White Coat Ceremony MPAS C24 September 23, 2022 Provo, Utah
CEREMONY PROGRAM OPENING REMARKS
Jon Baird, DMSc, PA-C, ATC Principal Faculty
SPECIAL REMARKS
Richard P. Nielsen, PT, DHSc, ECS Founding President & CEO
STUDENT REMARKS Amanda Sargent C24 PA Student
R.I.G.H.T. VALUES PRESENTATION MPAS Faculty
PRESENTATION OF WHITE COATS Cecile Pryor
MPAS Principle Faculty/ Program Admissions Manager
CONFIRMATION OF WHITE COATS Tyler Sommer, MPAS, PA-C
MPAS Program Director & Department Chair
Lauren Stanford, DMSc, MPAS, PA-C MPAS Director of Didactic Education
CLASS PRESIDENT REMARKS & LEADING OF OATH Nolan Padilla
C24 Class President
CONCLUDING REMARKS Tyler Sommer, MPAS, PA-C
MPAS Program Director & Department Chair
WHITE COAT RECIPIENTS Jeremy Ah Sue Haylee Altenburg Aaron Arsen Wyatt Barrus Claire Bice Emily Birch Maughn Kyle Bland Allen Brinkerhoff Stuart Brown Autumn Childers Alyssa Cook Austin Crocker Tara Fitzgerald Zoe Grooms Cory Davis Jennifer Hamson Austin Harmon
Alexandria Hughes McKenzie Johnsen Arianna Jones Jordyn Kerner Katrina Kunzler Marielle Larsen Bryn Lawson Tianyi Liu Katherine Lu Aiste Miliauskaite Nolan Padilla Christy Palmer Akash Patel Tyler Perry Kyle Phister Madison Powelson Michael Prisbrey
Katie Rawlings Cristina Rodriguez Mary Rosbach Jacob Saldivar Amanda Sargent Chloe Seegmiller Farrah Sharif Michaela Soden Katie Spedding Dechie Sumampong Doneen Katherine Thomas Kyle Valdez Mary Verhaeghe Lauren Wassel Paul Weigle Briton Woolf
COHORT OATH We are Physician Assistants: dedicated to acquiring the knowledge and skills that allow us to provide patient-centered care. In our efforts to advocate for individual and collective health, we commit to promoting holistic approaches to medicine and cultivating interprofessional collaboration. We will embrace a growth mindset in our professional and personal pursuits, serve others with empathy and respect, and practice evidence-based medicine with integrity.
Rocky Mountain University
The mission of Rocky Mountain University of Health Professions is to educate current and future healthcare professionals for outcomesoriented, evidence-based practice. The University demonstrates mission fulfillment through the quality of its education and success of its students in academic programs that develop leaders skilled in clinical inquiry and prepared to effect healthcare change.
The Northwest Commission accredits Rocky Mountain University of Health Professions on Colleges and Universities (8060 165th Avenue NE Ste 100, Redmond, WA 98052-3981), an institutional accrediting body recognized by the Secretary of the US Department of Education.
122 East 1700 South, Provo, UT 84606 · 801.375.5125 · rm.edu