For Release: June 7, 2003
Contact: DMS Communications (603) 650-1492
DMS Graduates Honored
HANOVER, NH - Former US Surgeon General David Satcher, MD, PhD,
delivered the keynote address today, June 7, at Dartmouth Medical School's 2003 class day and awards ceremony. He discussed the importance working toward erasing the disparities in health among different racial and ethnic groups in America. Also speaking were graduating medical student Seth David Crockett and graduate student Neema Ganju, who received a PhD in pharmacology and toxicology.
The celebration recognized 138 DMS students who are among approximately 1,500 awarded degrees
at Dartmouth College's Commencement ceremonies (Sunday June 8). Thirty-two students were the first to receive a master's of public health from DMS. Sixty received an MD, 22 received a PhD, and one received a master's in the life sciences. Twenty-three students received degrees in the evaluative clinical sciences; 3 PhDs and 20 master's of science.
Ethan Dmitrovsky, MD, acting dean and David Niremberg, MD, senior associate dean for medical education, presented student honors. The Dean's Medal for best overall medical student achievement was awarded to Adrienne Page Williams. The John W. Strohbehn Medal for Excellence in Biomedical Research was presented to Thomas Joseph Kirn, Jr. The new Dartmouth Medical Student physicians will continue their training in generalist and specialty areas across the nation; 21 will remain in New England, including six at the Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center.
Additional medical student awards and citations were made at an earlier ceremony (June 6):
- Good Physician Award: Amy Kathleen Madden.
- Anesthesiology Outstanding Graduating Student Award: Adrienne Page Williams
- Saul Blatman Award for Excellence in Maternal and Child Health: Elizabeth Love Bassett
- Harte C. Crow Award in Radiology: Paul Alexander Farris
- Dartmouth-Mosenthal Surgical Society: Katherine Forgiel Bardzik, Nilton De Deus Miranda Medina, Junko June Ozao
- The Dean's Medal: Adrienne Page Williams
- French Distinguished Student Award in Pathology: Matthew Okerlund Leavitt
- Janet M. Glasgow Memorial Award: Adrienne Page Williams
- Janet M. Glasgow Achievement Citations: Elizabeth Love Bassett, Sara Krause Inati, Katherine Ann O'Donnell, Jennifer Lynn Plant, Amy Blair Seidler
- Arnold P. Gold Foundation Humanism in Medicine Awards: Amy Kathleen Madden
- The Good Physician Award: Amy Kathleen Madden
- Hitchcock Foundation Student Research Prizes: Heidi Ilse Becker, Paige Gosling Wickner
- Julian and Melba Jarrett Memorial Prize: Sharon Elizabeth Johnston
- Frederic P. Lord Award in Anatomy: Adrienne Page Williams
- Department of Medicine Award: Tamas Adam Gonda
- Merck Manual Awards: Paul Anthony Sanchez, Amy Elizabeth Vinther
- Arthur Naitove Surgical Scholar Award: Sarah Elizabeth Hauver Greer
- American Academy of Neurology Medical Student Prize: Angela Dee Sanchez
- New England Pediatric Society Award: Katherine Ann O'Donnell
- Department of Psychiatry Award for Excellence in Clinical Psychiatry: Jennifer M. Rhodes
- John F. Radebaugh Community Service Awards: Amy Kathleen Madden, Timothy Thomson Pieh
- Rural Health Scholar Awards: Linda Christine Armstrong, Michael Lee Bartholomew, David John Gibbons, Amy Kathleen Madden, Timothy Thomson Pieh
- Stanley J. Sarnoff Endowment for Cardiovascular Science Fellowship Award: Aaron David Kirkpatrick
- American Medical Association Rock Sleyster Memorial Scholarship: Jennifer Lynn Plant
- Hilda Weyl Sokol Award: Junko June Ozao
- Rolf C. Syvertsen Fellowship Award: Elizabeth Love Bassett
- Rolf C. Syvertsen Scholars: Amy Kathleen Madden, Katherine Ann O'Donnell, Jennifer Lynn Plant, Amy Blair Seidler, Adrienne Page Williams
- John and Sophia Zaslow Prize: Seth David Crockett
- Douglas P. Zipes, M.D. Research Prize in Medicine: Tamas Adam Gonda
The DMS Faculty was recognized with the following awards:
- Thomas P. Almy Housestaff Teaching Award: Timothy B. Gardner, MD, Resident in Internal Medicine;
- Basic Science Teaching Award: Elmer R. Pfefferkorn, PhD, Microbiology & Immunology;
- Clinical Science Teaching Award: Kenneth W. Burchard, MD, Surgery;
- Arnold P. Gold Foundation Humanism in Medicine Awards: Donald O. Kollisch, MD, Community and Family Medicine;
- Dartmouth-Mosenthal Surgical Society Faculty Fellow: E. Dale Collins, MD, Surgery
The faculty marshals were William E. Boyle, MD, Pediatrics and Family Medicine and Richard Whiting, MD, Medicine,
