Awards recognize Keck School’s best and brightest
Veronica Jauriqui
The annual ceremony, held Oct. 29, honored 50 students who received Dean's Recognition Awards, as well as 37 recipients of the Association of Pathology Chairs' Pathology Honors Society awards.
Students gathered at the Edmondson Faculty Center with family and friends before being called up one by one to receive their awards.
"The greatest asset to this school is the medical students," Puliafito said in opening remarks. "We pay attention to what our students say and we're here to help them have the best possible foundation for life-long education."
The students selected for awards have demonstrated excellence in academics, research and service to the community in their first two years of medical school, said Henri Ford, vice dean for medical education at the Keck School. Recipients are chosen based on nominations by faculty members.
The Association of Pathology Chairs' Pathology Honors Society awards recognized students who have excelled in the Keck School's pathology curriculum. Of the 37 Pathology Honors Society recipients, 19 were also Dean's Recognition Scholars.
"I've seen a lot of excellent students go through this school," said Clive Taylor, senior associate dean for educational affairs and chair of the Department of Pathology. "Each year they seem to get better."
Dean Recognition Scholars (Class of 2010)
Amin Abdi
Julianne M. Awrey
Yekaterina Bakhta
Natalie S. Burns
Philippe Champagne
Angelina M. Crans
Erik I. Curtis
Jonathan M. Deeth
Vaninder K. Dhillon
Alexis E. Dixon
Jamie L. Funamura
Andrea Halim
Ivan P. Harnden
Adrienne M. Keener
Melissa G. Lechner
Steven J. Narvy
Jordan E. Pomeroy
Dustin G. Sanchez
Kathryn L. Serowka
Grant D. Shifflett
Eric R. Sue
Sergei Terternov
David Valenzuela
Jenny Wong
Dean Recognition Scholars (Class of 2011)
Nicholas Arger
Sze Wing C. Au Yeung
Aaron E. Bond
Jennifer A. Cotter
Charles M.T. DeBoer
Lauren M. Friedman
Theresa L. Gipps
Emily C. Harnden
Joshua A. Hornstein
Joshua N. Jeharajah
David M. Larson
Michael P. Leathers
Erin M. Meisel
Mark B. Mitchell
Christian A. Paquet
Brigid A. Quigley
Kelsey L. Richardson
Kim A. Ruby
Alison R. Santana
Gaurav Sharma
Rebecca A. Shatsky
Rebecca G. Van Horn
James E. Walls
Benjamin A. Weinberg
Oliver L. Yeh
Haig A. Yenikomshian
APC Pathology Honor Society (Class of 2010)
Ann Barnett
Philippe Champagne
Summer Chong
Erik Curtis
Vaninder Dhillon
Alexis Dixon
Andrea Halim
Ivan Harnden
Felicia Katz
Adrienne Keener
Julie Kuperman
Melissa Lechner
Celina Montelongo
Omar Ragab
Cherise Saito
Kathryn Serowka
Sergei Terterov
Matthew Voorman
Jenny Wong
APC Pathology Honor Society (Class of 2011)
Nicholas Arger
Sze Wing C. Au Yeung
Anna Beavis
Aaron Bond
James Brush
Henry Chu
Marcia Ciccone
Jennifer Cotter
Charles DeBoer
Alexandra Demco
Emily Harnden
Joshua Jeharajah
Alexis Korostoff
Marya Leahy
Matthew Lilley
Brigid Quigley
Kelsey Richardson
Jeanie Zhang
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