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C O N V O C A T I O N
May 2019
RUTGERS, THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY
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Class of 2019Convocation
Monday, May TwentiethTwo Thousand and Nineteen
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“y“you can not separate passion from pathology any more than you
can separate a person’s spirit from his body… Gaze long enough at your
patients, and from even the driest husk there will fly upward a shower of
sparks that, to him who gazes, will coalesce into a little flame… Place
your hand over the patient’s heart. Let your fingers receive its beat… Now
listen with a stethoscope… Listening to the heart is like learning the songs
of birds. A song once heard and identified is your own from then on.”
From
Letters to a Young Doctor
By Richard Selzer
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The OaTh Of hippOcraTes
I do solemnly swear by that which I hold most sacred:
That I will be loyal to the profession of medicineand just and generous to its members
That I will lead my life and practice my art inuprightness and honor
That into whatsoever house I shall enter,it shall be for the good of the sick to the utmost of my power,
holding myself aloof from wrong,from corruption and from the tempting of others to vice
That I will exercise my art solely for the care ofmy patients and will give no drug and perform no operation
for a criminal purpose; far less suggest it
That whatsoever I shall see or hearof the lives of my patients which is not fitting
to be spoken, I will keep inviolably secret
These things I do promise and in proportionas I am faithful to this oath, may happiness and good repute
be ever mine and may the opposite befall meif I am false to my word.
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Welcome Remarks Robert L. Johnson, MD, FAAP Interim Dean, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School Dean, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School
Brian L. Strom, MD, MPH Chancellor Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences
Paul F. Weber, MD, RPh, MBA Class of 1987 Past President, Alumni Association Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
Excellence in Teaching & Robert L. Johnson, MD, FAAPResearch Awards Convocation Address Keith P. Lewis, RPh, MD Chair, Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine
Student Address Joshua Felton Gilens
Introduction of Carol A. Terregino, MDMD Degree Senior Associate Dean for Education and Academic Affairs Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
Hippocratic Oath Colleen Donovan, MD Assistant Professor, Emergency Medicine Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
Closing Remarks Robert L. Johnson, MD, FAAP
Order Of prOgram
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medical degree recipienTs
Ashley Mone’ Abbott 2
Lauryn Brittney Adams +
Omowunmi Adedeji 2+
Moshe Aryeh ApfelJulia Nicole ApoznanskiFernando Daniel Arias *+
Akanksha K. Arya 1+
Gina Francisco AshforthJoanna BalcerekSabrina Carvalho BarataChristopher George Bargoud %+
Sabrina BarikTheresa Christine Barrett 3
Bassel Ahmed BashjawishMadeleine Paige Basist *Jennifer Ellen Bayly ^
Jamie Ross BensonZaeem Mehdi BillahGreta Lochie Schneider Bires +
Kristofer Joel Simmers BiresMatthew John Bittner *Sairamya BodempudiCarly Danielle Borinsky *Andrew Michael Brennan Jr.Nicole Elizabeth BrileyMichael Raymond Briski 1
Ashley Michelle Brown 2
Kenya Alexandra CabreraChristopher Ross CadmanRaymond Yukun Cai %
Augustus ChangGloria Yeong Rong Chen ^
Joan Hou ChenSabrina Clerssaint *Oluwatoyin Olakitan Dada 2
Arianna Mercedes D’Angelo ^
Priscila Pivatto Da SilvaYatee A. Davé ~
Joshua Adam David =
Kwesi G. Dawson-AmoahAlexander P. DecilveoJeffrey DesiletsMitchel DeVitaNatasha Dilwali #
Catherine Abaya DuazoBarbara Erthal Smeral Dutra ~
Mary Cathryn Earnhardt *Yousef M. Elfanagely ~2
Samuel Elias
Renee K. EngDouglas R. Farrell *+
Bridget Lang Findlay *+
Kevin Joseph FitzpatrickAna Lucia FuentesAvinash Gabbeta ^ Rebecca Gail Gaffney *Shifa Shabbir GandhiKimia Grace GanjaeiCatherine Parkhurst Gardiner ^*Tori Danielle Gartmond ^+
Joshua Felton Gilens +
Joshua Paul GilmanIvan J. GolubChristina Chiachi HanJane HandKathleen Chace HankinsHumza HaqueWilliam Kevin HaussnerNicole Giovanni Heath 2
Melissa Patrice HomsherJake Daniel Hoyne *Joseph IbrahimLinus Ikechukwu IgbokweCaesar Gerald ImperioRyan Charles JacksonJose K. James 3
David Emanuel Janhofer *Marissa Caroline Jarosinski *Min-Young KangLeah Ilyse KaplanSahil Khanna *1
Kavisha KhanujaJoanna Elizabeth Kinney *+
Travis August Kling #*+
Kevin Charles Kohm +
Emily KomarczykAlison Rachel KoranskyDhvani KothariSunjay Shiv Kumar *+
Thomas Kuriakose ^+
Caroline Sun Hyung Kwon &
Steve S. KwonRichard William Lang III ~ *+
Omotola Opemipo LanlokunJanet Minyoung LeeJennifer LeeJoy J. LeeDanielle Levin =
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* Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society + Gold Humanism Honor Society # MD with Distinction in Bioethics & MD with Distinction in Leadership in Academic Health ^ MD with Distinction in Service to the Community ~ MD with Distinction in Medical Education = MD with Distinction in Research
Michelle Linke Shafa ^+
Jonathan M. LowenthalRosaline Xiaocheng MaTarika Kaur Mahal +
Nivethietha ManiamBryan Aram ManoukianTito Klemar Mantilla 2
Justin Wu Marson 1
Emmanuel Martinez Alcaraz +
Monika K. Masanam 1
Heather McGowan 3+
Dhaval M. Mehta @
Surabhi Menon *Alissa Marie Michel @*Kathryn Mary MillenZina Model @
Katherine Malanga Morgan 3
Sean Michael MunierDrew Edward MurrayKyle Fitzgerald NelsonTaylor Joseph NeumanJennifer M. O’Donnell =
Anna Hollembeak Olds *Benedict Osorio *+
Ashima OzaBenjamin Louis Pagano *Patrick Michael Pallitto *Tomas PanequeMatthew Saifi Parr *Christopher Joseph Parronchi *Divya S. PatelJanaki Girish PatelJanki PatelJashvin Pankaj PatelKaiwal Shashikant PatelPooja PatelRonak R. PatelRoohi PatelTulsi D. PatelHarsh Gopal PathakEthan Foster Pearlstein @
Veda PejaverPooja Reddy Pendri @
Deepthi Lakshmi PentaChloe Gloria Phillips *
Martin PicoAmanda Gabrielle Piedra 2
Victor Korshie PomaryArnav R. PondicherryShirin Poustchi % &
Patrick David PulitiShipra Rai +
Kristin Nicole Raphel &
Victor Yamada RazukKevin RheeEmma Mary RogersJayme Alyssa SackVinay SaggarDeesha Sarma @
Katherine Elizabeth Schertz ^
Gianna Regina SeelandSmit P. ShahCaroline Kaily Shang +
Periel Mayer Shapiro ~
Marina SharobeamSteven Alan Shterenberg %
Zachary John ShulerSean James SiburnRebecca Eliza Simon ^
Ka-Lisha Mae Simons 2
Ajan M. Sivaramamoorthy +
Monica SridharAmy SuhotlivBo Tang @1+
Ankita Satyendra Tripathi 1
Annie Elizabeth TrussConnan VacaRussell Pierce ValleAisha Maria Van Pratt Levin @+
Benjamin Adam Van Pratt Levin *+
Mary M. VanderveenChristopher James VenutoloAlyse Marie Volino *Qi WangAlexander Guy Watson =
Peng Yang 1
Brett Benjamin Yarusi *Nikhil Yegya-Raman *Jung H. YumYan Zhu *
@ MD with Distinction in Global Health% MD with Distinction in Medical Innovation and Entrepreneurship1 Graduate of BA/BS/MD Program2 BA/BS/MD Access Med Program3 MD/PhD
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Student Leadership AwardPresented on the basis of outstanding leadership to the student body
throughout medical school; selected bya special faculty committee.
Joshua Felton Gilens
Community Service AwardPresented on the basis of outstanding service to the medical school or the
community-at-large; selected by a special faculty committee.Thomas Kuriakose
The Bruce Fisher AwardPresented in recognition of academic achievement and
compassionate patient care.
Richard William Lang III
Leonard Tow Humanism in Medicine AwardPresented by the Arnold P. Gold Foundation
on the basis of humanism and compassion in the deliveryof medical care; selected by the faculty and the students.
Joshua Felton Gilens
Glasgow-Rubin Certificates of Commendationfor Academic Achievement
Presented by theAmerican Medical Women’s Association (AMWA)
Presented to women who graduate in the top 10 percent of their medical school graduating class. A separate Certificate of Commendation is awarded for any
woman who graduates first in her class.
ruTgers rOberT WOOd JOhnsOn medical schOOl
aWards
Madeleine Paige BasistCarly Danielle Borinsky Mary Cathryn Earnhardt
Bridget Lang Findlay Rebecca Gail Gaffney
Catherine Parkhurst GardinerMarissa Caroline Jarosinski
Surabhi Menon Alissa Marie Michel
Anna Hollembeak OldsChloe Gloria Phillips
Alyse Marie VolinoYan Zhu
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The Society for Academic Emergency MedicineExcellence in Emergency Medicine Award
William Kevin Haussner
The Outstanding Achievement in the MD/PhD ProgramKatherine Malanga Morgan
academic excellence aWards
AnesthesiaJennifer Lee
Diagnostic Radiology and Nuclear Medicine
Janki Patel
Disease and Therapeutics IYan Zhu
Disease and Therapeutics IIVictor Yamada Razuk
Emergency MedicineKevin Joseph Fitzpatrick
Family MedicineJoshua Felton Gilens
Foundations of MedicineVictor Yamada Razuk
Internal MedicineCatherine Parkhurst Gardiner
Maintaining HomeostasisMadeleine Paige Basist
Mechanisms of Diseaseand Defense
Kevin Rhee
NeurologyAnkita Satyendra Tripathi
Neuron, Brain and BehaviorBrett Benjamin Yarusi
Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences
Chloe Gloria Phillips
PediatricsThomas Kuriakose
Primary Care MedicineBenjamin Van Pratt Levin
PsychiatryCaesar Gerald Imperio
SurgeryJashvin Pankaj Patel
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aWards
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neW Jersey healThcare fOundaTiOn, inc. aWards
Excellence in Research AwardCheryl F. Dreyfus, PhD
Professor and Chair, Neuroscience and Cell Biology
Excellence in Teaching AwardMeigra Myers Chin, MD
Assistant Professor, Emergency Medicine
Stanley S. Bergen Jr., MD, Medal of ExcellenceRutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
Presented to the student who best exemplifies academic excellence:
Bridget Lang Findlay
alumni aWard
Awarded to the student who best demonstrates the high ideals of the medical profession, maintains the highest standards of personal integrity,
and has made a significant contribution to the medical school class; selected by their fellow classmates:
Justin Wu Marson
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ruTgers rOberT WOOd JOhnsOn medical schOOl
adminisTraTiOn
Robert L. Johnson, MD, FAAPInterim Dean, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School Dean, New Jersey Medical School
Thomas Hecker, PhDExecutive Vice Dean, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
Vicki L. Craig, MD, FCCM, CPHQSenior Associate Dean for Safety, Quality and Clinical Affairs
Céline Gélinas, PhDSenior Associate Dean for Research
Eric G. Jahn, MDSenior Associate Dean for Community Health
Sally Radovick, MD Senior Associate Dean for Clinical and Translational Research
Carol A. Terregino, MDSenior Associate Dean for Education and Academic Affairs
Mark V. Sauer, MDSenior Associate Dean for Women’s Health
Gloria A. Bachmann, MDAssociate Dean for Women’s Health
Nancy DeLuca BradyAssociate Dean for Finance and Business Development
Javier I. Escobar, MDAssociate Dean for Global Health
Joseph Jaeger, DrPH, MPHAssociate Dean for the Regional Medical Campus at Monmouth Medical Center
Michael Kelly, MDAssociate Dean for Graduate Medical Education
John B. Kostis, MDAssociate Dean for Cardiovascular Research
Archana Pradhan, MD, MPHAssociate Dean for Education
Rhonda M. Smith, PhDAssociate Dean for Faculty and Staff Affairs
David Swee, MDAssociate Dean for Faculty Affairs
Paul F. Weber, MD, RPh, MBAAssociate Dean for Continuing Medical Education
Patricia Whitley-Williams, MDAssociate Dean for Inclusion and Diversity
Joyce Afran, MDAssistant Dean for the Regional Medical Campus at Somerset
Dalya Chefitz, MDAssistant Dean for the Clinical Learning Environment
H. Liesel Copeland, PhDAssistant Dean for Medical Education and Admissions
Sonia Garcia Laumbach, MDAssistant Dean for Student Affairs
Karen Wei-ru Lin, MD, MSAssistant Dean for Global Health
Daniel J. Mehan Jr., PhDAssistant Dean for Student Affairs
James H. Millonig, PhDAssistant Dean for Medical Scientist Training
Janice Cato Varlack, MDAssistant Dean for Student and Multicultural Affairs
Patricia M. Hansen, MAChief of Staff, Office of the Dean andExecutive Director, Communications and Public Affairs
Robert Prodoehl, MBAExecutive Director of Operations and Administration
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deparTmenTs
maJOr insTiTuTes
anesThesiOlOgy andperiOperaTive medicine
biOchemisTry and mOlecular biOlOgy
emergency medicine
family medicine andcOmmuniTy healTh
medicine
neurOlOgy
neurOscience and cell biOlOgy
neurOsurgery
ObsTeTrics, gynecOlOgy and reprOducTive sciences
OphThalmOlOgy
The cardiOvascular insTiTuTe Of neW Jersey
child healTh insTiTuTe Of neW Jersey
The insTiTuTe fOr neurOlOgical TherapeuTics
WOmen’s healTh insTiTuTe
OrThOpaedic surgery
OTOlaryngOlOgy – head and neck surgery
paThOlOgy and labOraTOry medicine
pediaTrics
pharmacOlOgy
physical medicine and rehabiliTaTiOn
psychiaTry
radiaTiOn OncOlOgy
radiOlOgy
surgery
C O N V O C A T I O N
May 2019
RUTGERS, THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY
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