COMMENCEMENT
Above: Dean Joshua Wynne, MD, MBA, MPH, and Mary Ann Sens, MD, PhD, present the Charles E. Kupchella Award to Thomas Seaworth, MD, clinical assistant professor of Family and OB-GYN: Steffen Christensen, MD; Dean Joshua Wynne, Community Medicine. The Kupchella Award MD, MBA, MPH; Tiffany Weber, Don Gullicks, Jennifer Johnson, Amanda Johnson, Lacy Kresbach, Megan Miller, recognizes individuals in North Dakota and the Mahate Parker, Ana Tobiasz and Dennis Lutz, MD. The UND surrounding region who have contributed School of Medicine & Health Sciences continually produces significantly to disease prevention and healthful the highest percentage of graduates of all medical schools living. who choose Ob/Gyn for their specialty; half of our Ob/Gyn Below: Dean Wynne and Dr. Sens present the residents come back to practice in North Dakota. Pathology Book Award to Tracy Lundberg.
Congratulations DPTs! (left to right): Emily Maurer, Tiffany Czarnomski, and Paula Barry are part of a class of 49 newly graduated DPTs. MD graduates who participated in a four-week, fourth-year elective in Chimbote, Peru, with their preceptor Dr. Stephen Tinguely. They gained experience in the unique challenges of delivering health care to impoverished people in a developing country. (back row, from left): Priyanka Singh, Kelsey Hoffman, Amanda Johnson, Stephen Tinguely, MD, and Emily Koeck (front row) Jessica Lichter, Sara Mayer, and Ashley Gorby. 20
NORTH DAKOTA MEDICINE Spring–Summer 2010