DMS Graduates Honored   (Images)

HANOVER, NH - Vermont Governor Howard Dean, MD, delivered the keynote address Saturday at Dartmouth Medical School's 2002 class day and awards ceremony (June 8). The 2004 presidential candidate discussed the need for health care for all Americans, particularly children, and his experiences as a physician governor.

John Baldwin, MD, DMS dean, was recognized for his service with a special commendation from Robert H. Roswell, under secretary for health, Veterans Health Administration, Veterans Affairs, presented by Gary M. DeGasta, director, VA Medical and Regional Office Center, White River Junction, Vermont.

Also speaking were medical student Christian James Meko and graduate student Eric M. Manning, who received a doctorate in microbiology/immunology.

The celebration recognized 118 DMS students who are among about 1,500 awarded degrees at Dartmouth College's commencement ceremonies (Sunday, June 9): 52 received an MD, 9 received a PhD and one received a master's in the life sciences; and 44 received degrees in the evaluative clinical sciences, 2 PhD and 42 master's.

Baldwin and David Nierenberg, MD, associate dean for medical education, presented student honors. The Dean's Medal for best overall medical student achievement was awarded to: Aubrey Orion Ingraham; the John W. Strohbehn Medal for Excellence in Biomedical Research was presented to William J. Belden, biochemistry PhD candidate; the Good Physician Award went to Robert James Fortuna.

Additional medical student awards and citations were made at an earlier program (Friday, June 7). They included�Douglas P. Zipes, MD Research Prize in Medicine: Matthew Joseph Brady; John and Sophia Zaslow Prize: Karen Ann Bradley; Saul Blatman Award for Excellence in Maternal and Child Health: Jennifer Carlton Noon; Janet M. Glasgow Achievement Citations: Negean Mahmoudi, Jennifer Carlton Noon; Rural Health Scholar Awards: Timothy Edward Burdick, Amy Lyn Orff Martel; Healthcare Foundation of New Jersey Humanism in Medicine Award: Jodie Ann Dionne; Hilda Weyl Sokol Award: Jodie Ann Dionne; Julian and Melba Jarrett Memorial Prize: Timothy Edward Burdick; Merck Manual Awards: Tanya Elizabeth Chin and Alex Reyentovich; New England Pediatric Society Award: Jennifer Carlton Noon; John F. Radebaugh Community Service Award: Timothy Edward Burdick and Amy Lyn Orff Martel; Dartmouth-Mosenthal Surgical Society: Jason Charles Fanuele, Sarah E. Greer (DMS '03) Elizabeth Lin Jewell, Victor Manuel Ochoa and Stephanie Strauss.

Other department awards were: Frederic P. Lord Award in Anatomy: Morris Leonardo Rivera; French Distinguished Student Award in Pathology: Aubrey Orion Ingraham; Arthur Naitove Surgical Scholar Award: Victor Manuel Ochoa; Excellence in Clinical Psychiatry: Ilona Melinda Csapo; Harte C. Crow Award in Radiology: Peter Holmberg Frech; Department of Medicine Award: Aubrey Orion Ingraham; Anesthesiology Outstanding Graduating Student: Cynthia Yang; Rolf C. Syvertsen Fellow: Karen Ann Bradley; Rolf C. Syvertsen Scholars: Jason Charles Fanuele, Aubrey Orion Ingraham, Oneil Lee, Jennifer Carlton Noon, Alex Reyentovich and Morris Leonardo Rivera.

The medical students honored the faculty with the following teaching awards: Thomas P. Almy Housestaff Award to Kendall H. Lee, MD, PhD, neurosurgery; Basic Science Awards to Michael J. Binder, MD, Surgery (�91-'00) and John H. Lyons, MD, anatomy and clinical surgery, emeritus; Clinical Science Award to James R. Bell, MD, medicine; Dartmouth-Mosenthal Surgical Society Faculty Fellow to Richard J. Barth, MD, Surgery; Healthcare Foundation of New Jersey Humanism in Medicine Award to H. Worth Parker, MD, medicine.

The new Dartmouth Medical School physicians will continue their training in generalist and specialty areas across the nation; 18 will remain in New England, including five at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center.

Dartmouth College Class Day 2002 - Remarks by Lee Witters, MD, June 8, 2002

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