Commencement Program Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine Contents Introduction 2021 Awards 5 Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine 51 About the Awards 7 Jay Alix 53 Dean’s Recognition Awards Minnesota Class of 2021 54 Distinguished Service Awards 55 Dean’s Diversity and Inclusion Awards 11 Commencement Program 56 Teacher of the Year Awards 12 Platform Participants 58 Golden Stethoscope Awards 13 Honorary Degree Recipient and 61 Mayo Brothers Award Commencement Speaker 15 Honorary Degree Recipient Scholarships 16 Doctor of Medicine Graduates 65 Benefactor Funded Scholarships 32 Farewell Thanks Mayo Clinic Alumni Association Arizona Class of 2021 69 Congratulations and Welcome 35 Commencement Program Pledge 36 Platform Participants 37 Honorary Degree Recipient and 70 Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine Commencement Speaker Physician’s Pledge 38 Doctor of Medicine Graduates 48 Farewell Thanks Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science The Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Academic degrees are granted by Science is comprised of five schools. the Mayo Clinic Board of Trustees on recommendation of the deans and the • Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine faculty of Mayo Clinic College of Medicine • Mayo Clinic Graduate School of and Science. Biomedical Sciences • Mayo Clinic School of Continuous The faculty is drawn from the clinical and scientific staff of Mayo Clinic and is Professional Development augmented by area physicians. Faculty • Mayo Clinic School of members participating in this graduation Graduate Medical Education ceremony represent a total faculty of • Mayo Clinic School of Health Sciences approximately 3,700. 2021 Commencement Program 3 Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine medical answers where none have been matriculated its first class in 1972. For found before. We are constantly innovating more than 45 years, world-class faculty curriculum so our students will be well- has educated aspiring physicians in Mayo prepared to handle the challenges of the Clinic’s unsurpassed model of team- nation’s evolving health care environment. based, patient-centered care. Our faculty work with students to develop the skills The Class of 2021 will be part of the to be highly successful care providers as prestigious alumni of Mayo Clinic. Selected well as the compassionate hearts and from 8,798 applicants, Mayo Clinic Alix inquisitive minds to change lives and School of Medicine Class of 2021 consists innovate health care for generations of 46 women and 54 men. to come. LEADERSHIP Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine Dean holds the distinction of being one Fredric B. Meyer, M.D. national medical school with three unique campuses – the original campus in Vice Dean Rochester, Minnesota; a four-year campus Michele Y. Halyard, M.D. at Mayo Clinic in Scottsdale, Arizona; and a third- and fourth-year program on Vice Dean Mayo Clinic’s Jacksonville, Florida, Gerardo Colon-Otero, M.D. campus. Our novel school configuration Administrator provides our students with a depth and Marcia L. Andresen Reid, M.S. breadth of learning experiences unlike any other school. Operations Managers Nicole L. Billingsley We are proud that Mayo Clinic Alix Christopher C. Bleau School of Medicine is a top-ranked Deborah (Debbie) A. Dixon medical school with a stellar national and Emily P. McLaughlin, M.S. international reputation. Our integrated approach to clinical and research training means our students are instilled with an unrelenting quest to find and apply 2021 Commencement Program 5 Jay Alix In providing unprecedented philanthropic Alix has lectured widely, written many support, Jay Alix pledged to help Mayo articles on turnaround management, and Clinic “recruit the best of future generations co-authored two books on the financial of talented students and create an innovative issues facing companies in reorganization. curriculum that enables them to achieve dramatic advances in medical science, Former U.S. President Clinton appointed technology and patient care.” To recognize Alix to the National Bankruptcy Review Commission in December 1994, the only his vision and generosity, Mayo Clinic Alix businessperson and non-lawyer to serve School of Medicine is named in his honor. on the nine-member commission. He As a business professional, member of the served as a strategic advisor to Dennis Mayo Clinic Board of Trustees and grateful Archer as mayor of Detroit in 1994. The patient, Mr. Alix remains inspired by Mayo’s Turnaround Management Association commitment to solving the world’s most presented Alix with the 2002 Chairman’s serious and complex medical challenges — Award in recognition of his “pioneering one patient at a time. leadership role” in helping to create and build the turnaround industry. The A devoted advocate for Mayo Clinic, Japanese Association for Turnaround Mr. Alix works alongside Mayo leaders, Professionals honored him as its Inaugural driving transformational change rooted in Foreign Member in April 2003. Mayo Clinic’s vision and core values. Since 2006, Alix has focused on pro Mr. Alix is a noted philanthropist and bono advisory and creative activities founder of the turnaround consulting including producing award-winning firm AlixPartners, the global advisory documentary films, six-time Tony-winning firm and industry standard for providing Broadway musicals and plays, Grammy- comprehensive solutions for companies nominated music, and Emmy-nominated facing complex operating, financial, legal television series. He helped restructure and restructuring challenges. He has led and the 40,000-student Detroit Public School System and assisted the Norman advised on some of the largest and most Rockwell Museum in advancing its complex restructurings and turnarounds mission nationally and internationally. of the past four decades, including leading the creation, design and development of Alix completed the YPO/Advanced the highly successful restructuring and Management Program at the Harvard turnaround plan to bring General Motors in Business School. He holds an MBA in and out of bankruptcy in just 40 days. Having accounting from Rutgers University and sold control of the firm in 2006, today a bachelor’s degree in finance from the Alix serves as one of 15 Board members Wharton School at the University of and a mentor to AlixPartners’ leaders. Pennsylvania. He began his career as a CPA with PricewaterhouseCoopers In addition to his past consulting work in New York. and private equity investment experience, 2021 Commencement Program 7 Minnesota Class of 2021 May 23, 2021 Mayo Civic Center Rochester, Minnesota Minnesota Commencement Program MAY 23, 2021 Processional Platform Participants, Graduands and Representatives of the Faculty Welcome Fredric B. Meyer, M.D. Introduction and Gianrico Farrugia, M.D. Acknowledgement of Honorary Degree for Michael K. Powell Commencement Address Michael K. Powell Introduction of Jay Alix Fredric B. Meyer, M.D. Introduction of Jay Alix John H. Noseworthy, M.D. Remarks and Gianrico Farrugia, M.D. Conferring and Robing of Fredric B. Meyer, M.D. Honorary Degree to John H. Noseworthy, M.D. Acceptance Remarks John H. Noseworthy, M.D. Dean’s Recognition Awards Fredric B. Meyer, M.D. Dean’s Commencement Address Fredric B. Meyer, M.D. Conferring of Ph.D. Degrees Fredric B. Meyer, M.D. Lisa A. Schimmenti, M.D. Student Advisors Introduction of Student Speaker Fredric B. Meyer, M.D. Student Address Samuel G. Rouleau Class of 2021 Conferring of Medical Degrees J. Michael Bostwick, M.D. Fredric B. Meyer, M.D. Darcy A. Reed, M.D., M.P.H. David O. Warner, M.D. Alexandra P. Wolanskyj-Spinner, M.D. Concluding Remarks Fredric B. Meyer, M.D. and Recessional 2021 Commencement Program 11 Minnesota Platform Participants Gianrico Farrugia, M.D. J. Michael Bostwick, M.D. President & CEO, Mayo Clinic Senior Associate Dean for Admissions, Professor of Medicine and Physiology, Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine Mayo Clinic College of Medicine Professor of Psychiatry, Mayo Clinic and Science College of Medicine and Science Fredric B. Meyer, M.D. Darcy Reed, M.D., M.P.H. Juanita Kious Waugh Executive Dean Senior Associate Dean for Academic for Education, Mayo Clinic College of Affairs, Mayo Clinic Alix School Medicine and Science of Medicine Dean, Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine Professor of Medicine, Mayo Clinic Alfred Uihlein Family Professor of College of Medicine and Science Associate Professor of Medical Education Neurologic Surgery Lisa A. Schimmenti, M.D. John H. Noseworthy, M.D. Co-Director of the Medical Scientist Honorary Degree Recipient Training Program President and CEO Emeritus, Mayo Clinic Professor of Pediatrics, Mayo Clinic Professor of Neurology, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science College of Medicine and Science David O. Warner, M.D. Michael K. Powell Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs, Honorary Degree Recipient Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine President and CEO, NCTA Professor of Anesthesiology, Chairman, Mayo Clinic Board of Trustees Mayo Clinic College of Medicine William and Mary; Georgetown University and Science Jay Alix Alexandra Wolanskyj-Spinner, M.D. Founder, AlixPartners Senior Associate Dean for Member, Mayo Clinic Board of Trustees Student Affairs, Mayo Clinic Wharton School at the Alix School of Medicine University of Pennsylvania Professor of Medicine, Mayo Clinic Rutgers University College of Medicine and Science 12 Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine Honorary Degree Recipient and Commencement Speaker MICHAEL K. POWELL CHAIRMAN, MAYO CLINIC BOARD OF