Friday, June 13, the Geisel School of Medicine celebrated the academic achievements of 116 of its master’s degree in public health (MPH), a master’s degree in science (MS) and graduate of health administration (MHA) during the day of the Health Sciences Education Class in 2025.
The annual class day event, which was held on the promotion of Dartmouth Class of 1978 Life Sciences Center with his family and friends, gave graduates a chance to think about their educational trips and the special relations they have established as members of the Dartmouth community.
Geisel Associate Dean for Health Sciences Craig Westling, Drph, MPH’09, MS, welcomed everyone at the ceremony, who presented the honor speaker Emmanuel Mensah, by 09, MD, MBA.
“In a world shaped by complex health challenges and deep inequalities, you, our graduates are more necessary than ever,” said Westling. “You bring with you not only rigorous training and robust skills, but also a deep sense of objective and compassion. We thank you and are delighted to see the impact you will have. ”
In his speech, Mensah, who is a chief doctor of the Wilmington hospital in Christianacare and deputy professor of medical medical school at Sidney Kimmel Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University, thought about some of his experiences by growing up in Ghana – where one of his favorite sentences, “keep it real”, reflected the spirit of the spirit of his people.
To illustrate this, Mensah told a story on the neighbor of a 13 -year -old orphan girl with HIV who took him to see him when he worked in a HIV clinic. When he asked her why she had remained so devoted to the care of a child who was not hers, she replied: “Doctor, life is to be a blessing on others. This child does not deserve to suffer because of the consequences in which she was born. I’m just “to keep the real”. ” »»
He then shared five meanings of the expression which he hopes that graduates will take away with them in their respective travels: “Serve others, ask questions and push the status quo, face failure and have resilience, be humble and focus on things that matter.” By congratulating the 2025 class, Mensah added: “Go away, go together, go with a goal, keep it real, and above all, that your work is your proverb in the world.”
The speaker of the former Amol Saxena, DPM, MPH’23, who specializes in sports medicine and feet surgery at Bass Medical Group in California, told the old old on the old to “maintain networking; Your links with Dartmouth are more important than AI. And remember, I have means something different thanks to the old Dartmouth Football Treevens – adapt and improvised, good advice on how to succeed in the world. ”
In his closing remarks, Geisel Dean Duane Compton, PhD, congratulated John Ross and Victoria Callahan for their student speeches during the MPH / MS Healthcare research awards ceremony.
“John, you have stressed the importance of adherence to the fundamental values of public health as a direct principle.
In admiration, he added: “You have been all agreeing to apply you to make progress that will improve the health and well-being of individuals and populations. By choosing a professional career path in this way, you choose a value of altruism and generosity to help others. There is no higher call than that. ”
The class marshals for the class day event included: Courtney Elaine Camenzind (MHA), Yihan (Ethan) Zhang (MS – Epidemiology), Jessica Nicole Leishman (MPH online and hybrid program) and Pooja K. Patel (MSPH and MS Healthcare Resean.
If you have missed the ceremony of the course of the education of health sciences in 2025, watch the video here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwqml_uimru
Health Sciences award ceremonies
During the Research Prize ceremony on health health health sciences / MS, Geisel Assistant Dean of Public Health Programs Alicia Battle, PHD, MS, welcomed all participants before presenting the students John Ross (MPH / MS Cohort) and Victoria Callahan (Hybrid MPH Cohort).
“To our winners, congratulations on your well -deserved achievements,” said Battle. “You embody what is possible when passion and goal align. Let this recognition energize you to continue looking for an even more important impact in your future trip.”
The award ceremony recognized the achievements of the following students:
Henry Masters Prize
Residential: Nicole Winn
Hybrid: Ariel Shirley-Layton
Karen Ashley Leadership Prize
Residential: Pooja Patel, John Paul Ross
Hybrid: Brieanna Gerner
Educational Excellence Prize
Residential: Bill Nelson, Phd, Mdiv
Hybrid: Robin Larson, MD, MPH
Social justice price
Residential: All members of the graduate class
Hybrid: All members of the graduate class
Delta Omega inductions
Residential: Katherine Axel, Bridget Ceplo, Audrey Déches, Aidan Ferrin, Rachel Gillcrist, Mazie Lebowitz, Emily Levonas, Pooja Patel, Isabella Romeo
Hybrid: Jan-Christopher Franca, Brieanna Gerner, Jessica Leishman, Marie Skoczlas, Madeline Weiman
Faculty: Daniel Lucey, Med’81, Meghan Longacre, MS, Phd
Independent internship prices (and their projects)
Rachel Gillcrist – Examine the role of female poverty as mediator in environmental exhibitions and unfavorable birth results
Shaina Joshua – Examine the obstacles to the supply of vaccines in primary care offices
Emily Levonas and Elham Malik – Public health commissions: a look at Indiana and Maryland and lessons for Vermont
Integrative learning experience price
Katherine Axel – Support self-assured employers in search of pharmacotherapy service service solutions based on the American commercial market
James Feng – Sociodemographic, geographic and temporal determinants of access to immunotherapy treatment for advanced stage melanoma: an analysis of national electronic data data
Aidan Ferrin – Rebuilding relief: a political framework for the adoption and use of the treatment of chronic pain non -opiode in the populations of Medicaid
Rachel Gillcrist – Evaluation of the relationship between the built environment and health in the communities for the settlement of urban refugees: a study with a mixed method in Philadelphia
Ishaan Kumar – Learn global hospital budgets in the Pennsylvania rural health model: a white political paper
Jharie Kay Sebastian – Improvement of mental health services for adolescents in Manila, in the Philippines: a proposal for a policy document
Pratucum Awards (and their projects)
Amrah Hasan – Improvement of the ambulatory parenteral antimicrobial therapy process by standardization of criteria
Jessica Ramcharan – Improve the sustainability of nursing staff in Guyana: global health for capacity building and quality improvement
Ashlyn Reining – Prepare x disease: risk factors and mitigation measures for future zoonotic epidemics
Alyssa Shewmaker – Nourish to Florish: a study of mixed methods evaluating food insecurity in a private college and rurally located in the north of New England
Ariel Shirley-Layton – Aboriginal peer support program at Arizona University: a public health approach to empower Aboriginal students
Alyssa Troutner – Evaluation and implementation plan for autonomous relief: a virtual intervention of chronic pain
Speaker
Residential: John Ross
Hybrid: Victoria Callahan
If you missed the research award ceremony on health health sciences in 2025 / ms, watch the video here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4ACQPFL_EE
MS in epidemiology, health sciences on health and medical IT prices
Another award ceremony for the MS programs of Geisel in epidemiology, data sciences on health and medical computer science took place Friday afternoon in Anonymous Hall, where the following prices were awarded:
Ms. Health Sciences Student Award: Mo Qi Wang
Prize of the Faculty of Health Sciences MS: Carly Bobak, Phd
Student lecturer: Yihan Zhang
Higher education price
In addition, at the nomination Guarini this weekend,, diploma Xin Li received the John W. Strohbehn Prize for excellence in biomedical research. The Strohbehn Prize is awarded each year to a qualified doctoral student candidate in one of the higher education programs based on the Faculty of Medicine which best illustrates the qualities of a scientific scholar – intellectual curiosity, dedication and commitment to the search for new scientific knowledge and teaching – as well as a sense of social responsibility towards the research community.