(upbeat music) (audience shouting) (audience shouting) (audience shouting) (audience applauding) (audience shouting) (laughs) - So graduates and commencement party, you may be seated.

Today marks the culmination of the Medical School Education for the Michigan State University College of Human Medicine, class of 2022.

(audience applauding) Congratulations to the 22 grads.

(applauding) You have reached a very important milestone.

We are honored to also welcome several members of the 2020 class who have also returned to be hooded.

(applauding) (audience applauding) Thank you to the family, friends, mentors, faculty and alumni who have joined us today for this official commencement ceremony.

The Michigan State University College of Human Medicine educates medical students and aid communities across the state.

Today we gather collectively to celebrate and reflect.

My name is Wanda Lipscomb and I have the privilege to serve as the associate dean for Student Affairs and senior associate dean for Diversity and Inclusion here at CHM.

It is now my pleasure to introduce to you members of the dayers and several of the college leadership team.

Starting at my left and I will ask that you stand like on your name and we wait to acknowledge to the very end, okay?

So starting to my left we have Dr. Randi Stanulis.

Who is assistant dean and also director of the office of Medical Education Research and Development.

Then to my far left, Dr. Judith Brady.

Assistant dean for Student Wellness and Engagement.

Dr. Mieka Smart, director of the Leadership for Medicine and the Underserved Program.

Dr. Heather Laird-Fick, director of College Wide Assessment.

Dr. Lisa Lowry, assistant dean for Diversity and Cultural Initiatives.

Dr. Matt Emery, director of Simulation.

Dr. Carol Parker, assistant dean for Program Evaluation and Continuous Quality Improvement.

Dr. Dianne Wagner, associate dean for Undergraduate Medical Education.

And Dr. Andrea Wendling, interim senior associate dean for Academic Affairs.

Associate dean for Academic Community Programs and director of Rural Medicine.

And then to my right we have Dr. Sean Valles.

Who's chair of the... - [Woman 1] I have to look at.-- - Center for Bioethics and Social Justice.

Dr. Julie Phillips, who's chair of the Department of Medicine.

And then going to my far right we have Dr. Laura Carravallah, who is director of the Medical Partners and Public Health Certificate Program.

Dr. Mark Weiss, a member of the board for the College of Human Medicine, alumni association.

Dr. Ross Ramsey, president of the CHM alumni association.

Dr. Jonathan Gold, director of the Learning Academy.

Dr. Robin DeMuth, assistant dean for Clinical Experiences.

Dr. Norman Beauchamp Junior, Michigan State University, executive vice president for Health Sciences.

Our honored speaker, Dr. Marsha Rappley, dean emeritus and dean, dean emeritus of the College of Human Medicine.

And our dean Dr. Aron Sousa, let us acknowledge them.

(audience applauding) We also would like to acknowledge that joining us on the platform are many members of the faculty of the college of Human Medicine, alumni of the college.

As well as we have many guest hooders.

We would like to have our guest hooders seated on the floor to just rise as a group so we can acknowledge them.

(audience applauding) Thank you.

And there are a significant group of individuals who have spent the last two years with our graduates.

We would like to have our community assistant deans to stand along with our student program administrators so we can acknowledge them as a group.

(audience applauding) Now I would like to have us all in the assembly stand as we recognize our country with the playing of the national anthem.

And the flag is, over there and up there is all around, okay.

(upbeat music) (audience applauding) You may be seated.

It is now my pleasure to introduce Dr. Aron Sousa, dean of the College of Human Medicine.

Dr. Sousa is now serving as the seventh dean of the Medical School.

Having been officially appointed our dean in April this year.

Dr. Sousa previously served as interim dean for the Medical School for about three years, split across two different time periods.

He also held a position of senior associate dean for Academic Affairs.

He has been the visionary leader for the development of our educational programs.

That impact not only our medical students but all of those students who are a part of our college.

Dr. Sousa received his MD degree from Indiana University.

He is always happy to share that he is a general internist.

So for those of us who are not physician he treats sick adults.

Not exactly the easiest patients to have.

He is an absolute dedicated medical educator.

He is happiest when he is doing his rounds, having medical students and residents at his side as he is teaching them in the hospital.

He is also a committed community leader and an absolute supporter of everything that the college of Human Medicine stands for.

And our mission to serve the underserved.

We welcome dean Sousa who will take us through the rest of this program, thank you.

(audience applauding) - Thank you Dr. Lipscomb, and I wanna thank Dr. Lipscomb dean.

All of the staff from student affairs and the rest of the deans office who help put today together, thank you.

(audience applauding) Good afternoon and welcome to the 2022, College of Human Medicine commencement.

Celebrating the graduation of the class of 2022 and some intrepid returning members of the class of 2020.

It is my pleasure and honor to represent the faculty and staff in congratulating all of the graduates and welcome their family and friends who are here with us today.

There is no happier occasion at a university than graduation.

And it's particularly special to be here again today after the last two years, it is good to be here together.

It is important that we share that joy, our joy and your accomplishments with your entire family and friends.

some of your younger or not so young family members, might even get a little antsy over the course of the afternoon and need a bit of a walk about, it's a part of life.

Please feel free to take them up into the concourses or around this amazing arena.

Michigan State University has a formal land acknowledgement.

Which I want to include now in my opening remarks.

We acknowledge that Michigan State University occupies the ancestral, traditional and contemporary lands of the initial bay.

The Three Fires Confederacy of Ojibwa, Ottawa, and Bodowadomi peoples.

In particular the university resides on land seated in the 1819 treaty of Saginaw.

We recognize support and advocate for the sovereignty of Michigan's 12 federally recognized Indian nations for historic indigenous communities in Michigan, for indigenous individuals and communities who live here now.

And for those who are forcibly removed from their homelands.

By offering this land acknowledgement we affirm indigenous sovereignty.

And will work to hold Michigan State University more accountable to the needs of American Indian and indigenous people.

And on this land, and as everybody in this building now knows, medical school and becoming a physician is a huge amount of work.

Studying 60 to 80 hours a week or rounding and clinical duties of 60 to 80 hours a week for months on end.

It can be draining, tiring, exhilarating, occasionally terrifying.

And hopefully at least as often joyous.

The graduates here in front of me have faced those terrors.

And hopefully they have seen some of the joy that comes from being someone's doctor.

It is a great honor to be someone's physician.

The most important decision the college makes in creating a good physician is in admissions.

We work hard to make sure that we pick people who are entering medicine for the right reasons, who will bring life lessons that are valuable to their patients.

And who are committed to the wholesome and scientific practice of medicine.

And I really hope we haven't screwed you up along the way.

(audience laughing) I want the people that we admitted to be the people that we graduate.

But trained well in the technical and intellectual skills of medicine.

I seek in my newest colleagues, the personal and professional attributes that sustain my profession.

Colleagues who will take care of my patients when I am not available, who will treat me and my family when I need them.

And I am confident you are still those people, improved by your education and only the very best of ways.

Occasionally I get to speak with our graduates and after they've gone off to residency.

And I am confident you will find yourself well trained, well prepared.

With a technical intellectual and emotional skills to deal with the rigors of medicine.

And I suppose you can just ask the class of 2020 who finished medical school early in the pandemic and went on to be residents in the heart of COVID-19.

I worked in hospitals during some of the largest outbreaks and no one worked harder than residents.

Who often had their rotations diverted or changed to cover more ICU, more emergency room, more COVID-19 wards.

Residents took on the weight of much of this profession.

They were disproportionately made ill among the deaths and physicians.

They were disproportionately residents.

Residents were the backbone of the work of the physician core in this country.

And for the profession and from all of us, I thank you.

(audience applauding) For those of you in the room who didn't know normal residency is difficult too.

It's in fact harder than medical school.

And I think most physicians here would agree with me that the first year of residency you will learn more about how to care for patients and more about medicine than you will learn in any other year of your career.

For our class of 2022 I want you to know that I am confident you are ready to take this on.

There will be some point in the next year however, in all likelihood when you'll wonder why you signed up for this.

There's a certain biology to being a resident.

You have to eat, you have to sleep.

You have to find some joy in what you are doing each day.

Remember to make use of the support of your colleagues, other members of your team, your resident faculty, your family, your friends.

If you pay attention to what you need as an organism you can look the most difficult situation in the eye and come up with a plan and make the world of your patient and their family a better place.

Congratulations to our graduates.

(audience applauding) It is my pleasure to introduce, Norman J. Beauchamp Jr.

The executive vice president for Health Sciences at Michigan State University.

After graduating from CHM, an indeterminate number of years ago.

Dr. Beauchamp did surgical, a surgical transitional internship in Grand Rapids before doing his radiology residency and Neurointerventional fellowship at Johns Hopkins.

Where he stayed to be faculty and associate chair before becoming chair of radiology at the university of Washington.

And then of course returning to his roots at CHM as dean in 2016.

Dr. Beauchamp has helped lead the university through COVID, the COVID 19 pandemic.

He's been a leader of the university's new partnership with Henry Ford.

He has taken on the mantle of work for the development of our innovations program across the state.

And it is my great pleasure to introduce EVP, Beauchamp.

(audience applauding) - Yeah thank you so much, Aron.

I really appreciate being invited here today to recognize these incredible graduates.

And I'm excited about it maybe for four particular reasons.

The first reason is that I was a graduate of this awesome college, go class of 1990.

Anybody?

(audience applauding) Second is I did have the joy of serving as dean of the college from 2016 to 2019.

And I have the chance to look out and see many faces that I remember and am so inspired and psyched to see you here.

Third, is that no college more than the college of Human Medicine represents what we seek to be as a university.

A place where individuals with hope can come and accomplish their dream of a career that will have an impact.

And we're so proud of the college.

But then finally and most importantly is there's no graduate more representative of why a university exists and the graduates of the college of Human Medicine.

Because you will go off with your resilience and your caring to bring health, and hope and healing to others in a world that struggles.

And we're just really proud of you guys for that.

So never stop learning.

Please remember that it's the small steps towards your mission that represent excellence and know that you do not journey alone.

You join 500,000 Spartan graduates and a huge number of CHM graduates, go Green.

- [Audience] Go White.

(audience applauding) - Next, it is my great pleasure to introduce our commencement speaker, Dr. Marsha Rappley.

A CHM alumnus who served as dean of the college for 10 years.

During her 10 years as dean she greatly expanded research and endowment, the education of physicians in every corner of Michigan.

She led the college's expansion beginning in 2005 including doubling of the class size, so half of you all.

Establishing a four year campus and the college's headquarters in Grand Rapids.

The purchase of land comprising the MSU Innovation Park in Grand Rapids.

And the building of the Grand Rapids Research Center among many other accomplishments.

She is a national leader in Academic Medicine and was elected the chair of the board of directors of the association of American Medical Colleges.

She also served on the research advisory panel of the AAMC.

She served on the board of directors for the association of accreditation of Human Research Protection Programs.

The American board of pediatrics, sub-board for developmental and pediatric behavioral pediatrics.

And was chair of the US Drug Administration, US Food and Drug Administration's pediatric advisory committee.

Which we all have learned a lot more about over the last two years.

She completed six years on the Liaison Committee of medical education.

Which accredits US Puerto Rican and Canadian Medical Schools.

She retired in 2020 as the senior vice president for Health Sciences and CEO of the Virginia Commonwealth University, VCU health system.

During her MSU career, Dr. Rappley was a tenured professor of Pediatrics and Human Development.

She has been recognized for distinguished service by the American academy of pediatrics.

Her researched focused on children with ADHD.

Learning problems and other serious mental health challenges.

She rose through the ranks at MSU and as director of various clinics, interim chair for Pediatrics and Human Development.

Associate dean for Academic Affairs and then dean.

she did this after earning a nursing degree from the University of Michigan and her medical degree from Michigan State University.

She did her Residency in Pediatrics at the university of Michigan Mott Children's Hospital.

She's a board certified pediatrician in developmental on behavioral pediatrics.

She is currently a clinical professor of pediatrics at the University of California and working part-time with the USC LA county, Health System Pediatric Residency.

It is great to have her home and welcome her to the podium, Marsha Rappley.

(audience applauding) - Well, thank you for that introduction.

I'm sorry, it went on so long.

I wanna also just thank you for giving me the opportunity to be part of your graduation.

It really is an honor to be invited to be the guest speaker.

And I cherish it because I sat on your side of the podium and I remember how good it felt to just finally have it done with.

I wanna thank you for choosing to be a physician, for joining all of us as colleagues.

You could have done any number of things with your skills, your talents, your drive.

But you choose to dedicate yourself to medicine.

All its risks and all of its many rewards.

You've come through medical school at a time of great uncertainty.

Anxiety that many of us have about ourselves, about the wellbeing of our loved ones, about our future.

It may have led you to doubt whether or not you made the right choice for yourself.

We believe that you made the right choice for yourself and are very pleased to be behind you in helping you achieve your goals.

But you may also doubt your own education.

All of the kind of changes that had to happen because of COVID and because of the burden of health and care of our communities and our world.

You had to jump through many, many hoops to get to graduation.

And given that, although those hoops, I think it's worth emphasizing to your friends and family how hard that is.

We talk about it being hard but let me tell you it's really hard.

It may be one of the hardest things you do in your life, right up there with residency.

Which is what you're gonna do next.

But you'll be a doctor once you cross this stage.

And that is something that you have earned and that it's something that you will carry with you your entire life.

But let's take a look at some of those hoops that you jumped through.

So exams, okay?

Weekly.

And that was really to help you move from being anxious to being hopefully more comfortable with the exams that you will have to take to get your license, to get your credentials, to practice medicine.

There were simulations with people trained to be patients and taught to give you feedback often critical.

And I remember one of my patient models saying to me as I put my hand on her shoulder to examine her heart.

She goes oh like, that's creepy.

And I go, my gosh.

She said you know, be confident, okay?

Don't put that little light hand on my shoulder it creeps me out.

Okay.

And some of you will also remember this being called out in front of doctors, nurses, patients, other students.

All of them glad that they weren't called out.

And the question that I remember so distinctly coming to me was, Dr. Rappley, does this patient have a fever?

So maybe that's humiliation to be called out in front of all of these people.

But maybe it also helped prepare me for the middle of the night.

When the parent of a gravely ill child looks me dead in the eye and says, Dr. Rappley, why does my child have this high fever?

All of these hoops that you have jumped through they are layers, they're networks of learning.

It's your safety net.

And you have laid them down with painstaking care.

They make you ready for what is coming.

They help you to be ready because there's a moment coming when while, most of the time it's about how you pose the question, who do you ask?

Where do you go to find information?

But a moment will come when it will be only you and you will have to decide.

And you will have to act on behalf of your patient.

And you will reach deep and you will pull hard on all of those layers that you have laid down.

They're redundant, they're overlapping, they're superfluous.

And they're there when you need them.

So we give you your diploma because we know that you are ready.

I wanna take a moment, I'm gonna turn around to do this, to thank your faculty and the staff who helped you become ready.

It's a huge responsibility to set the bar so high that we can trust and your patients can trust you when they come to you.

And to see you sail over it and to walk away, ready for the great responsibilities that are yet to come to you.

So I would just wanna take a moment and thank them all.

Thank you all.

(audience applauding) And please graduates join me in thanking your family and friends who raised you up to be a person who was willing to work hard.

Who believe that you are a person who will make a difference in the world and who will continue to be your support in the difficult work ahead.

So let's give them a hand.

(audience applauding) We need each other in all of our collective support in order to help us take, help us have what it takes to turn around and help another person.

So always remember in this moment that all of these people came together in support of you.

What you dreamed or what you achieved and what you're yet to do.

But I want you to think about being a physician who does more than fix sickness.

I want you to think about how you regard patients, whether you can truly listen and observe what you see.

I might be a frail, gray haired older woman who has trouble organizing my answers to your questions.

Or I might be a woman of color, who just delivered a baby.

And instead of being happy I look at you and I say, I'm afraid I'm going to die, I can't breathe.

Or it might be a defiant young man who stumbles into your emergency department.

Having come from juvenile detention with the worst headache of my life.

Now grand and statistics will tell you and you may jump to conclusions.

Your personal biases may take you to tell me that it's nothing, that I'm demented.

Thinking in your mind that I'm demented.

You might think oh, you're overly anxious, have a tranquilizer.

You might think this guy is seeking drugs.

And all that may be true.

But what may also be true is that I have a life threatening allergic reaction or a pulmonary embolism or subarachnoid hemorrhage.

Any of which can lead to my death.

You've been taught to think about your own personal biases to work through those.

So I ask you to remember, to remember to keep doing that.

We, all of us have to keep working through those biases that lead us to such serious mistakes.

And I want you to also think that it's not enough for you to be the best physician that you can possibly be.

It's necessary but it's not sufficient.

You're part of a larger system.

And that system needs to be the best that it can be.

So I ask you to help us change our culture of medicine.

Be that person who stands up in the department and meeting.

The department meeting and says well, I don't really think this is working for our patients.

Because culture is as contagious as COVID is.

And if you start to work on these changes both small and large within your system you are helping fight for change.

If you ask leaders of institutions if they are patient centered.

And if they are putting patient safety first.

They will say, yes of course we are.

We do, that's what we do.

But it is extremely hard to orient a large health system away from our own needs to find efficiencies for ourselves.

To find margins that even allow us to do other things.

We're moving away from the patient who is sick.

Help us orient these systems to put the needs of the sick person first.

It's very difficult to do.

It's very hard to face quality and safety issues in yourself and in your own institution.

Is very hard to look at your own institution and see inequity and injustice.

Because nobody wants to be that person.

Nobody wants to be that system that's allowing people to die unnecessarily.

But there it is, that's what's happening across our country.

So please help us overcome the preoccupation with administrative issues and the kind of complacency that allows those things to happen, over and over and over again.

Speak up, you've heard over and over again too.

Use your voice, make it heard.

It's more powerful than you can imagine.

So help us to change this.

And I also wanna share something that you've heard Dr. Sousa talk about today.

But I learned this from Dr. Dianne Wagner.

I heard her talk about it.

I watched "Do It" and then I tried to do it myself.

And that is looking for the joy in medicine.

And it sounds so trivial, right?

It's like joy whatever you know, just get me through this, I gotta get on to the next thing.

It seems like competency, should be so much more important, right?

Let's focus on that and lose sight of the joy.

But in my list of accomplishments there are many times when I really asked myself, did I make the right choice?

Am I doing the right thing with my life?

Am I good enough?

Am I strong enough?

Am I willing to work hard enough to do what needs to be done?

And am I really doing any good at all?

There are moments of serious discouragement that you will feel and that you will face.

And I try to do what Dr. Wagner asked me to do and try to remember maybe it was just a glance.

Maybe it was just a whispered thank you.

When I tried to save a patient's life but I couldn't.

Maybe it was when one of my colleagues cried.

Because she trusted me enough to cry in my presence.

I know these things do not conjure up images of joy for you, right?

I've just described some pretty bad stuff.

But there is joy in there.

And it's joy in the connections that we make to one another.

There are small but they are very powerful things.

These connections are powerful for the person we are helping and they're powerful for us.

And if you look for these fleeting as they are, they accumulate over time.

And you'll go on to do really great things.

You'll do momentous, huge, wonderful things.

But when I failed at the great thing, when that momentous thing did not work for me.

It was these small episodes, these small connections that brought joy.

These things filled my heart in that moment of despair.

Just enough to allow me to keep going.

I'm excited for all the wonderful things that you will experience both great and small.

I have lived to see childhood leukemias, starting out uniformly fatal, almost uniformly fatal.

When I started almost uniformly cured now.

I've seen that in my career.

I am so happy to tell you that well, at least in this country we have more work to do globally on this.

But I don't have to watch children die from Haemophilus influenzae anymore.

And I have lived to see children with cyanotic heart disease and cystic fibrosis grow up and have their own families.

And go on to have very rich and full lives, as a matter of course.

And these children died when I began my career in medicine.

You will be part of such amazing and wonderful things.

And you will feel them, both the amazing science that underlies all of that.

But also in your tenacity, your perseverance and your joy that you will bring to it.

That will help sustain your accomplishments but also help to sustain you.

Your work is deeply meaningful.

And I thank you again for taking it up, thank you.

(audience applauding) - It is my pleasure to introduce our interim senior associate dean for Academic Affairs and associate dean for Community Academic Programs, Dr. Andrea Wendling.

The students will know her previously from her work as director of Rural Programs or our director of Rural Medicine.

The country's Premier Rural Health Educational Program.

Dr. Wendling is a well published scholar and leader in rural health of physician workforce, family medicine.

And she'll be presenting the faculty awards.

(audience applauding) - Thank you.

The faculty members of the college provide an exceptional education in a supportive, learning environment.

Today it is my pleasure to introduce the faculty award winners, selected by the graduates of the class of 2022.

They include individuals from all aspects of the curriculum and from all communities.

We are delighted to formally recognize the faculty award winners who are joining us today.

Dr. Jamie Allen, department of pharmacology and toxicology.

(audience applauding) The students report, Dr. Allen is a gem of a human.

She cares so deeply about each student with whom she interacts.

The College of Human Medicine is so fortunate to have her.

(audience applauding) Dr. Michael Borgeld, (audience applauding) academy fellow in Simulation Core faculty.

The students report, he has always demonstrated a high ethical, moral, compassion and dedication for students he was teaching.

Mike is a great example of what it means to not just be a great physician but a great human being.

(audience applauding) Dr. David Buzanoski, department of Internal Medicine.

(audience applauding) The students report, he's incredibly passionate about teaching and sets an excellent example with his relationships with patients and staff.

Dr. Buzz treats you as a student with great respect and encourages you to learn and grow in a safe and supportive atmosphere.

(audience applauding) Dr. Douglas Allinger.

(audience applauding) Department of radiology.

The students report that they appreciated how he trusted us enough to share his story of triumphs and personal struggles in medicine.

We wouldn't have made it through medical school without his support.

(audience applauding) Dr. Jerry Kasanic, Department of Pediatrics.

(audience applauding) The students report, the word that comes to mind when they think of Dr. Kasanic is phenomenal.

She embodies all the characteristics of an outstanding pediatrician, colleague and mentor.

She truly cares about students and we feel that when we're around her.

(audience applauding) Dr. Heather Laird-Fick, department of Internal Medicine.

(audience applauding) The students report, Dr. Fick has been described by many as a mentor, and advocate and educator.

Thank you for the time you took listening to our SIM feedback, preparing SDC material, teaching on IM rounds.

Writing our letters of recommendation and many other things you do in the background.

(audience applauding) Dr. Christina Lashua, department of pediatrics.

(audience applauding) The students report, Dr. Lashua treats students like colleagues in a way that challenges us.

But also allows us to believe in ourselves.

There is not a student who works with her that is not impacted by her infectious enthusiasm.

We are forever grateful to have had the opportunity to train under such an amazing physician.

(audience applauding) And Dr. Anthony Paganini, from the department of physiology.

(audience applauding) Dr. Paganini demonstrates dedication and devotion for students to reach excellence.

He is kind, passionate and a genuinely good human being.

(audience applauding) We also want to acknowledge the faculty award winners who are unable to join us today.

Dr.

Basil Abdo, from the department of family medicine.

(audience applauding) Dr. David Beton, from the department of Emergency Medicine.

(audience applauding) Dr. Stanley Frye, from the department of obstetric gynecology and reproductive biology.

(audience applauding) Dr. Jeremy Heffernan, from the department of medicine.

(audience applauding) Dr. Sarah Herrera, from the department of surgery.

(audience applauding) Dr. Andrew Jameson, from the department of medicine.

(audience applauding) Dr. Shane Martin, from the department of surgery.

(audience applauding) Dr. Catherine Petran, from the department of surgery.

(audience applauding) Dr. Lawrence Waves, from the department of medicine.

(audience applauding) Dr. Kurt Wright, from the department of obstetric gynecology and reproductive biology.

(audience applauding) And Dr. Michael Zarafa, from the department of Family Medicine.

(audience applauding) Thank you.

And I now invite dean Sousa back to the podium for the lifetime faculty excellence and teaching award.

- Dr. Dianne Wagner's career at the College of Human Medicine spans more than 40 years.

She has done just about every job in medical education.

Ranging from Precepting a clinic, helping students remediate, directing clinical skills, designing courses and assessments.

Running courses, implementing curricula.

She's been the associate dean for graduate Medical Education which is residencies.

And also the country's first associate dean for college wide assessment.

She's also been the associate dean for Undergraduate Medical Education and spent the last 18 months or so as the senior, longer than that.

More than two years as the senior associate dean for Academic Affairs.

Mostly she's just an astonishingly talented person with an incredible work ethic and a great sense of humor.

Staying up late at night to try to figure out whether or not students tests have come in for COVID, trying to figure out how the world is gonna get through the next day in a virtual world.

She and I practiced Internal Medicine, next to each other for about 20 years, we are clinic buddies.

She is retiring after a career filled both with leadership locally and nationally.

A career in which she always did a great deal of teaching.

Regardless of her other leadership positions.

She had a key role in the training of around 4,000 graduates.

Making an impact on all of their patients.

That is about 2/3 of our total graduates from the College of Human Medicine.

That is a great legacy for a great teacher and a great physician.

Dr. Dianne Wagner.

(audience applauding) - Thank you dean Sousa for those incredibly, generous words.

This wonderful award and over four decades of my professional journey are cause for reflection.

And so I've been asked to reflect.

But today is really all about you.

So I am going to share some thoughts that merge my journey and yours.

And I'm gonna talk about what I know about you and what I hope for you.

What do I know about you?

I know that each and every one of you is absolutely ready for what comes next in your own journey.

You've worked hard, learned much, cared deeply about those you care for.

You will continue to work hard to lessen the burden of illness and to help others in need.

You will be there for your patients and for your colleagues.

You always have and you always will achieve competence and strive for excellence.

I know that given to otherwise equivalent choices, you will choose the kindest one.

You will be the residents that everyone wants to work with and everyone wants to learn from.

I know that being your teacher has been one of the most precious gifts that I could have ever been given.

And I want you to know how lucky I feel to have been a part of your journey.

What do I hope?

I hope that you are endlessly delighted by the things that you get to understand, the human organism and the human experience.

I hope that you are nourished by witnessing the bravery and goodness of your patients and your colleagues, as I have been.

I hope that you're always curious about everything and that you wake up every day, just energized.

Well, maybe not energized.

Maybe that's too much to ask over the next several months.

But at least wake up every day, open to learning from and with others and to teaching others because teaching is such a gift.

I hope that you never forget that you are making a difference every day in people's lives.

And that when you make a difference for one person you make a difference for everyone they love and everyone who loves them.

I hope that you persistently wonder if you can do things better.

And that you get involved in making things better whenever you have the chance.

Because as you've already heard, there's themes here emerging, right?

That is the kind of work that helps you get through the hardest day, or week or month.

It is energizing and joyful.

I hope that you are lucky enough to always love what you do.

Love who you do it for and love who you do it with.

Because that is how lucky I have been.

Thank you, College of human medicine for this truly wonderful award and for all the gifts that I have been given.

And thank you wonderful students for the privilege of having been your teacher, congratulations to each and every one of you.

(audience applauding) - At the College of Human Medicine some students complete more than one degree, extending their time of study.

But also expanding their expertise and experience.

Dual degree students have a special dedication and persistence that often carries their careers into advanced areas of science, business, health and leadership.

I would like the following students to stand and be recognized.

Ali Abboud.

(audience applauding) Was conferred the Master of Business Administration in 2022.

Wyatt Boothby-Shoemaker, (audience applauding) was conferred a Master of Business Administration in 2022.

Isabella Felzer-Kim.

(audience applauding) Was conferred a Doctor of Philosophy in Kinesiology, in 2020.

Guillermo Flores.

(audience applauding) Was conferred a Doctor of Philosophy in molecular and cellular biology in 2020.

And Martin Ogrodzinski.

(audience applauding) Was converted, Doctor of Philosophy and Physiology in 2020.

Congratulations.

(audience applauding) You may seat.

And now we come to the most significant portion of our commencement, the hooding of the graduates.

(audience applauding) This ceremony will follow the order of the program.

Beginning with the 2020 graduates followed by the graduates from the Flint community.

(audience shouting) You can follow along in the program beginning on page six.

I ask that the 2020 graduates, following the directions from the Marshalls and the participants in the hooding ceremony to please move to your stations.

(audience applauding) This year we are happy to welcome back a few of the graduates from the 2020 class who did not have a traditional commencement due to the pandemic.

They will be hooded first as a part of our ceremony today.

The 2022 graduates will then be hooded in alphabetical order by community campus as noted in the program.

The graduates will be introduced by the Student Program Administer.

Administrator of their community campus.

The graduates will be hooded by the associate dean for Student Affairs.

The associate dean for Undergraduate Medical Education.

Their community assistant deans and faculty, alumni and guest hooders.

The graduates who have completed special certificate programs will receive certificates from the respective certificate program director or the assistant dean for clinical experiences.

The graduates will receive commemorative of scrolls from dean Sousa.

Before they exit the hooding platform on my right.

There's a roped in area on the far right of the arena.

Where families may gather to take pictures.

After the graduates have completed the hooding and before they return to their seats.

This graduation ceremony today has many features specific to the College of Human Medicine.

But the basic structure of processional hooding confirmation of degree, taking of an oath and recessional date to mid 15th century, Oxford.

In the original ceremonies, the hoods and robes were those of newly minted priests.

But they were like ours, institutional markers of completion and approval.

From the first of these ceremonies faculty of recognized not only the achievement of their students.

But they celebrated the placement of their graduates.

Back into society with special purpose and responsibility, intrinsic to the medical degree.

So here on land, the people of the State of Michigan traded for the intellectual and economic progress of our citizens.

The faculty asks you to take your place beside them.

We now begin the signal event of our graduation.

The hooding of the graduates of the College of Human Medicine.

- Good afternoon everyone.

My name is Ashley May, I am the Student Programs Administrator for the Flint campus.

(audience applauding) It is my distinct pleasure to present to you the Flint campus graduates from the class of 2020.

Assisting with the hooding is community assistant dean, Dr. Jennifer Edwards-Johnson.

(audience applauding) Dr. Natalie Baxter, accompanying her today is her son Judah, eight months.

(audience applauding) Dr. Baxter has earned a certificate for the completion of the Leadership in Medicine for the underserved program.

(audience murmuring) (audience applauding) Dr. Rene Cardenas, accompanying him across the stage is his daughter Aria, age seven.

(audience applauding) Dr. Shayna Vega, assisting with the hooding is associate dean for Student Affairs, Dr. Wanda Lipscomb.

Dr. Vega has earned a certificate for the completion of the Leadership In Medicine for the underserved program.

(audience applauding) That concludes the presentation of the 2020 Flint campus graduates.

I now welcome to the stage my colleagues from the Grand Rapids campus, community assistant dean, Dr. Angela Thompson-Busch.

And Student Programs Administrator, Corey Koperski.

(audience applauding) - Good afternoon, my name is Corey Koperski.

And it is my pleasure to present to you for hooding the 2020 Grand Rapids campus graduates.

Dr. Angela Thompson-Busch, community assistant dean will assist with the hooding.

Dr. Sonia Gentile, (audience applauding) assisting with the hooding is Dr. Jeremy Gentile.

She is accompanied by her children, Isabella, aged two and a half and six month old, Quintin.

(audience applauding) Dr. Gerald Lilly.

(audience applauding) (audience applauding) Dr. Katie Quinn, assisting with the hoodie is her mentor, Dr. Cara Poland.

(audience applauding) (audience applauding) Community Assistant dean, Dr. Jamila Power and Student Programs Administrator, n will now present the 2020 Lansing campus graduates for hooding.

(audience applauding) - Good afternoon, my name is Lauren Zoumbaris.

Student Programs Administrator in the Lansing campus.

Assisting with hooding today is Dr. Jamila Power, Community Assistant dean.

It is our pleasure to present the 2020 graduates from the Lansing Regional Campus for hooding.

Dr. Michael Andrew, accompanying him across stage is his daughter Nesu, age two.

Assisting with hooding is faculty member Dr. Wanda Lipscomb.

(audience applauding) (audience murmuring) (audience applauding) Dr. Roger Davis, assisting with hooding is faculty member, Dr. Judith Brady.

(audience applauding) Dr. Keith McAuley, assisting with hooding is faculty member, Dr. Dianne Wagner.

(audience shouting) (audience applauding) Dr. Angela Munoz, assisting with hooding is faculty member, Dr. Judith Brady.

(audience applauding) (audience applauding) Dr. Chelsea Pote.

(audience applauding) (audience applauding) This now concludes the 2020 graduates from the Lansing Regional Campus.

(audience applauding) - Hello again.

I would like to take just a brief moment to thank you all for being here today in support of our amazing graduates.

I am truly honored to now present to you.

The Flint campus graduates from the class of 2022.

(audience applauding) Assisting with the hooding is community assistant dean, Dr. Jennifer Edwards-Johnson.

Dr. Elizabeth Marie Anteau.

(audience applauding) Dr. Anteau has earned a certificate for the completion of the Medical Partners in Public Health Program.

(audience applauding) Dr. Donita Faigao Barrameda, (audience applauding) assisting with the hooding is her father, Dr. Stewart Barrameda.

Dr. Barrameda has earned a certificate for the completion of the Medical Partners in Public Health Program.

(audience shouting) (audience applauding) Dr. Arjun Chadha.

(audience applauding) Dr. A'Jah Chandler.

(audience applauding) Dr. Chandler has earned a certificate for the completion of the Leadership in Medicine for the underserved program.

(audience shouting) (audience laughing) Dr. Jennifer Alejandra Chinchilla.

(audience applauding) Dr. Chinchilla has earned a certificate for the completion of the Leadership in Medicine for the underserved program.

(audience shouting) (audience applauding) Dr. Noumi Chowdhury, assisting with the hooding is her mentor, Dr. Jamila Power.

(audience shouting) (audience shouting) Dr. Kathleen Dinh.

(audience applauding) Dr. Dinh has earned a certificate for the completion of the Medical Partners and Public Health Program.

(audience shouting) Dr. Eiman Abdalla Elmileik.

(audience applauding) Dr. Elmileik has earned a certificate for the completion of the Medical Partners and Public Health Program.

(audience shouting) Dr. Kianna Eurick-Bering.

Dr. Eurick-Bering has earned a certificate for the completion of the Leadership in Medicine for the underserved program.

(audience shouting) Dr. Emma Frost.

Dr.

Frost has earned a certificate for the completion of the Medical Partners in Public Health Program.

(audience shouting) Dr. Tyler Marie Gresham.

(audience applauding) Dr. Gresham has earned a certificate for the completion of the Medical Partners and Public Health Program.

(audience shouting) Dr. Gabrielle Marie Guzzardo, assisting with the hooding is her sister, Dr. Gianna Guzzardo.

(audience applauding) Dr. Brittany Herron.

(audience applauding) Assisting with the hooding is her mentor, Dr. Laura Carravallah.

Dr. Herron has earned a certificate for the completion of the Medical Partners and Public Health Program.

(audience shouting) Dr. Mariam Atef Hjaige.

(audience shouting) - Dr. Rachel Hollander.

(audience applauding) Dr. Hollander has earned a certificate for the completion of the Medical Partners and Public Health Program.

Dr. Jennifer Jess.

Assisting with the hooding is her mentor, Dr. Jerry Kasanic.

(audience applauding) (audience applauding) Dr.

Crystal Juarez.

Dr. Juarez has earned a certificate for the completion of the Leadership in Medicine for the underserved program.

(audience applauding) Dr. Mahima Karki.

(audience applauding) Dr. Karki has earned a certificate for the completion of the Leadership in Medicine for the underserved program.

(audience shouting) Dr. Ryan Kenerson.

Accompanying him across the stage are his daughters, Molly age four and Lucy, age two.

(audience applauding) (audience shouting) Dr. Jaslyn Kindel.

(audience applauding) Assisting with the hooding is her mentor, Dr. Jamila Power.

Dr. Kindel has earned a certificate for the completion of the Medical Partners and Public Health Program.

(audience shouting) Dr. Cassandra Ann LaMarche.

(audience shouting) Assisting with the hooding is her sister-in-law, Dr. Chelsea Pot.

Dr. LaMarche has earned a certificate for the completion of the Medical Partners in Public Health Program.

Dr. Eunice Jong Hyon Lee.

Assisting with the hooding is her mentor, Dr. Basim Towfiq.

Dr. Lee has earned a certificate for the completion of the Medical Partners and Public Health Program.

(audience shouting) (audience applauding) Dr. Irene Lieu.

Assisting with the hooding is her mentor, Dr. Laura Carravallah.

Dr. Lieu has earned a certificate for the completion of the Leadership in, Medical Partners in Public Health Program.

(audience shouting) Dr. Godelievre Gbianzapa Louis.

Accompanying her across the stage are her daughters, Sarah Rose, age seven and Elise Rose, age three.

Dr. Louis has earned a certificate for the completion of the Leadership in Medicine for the underserved program.

(audience applauding) Dr. Abigail Rentschler-Maidlow.

Assisting with the hooding is her sister, Dr. Angela Shire.

(audience shouting) Dr. Patricia Wanjiru Maina.

(audience applauding) Dr. Maina has earned a certificate for the completion of the Leadership and Medicine for the underserved program.

Dr. Marissa Mary Catherine Miller.

Assisting with the hooding is her mentor, Dr. Basim Towfiq.

(audience applauding) (audience shouting) (audience laughing) Dr. Andrea Montalbano.

(audience applauding) Dr. Montalbano has learned a certificate for the completion of the Leadership in Medicine for the underserved program.

Dr. Malcolm Akino Moyer.

(audience applauding) (audience shouting) Dr. Austin Novarra.

(audience applauding) Dr. Novarra has earned a certificate for the completion of the Leadership in Medicine for the underserved program.

(audience shouting) Dr. Folake Olojo.

Assisting with the hooding is her brother, Dr. Temitayo Olojo.

(audience shouting) Dr.

Sunny Panh.

(audience applauding) Dr. Panh has earned a certificate for the completion of the Medical Partners and Public Health Program.

(audience applauding) (audience shouting) Dr. Taylor Ashley Revere.

Assisting with the hooding is her mentor, Dr. Jamila Power.

(audience shouting) Dr. Shilpi Sharma.

(audience applauding) (audience shouting) Dr. Semera Shemsu.

(audience applauding) Dr. Shansu has earned a certificate for the completion of the Leadership in Medicine for the underserved program.

(audience shouting) Dr. Amy VanderStoep.

Dr. VanderStoop has earned a certificate for the completion of the Leadership in Medicine for the underserved program.

(audience murmuring) (audience shouting) Dr. Laina McLain Weinman.

(audience applauding) Assisting with the hooding is her father-in-law, Dr. Aaron Mendel.

(audience shouting) Dr. Andrea Jean Westman.

(audience shouting) Assisting with the hooding is her mentor, Dr. Kelly Armstrong.

Dr. Westman has earned a certificate for the completion of the Leadership in Medicine for the underserved program.

(audience shouting) That concludes the presentation of graduates from the Flint Community campus.

I now welcome to the stage the community assistant dean for the Grand Rapids campus, Dr. Angela Thompson-Busch.

And Student Programs Administrators, Corey Koperski and Holly Nysse for the presentation of the 2022 Grand Rapids Community campus graduates.

Thank you.

(audience shouting) (audience shouting) - [Corey] My name is Corey Koperski and along with Holly Nysse.

It is our pleasure to present to you for hooding, the 2022 Grand Rapids campus graduates.

Dr. Angela Thompson-Busch, Community Assistant dean will assist with the hooding.

Dr. Carolina Aparicio.

(audience applauding) Assisting with the hooding is Dr. Sandra Cottingham.

(audience applauding) (audience shouting) (audience applauding) Dr. Amarinder Atal.

Assisting with the hooding is Dr. Sumit Singh.

(audience applauding) (audience shouting) (audience murmuring) Dr. Taylor Bashara.

He is accompanied by his 10-week-old son, Mav Cason.

(audience murmuring) (audience applauding) Dr. Aqieda Bayat.

(audience shouting) (audience applauding) (audience murmuring) Dr. Lauren Blanck.

(audience shouting) (audience applauding) Dr. Christian Bolton.

(audience shouting) (audience applauding) (audience shouting) Dr. Elizabeth Bruce.

(audience applauding) (audience shouting) Dr. Dar Chung.

(audience shouting) (audience applauding) - [Woman 2] You look amazing.

- [Corey] Dr. Nathan DeBruine.

(audience shouting) (audience applauding) (audience murmuring) Dr. Aram Derbedrossian.

(audience shouting) (audience applauding) (audience murmuring) Dr. Yichen Ding.

(audience applauding) Dr. Allysen Dubisky.

(audience shouting) (audience applauding) (audience murmuring) Dr. Guillermo Flores.

(audience applauding) (audience murmuring) Dr. Karam Gagi.

(audience shouting) Assisting with the hooding are Dr. Yousuf Gaji and Dr. Tyson Burghart.

(audience shouting) Dr. Burghart is also presenting Dr. Gaji with the American Academy of neurology prize for Medical Student excellence.

(audience murmuring) (audience shouting) (audience murmuring) Dr. Bennett Hartley.

(audience applauding) (audience shouting) Dr. Jessica Jawahar.

(audience shouting) (audience applauding) Dr. Vladislav Jdanov.

Assisting with hooding is Dr. Elena Jdanov.

(audience shouting) (audience applauding) (audience murmuring) - No, the other side.

- Other side.

(audience murmuring) Dr. Jaylyn Kelly.

(audience applauding) (audience shouting) (audience murmuring) Dr. Benjamin Kogelschatz.

(audience applauding) (audience murmuring) Dr. Christopher Kruger, assisting with the hooding is Dr. Roger Abiragi.

He is accompanied by his 15 week old daughter, Callie.

(audience applauding) (audience murmuring) Dr. Kuk Chiuying Cynthia Kuk.

Assisting with the hooding is Dr. Cara Poland and Dr. Lisa Lowry.

Chiuying Cynthia is accompanied by their child Issa.

Who is four months old.

(audience applauding) (audience murmuring) Dr. Esaw Kurban.

(audience applauding) Assisting with the hooding is Dr. Meghan Saunders Kurban.

Esaw is accompanied by his children, Christina age eight, Alina age six and Oliver age four.

(audience shouting) (audience applauding) Dr. Erin Leach.

(audience shouting) (audience murmuring) Dr. Samm Lehmann.

(audience applauding) (audience shouting) (audience murmuring) Dr. Katie Li.

(audience applauding) (audience murmuring) Dr. Eric Lind, he is accompanied by his six year old daughter, Elsa.

(audience applauding) Dr. Mohammad Maki, assisting with the hooding is Dr. Thomas Maxey.

(audience applauding) (audience shouting) (audience murmuring) Dr. Anfal Marafe.

Assisting with the hooding is Dr. Mary Ruth Lopez.

(audience shouting) (audience murmuring) Dr. Heather Martin.

Assisting with the hooding is Dr. Maham Khan.

Dr. Khan is also presenting Dr. Martin with the American Academy of neurology prize for Medical Student excellence.

(audience applauding) (audience shouting) Dr. Chineze Mbanugo.

Assisting with the hooding is Dr. Chi Davies and Dr. Odera Mbanugo.

(audience shouting) - [Woman 3] Dr. Negar Mehrabi.

(audience applauding) (audience murmuring) Dr. Francis Mensah.

(audience applauding) (audience shouting) (audience murmuring) Dr. Tudor Moldovan.

(audience applauding) (audience shouting) (audience murmuring) Dr. Silvia Mora.

(audience applauding) (audience murmuring) Dr. Rami Naom, assisting with the hooding is Dr. Nashwan Naom.

(audience applauding) (audience shouting) Dr. Alexa Norman.

(audience applauding) (audience murmuring) Dr. Martin Ogrodzinski.

(audience applauding) (audience murmuring) (audience shouting) Dr. Johana Pena, assisting with the hooding is Dr. Jerry Kasanic.

(audience applauding) (audience shouting) (audience murmuring) Dr. Georgina Pike Clegg.

(audience shouting) (audience applauding) (audience murmuring) (audience shouting) Dr. Jacob Purcell.

(audience applauding) (audience murmuring) Dr. Sheridan Reed.

(audience applauding) (audience shouting) (audience murmuring) Dr. Martha Rodas Maldonado.

(audience applauding) (audience shouting) (audience murmuring) (audience applauding) Dr. Emily Roloff.

(audience shouting) (audience applauding) (audience murmuring) Dr. Ronald Roseman.

(audience applauding) (audience shouting) (audience murmuring) Dr. Abigail Rossman, assisting with the hooding is Dr. Joseph Junewick.

(audience applauding) (audience murmuring) Dr. Paul Ruiz, assisting with the hooding is Dr. James Ruiz.

(audience applauding) (audience shouting) (audience murmuring) Dr. Harminder Sandhu, assisting with the hooding is Dr. Sandra Cottingham.

(audience applauding) (audience murmuring) (audience shouting) (audience murmuring) Dr. Claire Cherng.

(audience applauding) (audience murmuring) Dr. Spencer Sims.

(audience applauding) (audience murmuring) Dr. Sejad Skokic.

(audience applauding) (audience murmuring) Dr. Morgan Sundblad.

(audience shouting) (audience murmuring) Dr. Samuel Surgalski.

(audience applauding) (audience shouting) (audience murmuring) Dr. Nadine Tayeb, assisting with the hooding is Dr. Ghiath Tayeb.

(audience applauding) (audience shouting) (audience murmuring) Dr. Dassaev Vigil, assisting with the hooding is Dr. Jared Wagner.

(audience applauding) (audience shouting) (audience murmuring) Dr. Austin Waddell.

(audience applauding) (audience murmuring) Dr. Tyler Wall, assisting with the hooding is Dr. Brad Riley.

(audience applauding) (audience murmuring) Dr. Kelvin Woodard.

(audience applauding) (audience shouting) (audience murmuring) Dr. Kristen Wright.

(audience applauding) (audience murmuring) Dr. Grace Yu.

(audience applauding) (audience murmuring) Dr. Mitchell Zolotarevsky, assisting with the hooding is Dr. Eugene Zolotarevsky.

(audience applauding) (audience shouting) (audience murmuring) Community Assistant dean, Dr. Jamila Power and Student Programs Administrator, Lauren Zoumbaris will now present the Lansing Campus Students for hooding.

(audience shouting) (audience murmuring) - [Lauren] Good afternoon, my name is Lauren Zoumbaris, Student Programs Administrator.

And joining me as Dr. Jamila Power to assist with hooding, Community Assistant dean.

It is our pleasure to present the 2022 graduates from the Lansing Regional Campus for hooding.

Dr. Ayda Alavi.

(audience applauding) (audience shouting) (audience murmuring) Dr. Sarah Alizadeh.

Assisting with hooding is faculty member, Dr. Carol Parker.

(audience shouting) Dr. Wyatt Boothby-Shoemaker.

(audience shouting) (audience applauding) (audience shouting) Dr. Isabella Felzer-Kim.

Assisting with hooding is faculty member, Dr. Jane Turner.

(audience applauding) (audience shouting) (audience murmuring) (audience shouting) Dr. Antonio Flores, assisting with hooding is his mentor, Dr. Margarita Loeza.

(audience applauding) (audience shouting) (audience murmuring) Dr. Andre Girgis.

(audience applauding) (audience shouting) (audience murmuring) Dr. Connor Knowles.

(audience applauding) (audience shouting) (audience murmuring) Dr. Brandi Ledbetter.

(audience applauding) (audience murmuring) Dr. Paola Lepe, assisting with hooding is her mentor, Dr. Margarita Loeza.

(audience applauding) (audience shouting) Dr. Mckenzie Miller.

(audience applauding) (audience murmuring) Dr. Axucillia Kagande-Moyo.

(audience applauding) Assisting with hooding is faculty member, Dr. Jamie Allen.

(audience shouting) (audience murmuring) Dr. Rebecca Nyinawabeza, assisting with hooding is faculty member, Dr. Judith Brady.

(audience applauding) (audience murmuring) Dr. Austin Olano.

(audience applauding) (audience shouting) Dr.

Deja Rice, assisting with hooding is her mentor, Dr. Lukia Tucker.

(audience applauding) (audience shouting) (audience murmuring) Dr. Trevor Sexton.

(audience applauding) (audience murmuring) (audience shouting) Dr. Mazinge Ayeh Zaizebor.

(audience applauding) (audience shouting) (audience murmuring) I'd like to welcome Community Assistant dean, Dr. Paula Klose and Student Programs Administrator, Julie Coe to now present the Midland Regional Campus students for hooding.

(audience shouting) - [Julie] Good afternoon, my name is Julie Coe, Student Programs Administrator.

And I'm here with Dr. Paula Klose, Community Assistant dean.

And it is our pleasure to present the 2022 graduating class from the Midland Regional Campus.

Dr. Shashank Chitta.

(audience applauding) (audience shouting) (audience murmuring) Dr. Paul Edlebeck.

(audience applauding) Dr. Edlebeck is a recipient of the certificate of recognition for the completion of the Leadership in Rural Medicines, Rural Community Health Program.

(audience shouting) Dr. Michael Gomez.

(audience applauding) Dr. Gomez is a recipient of a certificate of recognition for the completion of the Leadership and Rural Medicines, Rural Community Health Program.

(audience murmuring) Thank you.

(man laughs) (audience murmuring) Dr. Allison Hoppe, assisting in the hooding is the MSU faculty member, Dr. Sandra Cottingham.

(audience applauding) Dr. Hoppe is a recipient of the certificate of recognition for the completion of the Leadership and Rural Medicines, Rural Community Health Program.

(audience shouting) Dr. David Lawlor, assisting in the hooding is his family member and CHM alumnus, Dr. John Lawlor.

(audience shouting) (audience applauding) Dr. Khyllian Ichi Lowry.

Dr. Lowry is a recipient of a certificate of recognition for the completion of the Leadership and Rural Medicines family, Rural Community Health Program.

(audience shouting) Dr. Elizabeth Ann Milligan, assisting in the hooding is MSU faculty member, Dr. Andrea Wendling.

(audience applauding) Dr. Milligan is a recipient of a certificate of recognition for the completion of the Leadership in Rural Medicines, Rural Community Health Program.

(audience murmuring) Dr. Elena Perry.

(audience shouting) Dr. Perry is a recipient of a certificate of recognition for the completion of the Leadership and Rural Medicines, Rural Community Health Program.

(audience murmuring) Dr. Scott Stanulis.

(audience shouting) Assisting in the hooding is his family member and MSU faculty member, Dr. Randi Stanulis.

(audience murmuring) Dr. Christian Guerra Vazquez.

(audience applauding) (audience shouting) And now Community Assistant dean, Dr. Valerie Overhold and Student Programs Administrator, Dr. Adrian De Gifis will present the Southeast Michigan campus students for hooding.

- [Adrian] Oh, thank you very much Julie for your kind introduction.

Good afternoon, again my name is Dr. Adrian De Gifis.

I am the Student Program Administrator for Southeast Michigan Campus.

And it gives me great pleasure to present to you for hooding.

Our graduating class of 2022.

Assisting with the hooding is our campus Community Assistant dean, Dr. Valerie Overholt.

Dr. Ali Abboud.

Assisting with the hooding, Dr. Michael Borgeld.

(audience applauding) (audience murmuring) Dr. Karrar Aljiboori.

(audience applauding) (audience murmuring) Dr. Kimberly Ong, assisting with the hooding, Dr. Thomas Ong.

(audience applauding) (audience shouting) (audience murmuring) Dr. Hamzah Badreddine, assisting with the hooding Dr. Loubna Badreddine.

(audience applauding) (audience shouting) Dr. Anthony Essak, assisting with the hooding, Dr. Mina Essak.

(audience applauding) (audience shouting) Dr. Kenechukwu Isi.

(audience applauding) (audience shouting) Dr. Kristina Ivezaj, Assisting with the hooding, Dr. Katherine Keller.

(audience applauding) (audience shouting) (audience murmuring) Dr. Hannah Kolavt, assisting with the hooding, Dr. Atif George and Mr. Jason Attisha.

(audience shouting) Dr. Oya Kasak, assisting with the hooding, Dr. Mina Essak and Neilnina Kasak.

(audience applauding) (audience shouting) Dr. Adjoa Kusi-Appiah.

(audience shouting) (audience applauding) Dr. Alexandria Markley, assisting with the hooding, Dr. Joseph Love.

(audience applauding) (audience shouting) Dr. Alexis Maroney.

(audience applauding) (audience shouting) (audience murmuring) Dr. Ashura Molla.

(audience applauding) (audience shouting) Dr. Sarien Ali Nassar.

(audience shouting) (audience applauding) (audience murmuring) Dr. Nancy Saleh, assisting with the hooding, Dr. Feda Saleh.

(audience applauding) (audience shouting) (audience murmuring) Dr. Momin Samad, assisting with the hooding, Dr. Munzer Samad.

(audience applauding) (audience shouting) (audience murmuring) Dr. Jennifer Schwank.

(audience applauding) (audience shouting) (audience murmuring) Dr. Kenneth Smaith, assisting with the hooding, Dr. Paul Smaith.

(audience applauding) (audience murmuring) Dr. Grace Tsalof.

(audience applauding) (audience murmuring) Dr. Raisa Yewah, assisting with the hooding, Dr. Marie-Louise Sagan-Yewah.

(audience applauding) (audience shouting) Dr. Nadia Yousif.

(audience shouting) (audience applauding) (audience shouting) This concludes the Southeast Michigan Campus, 2022 student graduates.

I would now like to welcome Dr. Daniel Webster, Community Assistant dean and Miss.

Christy Levine, Student Program Administrator for the Traverse City Campus.

(audience murmuring) - [Christy] Good afternoon, I'm Christy Levine.

I'm Student Programs Administrator for the Traverse City Campus.

Assisting with the hooding today is Dr. Daniel Webster.

We are very honored to be here to present the class of 2022 from the Traverse City Campus.

Dr. Zachary Jodoin.

(audience shouting) Dr. Jodoin is a recipient of a certificate of recognition for completion of the Leadership and Rural Medicines, Rural Community Health Program.

(audience shouting) (audience murmuring) Dr. Geralyn Colette Moody, assisting with the hooding is her mentor, Dr. Laura Fawaz.

(audience shouting) (audience murmuring) Dr. Kayla Michelle Orbeck.

(audience shouting) Dr. Orbeck is the recipient of a certificate of recognition for completion of the Leadership and Rural Medicines, Rural Community Health Program.

(audience murmuring) Dr. Ada Michelle Pariser, assisting in the hooding is her mentor, Dr. Andrea Wendling.

(audience shouting) Dr. Pariser is the recipient of a certificate of recognition for completion of the Leadership and Rural Medicines, Rural Community Health Program.

(audience shouting) (audience murmuring) Dr. Kendall Stevens, (audience shouting) assisting in the hooding is her mentor, Dr. Brad Riley.

Dr. Stevens is the recipient of a certificate of recognition for completion of the Leadership and Rural Medicines, Rural Community Health Program.

(audience murmuring) Dr. Maricela Vallejo.

(audience shouting) Assisting in the hooding is her aunt and mentor, Dr. Gina Vallejo Agredano.

(audience shouting) Dr. Vallejo is the recipient of a certificate of completion of Leadership and Rural Medicines, Rural Community Health Program.

(audience murmuring) Community Assistant dean, Dr. Stewart Johnson and Student Programs Administrator, Mrs. Susan Tincknell will now present the Upper Peninsula Campus students for hooding.

(audience murmuring) - [Susan] Good afternoon, my name is Susan Tincknell, Student Programs Administrator for the Upper Peninsula Campus.

It is my pleasure to present the Upper Peninsula Campus, Rural Physician Program graduates for hooding.

Assisting in the hooding is Community Assistant dean, Dr. Stewart Johnson.

These students are all recipients of a certificate of recognition for completing the Leadership and Rural Medicine, Rural Physician Program.

Dr. Joshua Cole.

(audience applauding) Assisting in Joshua's hooding is his mentor, Dr. Jamila Power.

(audience shouting) (audience murmuring) Dr. Natalie Kay Gammon.

(audience applauding) (audience murmuring) Dr. Emily Ann Jaberi, assisting in Emily's hooding is her mentor, Dr. Francis Dar.

(audience applauding) (audience shouting) Dr. Tyler John Janish, assisting in Tyler's hooding is one of his mentors, Dr. Mike Borgeld.

(audience murmuring) Dr. Alex David Lucas.

(audience applauding) (audience shouting) (audience murmuring) Dr. Erin Elaine McKenzie, assisting in Erin's hooding is her father, Dr. Douglas McKenzie.

(audience applauding) (audience murmuring) Dr. John Michael Mroz.

(audience applauding) (audience murmuring) (audience shouting) Dr. Sarah Gayle Naracon, accompanying Sarah are her children three-year-old Jozat, two-year-old Jozat and three-month-old, Pusen.

(audience applauding) (audience murmuring) Dr. Sarah Jean Tysean, assisting in Sarah's hooding is her partner, Dr. Stephen Messinger.

(audience applauding) (audience shouting) (audience murmuring) Dr. Jennifer Marie Wickens.

(audience applauding) Assisting in Jennifer's hooding is her father, Dr. Marshall Wickens.

(audience applauding) (audience murmuring) Thank you very much, that concludes the UP campus graduates.

(audience applauding) (audience murmuring) - [Woman 4] Do I just... - [Man 1] Yeah (audience murmuring) (audience shouting) (audience murmuring) (audience murmuring) - Annie Li Yang, matriculated into the College of Human Medicine in 2018 as a member of the class of 2022.

And passed away tragically in June of 2019.

Annie's faculty fellow, Dr. Alavi.

Cited Annie's exceptional talent of quiet enthusiasm and praised Annie's study of Medicine with her innate empathy for the less fortunate.

Annie was motivated by healthcare disparities, specifically those affecting the transient and incarcerated underserved communities.

Annie hoped to conduct vision, and eye research and to advocate for eye health among the underserved.

Annie's essay, "Patiently Gazing into Patients Lives" was selected as the winner of the 2019, Inaugural Student Essay Contest.

Annie's empathy and compassion were manifest as she wrote about the privilege of caring for patients that they're most vulnerable and the immense trust those patients place in those who care for them.

She emphasized the importance of maintaining one's gaze of the lives and identities of patients.

While also understanding the physiology of their ailments.

Annie was much loved and admired by her CHM peers, faculty, and staff.

And in her memory, the annual Student Essay Contest has been renamed the Annie Li Yang Student Essay Contest.

(audience applauding) At the recommendation of dean Sousa and with the endorsement of the provost and approval of the president of Michigan State University.

It is an honor and a privilege to present the posthumous degree of doctor of Medicine to Annie Li Yang.

(audience applauding) Accepting her degree in her memory is her mother, Lee Pingley.

Thank you.

(audience applauding) - I wanna take just a second to ask Val Overhold and Paula Klose to please stand.

Doctors, Overhold and Klose have been the founding Community Assistant deans for their campus.

They have been great leaders for the college and their community, helping shepherd.

Dozens and dozens of students through their path to being a physician.

I wanna thank them both for their leadership and their care of our students and their contributions to the profession as they both are retiring this year.

Thank you both.

(audience applauding) And now I ask that the candidates for the Doctor of Medicine degree, please stand.

(audience shouting) The faculty of the College of Human Medicine certifies that these applicants have completed the requirements of the degree, Doctor of Medicine.

On behalf of the board of trustees, of Michigan State University.

I confer upon each of you, the degree, Doctor of Medicine.

Congratulations.

(audience applauding) (audience shouting) - This is a wonderful day on another wonderful day.

I got to read with all of you, the matriculating students oath.

And today we get to read together the graduates oath.

So students I'll have you take out, flip to the back and I'll have you stand with me.

And we will read the oath together.

I do solemnly swear by that which I hold most sacred, that my ultimate responsibility is to the people I serve.

That it will be my privilege to maintain their health, treat their diseases and help them realize their fullest potential in life.

That I will recognize my responsibility as a teacher of my patients, of students and of the public.

That I will respect the rights and feelings, preserve the privacy and honor the dignity of my patients.

That I will strive to demonstrate honesty, goodwill and integrity.

Both in the execution of my duties and in my personal life.

That I will not hesitate to offer help to or seek assistance from my fellow professionals to improve the services that we deliver.

That I will continue to improve my skills, expand my knowledge and reexamine my needs as a rational, emotional and spiritual being.

That I will serve my community and address the needs of society.

Thereby best serving the needs of my patients.

In the pursuit of these goals let me be humble and thus grow.

Let me care and thus act courageously.

Let me be kindled and thus find confidence.

I am ready to enter the profession of medicine and I accept it as my calling, wonderful.

(audience applauding) (audience shouting) - Today we are here to celebrate growth, growth of many kinds.

Four years ago you all gathered and received your crisp, white coats.

Your smiles were just as big and excited then as they are today.

Since then, those coats have literally been covered in blood, sweat, tears and probably COVID.

(audience laughing) There have been tough times and challenges over these four years.

Yet in true CHM form, you worked through the curriculum and overcame barriers, you grew.

You developed innovative approaches to challenges.

You learned and grew by the way of a curriculum that is unlike any other in the country.

The last two years have been some of the most challenging years in the last century of medicine.

Yet you were able to use these circumstances to gain unique experiences and to solidify why you went into medicine.

you volunteered at call centers, vaccine clinics and held personal protective equipment drives.

You grew from all of these experiences.

Alumni of the College of Human Medicine are known to roll up their sleeves and not just the work done.

But also excel in their fields.

Many of you have non-traditional backgrounds that push your classmates to grow in unique ways.

And that's what helps make CHM graduates unique and desired in the field of medicine.

Today there is even more growth.

Your white coats grow in length and your name grows by two letters, MD.

(audience applauding) Today the College of Human Medicine alumni association grows in size as well.

And the excitement of you all joining the ranks of alumni is difficult to contain.

Many of you have benefited from mentorship, education or even a scholarship from alumni.

And as you move forward from medical school you will have the opportunity to do the same yourself.

Most importantly you will be able to grow and show your Spartan pride as CHM graduate the remainder of your life.

While your entire career will be built upon continued growth.

Today is a significant milestone in that journey.

On behalf of all alumni that have come before you, I'm honored to welcome you as an alumnus of the College of Human Medicine.

(audience applauding) Congratulations doctors, and go Green.

- [Audience] Go White.

(audience applauding) Each year at graduation we celebrate and provide the opportunity for their military promotion and oath of office.

For those students who have chosen to serve our country and their fellow soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines of the United States.

To do this, to lead that today is captain Anthony Bunnell.

(audience applauding) (audience shouting) - Thank you.

Thank you, dean Sousa, distinguished faculty and guests.

Congratulations to the CHM graduating class of 2022.

I'm here today to recognize the CHM graduates.

Who have the privilege of serving as physicians in the world's greatest military.

Doctoring is about fusing technical science with human connection.

And this man and woman have a special responsibility to doctor in the military.

Think about this, you'll be seeing patients in some of the most austere environments.

Almost nothing in your patients practice in life will be normal in comparison to any civilian hospital within our society.

The weather, the terrain, the interaction and certainly the stress of daily work will not be normal.

You will engage in frontline medicine in foreign lands, both friendly and not.

Against unseen enemies at the microscopic level, within our own borders.

And helping those soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines.

On what quite possibly is their worst day.

Remember this, anywhere you interact with a patient from a hazardous environment to the trauma bay or a sick call tent, somewhere.

You can set the tone of a doctor-patient encounter.

So that your patient at perhaps his or her most vulnerable moment feels the same familiar comfort and healing.

As a visit with the family doc back home.

You have already committed with selfless dedication to serving our great nation.

As CHM graduates you are well prepared to fuse the technical science and human connection that we call doctoring.

Make it count for these soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines.

That put everything on the line to protect our way of life.

Today, our Navy graduates, Emily Bush Jaberi and Samuel Surgalski.

Will be promoted from ensign to lieutenant.

As we begin the ceremony, I will read the official order that promotes these officers.

Following that these military physicians will have their new ranks pinned on their uniform by special people in their lives.

Pending is a great honor in our tradition.

They will then be sworn in by reciting the commissioned officer's oath of office.

It is now my great honor to preside over the ceremony and welcome them into the unique community of military physicians.

(clears throat) Attention, now orders.

The secretary of the Navy has reposed special trust and confidence in the patriotism, valor, fidelity and professional excellence of the following commissioned officers.

Lieutenant Emily Bush Jaberi.

And lieutenant Samuel Surgalski.

In view of these qualities and their demonstrated leadership potential.

And dedicated service to the United States Navy, they are therefore promoted to the rank of lieutenant.

Promotion is made effective of 14 May, 2022.

(audience applauding) We will now begin the oath of office.

- [Man 2] Raise your right hand and repeat after me, I.

- [Officers] I.

- [Man 2] State your name.

- Samuel Surgalski.

- Emily Bush.

- [Man 2] Do solemnly swear.

- [Officers] Do solemnly swear.

- [Man 2] That I will support and defend.

- [Officers] That I will support and defend.

- [Man 2] The constitution.

- [Officers] The constitution.

- [Man 2] Of the United States.

- [Officers] Of United States.

- [Man 2] Against all enemies.

- [Man 2] Against all enemies.

- [Man 2] Foreign and domestic.

- [Officers] Foreign and domestic.

- [Man 2] That I will bear true faith.

- [Officers] That I will bear true faith.

- [Man 2] And allegiance.

- [Officers] And allegiance.

- [Man 2] To the same.

- [Officers] To the same.

- [Man 2] That I take this obligation freely.

- [Officers] That I take this obligation freely.

- [Man 2] Without mental reservation.

- [Officers] Without mental reservation.

- [Man 2] Or purpose of evasion.

- [Officers] Or purpose of evasion.

- [Man 2] And that I will.

- [Officers] And that I will.

- [Man 2] Well and faithfully.

- [Officers] Well and faithfully.

- [Man 2] Discharge the duties.

- [Officers] Discharge the duties.

- [Man 2] Of the office on which I'm about to enter.

- [Officers] Of the office on which I'm about to enter.

- [Man 2] So help me God.

- [Officers] So help me God.

- [Man 2] Congratulations lieutenants.

(audience applauding) - Thank you all for joining us in this military ceremony.

Once again, congratulations to all of the graduates, CHM 2022.

(audience applauding) (shouting) Forward match.

(audience applauding) - It is my pleasure to introduce a student reflection video, created by our students in the Gold Humanism honor society.

Students in the society are selected only by their peers for their service and humanistic qualities.

Thank you to the students of the class of 2022 for your contributions, roll the film.

(upbeat music) (audience applauding) I wanna take a moment to thank the families of our graduates.

As I said before medical school and the profession of medicine involve a large amount of mental and emotional effort in a great deal of time.

So to all of you who have lent us your sons and daughters, your husbands and wives, your significant others, your buddy, your BFF, your father, your mother.

Thank you for me, and thank you from all of us.

(audience applauding) This has been a wonderful afternoon and thank you for being a part of the college of Human Medicine.

Please join, go to the back of the, of your program and help bring us home by singing the first stanza from MSU shadows.

You stand for that yeah.

(calm music) (audience applauding) (upbeat music) (audience shouting) (upbeat music)