Mission Statement Rocky Vista University provides quality healthcare education while inspiring students to serve with compassion, integrity, and excellence. Class of 2020 Commencement Friday, First of May, Two-Thousand Twenty Letter from the President To Rocky Vista University’s Class of 2020, This year’s Commencement is dedicated to our students and faculty as they played, and continue to play, a significant role in the COVID-19 Pandemic. Not since 1918 has our Country’s medical professionals been challenged by such a far-reaching pandemic. It challenges us, as a graduate healthcare University, to insist on the most advanced educational technologies and curricular emphasis, while never forgetting our commitment to the healing power and the importance of body, mind, and spirit. We are proud of the stellar performance and eagerness of the Class of 2020 to launch into the next phase of medical education. You came to RVU with a sense of purpose, a desire to make a difference, and today, I remind you that your journey is never complete. The faculty and staff have provided you with the tools for success and wish you every joy and happiness a life of service can bring. Today is a day of gratitude: gratitude to your family, friends, and faculty—all of whom share in your pride and accomplishment. To our medical school graduates, the people that are not here are your future patients, the individuals and families you will be privileged to touch. The “DO Touch” encompasses compassion, caring, and expertise in your chosen specialty. Every day, we hear tragic sto- ries of families devastated by not being with their loved ones at their hour of need; this sorrow will reside in their hearts and minds forever. It is for these families that you are becoming a physician today. To our fourth MSBS class, thank you for the trust you have placed in us. You have worked hard to be one step closer to achieving your professional goal and I know you will go on to do great things. I am proud of each and every one of you—now your challenge is to make RVU proud of you! Warmest regards, Clinton E. Adams, DO, FACHE President and CEO, Rocky Vista University The Osteopathic Oath I do hereby affirm my loyalty to the profession I am about to enter. I will be mindful always of my great responsibility to preserve the health and the life of my patients, to retain their confidence and respect both as a physician and a friend who will guard their secrets with scrupulous honor and fidelity, to perform faithfully my professional duties, to employ only those recognized methods of treatment consistent with good judgment and with my skill and ability, keeping in mind always nature’s laws and the body’s inherent capacity for recovery. I will be ever vigilant in aiding in the general welfare of the community, sustaining its laws and institutions, not engaging in those practices which will in any way bring shame or discredit upon myself or my profession. I will give no drugs for nefarious purposes to any person, though it may be asked of me. I will endeavor to work in accord with my colleagues in a spirit of progressive cooperation and never by word or by act cast imputations upon them or their rightful practices. I will look with respect and esteem upon all those who have taught me my art. To my college and my profession, I will be loyal and strive always for its best interests and for the interests of the students who will come after me. I will be ever alert to further the application of basic biologic truths to the healing arts and to develop the principles of osteopathic medicine which were first enunciated by Andrew Taylor Still. Fellows Erika Aspasia Anderson Whitney Austin Liehr Anatomy Fellow Osteopathic Principles and Practice Fellow General Surgery Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation St. Joseph Hospital | SCL Health UC Davis Medical Center Denver, Colorado Sacramento, California Zeke Bartholomew Clemmens Jacob Scott Pearson Osteopathic Principles and Practice Fellow Osteopathic Principles and Practice Fellow Rural and Wilderness Medicine Track Orthopedic Surgery Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Samaritan Health Services HonorHealth Corvallis, Oregon Scottsdale, Arizona Shreyash Pradhan Carson Quentin Ence * Anatomy Fellow Anatomy Fellow Global Medicine Track Anesthesiology General Surgery University at Buffalo Jacobs School of Community Memorial Health System Medicine and Biomedical Sciences Ventura, California Buffalo, New York Melanie Jayne White Neal Daniel Ferrin * Osteopathic Principles and Practice Fellow Anatomy Fellow Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation General Surgery Mayo Clinic School of Graduate Medical Education Western Michigan University Stryker School of Medicine Rochester, Minnesota Kalamazoo, Michigan Amanda Marie Wolf Samuel Taylor Hart Osteopathic Principles and Practice Fellow Osteopathic Principles and Practice Fellow Pediatrics Family Medicine Oregon Health & Science University Valley Hospital Medical Center Portland, Oregon Las Vegas, Nevada Aaron Yearsley Jordan Taylor Heser Osteopathic Principles and Practice Fellow Osteopathic Principles and Practice Fellow Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Global Medicine Track University of Texas Health Science Center Anesthesiology San Antonio, Texas Sunrise Health GME Consortium Las Vegas, Nevada Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine - Class of 2020 Kyle Miller Adkins Krista Rae Allen Family Medicine Emergency Medicine HealthONE | Sky Ridge Medical Center Mercy Health | St. Vincent Medical Center Lone Tree, Colorado Toledo, Ohio Matthew William Albright Braden Erik Anderson Emergency Medicine Rural and Wilderness Medicine Track Riverside Regional Medical Center Internal Medicine Newport News, Virginia Baylor Scott & White Temple, Texas Ashley Jane Alden General Surgery Tor Visscher Anderson University of South Florida Morsani College of Medicine Family Medicine Tampa, Florida Community Health Care Tacoma, Washington *Graduating with Honors Nolan Nathaniel Andres Tanner Paul Bond Military Medicine Program Rural and Wilderness Medicine Track General Surgery Internal Medicine David Grant USAF Medical Center University of Tennessee Health Science Center Travis Air Force Base, California College of Medicine Chattanooga Chattanooga, Tennessee Corin r. Archuleta Military Medicine Program Colin Matthew Bonhag Family Medicine Internal Medicine Family Medicine Residency at Offutt Air Force Base HealthONE | Sky Ridge Medical Center Offutt, Nebraska Lone Tree, Colorado David Phillip Baldwin Joel Scott Bonzo Internal Medicine Family Medicine St. Joseph Hospital | SCL Health St. Mary-Corwin Medical Center Denver, Colorado Pueblo, Colorado Charlotte Louise Ballantine * Joshua Daniel Bradford Rural and Wilderness Medicine Track Military Medicine Program Internal Medicine Internal Medicine University of New Mexico School of Medicine Walter Reed National Military Medical Center Albuquerque, New Mexico Bethesda, Maryland Collin Andrew Beckstrom Daniel Elling Brown Internal Medicine Emergency Medicine University of Oklahoma at Tulsa Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center School of Community Medicine Lubbock, Texas Tulsa, Oklahoma Kelsi Rae Brown Phillip Marshall Bennett Family Medicine Anatomic and Clinical Pathology St. Mary-Corwin Medical Center University of Utah Health Pueblo, Colorado Salt Lake City, Utah Bryce Bunn Madison Lindsey Berman Physician-Scientist Track General Surgery General Surgery Detroit Medical Center | Wayne State University Midwestern University OPTI Detroit, Michigan Mesa, Arizona Benjamin Seth Bernard Iris Margaret Burgard General Surgery Rural and Wilderness Medicine Track Berkshire Medical Center Obstetrics and Gynecology Pittsfield, Massachusetts St. Joseph Hospital | SCL Health Denver, Colorado Tara Elizabeth Bjorklund Rural and Wilderness Medicine Track Daniel Marquez Coates Obstetrics and Gynecology Family Medicine St. Joseph Mercy Oakland Adventist Health Ukiah Valley Pontiac, Michigan Ukiah, California Kiara Layne Blough Beau James Condie Global Medicine Track Family Medicine Obstetrics and Gynecology Clarkson Family Medicine Residency Program New York Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital Omaha, Nebraska Brooklyn, New York Christopher Mark Cormier Pathology University of New Mexico School of Medicine Albuquerque, New Mexico *Graduating with Honors Charles Boone Curtis Nathan Samuel Grigg Military Medicine Program Internal Medicine Transitional Year Parkview Medical Center Naval Medical Center Pueblo, Colorado San Diego, California Alexander Thomas Grover Angela Francesca DiCosola Family Medicine Internal Medicine | Pediatrics St. Mary-Corwin Medical Center Tulane University School of Medicine Pueblo, Colorado New Orleans, Louisiana Roxana Alejandra Guggenmos Monica Teresa Dzwonkowski Global Medicine Track Internal Medicine Pediatrics Geisinger Health System Children’s Mercy Kansas City Danville, Pennsylvania Kansas City, Missouri Conner Allen Feeney Allison Jean Guild Internal Medicine Pediatrics HealthONE | Sky Ridge Medical Center University of Nebraska Medical Center Lone Tree, Colorado Omaha, Nebraska Austin Frazer Forbes * Bransen Zarek Guild * Global Medicine Track Psychiatry General Surgery Creighton University School of Medicine St. Joseph Medical Center Omaha, Nebraska Tacoma, Washington Shannon Elise Hall * Brent Cody Mäkijärvi Fowler Urology Family Medicine University of Texas | UT Health San Antonio University of Wyoming at Casper San Antonio, Texas Casper, Wyoming Aleksander Willis Hansen Jaspreet Kaur Garcha Internal Medicine Internal Medicine Samaritan