The Julius M. Friedenwald Medal was the most prestigious award given by the Association. The folder contains an article/reprint: "Presentation of the Julius M. Friedenwald Medal to Howard M. Spiro, M.D.," Gastroenterology 118 (2000): 1229-1232, and a letter to Spiro from Herbert Kaufmann.
Howard Spiro was head of the Gastroenterology Unit or Section of the Department of Internal Medicine at Yale from 1955 until his retirement in 1999. He was co-founder and first Director of the Program for Humanities in Medicine. The collection contains typescripts of Spiro's talks and addresses; typescripts of essays, mostly related to issues in humanities in medicine; a manuscript autobiography; correspondence related to Yale; reprints of Spiros's articles, columns, and book reviews; and ten original medical illustrations related to gastroenterology that Spiro had collected.