From left: First-year students Jonathan Kazam, Laura Fanning, Jacqueline Montgomery, Cyrus Nozad and Mustapha Saheed, president of the first-year class. Seated: Dr. Estomih Mtui, assistant professor of anatomy in neurology and neuroscience who directs the program in anatomy and body visualization.
First-year medical students remembered those who donated their bodies to medical education and science by holding a memorial service in their honor on April 17 in Uris Auditorium.
Speakers included Dr. Estomih Mtui, assistant professor of anatomy in neurology and neuroscience and director of the program in anatomy and body visualization; Rev. Curtis Hart, director of pastoral care education and spiritual counselor at NewYork Weill Cornell; Rabbi Stephen Schulman, chaplain, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center; Dr. Carol Storey-Johnson, senior associate dean for education; Dr. Peter Marzuk, associate dean for curriculum affairs; Dr. Thomas Maack, professor of physiology and biophysics and professor of physiology in medicine, who directs the human structure and function course; and Mustapha Saheed, president of the first-year class (Class of 2005).
Groups of four or five students were matched with a cadaver donor for study during their first-year anatomy classes. At the memorial service, students showed their appreciation of each cadaver donor by placing flowers in their remembrance. Some students expressed themselves by singing or reciting biblical references.
Those remembered were Charlotte, Cynthia, Mary, Ann, Emmel, Helen, Judi, Carol, Katherine, Norman, Dorothy, Ann, Laura, Lottie, Loretta, John, Marjorie, MaryAnn, M, Sarah, Nina and Albert.