed Chief of Medicine at Cooper University Health Care, and Professor and Chair of Medicine at Cooper Medical School of Rowan University in Camden, New Jersey. Dr. Trzeciak is a practicing intensivist (specialist in intensive care medicine), and a clinical researcher with more than 100 publications in the scientific literature. His scientific program has been supported by research grants from the National Institutes of Health and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, with Dr. Trzeciak serving as Principal Investigator. Dr. Trzeciak is the co-author of two books, Compassionomics: The Revolutionary Scientific Evidence that Caring Makes a Difference (2019), and Wonder Drug: 7 Scientifically Proven Ways That Serving Others Is the Best Medicine for Yourself (2022). Broadly, Dr. Trzeciak's mission is to raise compassion and kindness globally, through science.
