Stephen G. Post, Ph.D. is a New York Times best-selling author (Why Good Things Happen to Good People), speaker, medical school professor of preventative medicine and bio-ethics, and leader in research on the benefits of giving and on compassionate care in relation to improved patient outcomes and clinician well-being. He is President of the Institute for Research on Unconditional Love. He addressed the U.S. Congress on volunteerism and health, receiving the Congressional Certificate of Special Recognition for Outstanding Achievement. Post was co-recipient of the Pioneer Medal for Outstanding Leadership in HealthCare, and the Kama Book Award in Medical Humanities from World Literacy Canada, Co-Recipient of the 2019 National Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society Professionalism Award. An elected member of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, the New York Academy of Medicine, and the Royal Society of Medicine, London, Post is the author of 300 articles in journals such as Science, the New England Journal of Medicine, Psychosomatic Medicine, Journal of the American Academy of Religion, and the Journal of the American Medical Association.
