DISTINGUISHED SERVICE ALUMNI AWARD

Dean honored with Distinguished Service Alumni Award

During this year’s Commencement ceremonies, Laura Susan Dean ’00 received the Distinguished Service Alumni Award. Presented by the LaGrange College Alumni Association, the honor is based on continuous devotion to and support of the college.

Dean graduated magna cum laude in 2000 with a degree in Biochemistry. She went on to earn a physician assistant degree magna cum laude from Augusta University in 2003.

While at LaGrange, Dean was a member of Phi Mu, the Honor Council and the Phi Eta Omega chapter of Alpha Epsilon Delta, a national honor society that recognizes students who have achieved academic distinction while pursuing a premedical or predental program. She was the recipient of the 2000 Waights G. Henry Jr. Leadership Award.

After graduation, Dean traveled to Uganda to work in a medical clinic. She has been involved in global medicine and humanitarian medical relief since then.

Today, she is a physician assistant in head and neck surgery at Emory Healthcare in Atlanta. Dean was instrumental in developing Emory’s protocol for telemedicine visits, working to make sure COVID patients were correctly monitored at home and transferred to the hospital if necessary.

She has been a member of the Alumni Executive Committee since 2013 and has served as an officer since 2015. She also served as president from 2018-2020. She chaired an initiative to name a room for Dr. Sue Duttera in the Ida Callaway Hudson Lab Sciences Building and served on host committees for many alumni regional events in Atlanta.