On the eve of their graduation, students from Weill Cornell Medical College and Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences were recognized for their outstanding achievements.
More than 100 medical and graduate students received special awards, prizes, certificates and the Weill Cornell seal during two ceremonies on May 28 in Uris Auditorium. The awards acknowledge the students' exceptional academic achievement, scholarship, research, teaching and service. The ceremony also honored other students, alumni, faculty and staff.
The following is a complete list of all of the award winners:
Weill Cornell Medical College
Student Awards
The Coryell Prize in Surgery
Justin Taylor Schwarz
The Coryell Prize in Medicine
Kirti Magudia
The Alfred Moritz Michaelis Prize in Medicine
Colin A. Raelson
The Oskar Diethelm Prize for Excellence in Psychiatry
Megan Christine Riddle
Alexandra Tatum
The Joan Severino Parisi Prize in Internal Medicine
Eleanor Hope Emery
The David and Gladys Drusin Memorial Prize
Vinay L. Patel
The T. Campbell Thompson Prize for Excellence in Orthopedic Surgery
Nicholas McLaury Fort
The Mitchell Spivak Memorial Prize in Pediatrics
Alexandra Melissa Satty
The James A. Moore Scholarship
Jenna Devare
The Gustav Seeligmann Prize for Efficiency in Obstetrics
Peter R. Movilla
The Henry C. and Anne Hayworth First Honor Prize
Hannah Dee
The Sidney and Viola Borkon Memorial Prize
Emma Vartanian
The George S. Meister Prize in Pediatrics
Theresa X. Zhou
The Elise Strang L'Esperance Prize in Public Health
Jessica Beth Rubin
The George G. Reader Prize in Public Health
Eleanor Hope Emery
Miheer Sane
The G. Thomas Shires II Prize in Surgery
Justin Lee Perez
The Alan Van Poznak Award for Excellence in Anesthesiology
Angela Xiaowei Li
The Richard N. Kohl Prize for Excellence in Psychiatry
Kyle Ian Strimbu
The David Clayson Prize for Creativity
Jana Zielonka
The Charles Horn Prize
Eleanor Hope Emery
The Gustave J. Noback Memorial Prize in Anatomy
Jenna Devare
The Gustave J. Noback Memorial Fund for Advanced Study and Teaching in the Field of Anatomy
Krzysztof Glomski
The Weiss Prize for Excellence in Clinical Medicine
Anne Spanier Linker
The Medical Society of the State of New York
Suchit Hitesh Patel
The Yvette and Seymour Feil Prize in Medicine
Lindsey Bornstein Gottlieb
The Sarah O'Laughlin Foley Prize in Clinical Medicine
Ian Holmes
The Arthur Palmer Prize for Efficiency in Otorhinolaryngology
Tiffany Peng
The Herman L. Jacobius Prize in Pathology
Matthew Walker Rosenbaum
The Jay Lawrence Award for Clinical Proficiency in Infectious Diseases
Jonathan P. Huggins
The Ralph I. Poucher Prize for Proficiency in Obstetrics and Gynecology
Nicole Denise Yoder
The Faith Stewart-Gordon Prize for Excellence in Rehabilitation Medicine
Scott Barbuto
The Moselle and Milton Pollack Prize in Medical Ethics
Daniel Damonn Hegg
The Henry Adelman Memorial Award for Excellence in Geriatric Medicine
Kaylan Chrsitianer
Diana Carolina Mosquera
The Anthony Seth Werner, M.D., Memorial Prize
Kristi Nori Shigyo
The Edward Norton Prize in Ophthalmology
Nicolas Alessandro Yannuzzi
The George Ladas Prize for Efficiency in Gynecology
Misha Pangasa
The Society for Academic Emergency Medicine's Excellence in Emergency Medicine Award
Daniel Damonn Hegg
The Franklyn Ellenbogen Prize in Hematology-Oncology
Kirti Magudia
The E. Darracott Vaughan, Jr. Prize
Campbell Francis Bryson
The American Academy of Neurology Medical Student Prize for Excellence in Neurology
Leanne D. Stunkel
The William J. Ledger Prize in Obstetrics & Gynecology
Stephanie Chu
The Fabrizio Michelassi Medical Student Annual Award
Edmund B. Chen
The Frederick M. Brown, M.D. Award for Allergy and Immunology
Robert M. Samstein
The Harry L. Bush, Jr., M.D. Award for Excellence in Vascular Biology
Krzysztof Glomski
The Dean William Mecklenburg Polk Prize for Research
Kristi Nori Shigyo
The Dean's Research Award
Kristi Nori Shigyo
Shawn Michael Sarkaria
The Alan von Kreuter Cancer Research Prize
Shawn Michael Sarkaria
The Medical Student Executive Council Award
Colleen Wichser Meehan
The Paul Sherlock Prize in Internal Medicine
Kaylan Chrsitianer
The John Metcalf Polk Prizes
Eleanor Hope Emery
Colleen Wichser Meehan
Jessica Beth Rubin
The 2014 Janet M. Glasgow-Rubin Memorial Achievement Citations
Eleanor Hope Emery
Melissa Anita Cabinian Kinnebrew
Jessica Beth Rubin
The Janet M. Glasgow Memorial Award
Colleen Wichser Meehan
The Hayworth-Gold Award for Excellence in Medical Professionalism
Ersilia M. DeFilippis
Daniel Shalev
The Compassionate Physician Award
Sandeep Pavan Tunuguntla Kishore
The Good Physician Award
SaifEldeen Alzoobaee
The Leonard P. Tow Humanism Awards
Jessica Beth Rubin
Dr. Erica Jones
Teaching Awards
Class of 1952 Resident Physician Prize
Dr. Julia Geynisman
The House Staff Teaching Award
Dr. Julia Geynisman
The Senior List
- Dr. Charles L. Bardes, Professor of Clinical Medicine
- Dr. David Berlin, Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine
- Dr. Ilya Bialik, Clinical Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
- Dr. Ernie Esquivel, Assistant Professor of Medicine
- Dr. Thanakorn Jirasevinda, Associate Professor of Pediatrics
- Dr. Richard Lin, Assistant Professor of Medicine
- Dr. Avelin Malyango, Assistant Professor of Anatomy in Cell and Developmental Biology
- Dr. Peter Marzuk, Professor of Psychiatry
- Dr. B. Robert Meyer, Professor of Clinical Medicine
- Dr. Estomih Mtui, Professor of Anatomy in Cell and Developmental Biology
- Dr. Joseph Murray, Associate Professor of Clinical Psychiatry
- Dr. Anthony Ogedegbe, Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine
- Dr. Mark Pecker, Professor of Clinical Medicine; Professor of Clinical Medicine in Physiology and Biophysics
- Dr. Robyn Rosenblum, Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics
- Dr. Joseph Safdieh, Associate Professor of Neurology
- Dr. Debra Taubel, Associate Professor of Clinical Obstetrics and Gynecology
The First Year Teaching Award
Dr. Santosh Sangari
The Second Year Teaching Award
Dr. Brian Bosworth
Volunteer Clinical Faculty Award of Alpha Omega Alpha
Dr. Shari Midoneck
The Charles L. Bardes, M.D. Teaching Prize
Dr. Keith LaScalea
The Richard A. Herrmann, M.D. Teaching Award
Dr. Anthony Ogedegbe
The Elliot Hochstein Teaching Award
Dr. Ernie Esquivel
Siegel Family Award for Outstanding Medical Research
Dr. Shahin Rafii
Weill Cornell Medical College Graduate School of Medical Sciences
2014 Distinguished Alumna
Dr. M. Elizabeth Ross
2014 Distinguished Student Commencement Award
Victoria Schulman
2014 Vincent du Vigneaud Research Symposium
2014 Vincent du Vigneaud Awards of Excellence
- Oral Presentation
Christina Maksymiuk, "Characterization of 2-hydroxy-3-oxoadipate synthase (HOAS) in Mycobacterium Tuberculosis Metabolism." (Professor Carl F. Nathan) - Poster Presentation
Wei Shao, "Functional Dissection of Centriolar and Its Derived Structures in the Developing Neocortex." (Professor Song-Hai Shi)
2014 Vincent du Vigneaud First-Year Award
Maria Bustillo, "Spatial Organization of Gene Expression is Maintained During Cell Intercalation in the Expanding Drosophila Melanogaster Embryo." (Professor Jennifer A. Zallen)
2014 Vincent du Vigneaud Second-Year Award
- Charles Ferranti, "Ionizing Radiation-Induced "Nanopores" Signal Acid Sphingomyelinase Activation and Cell Surface Translocation." (Professor Richard Kolesnick)
- Bonnie Quach, "Mechanism of Preventing Doxorubicin-Induced Mitochondrial Toxicity with Cardiolipin-Targeted Peptide, SS-31." (Professor Hazel Szeto)
2014 Julian R. Rachele Prize
- Joseph Justin Mulvey, "Self-assembly of carbon nanotubes and antibodies on tumours for targeted amplified delivery." Nature Nanotechnology 8, 763–771 (2013) (PI: David Scheinberg, M.D.-Ph.D.)
- Nurunisa Akyuz, "Transport dynamics in a glutamate transporter homologue." Nature 502, 114-118 (2013) (PI: Olga Boudker, Ph.D.)
Physician Assistant Student and Faculty Awards
Student
- Pre-Clinical & Clinical
Rachel Margaret Shapiro
Faculty
- Pre-Clinical
Dwayne Williams, PA-C - Clinical
Dino Berutti, PA-C
Peer Award
Kelly Brooke Tweed
Katie M. Finnigan
Research
Amanda Lorraine Tulley
Pi Alpha Inductees
- Faculty
Mayra Ramirez, MA, PA-C
Katherine A. Hajjar, MD - Alumni
Roy S. Berryhill, Jr. MS, PA-C
Kevin Michael Chandon, MS, PA-C - Students
Katie M. Finnigan
Rachel Margaret Shapiro
Amanda Lorraine Tulley
Kelly Brooke Tweed