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 31 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
Ranjodh Singh
The Coryell Prize in Medicine
Ryan Quin Notti
The Alfred Moritz Michaelis Prize in Medicine
Ryan Quin Notti
The Oskar Diethelm Prize for Excellence in Psychiatry
Benjamin Aaron Scherban
The Joan Severino Parisi Prize in Internal Medicine
Salvatore Anthony D’Amato
The David and Gladys Drusin Memorial Prize
David James Guist Dillon
The T. Campbell Thompson Prize for Excellence in Orthopedic Surgery
Kyle W. Morse
The Mitchell Spivak Memorial Prize in Pediatrics
Danielle Kathryn Daniels
The James A. Moore Scholarship
Carlos L. Green
The Gustav Seeligmann Prize for Efficiency in Obstetrics
Astrid Carla Marshall
The Henry C. and Anne Hayworth First Honor Prize
Charles Kinzig
The Sidney and Viola Borkon Memorial Prize
Ilana Scandariato
The George S. Meister Prize in Pediatrics
Megan A. McGeehan
The Elise Strang L’Esperance Prize in Public Health
Jasmin Marie Harpe
Roselyn Kellen
The George G. Reader Prize in Public Health
David James Guist Dillon
Ryan Quin Notti
The G. Thomas Shires II Prize in Surgery
John Anthony Stupinski
The Alan Van Poznak Award for Excellence in Anesthesiology
Clark Andrew Fisher
The Richard N. Kohl Prize for Excellence in Psychiatry
Andrew Tokay Drysdale
The David Clayson Prize for Creativity
Peter Hung
The Charles Horn Prize
Rebecca Diane Lithgow DeMaria
The Gustave J. Noback Memorial Prize in Anatomy
Bella Marie Vishnevsky
The Gustave J. Noback Memorial Fund for Advanced Study and Teaching in the Field of Anatomy
Salvatore Anthony D’Amato
The Weiss Prize for Excellence in Clinical Medicine
Hannah Elizabeth Dee
The Medical Society of the State of New York
Jasmin Marie Harpe
The Yvette and Seymour Feil Prize in Medicine
Gordon Jacobus Hildick-Smith
The William C. Thro Memorial Prize
Salvatore Anthony D’Amato
The Arthur Palmer Prize for Efficiency in Otorhinolaryngology
Krupa Rajesh Patel
The Herman L. Jacobius Prize in Pathology
Alexander Gitlin
The Jay Lawrence Award for Clinical Proficiency Infectious Diseases
Xiao P. Peng
The Moselle and Milton Pollack Prize in Medical Ethics
Mark Arthur Metz Sonnick
The Henry Adelman Memorial Award for Excellence in Geriatric Medicine
Brittney Ariel Frankel
The Anthony Seth Werner, M.D., Memorial Prize
Ariel Halper-Stromberg
The Barbara Schmalzriedt Gast Memorial Fund for Rheumatoid Arthritis
David Rollins
Maria Sacta
The Edward Norton Prize in Ophthalmology
Eliot Robert Dow
The Society for Academic Emergency Medicine’s Excellence in Emergency Medicine Award
Christopher Joseph Reisig
The E. Darracott Vaughan, Jr. Prize
Patrick John Elliott Lewicki
The American Academy of Neurology Medical Student Prize for Excellence in Neurology
John E. Paddock
The William J. Ledger Prize in Obstetrics & Gynecology
Sun Woo Kim
The Fabrizio Michelassi Medical Student Annual Award
Christopher Thomas Ryan
The Dean’s Research Award
Brian Christopher Fidali
The Sondra Lee Shaw Memorial Prize
Matthew Wesley Schelke
The Harold G. Wolff Research Prize
Ranjodh Singh
The Medical Student Executive Council Award
Daniel Michael Lapidus
The Paul Sherlock Prize in Internal Medicine
Alec Erin Faggen
Brittney Ariel Frankel
The John Metcalf Polk Prizes
Salvatore Anthony D’Amato
Hannah Elizabeth Dee
Ryan Quin Notti
Glasgow-Rubin Memorial Achievement
Jenifer Ann Pitman
Kalee Sunil Shah
Emilie Renee Champagne Williamson
Janet M. Glasgow Memorial Award
Hannah Elizabeth Dee
The Hayworth-Gold Award for Excellence in Medical Professionalism
Caitlin Finn
The Compassionate Physician Award
Jasmin Marie Harpe
The Good Physician Award
David James Guist Dillon
Leonard P. Tow Humanism Awards
Ryan Quin Notti
Dr. Ernie Esquivel
Teaching Awards
Class of 1952 Resident Physician Award
Dr. Ayman Al Jurdi
The House Staff Teaching Award
Dr. Ayman Al Jurdi
Dr. Brian Salata
Senior List
- Dr. Tirsit Asfaw, assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology
- Dr. David Berlin, associate professor of clinical medicine
- Dr. Todd Cutler, assistant professor of medicine
- Dr. Byron Demopoulos, associate professor of clinical medicine
- Dr. Vishal Dodia, assistant professor of clinical medicine
- Dr. Brian Eiss, assistant professor of medicine
- Dr. Ernie Esquivel, assistant professor of medicine
- Dr. Dimitri Francois, assistant professor of psychiatry
- Dr. Dana Gurvitch, assistant professor of clinical anesthesiology
- Dr. Janna Gordon-Eliott, assistant professor of clinical psychiatry
- Dr. Thanakorn Jirasevijinda, associate professor of pediatrics
- Dr. Yoon Kang, the Richard P. Cohen, MD. Associate Professor of Medical Education, associate professor of 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. Joseph Safdieh, the Louis and Rachel Rudin Foundation Education Scholar, associate professor of neurology
First Year Teaching Award
Dr. Domenick Falcone
Dr. Robert Kim
Second Year Teaching Award
Dr. Joseph Safdieh
Volunteer Clinical Faculty Award of Alpha Omega Alpha
Dr. Jason Kendler
The Charles L. Bardes, M.D. Teaching Prize
Dr. Lawrence Palmer
The Richard A. Herrmann, M.D. Teaching Award
Dr. Joseph Safdieh
The Elliot Hochstein Teaching Award
Dr. Anthony Ogedegbe
Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences
Graduating graduate students, from left, Kate Lowe, Lauren Doner, Emily Brasco and Adele Rockett, accept awards from Associate Dean Dr. Randi Silver during Convocation on May 31.
2017 Distinguished Alumnus
Bruce Sullenger
2017 Distinguished Student Commencement Speaker Award
Seyedeh-Faranak Fattahi
2017 Excellence in Teaching and Mentoring Award
Mary Baylies
2017 Student Service Award
Suveg Pandey
2017 Vincent du Vigneaud Research Symposium
Vincent du Vigneaud Student Talk Award
First Place
- Joana Nunes, “UGP2 Contributes to ERK2-Driven EMT in Breast Epithelial Cells.” (Mentor: John Blenis, PhD)
Second Place
- Mridula Balakrishnan, “Nemaline Myopathy: Identification of Causes and Treatments Using Drosophila.” (Mentor: Mary Baylies, PhD)
- Yun-Han Huang, “A Molecular Switch for Resistance to TGF-β Tumor Suppression.” (Mentor: Joan Massagué, PhD)
- Yan Zhang, “BACE2 as a Differentiation Gatekeeper for Melanocyte Development via Modulation of PI3K/MTOR Pathway.” (Mentor: Richard White, MD, PhD )
Vincent du Vigneaud First-Year Poster Presenter Award
First Place
- Priya Bhardwaj, “Cdc42 Activation Mediates Actin Polymerization in Macrophages During Aggregated LDL Catabolism.” (Mentor: Frederick Maxfield, PhD)
Second Place
- Heather Jones, “A Pooled High Throughput Screen for T Cell Receptor-Epitope Identification by use of Effector-Target Cell Conjugation.” (Mentor: David A. Scheinberg, MD, PhD)
2017 Vincent du Vigneaud Second-Year and Above Poster Award
First place
- Pradeep Ramalingam, “Endothelial-Specific mTOR Signaling Drives Hematopoietic Stem Cell Aging.” (Mentor: Jason Butler, PhD)
Second Place
- Corrin Pimentel, “Identification of the Cognate Receptor for the Negative Co-Stimulatory Protein B7-H4.” (Mentor: Charles Rudin, MD, PhD)
2017 Julian R. Rachele Prize
- Daniel Thengone: Thengone DJ, Voss HU, Fridman EA, Schiff ND “Local changes in network structure contribute to late communication recovery after severe brain injury.” Science Translational Medicine, 8:368re5 (2016) (Mentors: Nicholas Schiff, MD & Jonathan D. Victor, MD, PhD)
- Guanshi Wang: Wang G, Hauver J, Thomas Z, Darst SA, Pertsinidis A, “Single-molecule real-time 3D imaging of the transcription cycle by modulation interferometry.” Cell, 167(7):1839-1852 (2016) (Mentor: Alexandros Pertsinidis, PhD)
Physician Assistant Student and Faculty Awards
Academic Excellence Award Pre-Clinical and Phi Alpha
Kate Lee Lowe
Academic Excellence Award Clinical and Phi Alpha
Lauren Joan Doner
Peer Award
David Kendrick McKearn
Research Excellence Award
Nichole Victoria Brooks
Pre-Clinical Instructor Award
William J. Ameres, PA-C, MS
Clinical Instructor Award
Cody Kramer, PA-C, MS