2021 Drexel University Commencement Ceremonies College of Medicine

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May the Eighteenth Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Message from2021 the President Dear Graduates,

I am privileged to honor you for the outstanding achievement that brought you to this pivotal stage in your medical training, research and scientific studies. This is a moment of celebration, when you should take great pride in your many accomplishments.

As you move on to further training, Table of Contents career development and other professional experiences, you can be certain that your achievements are magnified many times Message from the President 1 over — because they are part of something much larger. It is that cherished legacy of helping patients, saving lives, Commencement Ceremony 2 advancing knowledge and expanding access to health care that is central to the mission of Drexel’s College of Medicine. Graduate Student Oath and The Physician’s Pledge 3 There are many challenges in your chosen fields, from the transformative power of technology, to the need for Citation of Fifty-Year Graduates patient-centered care, to the imperative to foster better 1971-2021 4 public health and ensure social justice. With the COVID-19 pandemic, your skills have never been more in demand Honorary Degree Recipient and the challenges before you loom that much larger. Even and Commencement Speaker 5 so, I am confident that you are joining the ranks of Drexel physicians, scientists and professionals who are making a Degree Recipients 6 difference across health care and related fields. I salute your efforts, and those of everyone who helped you Academic Awards 18 achieve this milestone. With the mentoring of the Drexel faculty and the support of your family and friends, you have Special Recognitions 20 completed a monumental learning journey.

The Commencement Tradition 21 As you join a Drexel alumni community that spans the globe, it is my hope that your time at the College of Medicine Trustees of Drexel University 22 has instilled a desire to stay involved. The colleagues and friends from your time at Drexel will continue to enrich your life, and I urge you to serve as proud alumni ambassadors for the College you helped to shape and sustain.

What a rare privilege you have in serving others with dedication as clinicians, researchers or administrators. You can be confident that your preparation has been outstanding and that your future is bright.

On behalf of the trustees, faculty and professional staff of Drexel University, I wish you all the best in fulfilling your career and personal goals.

Sincerely,

John Fry President As a courtesy to our graduates and guests, please silence all phones and electronic devices during the Commencement Ceremony. 1 2021Commencement Ceremony Academic Procession Recognition of Student Awards

Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1 Charles B. Cairns Edward Elgar Spoken Word Poem National Anthem “A Survivor’s Guide to Graduating” Star-Spangled Banner Theophilus Owofu Abah Francis Scott Key Class of 2021

Opening Remarks Charge to the Graduates

Donna M. Russo, PhD Charles B. Cairns William Maul Measey Chair in Medical Education Interim Vice Dean for Educational Affairs Conferring of Graduate Degrees Senior Associate Dean for Curriculum Professor, Microbiology & Immunology John Fry

Remarks by the Dean Elisabeth J. Van Bockstaele, PhD Founding Dean, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences Charles B. Cairns, MD and Professional Studies Walter H. and Leonore Annenberg Dean, Chief Strategy Officer College of Medicine Senior Vice President for Graduate and Online Education Senior Vice President of Medical Affairs Dean, Graduate College Professor of Emergency Medicine Professor of Pharmacology and Physiology Jed Shumsky, PhD Welcome Senior Associate Dean of Educational John Fry and Academic Affairs President, Drexel University Professor of Neurobiology and Anatomy

Greetings Investiture

Stanley W. Silverman Vice Chair, Drexel University Board of Trustees Administration of the Graduate Student Oath Elisabeth J. Van Bockstaele Recognition of Academic Awards Conferring of Doctor of Medicine Degrees Charles B. Cairns John Fry Citation of Fifty-Year Graduates 1971-2021 Charles B. Cairns Charles B. Cairns Donna M. Russo

Conferring of Honorary Degree Amy C. Fuchs, MD Senior Associate Dean for Student Affairs John Fry Associate Professor of Medicine Charles B. Cairns Seema Baranwal, MD Associate Dean for Student Affairs Doctor of Science Associate Professor of Medicine Drew Weissman, MD, PhD Linda Berardi-Demo, EdD Associate Dean, Admissions, Commencement Address Enrollment & Student Affairs Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine Drew Weissman

All degrees awarded at this Commencement carry an official conferral date of May 14, 2021

2 Drexel University College of Medicine Tuesday, May 182021 · Philadelphia Investiture Farewell

Amy C. Fuchs Administration of the Physician’s Pledge Recessional Leon McCrea II, MD, MPH Senior Associate Dean of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Associate Professor of Family, Community, & Faculty Marshals Preventive Medicine Amy Baranoski, MD ’03, MSc Assistant Dean, Phase One Curriculum Military Oath for MD Officers Associate Professor of Medicine Richard J. Hamilton, MD, HU ’87 Dana C. Farabaugh, MD ’03 Captain, Medical Corps, United States Navy (Retired) Associate Dean for Clinical Education Regional Associate Dean for Crozer Keystone Associate Professor of Obstetrics & Gynecology Health System Academic Chair and Professor of Emergency Medicine Nathalie S. May, MD Associate Professor of Medicine Induction into the Alumni Association Anh-Thu Vu, MD Assistant Professor of Neurology Edward Siegel, MD ’12, MBA President-Elect, Alumni Association

Graduate Remarks

Sitara Soundararajan, MD Class of 2021

Graduate Student Oath World Medical Association Declaration of Geneva I will represent my profession The Physician’s Pledge: I WILL PRACTICE my profession honorably by conducting myself AS A MEMBER OF THE with conscience and dignity and and my professional endeavors in MEDICAL PROFESSION... in accordance with good medical practice; a manner that is above reproach. I I SOLEMNLY PLEDGE to dedicate pledge never to allow financial gain or my life to the service of humanity; I WILL FOSTER the honor and noble traditions of the medical ambition to cloud my judgment. I will THE HEALTH AND WELL-BEING profession; pursue truth and create knowledge OF MY PATIENT will be my first for the greater good, but never to the consideration; I WILL GIVE to my teachers, colleagues, and students the respect detriment of others. I will maintain I WILL RESPECT the autonomy and gratitude that is their due; scientific integrity in all my work. and dignity of my patient; I WILL SHARE my medical I WILL MAINTAIN the utmost I will acknowledge and honor the knowledge for the benefit of the respect for human life; contributions of those who have patient and the advancement of preceded me and will commit myself I WILL NOT PERMIT healthcare; considerations of age, disease or to lifelong learning. I will show I WILL ATTEND TO my own disability, creed, ethnic origin, compassion, embrace diversity and health, well-being, and abilities in gender, nationality, political order to provide care of the highest uphold excellence so that I become affiliation, race, sexual orientation, standard; a worthy role model deserving of social standing or any other factor to respect by all. intervene between my duty and my I WILL NOT USE my medical patient; knowledge to violate human rights and civil liberties, even under threat; I WILL RESPECT the secrets that are confided in me, even after the I MAKE THESE PROMISES patient has died; solemnly, freely, and upon my honor.

3 Hahnemann Medical College Class of 1970

2021Commencement Ceremony Citation of College of Medicine Fifty-Year Graduates, 1971-2021

Hahnemann Medical College Stanley R. Goldman, MD Carol E. Ott, MD Suzanne Smith Godec, MD Class of 1971 Herbert P. Goodheart, MD William Thomas Poirier, MD Norma Ruth Green, MD Leland Russell Abbey, MD James A. Gosper, MD Melvyn P. Richter, MD Martha Margaret Grout, MD Edward B. Arenson Jr., MD Michael E. Gotthelf, MD Michael V. Rock, MD Dillie Grunauer, MD * Stephen Babic, MD Barry Edward Graham, MD Lawrence N. Rossi, MD Mary Ann Haflin, Stephen E. Barron, MD Lowell T. Greenwald, MD * Millard A. Ruddell, MD Nancy Jermanovich * Ollice Bates Jr., MD Gloria A. Grzybicki, MD * Vadim M. Schaldenko, MD Lorraine C. King, MD Joseph M. Becker, MD Robert H. Hale, MD John C. Schantz, MD Lyn C. Lederman, MD Joseph M. Bednarek, MD Ward D. Heinrich Jr., MD Fredric H. Schiffer, MD Kathleen R. Malaney, MD Mark Berger, MD * Robert P. Hershkowitz, MD * James G. Shames, MD Kathleen Maloney, MD Georgetta C. Bidwell-Voit, MD Lee H. Hertz, MD Harlan J. Sicherman, MD Claire Coverdale Marsh, MD Robert E. Black, MD Orie E. Kaltenbaugh, MD Ronald D. Snyder, MD Margaret Honora McAloon, MD Michael H. Bleshman, MD Sheldon R. Karasick, MD Alan R. Soltys, MD Marian McNamara, MD Harry L. Bremer, MD George L. Kirkpatrick, MD * Calvin R. Stafford Jr., MD Jeanne Shamai Meisler, MD Eric N. Burkett, MD William J. Knox III, MD John D. Sten, MD * Kathleen Mirante, MD * Patricia A. Camody-Johnston, Clark Kopycinski, MD * Melvin J. Tonkon, MD * MD Denise Mary Mulvihill, MD Gary H. Kramer, MD William M. Trachtenberg, MD Anthony G. Campo Jr., MD Carol A. Munch, MD Margaret A. Kraybill, MD John Tumola, MD Henry H. Canton Jr., MD Marjorie E. Newman, MD * Lawrence F. Kron, MD Michael J. Vergare, MD Richard J. Carlson, MD Doris Jean Phillips, MD John R. Kuhns, MD Dean R. Wasserman, MD Paul T. Cass, MD Christine Quinn, MD Stephen H. Laffey, MD James R. Watson, MD Jerome H. Check, MD Julie Annette Ricking, MD * Edward C. Lamon, MD Jeffrey Charles Weidig, MD T. Craig Childs, MD Dolores E. Rodriguez, MD * F. Forrest Lang, MD * Stephen E. Weinberg, MD Alan Cicciarelli, MD * Beverly R. Roth, MD Harry J. Lessig, MD Richard Weismer, MD Patricia A. Convery-Glover, Sandra H. Roth, MD * MD Bruce A. Levy, MD Armand J. Wohl, MD Carolyn Ann Sack, MD Patrick A. Coyne, MD * J. Leonard Lichtenfeld, MD John C. Zahniser, MD Mindy E. Sanders, MD Duane E. Davis, MD Thomas E. Liston, MD * Natalie Shemonsky, MD Francis N. Deluca, MD James MacFadyen, MD Woman’s Medical College / Medical College of Pennsylvania Charlotte Ann Skibbs, MD Alain R. Derasse, MD * Stephen Machinton, MD Class of 1971 Lilian Spigelman, MD John E. Devenney, MD Stephen A. Matarazzo, MD * Lucrezia Aquino, MD * Melody Ann Stancil, MD Martin R. Eichelberger, MD James R. McCole, MD * Anna M. Baranauskas, MD Judith Terrell, MD Robert Enck, MD Edward P. McMahon, MD Virginia Bolmarcich, MD Alice A. L. Uong, MD F. Richard Ervin, MD Charles T. Meyer, MD Jean K. Boyd, MD Kathleen M. VanAalten, MD Ronald Feigin, MD Richard Selig Meyer, MD Sandra Mae Chase, MD Nina Ward, MD Steven A. Field, MD Michael A. Miles, MD * Mary E. Christenson, MD Carol Lynn Weed, MD Theodore Fink, MD Gerald Miller, MD Wendy Coleman, MD Marie Weinberger, MD Howard Frank, MD Lee H. Miller, MD E. Cheryl Cunningham, MD * Mary F. Welsh, MD Irvin D. Franklin, MD Mayer R. Mintz, MD Corinne Devereux, MD Allen S. Gabroy , MD Frederick T. Murray, MD Mary Anita Dilloway, MD Richard A. Gambescia, MD Ralph Nazzaro, MD Judith B. Feldman, MD Francis C. Gamza, MD John R. O’Neal, MD Gail A. Fisher, MD

4 * deceased Honorary Degree Recipient & Commencement2021 Speaker

DOCTOR OF SCIENCE

Drew Weissman, MD, PhD Physician-scientist paved the way for COVID-19 vaccines

As a professor of medicine at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Drew Weissman, MD, PhD, is best known for his work with RNA biology that laid the groundwork with Katalin Karikó for the mRNA vaccines for COVID-19 developed by Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna.

Dr. Weissman’s research focuses on the study of RNA and innate immune system biology and the application of these findings to vaccine research, therapeutics and gene therapy. His lab is developing many vaccines for pathogens, including malaria, norovirus, influenza, C. difficile, HSV2, HIV and HCV, as well as vaccines for potential future pandemics, universal influenza and pancoronavirus. His lab also develops mRNA delivery of proteins, including genetically deficient, therapeutic and monoclonal antibodies. In newer studies, his lab has developed new technologies to deliver mRNA-LNPs to specific cell types with simple in vivo injection. The cells and organs targeted thus far include lung, heart, brain, CD4+ cells, T cells and bone marrow stem cells. New therapies are being developed to treat genetic and other disorders in vivo, which has the potential to change and simplify such therapies and allow worldwide use for diseases such as sickle cell anemia.

Dr. Weissman received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Brandeis University and his medical degree and doctorate from the Boston University School of Medicine. He did his residency at Beth Israel Medical Center in Boston and a fellowship at the National Institutes of Health. He is widely published and holds memberships in the American Federation for Clinical Research, the Association of American Physicians and the American Association of Immunologists.

For his contributions to advancing world public health as a physician-scientist, Drexel is proud to confer upon Dr. Drew Weissman the degree of Doctor of Science, honoris causa.

5 2021PhD Degree Recipients

Doctor of Philosophy Degrees Dana Lengel Rachel A. Nolan § (The graduate’s dissertation title “Mechanisms of hippocampal dysfunction “Role of Dopamine in the Modulation of and advisor are indicated.) following pediatric brain trauma” Macrophage-Mediated Inflammation: Advisor: Ramesh Raghupathi, PhD Implications for the Neuropathogenesis NEUROSCIENCE of NeuroHIV and Drug Abuse” Advisor: Peter Gaskill, PhD Ilse Pamela Alonso NEUROSCIENCE “Impact of sleep on incubation of Stacia I. Lewandowski cocaine craving and dopamine terminal “In Vivo Studies of the ERK1/2 adaptations following abstinence” Phosphatase, MKP3 in Dopaminergic Amanda Jo Platt Advisor: Rodrigo A. España, PhD Neurons on Cocaine-Associated Behaviors, “Characterization of adenylating BIOCHEMISTRY Dopamine Signaling and Gene Expression” enzymes and domain interactions Advisor: Ole Valente Mortensen, PhD involved in insect and bacterial non- PHARMACOLOGY AND PHYSIOLOGY ribosomal peptide synthesis” Sara M. Blazejewski Advisor: Joris Beld, PhD “Dissecting Cellular Mechanisms MICROBIOLOGY AND IMMUNOLOGY of Neurite Formation in the Yuan-Ping Li § Developing Cortex” “Local administration of biomaterials for Advisor: Kazuhito Toyooka, PhD inducing antigen-specific tolerance” Margo Lillian Randelman NEUROSCIENCE Advisor: Hao Cheng, PhD “Hypercapnia Respiratory Training MATERIALS SCIENCE AND to Enhance Plasticity After ENGINEERING Cervical Spinal Cord Injury ” Kelly Donovan § Advisor: Michael A. Lane, PhD “Investigating the Pathogenesis of Ronak Subhash Loonawat NEUROSCIENCE Pre-clinical Diabetic Retinopathy: “Interplay of hepatitis B virus infection Transcription Factor Sp1 Glycosylation and hepatocyte metabolism: a virus- Upregulates VEGF-A” Matthew C. Stout induced Warburg-like effect stimulates Advisor: Jane Clifford, PhD “Investigating the interaction between hepatitis B virus replication” MOLECULAR AND CELL BIOLOGY K-Ras and HuR in pancreatic cancer” AND GENETICS Advisor: Michael J. Bouchard, PhD Advisor: Paul Campbell, PhD MICROBIOLOGY AND IMMUNOLOGY PHARMACOLOGY AND PHYSIOLOGY Kaitlin Farrell § “Neuroinflammation and circuitry changes Kiran Kumar Madugula Michelle L. Swift in the dorsal raphe nucleus with depressive “Over representation of myocyte enhancer “Investigating the role of cell cycle- phenotype after spinal cord injury.” factor (MEF-2) in HTLV-1-induced adult dependent regulation of Sp1 in Advisor: John Houlé, PhD T-cell leukemia/lymphoma contributes to double-strand break repair” NEUROSCIENCE acute disease by facilitating the activity of Advisor: Jane Clifford, PhD antisense promoter and HBZ via JunD ” MOLECULAR AND CELL BIOLOGY Advisor: Pooja Jain, PhD AND GENETICS Samuel Flashner MICROBIOLOGY AND IMMUNOLOGY “The Transcription Factor Specificity Protein 1 Regulates Chromosome Charles Wang § Assembly and Segregation During Mitosis” Haley M. Majer “Investigation into synaptic and post- Advisor: Jane Clifford, PhD “Natural Product Discovery of Thiopeptide synaptic events of RAD51 mediated MOLECULAR AND CELL BIOLOGY Producers and Functional Characterization homologous recombination” AND GENETICS of Adenylation-Domains in Thiostrepton Advisor: Alexander Mazin, PhD and Siomycin Biosynthesis” BIOCHEMISTRY Katherine Ann Innamorati Advisor: Joris Beld, PhD MICROBIOLOGY AND IMMUNOLOGY “Comparative genomics of the keystone Riley Michele Williams mucosal pathogens Porphyromonas “Type I interferon from astrocytes restricts gingivalis and Gardnerella vaginalis Hemalatha Muralidharan influenza A virus replication in neurons” reveal associations between virulence “The role of mitotic motor forces Advisor: Glenn Rall, PhD phenotypes and phylogenetic structure” of KIFC1 on microtubule array MICROBIOLOGY AND IMMUNOLOGY Advisor: Garth Ehrlich, PhD during neurodevelopment ” MOLECULAR AND CELL BIOLOGY Advisor: Peter Baas, PhD AND GENETICS Shasha Yang NEUROSCIENCE “Thalamocortical inputs regulate the post-adolescent development of

inhibitory circuitry in the mPFC” Advisor: Wen-Jun Gao, MD, PhD NEUROSCIENCE

6 § Completed Joint MD / PhD Program Master’s Degree2021 Recipients

Master’s Degrees Tejsi T. Dhameliya Neuroscience Jessica M. Clark (The graduate’s thesis title “Role of KLF8 in breast cancer Ruth Connolly and advisor are indicated if a stem cells and crosstalk with Emily Zihal thesis was required. All degrees O-GlcNAc transferase.” Advisor: Mauricio Reginato, PhD Julia Deane are Master of Science unless Pharmacology otherwise indicated.) Emily Esquea and Physiology Tyeler M. Faulkner “Role of OGT/CDK5/ACSS2 Signaling Axis on Breast Gianna Rossi Jacob Atemefah Fotaw DIVISION OF BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES Cancer Brain Metastatic Lukas Hoetzel Growth” Jieyi Zhang Biochemistry Advisor: Mauricio Reginato, PhD Cydney Lea Johnson Eric Rossi Alexandra A. Guffey DIVISION OF INTERDISCIPLINARY Timothy William Jones AND CAREER-ORIENTED PROGRAMS Daniel Kantner Ami Kapadia Biochemistry “Cobamide amidohydrolase of Health & Disease Biomedicine and Business specificity governs cobamide Claudia Kennedy remodeling in diverse bacteria” Thuraya Alruwaili Adam Cohen Advisor: Joris Beld, PhD Sevak Keshishyan Prajakta Dilipkumar Caleb Ethan Grossman Mehetre Nima Sarfaraz Angel Kidd “Identification of the BORG2 Morgan Iveson Daniel C. Slusaw Actin Binding Element” Nareshkumar Vitthalbhai “HOTAIR domains can Nakarani Advisor: Shae Padrick, PhD Melissa Jeanine Jenkins independently regulate gene expression in breast cancer” Polat B. Shakarov Todd Nesson Advisor: Srinivas Cancer Biology Somarowthu, PhD Sean E. Smith Michelle M. Onye Marwah Khalid Angel Patel Abdulfattah Al-Aloosi Microbiology and Biomedicine and Law Atithi Patel Aditi H. Shimpi Immunology Samantha Judi-Mari “Mechanistic target of Alison Hope Pressman rapamycin regulation of HBV Rita Aurora Esposito Gaerlan replication” “The effect of nonthermal Amber Grover Victoria K. Rath Advisor: Michael J. Bouchard, PhD plasma on herpes simplex virus type 1 infectivity” Alexis Mariah McIlwain Stephanie Rivera Melissa A. Sutton-Navarro Advisors: Fred Krebs, PhD, and Vandana Miller, MD Avinash Sookdeo Steven M. Schoenfeld Brett LaBier Kyle J. Skelton Molecular and Cell “Novel Insights into Biology and Genetics TLR4:TLR3 Crosstalk in Clinical Research for Health Professionals Derek Smith Response to TLR4 Specific Tylor L. Brewster Ultrapure Lipopolysaccharide Jarrett D. Cain Shakina Smith “The Role of Timeless-PARP1 (LPS) from Highly Pathogenic Interaction in DNA Repair and Escherichia coli 0111:B4 in Prakruthi Palepu Erik Vincent Soliz Cancer Growth” Murine Microglia” Advisor: Eishi Noguchi, PhD Advisor: Sonia Mandeep Sran Navas-Martin, PhD Diehl R. De Souza Clinical Research Organization Patrick Charles Sturges “Understanding the role of the Bhavani Taramangalam and Management defective provirus in HIV-1 “Adenosine deaminase-1 (ADA-1) Gary Summer infected individuals with induces DC maturation and Kiersten M. Bestgen neuro-HIV” improves adaptive immunity” Irene M. Toropin Advisor: Michael Nonnemacher, Advisor: Elias El Haddad, PhD Esther J. Campbell PhD Allison Weiderhold Christine Chase Brina Michelle Wright Jennifer Cisar

7 2021Master’s Degree Recipients

Drug Discovery Immunology Kim A. Froeschl Kelly Louisa Hollar and Development Samantha Albert Ryan E. Jones Michael C. Irby Ciara Alvarez Bailey Banville Taylor Marie Kolbe Hannah Frances Reilly Christopher M. Bouslog Moretti Pah Collins Katherine M. Marshall Eliza Siergiej Margott Meg Drew Cameron T. Feathers Krystal Nacel Lindsey L. Wilson Ereselda Elezi Ilanit Gutman Joseph Anthony Ordile Juan Manuel Estrada DIVISION OF PRE-MEDICAL Nicole Michelle Rountree Jayla Hyde AND PRE-HEALTH PROGRAMS Simran Kaur Gill Jacqueline Claire Robins Tom Truong Tiffany Hammonds Biomedical Studies Holly M. Yost Joshua John Van Auken Anna Kolesnik Attia Ahmad

Yue Lu Infectious Disease Medical and Healthcare Haizea Catherine Aurélie Simulation Alemany Nisha Rajamohan Adrianne Bonow Gina E. Tranel Eunice IretiJesu Aworanti Michael S. Ryan Ruth Chung Buh Evan Loon Benza Janeil Kortney Sankey Sandhya Tara Chakravarthi Molecular Medicine Jose Antonio Collazo Janine Lynn Schippang Adrienne Goode Alexa Morgan Bacha Jade Diana Doolittle Lindsey Shelp Stephanie Hadid Tiara Cummings Dana Renae Fiola Caitlyn Stromko Malia Monique Hairston Britani Graver Sherelle Clarice Green Harshil Vyas Kelcey Harper Megan Elizabeth Neilon Lauren Leigh Haack Wenda Wu Kerisa Naicker Oneneeobari Lovette Mathuchena Bhavani Nwogu Karthikeyan Hanming Zeng Jasmine M. Nymick Navjot Kaur Sandhu Richard S. Madnick Tyler John Reese Forensic Science Meredith A. Singer Janae Kyanna Martin Brianna J. Smith Stuart M. Brand Kirsten Alexis Moody Ryan Thompson Pathologists’ Assistant Kande Leslyn Anne Alyssa Mai Nguyen Duncan Madison Taylor Barker Master of Laboratory Rehana Victoria Persaud Elizabeth Dale Henry Animal Science London Ann Carpenter Caroline Elizabeth Carri Elizabeth Lupton Kirsten Jane Bell Natalie J. Crippa Quindlen Jonae B. Savage-Hall Kathleen M. Borrelli Niky DelGuercio Amir Khalid Richardson

Christine Elizabeth Buhalo Mary Ann Erdman Meghan Mackenzie Schilken Anaid Alexandra Carlo Erica Frees Myar Taha Kelly M. Colflesh Mia Sachi Goldblatt Kearny Ken Tse Shekinah Cosby Michael Edward Vassolas Samantha Marie Foley Tatyana Maureen Young

8 Master’s Degree2021 Recipients

Drexel Pathway to Samiza Bryoney Chantelle Xavier French Heather E. Slattery Medical School Palmer Dezurline Garcia Seherzada Softic Aura Cristina Agudelo Willow Durand Pastard Rivera Shweta Gupta Tipsuda Sopho Leslie Yulissa Perez Wisdom Akingbemi Cervantes Rahul Vasudeo Hadap Abaykassa Tadesse

Chioma Alaka Nathaniel Pineda Kyungwon Han Shayna Davi Zanker

Christianah O. Alli Alexis Lee Price Brianna Elaine Hector Intensive Medical Sciences Fatima Salah Amtashar Maria Jose Rabanales- Cameron Richard Holmes Fernandez Zach Mathew Abraham Stephanie Augustin Brionna Sharae Hough Carlos Roble Hanna Brubaker Ashanna Coralita Barclay Bazilla Imran Odette Maria Rosales William Chen Dan Jordan Chase Barnhill Victor Ip Paris Shaw Gabrielle Bernette Feher Garvens Charles Rachelle Joseph Raven Lindsay Simmons Anna Guo Kenechukwu Chimaobim Adelle Laniyan Abby Elizabeth Sproch Charles-Obi Danielle Dove Ireland Tyler L. H. Law Jont’yana Jakeria Tigner Marie-Lise Laurane Meha Nayan Patel Chrysostome Yanisel Luna Viliami Tillage Travis Hare Rushton Kayla Danielle Victoria Kaitlyn Elaine Lutz Cooper Kamol Usmonov Maura May Sheehan Brandon A. Mamou Christiane Orlane Djiajeu Jordann Faye Wilson De Tchappi Mackenzie Julianna Sober Francis Marenga Mburu Maryam Durosinmi Interdisciplinary Health Vanessa Lee Veltre Sciences Delia McDade Sascha Marguerite Enders Amba M. Viswanathan Elle McNeiece Kayla A. Addai Nana Amo Frimpong Shahista Sahabuddin Medical Science Husein Olatoyosi Bakare- Mollah Bryan Kuetiam Gamwo Korodo Gal Daskal Megan Vu Nguyen Josette Graves Julia Louise Tamayo Barruga Volodar M. Migovich Afrah Noor Quincy Meekell Harrison Donte Bennett Jonathan A. Pasato Bryan T. Pham ••• Sanjeev Joseph Herr Obinna Didacus Bethrand- Kinit D. Patel Malia Voytik ••• Odeosamamwen Okechukwu Aguraoritse Idahor Kelly Jean Bisceglia Lorena Beatriz Pena Austin Manuel Iglesias Esin Bulut Neil Charles Pillai Julianna Karina Kinsolving Binta Ceesay Jehron Armani Pura- Bryant Micah Carl Jahvon May Evelyn Fatima Cruzatte Gabriela F. Sarriera Joshua Thomas Neal Louis James Fedele Steven Lee Sims Joolie Ngoc Nguyen Geilynn Fonseca Ramon Luis Arambulo Sison Jessica Nkechi Nwabeke

••• Completed Joint MD/MS Program 9 2021MD Degree Recipients

Doctor of Medicine Degrees Nicolas Andrea Arjun M. Bashyam » Edward Anderson Bowman (The location of the physician’s St. Luke’s University Hospital- Lanekanau Medical Center Appointment Pending clinical program is indicated.) Bethlehem Campus Wynnewood, PA Bethlehem, PA Medicine-Preliminary Anna Romanovna Emergency Medicine Braginskaya University of Texas Crozer-Chester Medical Center Southwestern Medical Center Cynthia Aline Araradian Upland, PA Theophilus Owofu Abah Dallas, TX Oregon Health & Family Medicine George Washington University Dermatology Washington, DC Science University Portland, OR Anesthesiology Michael Allen General Surgery Christopher Vieira Bastos Branham, Jr. » Hospital of the University University of North Mary Christine of Pennsylvania Abramczuk † Diane Choun Carolina Hospitals Philadelphia, PA Geisinger Health System Houy Armenta * Chapel Hill, NC Internal Medicine Danville, PA Icahn School of Medicine at Internal Medicine Neurology Mount Sinai Morningside and Mount Sinai West Alexis Haley Bennett Jayce Joseph Breig New York, NY Case Western Reserve Blake Omid Adnani Cleveland Clinic Foundation Anesthesiology University/University University of Southern Cleveland, OH Hospitals Cleveland California Anesthesiology Medical Center Los Angeles, CA Thomas Alexander Arns * Cleveland, OH Internal Medicine Loyola University Internal Medicine Samuel McGuire Medical Center Brimmer » &&& Maywood, IL Estefania J. Allegheny General Hospital Anesthesiology Nicole Bernstein » Alba-Rodriguez * £ Pittsburgh, PA University of California San Cooper Medical School of Orthopaedic Surgery Diego Medical Center Rowan University/Cooper Ashlee Mari Asada San Diego, CA University Hospital Ohio State University Internal Medicine Ashlyn Renee Brown * » Camden, NJ Medical Center University of Wisconsin Neurology Columbus, OH School of Medicine Internal Medicine Sabrina Ann-Marie Billings and Public Health Mayo Clinic School of Stephanie Algenio-Anciro Madison, WI Graduate Medical Education David Grant Medical Center Benjamin Awad Family Medicine Jacksonville, FL at Travis Air Force Base BronxCare Health System Internal Medicine Fairfield, CA Bronx, NY Andre Elias Bshara » Family Medicine Transitional University of Pittsburgh Nataly Bingham Medical Center Dartmouth-Hitchcock Sheena J. Amin Gabrielle Rose Barbera » Pittsburgh, PA Medical Center University of Missouri- Boston University Internal Medicine / Lebanon, NH Kansas City Medical Center Global Health Surgery-Preliminary Kansas City, MO Boston, MA Interventional Radiology Orthopaedic Surgery Internal Medicine Franklin Panuwat Burg University of Michigan Samantha Danielle Block » Veronica Su Andre Sara Ann Barlow » Hospital Temple University Hospital Lankenau Medical Center Duke University Ann Arbor, MI Philadelphia, PA Wynnewood, PA Medical Center Surgery-Preliminary Emergency Medicine Internal Medicine Durham, NC Internal Medicine Akua Agyeiwaa Boadu University of Virginia Karyn Elizabeth Barrett » † Charlottesville, VA Brigham and Women’s Internal Medicine Hospital Boston, MA Anesthesiology

10 † Humanities Scholar | ££ Women’s Health Scholar-Health Equity Scholar | & Medical Scholar-Biomedical Sciences | && Medical Scholar-Business/Medical Informatics | &&& Medical Scholar-Public Health MD Degree2021 Recipients

Noe Cabello-Rivera Jothika Challapalli » Eileen Diane Chu * John J. DeCaro III Reading Hospital/ New York University Long University of Maryland Dartmouth-Hitchcock Tower Health Island School of Medicine Medical Center Medical Center West Reading, PA Mineola, NY Baltimore, MD Lebanon, NH Anesthesiology Medicine-Preliminary Emergency Medicine Pediatrics

Rhode Island Hospital/ Joseph Salvatore Capalbo Joshua Shawn Clark Dhriti M. Dedhia Brown University Temple University Hospital Crozer-Chester Medical Center Zucker School of Providence, RI Philadelphia, PA Upland, PA Medicine Northwell at Interventional Radiology Internal Medicine Family Medicine Southside Hospital Bay Shore, NY Annie Chang » Obstetrics-Gynecology Michael Murray Caplan Ellen Nicole Cook » Barnes-Jewish Hospital New York Presbyterian Beth Israel Deaconess St. Louis, MO Hospital-Columbia Medical Center Buffy Ferguson Dekmar * Psychiatry University Medical Center Boston, MA Emory University School New York, NY Internal Medicine of Medicine Internal Medicine Doreen Zhao Chang Atlanta, GA New York Presbyterian Transitional Ladora Ayoka Cromwell * Hospital-Columbia Radiology-Diagnostic Tyler David Cappello Case Western Reserve University Medical Center Stony Brook University University/MetroHealth New York, NY Hospital Medical Center Wyatt W. DeLomba Pediatrics Stony Brook, NY Cleveland, OH University of Massachusetts Internal Medicine Medicine-Pediatrics Medical School Simar Singh Chawla * Worcester, MA Case Western Reserve Internal Medicine Kodiak Freedman Carb Brenndan Lawrence University/MetroHealth Allegheny General Hospital Crumley Medical Center Pittsburgh, PA Barnes-Jewish Hospital Michael A. DeMaio Cleveland, OH Internal Medicine St. Louis, MO Thomas Jefferson University Internal Medicine Anatomic and Clinical Philadelphia, PA Pathology Neurology Julianna Marie Cervino » Christina G. Chen » Women and Infants Brown University/ Hospital of Rhode Island/ Kristine Lauren Cueva » Medha Dommaraju Butler Hospital Brown University University of Washington Jersey Shore University Providence, RI Providence, RI Seattle, WA Medical Center Psychiatry Obstetrics-Gynecology Internal Medicine Neptune, NJ Obstetrics-Gynecology Elizabeth J. Chen Sahil Chaddha Suhrudh Reddy Daaram Anne Arundel Medical Center State University of New Zucker School of Medicine Miguel Angel Donneyz Annapolis, MD York Health Science at Staten Island University Appointment Pending Obstetrics-Gynecology Center at Brooklyn - Northwell Health Brooklyn, NY Staten Island, NY Kelly R. Donovan § Internal Medicine Eric Cheung Emergency Medicine Duke University Thomas Jefferson University Medical Center Philadelphia, PA Sarah Danehower Durham, NC Emergency Medicine University of Louisville Ophthalmology School of Medicine Timothy Chong » Louisville, KY Sean Michael Dubois UCSF Benioff Children’s Neurological Surgery St. Luke’s University Hospital Hospital-Oakland Bethlehem, PA Oakland, CA Temilolaoluwa Olanrewaju General Surgery Pediatrics Daramola » & University of Michigan Hospital Ann Arbor, MI Thoracic Surgery

Bryan C. Eckhart Kaitlin Farrell † § Archana Durga Ganta Dana M. Gramolini MedStar Georgetown/ Pennsylvania Hospital Sutter Health St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center Washington Hospital Center Philadelphia, PA Jackson, CA Boston, MA Washington, DC Medicine-Preliminary Family Medicine Anesthesiology Medicine-Preliminary University of California San Lamberta G. Ghaly Nikhil Grandhi » & University of Vermont Diego Medical Center Stony Brook School Washington University Medical Center San Diego, CA of Medicine School of Medicine/ Burlington, VT Neurology Stony Brook, NY Barnes-Jewish Hospital Radiology-Diagnostic Anesthesiology St. Louis, MO Kallie Taylor Fehr • Internal Medicine Nicholas Elias Christiana Care Health System Zachariah Mark Gibson » Morristown Memorial Hospital Newark, DE McLennan County Anuragh Reddy Gudur Morristown, NJ Family Medicine Medical Education and University of Virginia Medicine-Preliminary Research Foundation Charlottesville, VA Jessica P. Fenton &&& Waco, TX Internal Medicine Icahn School of Medicine Christiana Care Health System Family Medicine at Mount Sinai Newark, DE New York, NY Edward Guo * Family Medicine Radiology-Diagnostic Andrew Ross Gilson Cooper Medical School of Nuvance Health Medical Rowan University/Cooper Nolan Peter Feola * Education University Hospital Jarrod Thomas Ellis Eglin Air Force Base Poughkeepsie, NY Camden, NJ State University of New York Eglin AFB, FL Psychiatry Emergency Medicine Upstate Medical University Family Medicine Syracuse, NY General Surgery Mitchell Joshua Gilson Shanshan Elissa Gustafson Jacob Joseph Ferguson • Rutgers Robert Wood Kaiser Permanente Mid- Cooper Medical School of Johnson Medical School Atlantic States Mariah Gabrielle Elly # Rowan University/Cooper New Brunswick, NJ Gaithersburg, MD Abington Hospital- University Hospital Anesthesiology Internal Medicine Jefferson Health Camden, NJ Abington, PA Anesthesiology Obstetrics-Gynecology Richard Joseph Giza » Christopher James University of Pittsburgh Harwood Christian Anthony Medical Center Montefiore Medical Nga Ying Eng Figueredo * » Pittsburgh, PA Center/Albert Einstein Rhode Island Hospital/ David Grant Medical Center Internal Medicine College of Medicine Brown University at Travis Air Force Base Bronx, NY Providence, RI Fairfield, CA Pediatrics Medicine-Preliminary Surgery-Preliminary Wesley Laurence Neurology Goodman-Levy • Crozer-Chester Medical Center Hamid R. Hassanzadeh Naval Medical Center Upland, PA Albert Einstein Medical Center Kathryn T. Enriquez Portsmouth Emergency Medicine Philadelphia, PA University of Southern Portsmouth, VA Internal Medicine California Radiology-Diagnostic Los Angeles, CA Anisha L. Gopu » † Internal Medicine Cincinnati Children’s Kyle Maurice Hatcher Gabriella Mae Forman Hospital Medical Center Mayo Clinic School of Stamford Hospital Cincinnati, OH Graduate Medical Education Youssef Mohammad Stamford, CT Pediatrics Jacksonville, FL Fardos * » Family Medicine Radiology-Diagnostic Stony Brook School of Medicine Richard Lee Graf » Yiwen Fu Stony Brook, NY Thomas Jefferson University Katherine Frances Kaiser Permanente-Santa Anesthesiology Philadelphia, PA Hawkins Clara Medical Center Surgery-Preliminary WellSpan York Hospital Santa Clara, CA York, PA Internal Medicine Emergency Medicine

12 † Humanities Scholar | ££ Women’s Health Scholar-Health Equity Scholar | & Medical Scholar-Biomedical Sciences | && Medical Scholar-Business/Medical Informatics | &&& Medical Scholar-Public Health MD Degree2021 Recipients

Jillian Elizabeth Ayomide Abiola Igun Dominique Simone Jones Jacqueline Nyarkoa Heckman * » # University of Maryland Thomas Jefferson University/ Koomson Johns Hopkins Hospital Medical Center Alfred I. duPont Crozer-Chester Medical Center Baltimore, MD Baltimore, MD Hospital for Children Upland, PA Pediatrics Emergency Medicine Philadelphia, PA Transitional Pediatrics Emory University School Laura Elizabeth Uru Uju Chiemena Ihim of Medicine Henderson » Washington Health System/ Shreeja K. Kadakia Atlanta, GA Johns Hopkins Hospital Washington Hospital St. Luke’s University Hospital Radiology-Diagnostic Baltimore, MD Washington, PA Easton, PA Pediatrics Family Medicine Neurology Kristine Elizabeth Lagana * » Grace Elizabeth Hernandez Samantha Lyn Innis Jay M. Kadhiwala •• Thomas Jefferson University University of California Baylor College of Medicine Penn State Milton S. Philadelphia, PA Davis Medical Center San Antonio, TX Hershey Medical Center Internal Medicine Sacramento, CA Pediatrics Hershey, PA Orthopaedic Surgery Family Medicine Timothy Jason Lam Stephen Edward Jaffee Albert Einstein Timothy Patrick Higgins Allegheny General Hospital Urooj Ayesha Khalid * Healthcare Network Rutgers Robert Wood Pittsburgh, PA Abington Hospital- East Norriton, PA Johnson Medical School Neurological Surgery Jefferson Health Internal Medicine Piscataway, NJ Abington, PA Psychiatry General Surgery Roxane Javadi * Joseph Andrew Larwa » St. Christopher’s Hospital for University of Florida College Melissa Louisa Hoffman Children/Tower Health Shama Khan of Medicine – Jacksonville Hospital of the University Philadelphia, PA New York-Presbyterian/Weill Jacksonville, FL of Pennsylvania Pediatrics Cornell Medical Center Orthopaedic Surgery Philadelphia, PA New York, NY Medicine-Preliminary Child Neurology Mohit Jethi Jacob Alexander Latreille Eastern Virginia University at Buffalo Abington Hospital- Medical School School of Medicine Fadi Jiryis Khoury Jefferson Health Norfolk, VA Buffalo, NY University of Arizona Abington, PA Dermatology Medicine-Preliminary College of Medicine Medicine-Preliminary Ophthalmology Phoenix, AZ Internal Medicine George Washington University Lauren M. Holleran » Washington, DC West Virginia University Nikita Jhawar Radiology-Diagnostic School of Medicine Mayo Clinic School of Jenna Elyse Kocsis * » Morgantown, WV Graduate Medical Education Lankenau Medical Center Transitional Jacksonville, FL Wynnewood, PA Michael Robert Lattanzi Internal Medicine Medicine-Preliminary University of Florida Health Beth Israel Deaconess Shands Hospital Cleveland Clinic Foundation Medical Center Kevin Yu Jin Gainesville, FL Cleveland, OH Boston, MA Mercy Catholic Medical Center Child Neurology Radiation Oncology Anesthesiology Darby, PA Transitional Katelyn Mary Latuska * Tamim Ibrahim Al Hossain Won-Joon M. Koh Vanderbilt University Christiana Care Health System University of Pittsburgh Icahn School of Medicine at Medical Center Newark, DE Medical Center Mount Sinai Morningside Nashville, TN Medicine-Pediatrics Pittsburgh, PA and Mount Sinai West Emergency Medicine Anesthesiology New York, NY Internal Medicine Kristy X. Hou Luke Linwood Lawrence Reading Hospital/ Ajit Jason John MedStar Georgetown Tower Health Brandywine Hospital/ University Hospital Reading, PA Tower Health Washington, DC Family Medicine Coatesville, PA Internal Medicine Psychiatry

Paul Taegyu Lee Tess Mary Lukowiak » Erica Nicole Miller * Tammy Hoi See Ng Mercy Catholic Medical Center Lankenau Medical Center Montefiore Medical University of California Darby, PA Wynnewood, PA Center/Albert Einstein Davis Medical Center Medicine-Preliminary Medicine-Preliminary College of Medicine Sacramento, CA Bronx, NY Pediatrics Rutgers Robert Wood Pediatrics May M. Li Johnson Medical School Abington Hospital- Louise Ngo Somerset, NJ Jefferson Health Roxana Mir * Temple University Hospital Dermatology Abington, PA University of Connecticut Philadelphia, PA Medicine-Preliminary School of Medicine Anesthesiology Briana Mancenido Farmington, CT Montefiore Medical Zucker School of Medicine Obstetrics-Gynecology Cynthia Y. Niño Center/Albert Einstein Northwell at Cohen Phoenix Children’s Hospital College of Medicine Children’s Medical Center Cassandra Bonnie May Phoenix, AZ Bronx, NY New Hyde Park, NY Mitchell * Child Neurology Anesthesiology Pediatrics Lehigh Valley Hospital Allentown, PA Andrew Chase Noah Yuan-Ping Li § Nicholas Emilio Manini Obstetrics-Gynecology Crozer-Chester Medical Center Thomas Jefferson University Thomas Jefferson University/ Upland, PA Philadelphia, PA Alfred I. duPont Ariya Mobaraki * » Transitional Neurology Hospital for Children Penn State Milton S. Philadelphia, PA Hershey Medical Center Temple University Hospital Pediatrics Jackie D. Long Hershey, PA Philadelphia, PA Information Witheld Obstetrics-Gynecology Radiology-Diagnostic Diana Martirosyan Cooper Medical School of Kevin David Lopez Anna Maria Moroz Rachel Ann Nolan » § Rowan University/Cooper Zucker School of Medicine St. Luke’s University Hospital University of Washington University Hospital Northwell at NS/LIJ Bethlehem, PA Seattle, WA Camden, NJ Great Neck, NY Emergency Medicine Emergency Medicine Internal Medicine Medicine-Preliminary Ashni Shankar Nadgauda • Nathan John O’Brien Reading Hospital/ Rhea Sarah Mathew * Reading Hospital/ University at Buffalo Tower Health University of California Los Tower Health School of Medicine West Reading, PA Angeles Medical Center Reading, PA Buffalo, NY Physical Medicine & Los Angeles, CA Obstetrics-Gynecology Emergency Medicine Rehabilitation Emergency Medicine

Zaw Htut Naing Clarissa R. O’Conor * ££ Chandni Lotwala * † Brendan Charles Zucker School of Medicine West Suburban Medical Center Rutgers Robert Wood McCreath # Northwell at NS/LIJ Oak Park, IL Johnson Medical School Temple University Hospital Manhasset, NY Family Medicine New Brunswick, NJ Philadelphia, PA Emergency Medicine Family Medicine Internal Medicine Shelby Susan Olender Lauren Riley Nelson Dartmouth-Hitchcock Kathleen Rose Loughran John Wick McIlvain Icahn School of Medicine at Medical Center Emory University School St. Luke’s Warren Hospital Mount Sinai Beth Israel Lebanon, NH of Medicine Phillipsburg, NJ New York, NY Psychiatry Atlanta, GA Family Medicine Medicine-Preliminary Psychiatry Neurology Shyle H. Mehta Jeffrey David Olson * Zucker School of Medicine State University of New Sayedatun Nessa Northwell at NS/LIJ York Health Science Stony Brook University Lake Success, NY Center at Brooklyn Hospital Neurological Surgery Brooklyn, NY Stony Brook, NY Emergency Medicine Neurology

14 † Humanities Scholar | ££ Women’s Health Scholar-Health Equity Scholar | & Medical Scholar-Biomedical Sciences | && Medical Scholar-Business/Medical Informatics | &&& Medical Scholar-Public Health MD Degree2021 Recipients

Conor Michael O’Meara Hinal Patel » Matthew Malcolm Pier » Leslie Marvel Raybould Crozer-Chester Medical Center Rutgers Robert Wood Temple University Hospital St. Christopher’s Hospital for Upland, PA Johnson Medical School Philadelphia, PA Children/Tower Health Emergency Medicine New Brunswick, NJ Surgery-Preliminary Philadelphia, PA Family Medicine Pediatrics Matthew Onimus Aaron V. Pinninti University of Maryland Reddy M. Pathakota •• Mercy Catholic Medical Center William Yang Raynor Medical Center University of California Darby, PA Crozer-Chester Medical Center Baltimore, MD Los Angeles Medical General Surgery Upland, PA Medicine-Preliminary Center - Olive View Transitional Sylmar, CA Zahra K. Pirani Johns Hopkins Hospital Internal Medicine Rutgers Robert Wood Zucker School of Medicine Baltimore, MD Johnson Medical School Northwell at Cohen Radiology-Diagnostic New Brunswick, NJ Ricky Rajendra Patil Children’s Medical Center Radiology-Diagnostic New York University Grossman New Hyde Park, NY Pablo Jose Ordonez School of Medicine Pediatrics University of Maryland Brooklyn, NY Sara Margaret Rogerson Medical Center General Surgery University of Massachusetts Jessica Pryor » Baltimore, MD Medical School Temple University Hospital Family Medicine Worcester, MA Lucy Anne Pualani Paul Philadelphia, PA Family Medicine Santa Clara Valley Urology Sammy Othman Medical Center Zucker School of Medicine San Jose, CA Madhuwani Suguna Max Mathew Puthenpura Northwell at NS/LIJ Medicine-Preliminary Rojulpote Cleveland Clinic Foundation Great Neck, NY Rush University Cleveland, OH Plastic Surgery Rutgers Robert Wood Medical Center Internal Medicine Johnson Medical School Chicago, IL New Brunswick, NJ Internal Medicine Michael James Palizzolo Anesthesiology Grace Wen-Hua Quinn * » Thomas Jefferson University Children’s National Philadelphia, PA Ahmad Nasif Sadique Medical Center Emergency Medicine Jessica Mary Pawly * » £ Montefiore Medical Washington, DC University of Virginia Center/Albert Einstein Pediatrics Charlottesville, VA College of Medicine Kaitlyn Nicole Palmer » General Surgery Bronx, NY Cleveland Clinic Foundation Priya Ramachandrula £ Anesthesiology Cleveland, OH Penn State Milton S. Neurology Brandon Joseph Perumpail Hershey Medical Center St. Christopher’s Hospital for Yasmina M. Samaha Hershey, PA Children/Tower Health Newark Beth Israel Medical Cindy Park # Internal Medicine Philadelphia, PA Center/Robert Wood Temple University Hospital Pediatrics Johnson Barnabas Health Philadelphia, PA Michael Anthony Sebastian Newark, NJ Internal Medicine Ramada •• Pediatrics Richard William Petrella II Zucker School of Medicine Washington University Joseph Park Northwell at NS/LIJ School of Medicine/ Nimerta Kaur Sandhu * £ Case Western Reserve Great Neck, NY Barnes-Jewish Hospital Information Withheld University/University Internal Medicine St. Louis, MO Hospitals Cleveland Internal Medicine Medical Center Prasanti Sai Ravipati Cleveland, OH Tufts Medical Center Pediatrics Bryan Tri Pham ••• Boston, MA Loma Linda University Internal Medicine Loma Linda, CA Internal Medicine

Emma Ann Schanzenbach * James Daniel Sharer Adam Christian Joseph M. Tramontana Lehigh Valley Hospital Thomas Jefferson University/ Sundholm » Chestnut Hill Hospital/ Allentown, PA Alfred I. duPont Baylor University Tower Health Family Medicine Hospital for Children Medical Center Philadelphia, PA Philadelphia, PA Dallas, TX Family Medicine Pediatrics Internal Medicine Elizabeth Schell Temple University Hospital Thomas Santino Truglio Philadelphia, PA Rishi Sharma Abigail Rose Tami • Dartmouth-Hitchcock Emergency Medicine Hackensack University Boston University Medical Center Medical Center Medical Center Lebanon, NH Hackensack, NJ Boston, MA Internal Medicine Nicholas Bernard Schmidt General Surgery Internal Medicine Temple University Hospital Philadelphia, PA Brian Scott Van Dam Psychiatry Nadeera Sidique Trevor George Lee Teich WellSpan York Hospital WellSpan York Hospital University of Toronto York, PA York, PA Toronto, Canada Emergency Medicine Emily M. Seltzer Surgery-Preliminary Anatomical Pathology Allegheny General Hospital Pittsburgh, PA Dylan G. Vance * » Emergency Medicine Akruti Singh Arman Vasken Terzian # The University of Texas Health Baylor University Johns Hopkins Hospital Science Center at Houston Medical Center Baltimore, MD Houston, TX Caitlin Giselle Sershon » Dallas, TX Psychiatry Otolaryngology Montefiore Medical Internal Medicine Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine Garret Paul Tesman » Darshak Manu Vekaria * » Bronx, NY Lilien Socorro * Lancaster General Hospital Stony Brook School Emergency Medicine University of Miami/ Lancaster, PA of Medicine Jackson Health System Family Medicine Stony Brook, NY Miami, FL Emergency Medicine Tristan Teague Seton £ Emergency Medicine Geisinger Health System Aditya Thandoni Wilkes-Barre, PA Allegheny General Hospital James Edward Verdone General Surgery Sitara Soundararajan £ Pittsburgh, PA University of Maryland Montefiore Medical Orthopaedic Surgery Medical Center Center/Albert Einstein Baltimore, MD Malak Shah College of Medicine Internal Medicine Hackensack Meridian Health Colton Mason Tom * » Bronx, NY Palisades Medical Center University of Southern Psychiatry North Bergen, NJ California Rheanna Vimawala Transitional Los Angeles, CA Temple University Hospital Ammarah Sehar Spall » Internal Medicine Philadelphia, PA University at Buffalo Stony Brook School Emergency Medicine School of Medicine of Medicine Jane Yi Tong Buffalo, NY Stony Brook, NY University of Maryland Estelle Charlotte Vincent Radiology-Diagnostic Medicine-Pediatrics Medical Center Saint Vincent Hospital Baltimore, MD Erie, PA Deepak K. Shan Chelsea Lynn Spector Otolaryngology Family Medicine Allegheny General Hospital Memorial Healthcare System Pittsburgh, PA Pembroke Pines, FL Christopher Luis Torres Malia N. Voytik » ••• Vascular Surgery General Surgery Reading Hospital/ Christiana Care Health System Tower Health Newark, DE Natalie Nichole Stump Reading, PA General Surgery Dartmouth-Hitchcock Family Medicine Medical Center Lebanon, NH Emergency Medicine

16 † Humanities Scholar | ££ Women’s Health Scholar-Health Equity Scholar | & Medical Scholar-Biomedical Sciences | && Medical Scholar-Business/Medical Informatics | &&& Medical Scholar-Public Health MD Degree2021 Recipients

Jennifer Wainwright Yen-Ruh Andrew Wuu DEGREE AWARDED University of Arizona Zucker School of Medicine POSTHUMOUSLY College of Medicine Northwell at NS/LIJ Phoenix, AZ Great Neck, NY Deylan C. Moore Family Medicine Medicine-Preliminary Vivek Subramani Zucker School of Medicine Charles Wang § Northwell at NS/LIJ Albert Einstein Medical Center New Hyde Park, NY Philadelphia, PA Radiation Oncology Medicine-Preliminary

University of California Rebecca Yao » † Davis Medical Center Mayo Clinic School of Sacramento, CA Graduate Medical Education Radiation Oncology Rochester, MN Internal Medicine Joshua H. Weinberg Ohio State University Bettie A. Yeboah * Medical Center University of Virginia Columbus, OH Charlottesville, VA Neurological Surgery Pathology

Taylor M. Wernert Emma V. Yellin Rhode Island Hospital/ Abington Hospital- Brown University Jefferson Health Providence, RI Abington, PA Internal Medicine Medicine-Preliminary

Matilda Joan Whitney » # Rachel Yoo * Icahn School of Medicine at Reading Hospital/ Mount Sinai/Mount Sinai Tower Health New York, NY West Reading, PA Internal Medicine General Surgery

James Williams Chelsea Marie Young University of Virginia Baylor College of Medicine Charlottesville, VA Houston, TX Surgery-Preliminary Pediatrics/Global Health Ophthalmology Joyce Lu Zhang * Ryan Williams Icahn School of Medicine at Penn State Milton S. Mount Sinai/Mount Sinai Hershey Medical Center New York, NY Hershey, PA Internal Medicine Internal Medicine Mohan Ashok Zopey Winston Wu Harbor-University of California University of Virginia Los Angeles Medical Center Charlottesville, VA Torrance, CA Emergency Medicine Internal Medicine

• Completed Joint MD/MPH Program | •• Completed Joint MD/MBA Program | ••• Completed Joint MD/MS Program § Completed Joint MD/PhD Program | # Bridging the Gaps Scholar |  Gold Humanism Honor Society | » Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Society | £ Women’s Health Scholar-Sex and Gender Medicine 17 2021Academic Awards Graduate School of THE RONALD P. THE DIANA J. THE BEATRICE Biomedical Sciences and CAPUTO AWARD EGAN AWARD STERLING HOLLANDER, Professional Studies For outstanding clinical skills For excellence in clinical MD, WMC ’41 Awards and humanitarianism in the Obstetrics & Gynecology: MEMORIAL AWARD care of medical patients: Mariah Gabrielle Elly To the student in the graduating Joyce Lu Zhang class who shows promise of leadership, high character, THE AMEDEO BONDI, and dedication to service: PHD ENDOWED THE SOCIETY FOR Jenna Elyse Kocsis GRADUATE AWARD THE HARRIS R. ACADEMIC EMERGENCY To a PhD graduating student CLEARFIELD AWARD MEDICINE AWARD for excellence in research For excellence in performance during the For excellence in Gastroenterology: THE RITA G. training experience. Emergency Medicine: Nicole Bernstein Katherine Frances Hawkins JACOBS AWARD Hemalatha Muralidharan For excellence and compassion Class of 2021 in Anesthesiology and pain management: THE MAURICE C. THE DEPARTMENT OF Karyn Elizabeth Barrett Doctor of Medicine Awards CLIFFORD, MD FAMILY, COMMUNITY, LEADERSHIP AWARD AND PREVENTIVE For a graduating senior who MEDICINE AWARD has excelled academically THE ROBERT THE 2021 UNITED For excellence in F. JOHNSTON and whose accomplishments Family Medicine: STATES PUBLIC HEALTH exhibit outstanding leadership, MEMORIAL AWARD SERVICE AWARD Ashyln Renee Brown integrity, excellence and For excellence in Pulmonary From the Physicians Professional volunteer service in activities For excellence in Community and Critical Care Medicine: Advisory Committee of the devoted to human welfare: and Preventive Medicine: Luke Linwood Lawrence U.S. Public Health Service in Matthew Malcolm Pier recognition of demonstrated Pablo Jose Ordonez commitment to public health and public health practice: THE EICHI K. KOIWAI, Wesley Laurence THE SELMA AND OSCAR THE EVA FERNANDEZ Goodman-Levy MD, HU’47 AWARD CORN, MD MEMORIAL FOX AWARD IN ORTHOPAEDICS For an outstanding performance For the graduating senior during the Pathology Clerkship: HU ’43 AWARD who best demonstrates Brenndan Lawrence Crumley THE DR. ELIAS For excellence in Orthopaedic personal integrity, stability, ABRUTYN AWARD Surgery, proven scholarship responsibility and loyalty to and demonstrated leadership the College of Medicine: For excellence in amongst peers: Julianna Marie Cervino THE JOSEPH Infectious Diseases: Grace Elizabeth Hernandez Michael Murray Caplan A. LANGBORD MEMORIAL PRIZE THE WILLIAM For a graduating senior who THE DREXEL GREGG AWARD best exemplifies the qualities THE PAULA BERNOCCHI UNIVERSITY COLLEGE of humanitarianism in the Graduation prize for practice of medicine: MEMORIAL AWARD OF MEDICINE ALUMNI Humanitarianism in Care Ashlyn Renee Brown For excellence in the field ASSOCIATION AWARD of Pediatric Patients: of Emergency Medicine: For dedication and contribution Grace Wen-Hua Quinn Katelyn Mary Latuska to the community and University: For excellence in the Richard Lee Graf THE WILIAM LIKOFF, field of Psychiatry: MD MEMORIAL AWARD THE LESTER J. Annie Chang IN CARDIOLOGY GROVERMAN, MD THE DREXEL For the graduating senior MEMORIAL AWARD with the most promise in UNIVERSITY COLLEGE For outstanding clinical and the field of Cardiology: THE IAIN F.S. OF MEDICINE academic performance in Sara Ann Barlow BLACK AWARD SGA AWARD Hematology and Oncology: For excellence in Pediatrics, For outstanding dedication Mohan Ashok Zopey presented by the Department and loyalty to the school of Pediatrics and the Medical and the student body: THE GEORGE D. Staff of St. Christopher’s Jenna Elyse Kocsis LUMB, MD AWARD Hospital for Children: THE DR. MARY ELLEN For outstanding achievement Jillian Elizabeth Heckman HARTMAN AWARD in the Pathology course: For a student underrepresented Bettie A. Yeboah THE ALAN EDELSOHN in medicine who has MEMORIAL PRIZE demonstrated outstanding social consciousness and leadership THE LUTHER W. For outstanding leadership with peers and the community: BRADY, MD AWARD and service to the student body THE DANIEL MASON, For excellence in Radiation and the College of Medicine: Cassandra Bonnie May MD HU’44 AWARD Oncology and Clinical Oncology: Mitchell Temilolaoluwa Olanrewaju For excellence in Cardiovascular Jenna Elyse Kocsis Daramola clinical work: Adam Christian Sundholm

18 Academic2021 Awards DR. NATHALIE MAY THE OFFICE OF THE VIVEK SUBRAMANI THE THOMAS J. PHYLLIS MARCIANO STUDENT AFFAIRS MEMORIAL AWARD VISCHER AWARD JR. AWARD AWARD For leadership, compassion, For clinical excellence For outstanding leadership For service to the medical school service and a commitment to in Medicine: and service to the student body and to the student body: fostering community within Christopher Vieira Bastos and College of Medicine: the College of Medicine. Temilolaoluwa Olanrewaju Christopher Vieira Bastos Malak Shah Kathryn T. Enriquez Daramola Richard Lee Graf Cindy Park Jane Yi Tong THE DEPARTMENT OF THE MEDICAL SURGERY AWARD FOR THE ARTHUR HUMANITIES AWARD EXCELLENCE IN THE AND BERTHA THE AXEL K. OLSEN, Anisha L. Gopu SURGERY CLERKSHIP WEISMAN AWARD MD NEUROSURGERY AWARD Abington-Jefferson Health: For excellence in Child Psychiatry: For excellence in Neurosurgery: Kelly R. Donovan THE DEPARTMENT OF Shelby Susan Olender Shyle H. Mehta Allegheny Health Network: MEDICINE AWARD Samuel McGuire Brimmer For excellence in Renal and Electrolyte studies: Crozer-Chester Medical Center: THE RANDALL Prasanti Sai Ravipati THE ALEXANDER Ariya Mobaraki WEISS AWARD PEARCE, MD AWARD For excellence in Psychiatry: For excellence in Surgery: Easton Hospital: Kelly R. Donovan Jane Yi Tong Timothy Patrick Higgins THE DEYLAN C. MOORE Kaiser Sacramento Nicholas Bernard Schmidt MEMORIAL AWARD Medical Center: For leadership, humanism, James Williams and service to the student THE RONALD S. body and the community: PENNOCK, MD AWARD Philadelphia Area: THE WOMAN ONE Samantha Lyn Innis For excellence in Internal Karyn Elizabeth Barrett SCHOLAR AWARD Medicine and Cardiology: Reading Hospital/Tower Health Richard William Petrella II Dominique Simone Jones Noe Cabello-Rivera THE ALMA D. MORANI, Jacqueline Nyarkoa Koomson MD WMC’31 AWARD UPMC Pinnacle: IN GROSS ANATOMY THE PENNSYLVANIA Michael A. DeMaio For excellence in Anatomy ACADEMY OF WellSpan York Hospital: THE WOMEN’S HEALTH during the senior year: FAMILY PHYSICIANS, Mariah Gebrielle Elly EDUCATION AWARD PHILADELPHIA Nicole Bernstein In recognition of outstanding BRANCH AWARD leadership and community Tristen Teague Seton For performance and leadership commitment in the field in Family Medicine: THE DEPARTMENT of Women’s Health: Colton Mason Tom Joseph M. Tramontana OF SURGERY AWARD Academic Achievement: Jane Yi Tong For excellence in the Sitara Soundararajan Surgery Pathway: Andre Elias Bshara Leadership: THE ELISE REID Clarissa R. O’Conor THE DEPARTMENT OF CARRINGTON AWARD Community Commitment: NEUROLOGY AWARD For a graduating senior who For excellence in Neurology: has demonstrated a high THE CHARLES Estefania J. Alba-Rodriguez level of accomplishment SWARTZ AWARD Julianna Marie Cervino Lauren Riley Nelson and who has demonstrated For academic and clinical outstanding leadership and Kaitlyn Nicole Palmer excellence in Medicine: service to the student body: Kristine Lauren Cueva Joseph Salvatore Capalbo THE WU FAMILY PRIZE For excellence in Physical THE DEPARTMENT Medicine and Rehabilitation: OF OBSTETRICS AND THE DANIEL M. THE RICHARD Kevin David Lopez GYNECOLOGY AWARD TABAS AWARD SHUMAN AWARD For overall academic excellence For outstanding scholarly For excellence in Pathology in the Obstetrics and Gynecology: achievement by a student and Laboratory Medicine: Ashni Shankar Nadgauda pursuing a career in THE DR. MARY Trevor George Lee Teich Primary Care: YANKOSKY AWARD For academic excellence in the Jessica P. Fenton Obstetrics and Gynecology For excellence in Endocrinology: Clinical Clerkship: Won-Joon M. Koh THE DR. LEE WINSTON Jenna Elyse Kocsis For excellence in SILVER AWARD For leadership in the field of Radiologic Sciences: For excellence in Pediatrics: Obstetrics and Gynecology: Matthew Onimus Cassandra Bonnie May Anisha L. Gopu Mitchell

19 2021Special Recognition

Faculty Awards for Distinguished Clinical Teaching

DEAN’S SPECIAL AWARDS FOR EXCELLENCE IN CLINICAL TEACHING

Allegheny Health Network Reading Hospital–Tower Health Matthew Hartman, MD David A. Matson, DO Radiology Anesthesiology

Bayhealth Medical Center St. Christopher’s Hospital Bhavin Dave, MD for Children Medicine Emily Spengler, MD Pediatrics Cancer Treatment Centers of America - Philadelphia St. Francis Medical Center Imran Shariff, MD Donald Christmas, MD Medicine Medicine

Crozer-Chester Medical Center UPMC Pinnacle Hospital Douglas Lieberman, MD Ravinder Dhatt, MD Medicine Medicine

Friends Hospital Virtua Health Jonathan G. Shack, MD Bhavika Patel, MD Psychiatry Family Medicine

Mercy Fitzgerald Hospital WellSpan Chambersburg Hospital Loice A. Swisher, MD Indranil Chakrabarti, MD Emergency Medicine Psychiatry

Nazareth Hospital WellSpan York Hospital Lee A. Celio, MD J. Patrick Ryan, MD Medicine Surgery

DEAN’S SPECIAL AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN CLINICAL TEACHING AT A FAMILY PRACTICE SITE

Washington Health System

20 The Commencement2021 Tradition

tradition that reaches back nearly a thousand Caps are traditionally black with a long tassel fastened A years, Commencement symbolizes not so much to the mid-point. A doctor’s cap may have a tassel of the culmination of the years of effort on the part of gold thread. The tassel is worn on the right side until a both students and teachers, but rather the beginning— degree has been conferred; it is then worn on the left. the commencement—of a productive social and Commencement begins and ends with the academic professional life, and a life of continued learning. procession, led by the chief marshal carrying the mace. The first university, the University of Bologna, The mace traces its origins to the Roman fasces, a was founded in Italy in 1162 and offered specialized bundle of rods bound together around an ax with the education in the major professional fields of the blade projecting, which was carried before magistrates medieval world: law, medicine, government and as an emblem of authority. The ceremony officially theology—areas that would dominate European and begins with the placing of the mace before the graduates American higher education until the 20th century. and ends when the chief marshal retrieves it and leads From Bologna, the concept of university the recession. The color guard follows the marshal, education spread throughout Europe and later to with the candidates for degrees marching behind the New World. The pageantry and symbolism of in reverse order of seniority—certificate, associate, Commencement are typified by the cap and gown, and bachelor’s first, master’s next and doctoral third. which in their original forms were simply the everyday The faculty follows, also proceeding in reverse order attire of the medieval scholar. The additions of the from assistant to full professor. The final division centuries have made them what they are today. of the procession is the platform party, composed The academic costume has three basic parts: the of academic deans, administrative officers, trustees, cap, the gown and the hood. Three factors must be honorary degree recipients and the president. taken into consideration—the degree (bachelor, master, Throughout their long and proud history, doctor); the branch of knowledge (nursing, medicine, universities have retained and cherished strong etc.); and the university by which the degree is granted. ties to their ceremonial roots. The faculties and The bachelor’s gown is black, has long sleeves, and graduates have gloried in the rich imagery and colorful is worn closed. The master’s gown is black but has short panoply associated with Commencement, one of the sleeves and a crescent cut at the sleeve end. Some are oldest continuing rituals in the Western world. open at the wrist; others have a slit in the upper part of the sleeve. The doctor’s gown is often black, preferably History and Traditions of the University Mace silk, with full, round sleeves that are barred in either black velvet or velvet of the color used in the hood to designate The mace was a medieval weapon intended to prevail the branch of learning. Many American universities, as over an armored adversary. As long-range weapons well as British ones, now have gowns of characteristic evolved, the mace became a ceremonial symbol color for doctoral graduates. For instance, a graduate of denoting authority and was carried before a nobleman Harvard University may wear a crimson gown, a New for protection, if necessary, from personal attack. In York University graduate a violet gown, and a University academic processions, it has traditionally been carried by of Pennsylvania graduate a gown of red and blue. an academic officer of high standing. The selection of the The shape and size of the American hood mark the officer to carry the mace may be governed by institutional degree of the wearer. The lining of the hood is indicative tradition and may vary from ceremony to ceremony. of the institution granting the degree and is usually the The Drexel University mace is carried in the official color or colors of the school. If two colors are used, Commencement procession to the stage, where it joins one is generally arranged as a chevron upon the other. the maces of the College of Medicine’s predecessor The bachelor’s hood is three feet long, the master’s institutions. The Hahnemann mace was designed and three-and-a-half feet long, and the doctor’s four feet long. carved by James Victor. The mace of the Medical College Bachelor of Science and Master of Science candidates of Pennsylvania was designed by former dean Alton I. wear sun-gold hoods; Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts Sutnick, in conjunction with artist Richard Feldstein. candidates, white hoods. Doctor of Philosophy candidates wear blue hoods. Doctor of Medicine candidates wear green hoods. Candidates with annotated degrees may wear hoods of other colors, such as apricot (Bachelor and Master of Science in Nursing), teal (Master of Physical Therapy), and blue with white trim (Master of Arts, Creative Arts in Therapy), to name a few.

21 2021

Drexel University Board of Trustees

Alfred E. Altomari ’82 Raphael C. Lee, MD ’75 Chris McKendry Andrade ’90 Thomas Leonard, Esq. ’68 Michael Barry ’81 Jerry J. Martin ’77 Jeffrey A. Beachell ’93 Mark McAdoo ’87 James Bean ’91 Patrick S. McGonigal ’86 Sally J. Bellet, Esq. Matthew S. Naylor ’12 Gregory S. Bentley Denis P. O’Brien ’87 Thomas E. “Rick” Berk ’86 Kevin J. O’Hara ’83 Karen Dougherty Buchholz Richelle P. Parham ’91 Elinor Hosterman Buck ’87 Charles P. Pizzi Randall S. Burkert ’82 Thomas M. Rampulla ’94 Thomas A. Caramanico Kathleen Reardon ’96 R. John Chapel Jr. ’67 Virginia S. Rose Hon. Ida K. Chen Stan Silverman ’69, ’74 Vice Chair Kathleen P. Chimicles, ASA ’83 Joseph P. Ujobai ’84 Abbie Dean ’08 Charles K. Valutas ’73 Nicholas DeBenedictis ’68, ’69, HD ’87 Michael J. Williams ’80, ’83 Amish Desai ’03 Gerianne Tringali DiPiano

Domenic M. DiPiero III Emeritus Trustees Angela Dowd-Burton ’74, ’79 Thomas O. Fitzpatrick, Esq. Paul “Mel” Baiada ’82, ’85 Brian R. Ford Sylvia “Sibby” Merkel Brasler ’60 Michael C. Forman Robert R. Buckley ’58, HD ’12 John Fry John G. “Jack” Johnson Jr. ’70, ’72 President George F. Krall Jr. ’58, HD ’14 Kenneth Fulmer ’92, ’00 James E. Marks ’47, ’49, HD ’15 Sean J. Gallagher ’93 Robert McClements Jr. ’52 David R. Geltzer ’77 C.R. “Chuck” Pennoni ’63, ’66, HD ’92 Richard A. Greenawalt ’66 Chair D. Howard Pierce ’71 David Griffith John J. Roberts ’67, ’71, HD ’05 Mauricio Gutierrez William T. Schleyer ’73, HD ’06 Richard A. Hayne Stephen A. Sheller, Esq. HD ’17 Vice Chair Ray Westphal ’59, HD ’02 Nina Henderson Vice Chair Richard C. Ill ’73 Patricia H. Imbesi ’69 Joseph H. Jacovini, Esq. HD ’04 Thomas R. Kline, Esq. J. Michael Lawrie ’77

22 Publication Policy This Commencement Program is intended for unofficial use only. It may not be used for legal purposes or for proof of the University’s granting of degree to, or receipt of diploma by, any individual named herein. Contents of this publication reflect information available at or before the time of printing. Student names listed in this program reflect our best understanding, at the time of printing, of those who will complete their requirements as of December 2021.

Lists complete as of May 2021

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