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Fourth-year medical students named to the Gold Humanism Honor Society
Summer Research Awards
Seventeen fourth-year medical students were named as members of the 2013 Gold Humanism Honor Society. C h a p t e r Ad v i s o r M i n d y S c hw ar t z , M D, a s s o c i at e professor of medicine, and the Gold Humanism Honor Society Selection Committee made the announcement of membership, which honors fourth-year medical students who consistently demonstrate excellence in clinical care, leadership, compassion and dedication to service. Election to the honor society is based upon recommendations
from the rising fourth-year class, with final deliberations made by the GHHS Selection C ommittee. The students selected are: Brittany Betham, Laura Blinkhorn, Valerie Chen, Abby Cutler, Jason Espinoza, Uchenna Ewulonu, Kevin Heaton, Daniel Kozman, Toussaint Mears-Clarke, Aaron Miller, MS, Margaret Naunheim, Katie Raffel, Gabrielle Schaefer, Samantha Smith, Robert Stern, William Uffmann and Joshua Williams. The Gold Humanism Honor Society induction ceremony will take place on March 5, 2013.
The 18th Annual Pritzker Summer Research Program proved to be another successful year of scholarship for second-year students, allowing them to work closely with faculty mentors across the clinical, translational and basic sciences. The program provides students a platform for ongoing research and a chance to present their work on a national level, thanks to the continued guidance of Vineet Arora, MD, MAPP, associate professor of medicine and associate program director of the Internal Medicine Residency Program; David Boone, PhD, assistant professor of medicine; Eugene Chang, MD, the Martin Boyer Professor of Medicine and associate section chief for research; and V. Leo Towle, PhD, professor of neurology, surgery, pediatrics and psychiatry and behavioral neuroscience. Students who received awards of excellence for their work are: Richard Schroeder, Philip Carullo, Claire Shappell, Lara Delamater, Rishi Pandya, Brian Thurber, Kyle Ericson, Alexandra Garnett and Ramin Morshed. The following students received honorable mentions for excellence: Noura Choudhury, Camil Correia, Michael Hayes, Amy Kaufman, Ellis Kim, Paras Patel, Jack Peace, Robert Sanchez and Emily Stockert.
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Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel addresses Class of 2012
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he Pritzker School of Medicine’s Class of 2012’s keynote speaker on graduation day in June was Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel. He spoke to Pritzker’s 99 fourth-year students, their fellow doctoral graduates in the Biological Sciences Division, friends and family during the event, held in Rockefeller Memorial Chapel at the University of Chicago. “Your patients will never forget you,” Mayor Emanuel told graduates after recounting a story of the team that helped save his life after an accident when he was in high school. He also highlighted the spirit of the University of Chicago — “one that embraces curiosity and questioning in the pursuit of discovery.”
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The University of Chicago Medicine and Biological Sciences Division