15th Annual BTHH Program

720 Westview Drive, Atlanta, GA 30310

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CEREMONY CONTRIBUTORS

Marvin L. Crawford, M.D. M.Div., FACP Chief Celebrant Saunder Reid, Program Manager Ephraim Thomas, Program Coordinator DOM Administrative Team Department of Admissions & Student Affairs Department of Medicine Department of Medical Education Student Government Association Family & Friends

Special Thanks

James A. McCoy, M.D., FACS Administrative Services Office of the President Office of the Dean Office of Institutional Advancement Office of Admissions & Student Affairs Office of Medical Education Marketing and Communications Department of Information Technology Ladies and Gentlemen of the White Coat Society

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May 13, 2025 Greetings,

I am elated to welcome you to Morehouse School of Medicine's By These Healing Hands Ceremony (BTHH).

BTHH is our equivalent of the long coat ceremony but given a liturgical dignity and spiritual flair for it emphasizes community service, charitable giving, and compassionate caring. This year we will induct 54 learners, a Dean/professor of Medicine, and 2 professional nurses who have provided high-quality, sensitive care to multiple patients.

This year is a commemorative year as we celebrate the 50th anniversary of Morehouse School of Medicine.

This year is highlighted in deep, inexpressible gratitude as we remember the vision and mission of our founding parents who made it possible for MSM to become the premier institution to address healthcare inequities.

The great works of Hugh Gloster, Louis Sullivan (our first President/Dean and our greatest servant leader), Cyril Moore, James Reed, Marjorie Smith, Peter MacLeish and countless others will be forever remembered for their services and sacrifice. Our President, Dr. Valerie Montgomery Rice, will stand out in the future, not simply as our first female President, but as one of our nation's greatest Presidents of an American Association of Medical Colleges medical school.

This will be our 15th year highlighting our graduates' commitment to charitable giving, community service, and compassionate caring. In May 2011, at the urging of Dr. Walkitra Alexander, 33 students and faculty gathered for the first ceremony at Butler Street CME Church.

On today, you will witness learners and healthcare professionals who will offer themselves as instruments of healing. As always, BTHH finds an ill to be healed that all people may live and strive.

Our nation faces various challenges. In response, we lift our hearts in hope and our healing hands in action to restore dignity, tranquility, and wholeness.

Let our hands move to heal.

Help our sisters and brothers to live.

Over the land, over the sea.

Healing will be for you and for me.

In the spirit of healing,

Marvin Luther Crawford, M.D., M.Div., FACP Chief Celebrant and Chaplain

Memories

By These Healing Hands History This ceremony, born of the writer’s love for liturgy and ritual as a vehicle of cohesion and

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celebration of common ideas and principles, was first presented to the Morehouse School of

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Medicine 3rd year Internal Medicine students in 2006 who thought the idea of celebrating our commitment to compassionate caring was great and should be implemented. Marvin L. Crawford, M.D., M.Div., FACP, Internal Medicine Clerkship Director wrote the ceremony.

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It was an appropriate time for the most prominent medical school, Morehouse School of Medicine, to kick off an event that celebrated compassion since the school had been cited by the New England Journal of Medicine as being the most socially conscious medical school in

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America. Since May of 2011, the ceremony has taken on a life of its own with the hope for

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expansion to other socially conscious medical schools who want to celebrate the

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compassionate physician.

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Los Curanderos Gown – Green trims for medicine

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Right lower pocket – small book symbolizing knowledge

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Left lower pocket – an item symbolizing clinical skills or area of expertise

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Left lower pocket – badge symbolizing compassion

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This ritual marks the beginning of what will become the pivotal ceremony in celebrating the

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commitment to compassionate care for healthcare providers and researchers.

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A multicultural, spiritual celebration for the newly graduating healthcare providers, administrators, researcher matched students as a committed world changer through deeds that will close the healthcare equity gap.

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By These Healing Hands Commitment Ceremony Order of Celebration PROCESSIONAL ANTHEM * ................................................................ “Lift Every Voice & Sing.”

Chevienne Jones, D. Min. INVOCATION………………………………………… Victor Blake, MD, MTS, FACP GREETING ............................................................... Cinnamon Bradley, M.D., FACP, Associate Dean, Student Affairs Joseph A. Tyndall, MD, EVP and Dean OCCASION ............................................................. Keana Murray, President, Student Government Association LITANY * .................................................................... Janelle Tanghal MUSICAL SELECTION ............................................ Harold Stringer, MD, Professor of Medicine WORDS OF HOPE Role of Charitable Giving .......................................... Gerald Van Jones Role of Community Service ....................................... Farah Abaza Role of Compassion in Healthcare Delivery .............. Brittany Campbell, PhD COMMITMENT PLEDGE History, Purpose and Symbols ................................. Marvin L. Crawford, M.D., Chief Celebrant Faculty Induction ....................................................... Marvin L. Crawford, M.D., Chief Celebrant Induction of Healthcare Providers ............................ Class of 2025 COMMITMENT OATH .............................................. David Anderson, M.D., FACP. INTERNATIONAL ANTHEM OF HEALTHCARE PROVIDERS “Let Our Hands Move to Heal” BENEDICTION * ...................................................... James McCoy, MD, FACS RECESSIONAL ………………………………………“Let Our Hands Move To Heal” Original Hymn” Chevienne Jones, D. Min

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Purpose To celebrate the newly matched medical student’s commitment to uphold the social mission of healthcare through compassionate caring, charitable giving and community service for all people, especially the underserved, and extension of healthcare to all the world.

The Litany Leader: Honor those who provide healthcare for they are instruments of their Creator.

People: We will honor

Leader: Pray that they do it with compassion and in the spirit of humility.

People: We will pray

Leader: Pray for their success in understanding, preventing, diagnosing and treating disease.

People: For them we pray

Leader: Remember healing comes from on high and medicine from the earth; forever give thanks to the Creator.

People: We give thanks

All: Pray that their hands move to heal, and God’s people live.

The Benediction And on this day, O’ God, we have lifted our hands to become instruments of your healing powers.

So blessed are our hands that will comfort mothers and hold newborn babies.

Blessed are our hands that will cradle children and guide adolescents.

Blessed are our hands that will maintain the health of adults.

Blessed are our hands that will hold the hands of seniors.

Blessed are our hands that will comfort those who return unto you.

Let us go now to heal your people.

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INTERNATIONAL ANTHEM OF HEALTHCARE PROVIDERS

Let Our Hands Move to Heal 1. Let our gifted hands move to heal, And let all our deep love to feel To help all God’s people to live Prolonging their days, new hope we give.

2. Broken hearts we will feel Compassion let us daily live Open our eyes to see deep care Reveal our sacred skills to share.

3. Let outstretched arms embrace, Healing all genders, ages and race.

Let healthcare take its rightful place, Avail to the entire human race.

4. Keepers of healing gifts Let us practice and never tire.

May our minds new knowledge hear Cure sickness far and sickness near.

5. When our calling over, Retire white coats on our open doors.

To the apprentice our skills pass Perpetual healing to last.

Refrain: Let our hands move to heal, Let our hands move to heal, Let God’s people live. Across the land, over the sea, healing will be for you and me. Let our hands move to heal.

Lyrics: Marvin L. Crawford, Sr., Tune: Marvin L. Crawford, Jr.,

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INTERNATIONAL ANTHEM OF HEALTHCARE PROVIDERS

Let Our Hands Move to Heal Let our hands move-- to heal Let all deep love-- to feel To help God’s people all to live Prolong their days, new hope-- we give.

Let our hands move to heal-Let our hands move-- to heal For Broken hearts-- we feel Compassion let-- us live Open our eyes to see deep care Reveal our sacred skills-- to share.

Let our hands move to heal-Let our hands move-- to heal Let outstretched arms-- embrace, Healing all age-- and race.

Let healthcare take its rightful place, Avail to the whole hu--man race.

Let our hands move to heal-Let our hands move-- to heal Keepers of heal--ing gifts We work and nev-er tire.

May our minds new deep knowledge hear Cure sickness far and sickness near.

Let our hands move to heal-Let our hands move-- to heal And when our call--ings done, Retire white coats-- on doors.

To students near we pass our skills Perpetual healing they will give.

Let our hands move to heal-Let our hands move-- to heal

Refrain: Let all God’s people live.

All-- God’s peo--ple live-Across the sea-- and o’er the fields-Let our-- hands move to heal.

Lyrics: Marvin L. Crawford, Sr., Re-Arrangement: Oliver Nathan Greene, Ph.D.

Commitment Oath

“I, (STATE NAME), WILL USE MY GIFT OF KNOWLEDGE, CLINICAL AND TECHNICAL SKILLS AND MY DIVINELY GUIDED WILL TO DELIVER COMPASSIONATE HEALTHCARE TO ALL, REGARDLESS OF ETHNICITY, CREED, RELIGION, GENDER OR SOCIOECONOMIC

STATUS. I WILL USE MY RESOURCES AND INFLUENCE TO OBTAIN HEALTHCARE FOR ALL ESPECIALLY THE UNDERSERVED. I WILL PROMOTE COMPASSIONATE CARE, PASSIONATE SCHOLARSHIP, AND PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS OF KNOWLEDGE TO CLOSE THE HEALTHCARE GAP. BY THESE HANDS, THIS I WILL DO”.

Lift Every Voice and Sing James Weldon Johnson

Lift every voice and sing, till earth and heaven ring, Ring with the harmonies of liberty; Let our rejoicing rise High as the listening skies, Let it resound loud as the rolling sea.

Sing a song full of the faith that the dark past has taught us, Sing a song full of the hope that the present has brought us; facing the rising sun of our new day begun, let us march on till victory is won.

Stony the road we trod, bitter the chastening rod, felt in the days when hope unborn had died; yet with a steady beat, have not our weary feet come to the place for which our fathers died?

We have come over a way that with tears have been watered, We have come, treading our path through the blood of the slaughtered, out from the gloomy past, till now we stand at last where the white gleam of our bright star is cast.

God of our weary years, God of our silent tears, thou who hast brought us thus far on the way; thou who hast by thy might led us into the light, keep us forever in the path, we pray.

“Ladies and Gentlemen of the White Coat Society” 2025 Student Inductees

Theodora Farah Chimsom Omojolaade Sonny Ene Sadiq Tylanna Yailee Darlene Tamarah Phebe Alden Brandi Amandha Caroline Jesse Jahlecia Arrianna Bria Samer KaBrea Karan Stefan Zoë Matthew Ka'Necia

Abah Abaza Agbim Akintade Anosike Anteyi Baker Baker Bangura Bio Bratcher Brocke Brown Campbell Darius Donnay Emefiele Gregory Hagins Harris Hasona Jones Joshi King Macfoy Mann Martin

Orthopedic Surgery Urology Internal Medicine Internal Medicine Physical Medicine & Rehab Obstetrics-Gynecology Anesthesiology Obstetrics-Gynecology Psychiatry Family Medicine Child Neurology Obstetrics-Gynecology Pediatrics Emergency Medicine Pediatrics Child Neurology Internal Medicine Psychiatry Family Medicine Pediatrics Emergency Medicine Pediatrics Anesthesiology Internal Medicine Emergency Medicine Emergency Medicine Child Neurology

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“Ladies and Gentlemen of the White Coat Society” 2025 Student Inductees

Kelly Keana Eden Tomiwa Michael Amenze Kosi Gene Rashida M. Kajalen Cherrell Leslie Doris Miles Shakeria Nolan Janelle Kevin Loren Shelbi Jarah Nicole Rodney B. Adam Haeyoung Jenna Mikayla Tatyana Jerry

Montgomery Murray Obomeghie Oderinde Okafor Omoruyi Orizu Osuoha Payne Pogue Price Roman Sagastume Simms Stewart Stubbs Tanghal Thornton Ugheoke Ware Whitehead Whitney Jr. Whitsett Won Woodard Young Yue

Pediatrics Family Medicine Psychiatry General Surgery Diagnostic Radiology Family Medicine Anesthesiology Internal Medicine Family Medicine Obstetrics-Gynecology Ophthalmology Pathology Emergency Medicine Psychiatry Pediatrics Neurosurgery Internal Medicine Pediatrics Diagnostic Radiology General Surgery Internal Medicine Anesthesiology Obstetrics-Gynecology Psychiatry Obstetrics-Gynecology General Surgery Physical Medicine & Rehab

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“Ladies and Gentlemen of the White Coat Society” 2025 Faculty Inductees

Errol Crook, MD

“Ladies and Gentlemen of the White Coat Society” 2025 Nurses Inductees

Brittany Chapman

Kristen Grizzard

Norma Poindexter

Selection Criteria for Healthcare Providers Provides healthcare to an array of persons, especially the underserved for 10 years or more; demonstrates compassion in their encounters with patients, students, staff and others; models compassionate caring, charitable giving and community service; and promotes compassion as the highest virtue of healthcare.

Selection Criteria for Faculty Provides healthcare to an array of persons, especially the underserved for 10 years or more; demonstrates compassion in their encounters with patients, students, staff and others; models compassionate caring, charitable giving and community service; and promotes compassion as the highest virtue of healthcare.