On the eve of their commencement, 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 27 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
Thomas Edward Heineman
The Coryell Prize in Medicine
Ersilia Marie DeFilippis
The Alfred Moritz Michaelis Prize in Medicine
Gregory Campbell McDermott
The Oskar Diethelm Prize for Excellence in Psychiatry
Samuel J. Boas
Elizabeth N. Madva
The Joan Severino Parisi Prize in Internal Medicine
Jana Beth Zielonka
The David and Gladys Drusin Memorial Prize
Alec James Swinburne
The T. Campbell Thompson Prize for Excellence in Orthopedic Surgery
Aleksey Dvorzhinskiy
The Mitchell Spivak Memorial Prize in Pediatrics
Miriam Samstein
The James A. Moore Scholarship
Jiahui Lin
The Gustav Seeligmann Prize for Efficiency in Obstetrics
Alexandra Edlyn Fleary
The Henry C. and Anne Hayworth First Honor Prize
Joseph Koressel
The Sidney and Viola Borkon Memorial Prize
Salvatore D'Amato
The George S. Meister Prize in Pediatrics
Gabriel B. Loeb
The Elise Strang L'Esperance Prize in Public Health
Sarah Jane Coates
Lea Mollie Danielle Bornstein
The George G. Reader Prize in Public Health
Timothy J. Judson
J. Bryan Iorgulescu
The G. Thomas Shires II Prize in Surgery
Avinash Maganty
The Alan Van Poznak Award for Excellence in Anesthesiology
Daniel Charles Cook
The Richard N. Kohl Prize for Excellence in Psychiatry
Daniel Shalev
Brigitta Emiko Miyamoto
The David Clayson Prize for Creativity
Michael Wei
The Charles Horn Prize
Ersilia Marie DeFilippis
The Gustave J. Noback Memorial Prize in Anatomy
Alex Robles
The Gustave J. Noback Memorial Fund for Advanced Study and Teaching in the Field of Anatomy
Alejandro Pino
The Weiss Prize for Excellence in Clinical Medicine
Sanjay Michael Salgado
The Medical Society of the State of New York
Melissa Andriani Rusli
The Yvette and Seymour Feil Prize in Medicine
Timothy J. Judson
The Sarah O' Laughlin Foley Prize in Clinical Medicine
Ersilia Marie DeFilippis
The Arthur Palmer Prize for Efficiency in Otorhinolaryngology
Thomas Edward Heineman
The Herman L. Jacobius Prize in Pathology
Tyler Williamson Janovitz
The Jay Lawrence Award for Clinical Proficiency in Infectious Diseases
Scott Navarrett
The Moselle and Milton Pollack Prize in Medical Ethics
Daniel Shalev
The Henry Adelman Memorial Award for Excellence in Geriatric Medicine
Daniel Shalev
Rachel Mara Feldman
The Anthony Seth Werner, M.D., Memorial Prize
Evan Michael Stewart
The Edward Norton Prize in Ophthalmology
Yvonne Wang
The Society for Academic Emergency Medicine's Excellence in Emergency Medicine Award
Mariana Guerrero
The E. Darracott Vaughan, Jr. Prize
Joseph J. Crivelli
The William J. Ledger Prize in Obstetrics & Gynecology
Alex Robles
The Fabrizio Michelassi Medical Student Annual Award
Paul William Furlow
The Dean's Research Award
Ernie Yen Hsun Chen
Aleksey Dvorzhinskiy
The Sondra Lee Shaw Memorial Prize
Daniel Charles Cook
The Harold G. Wolff Research Prize
Yvonne Wang
The Medical Student Executive Council Award
Alec James Swinburne
The Paul Sherlock Prize in Internal Medicine
Alejandro Pino
The John Metcalf Polk Prizes
Ersilia Marie DeFilippis
Thomas Edward Heineman
Ashley Diana Lundgren
The 2015 Janet M. Glasgow-Rubin Memorial Achievement Citations
Lea Mollie Danielle Bornstein
Sarah Jane Coates
Rachel Mara Feldman
Ashley Diana Lundgren
The Janet M. Glasgow Memorial Award
Ersilia Marie DeFilippis
The Hayworth-Gold Award for Excellence in Medical Professionalism
Pouya Jamshidi
Benjamin Stone
Noreen Shaikh
The Compassionate Physician Award
Daniel Shalev
The Good Physician Award
Gregory Campbell McDermott
The Leonard P. Tow Humanism Awards
Daniel Shalev
Dr. Todd Cutler
Teaching Awards
Class of 1952 Resident Physician Prize
Dr. Richard Leiter
The House Staff Teaching Award
Dr. Richard Leiter
The Senior List
- Dr. Susan Ball, associate professor of clinical medicine
- Dr. Ilya Bialik, clinical assistant professor of pediatrics
- Dr. Pamela Charney, professor of clinical medicine and of medicine in clinical obstetrics and gynecology
- Dr. Todd Cutler, professor of clinical medicine and of Medicine in clinical obstetrics and gynecology
- Dr. Byron Demopoulos, associate professor of clinical medicine
- Dr. Ernie Esquivel, assistant professor of medicine
- Dr. Dimitry Francois, assistant professor of psychiatry
- Dr. Janna Gordon- Elliott, assistant professor of psychiatry
- Dr. Erica Jones, associate professor of medicine in clinical radiology
- Dr. Keith LaScalea, associate professor of clinical medicine
- Dr. Estomih Mtui, professor of anatomy in radiology
- Dr. Joseph Murray , associate professor of clinical psychiatry
- Dr. Anthony Ogedegbe, assistant professor of clinical medicine
- Dr. Julie Penzner, assistant professor of psychiatry
- Dr. Joseph Safdieh, associate professor of neurology
- Dr. Debra Taubel, associate professor of clinical obstetrics and gynecology
First Year Teaching Award
Dr. Lawrence Palmer
Dr. Domenick Falcone
Second Year Teaching Award
Dr. Brian Bosworth
Volunteer Clinical Faculty Award of Alpha Omega Alpha
Dr. Timothy Dutta
The Charles L. Bardes, M.D. Teaching Prize
Dr. Domenick Falcone
The Richard A. Herrmann, M.D. Teaching Award
Dr. David Berlin
The Elliot Hochstein Teaching Award
Dr. Todd Cutler
Weill Cornell Medical College Graduate School of Medical Sciences
2015 Distinguished Alumnus
Dr. Avery August
2015 Distinguished Student Commencement Award
Igor Dikiy
Tri-Institutional Breakout Prize
Dilek Colak, Ph. D.
Costas Lyssiotis, Ph. D.
2015 Vincent du Vigneaud Research Symposium
2015 Vincent du Vigneaud Student Talk Award
- First Place
Christina Bonvicino, "Isoflurane Depresses Dopamine Synaptic Vesicle Exocytosis." (Professor Hugh C. Hemmings, Jr.) - Second Place
Jennifer Knauss, "Characterization of Long Noncoding RNA Sox2ot During Cortical Development." (Professors Mary Donohoe and Tao Sun) Pui-Mun Wong,
"Regulation of Autophagy by Coordinated Action of mTORC1 and Protein Phosphatase 2A."
- (Professor Xuejun Jiang)
2015 Vincent du Vigneaud First-Year Poster Presenter Award
- First Place
Michael Crowley, "Exploring Cross-talk in the Arteriole Hematopoietic Stem Cell Niche through RNA- sequencing." (Professors Olivier Elemento and Jason Butler) - Second Place
Lauren Forbes, "Nanoparticle Properties and their Effect on Stability and Distribution." (Professor Daniel Heller)
2015 Vincent du Vigneaud Second-Year and Above Poster Award
- First Place
Abigail Horstmann, "ALDH1A2 (RALDH2) in Oral Cavity Squamous Cell Carcinoma." (Professor Lorraine Gudas) - Second Place
José Gabriel Barcia Durán, "S1P1 is Required for the Reprogramming of Endothelial Cells to a Hemogenic State." Nat Commun. 2015 Mar 3;6:6395. (PI: B.J. Casey, PhD)
2015 Julian R. Rachele Prize
- Andrew Tokay Drysdale, "FAAH genetic variation enhances fronto-amygdala function in mouse and human." (Professor Lorraine Gudas)
- Peng Kate Gao, "Deterministic Progenitor Behavior and Unitary Production of Neurons in the Neocortex." Cell. 2014 Nov 6;159(4): 775-88. (PI: Songhai Shi, PhD)
2015 Julian R. Rachele Prize Honorable Mention
- Adam M. Levinson, "Total Synthesis of Asperverin via an Iodine(III)-Mediated Oxidative Cyclization." Org. Lett. 2014 Sep 19;16(18):4904-7. (PI: Samuel Danishefsky, PhD)
Physician Assistant Student and Faculty Awards
- Academic Excellence Award Pre-Clinical
Theresa F. Lardieri - Academic Excellence Award Clinical
Tristyn Richendifer - Peer Award
Tristyn Richendifer - Research Excellence Award
Rita Loureiro - Pre-Clinical Instructor Award
Gerald T. Simons, CRT, PA-C, MPAS - Clinical Instructor Award
Ramnath D. Kapoor, MD