Caroline Harada, MD, is professor of medicine, specializing in geriatric medicine, and associate dean for strategic initiatives in medical education at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Heersink School of Medicine. She oversees public health and professional identity formation education for medical students, and won the 2024 AAMC/Arnold P. Gold Foundation Humanism in Medicine Award. She developed the civil discourse training that is completed by all UAB medical students, which has been in use for the last four years.