Students from the Weill Cornell Medical College Class of 2022 were recognized for their outstanding achievements during Convocation on May 18. Medical students received special awards, prizes and certificates, acknowledging their exceptional academic achievement, scholarship, research, teaching and service. Convocation also honors other students, alumni, faculty and staff.
The following is a complete list of all of the award winners:
Student Awards
The Coryell Prize in Surgery
Paolo de Angelis
The Coryell Prize
Jakyung Bang
The Alfred Moritz Michaelis Prize in Medicine
Anjana Rajan
The Oskar Diethelm Prize for Excellence in Psychiatry
Elora Basu
Kate Fruitman
The Joan Severino Parisi Prize in Internal Medicine
Elizabeth Reznik
The David and Gladys Drusin Memorial Prize
Jenny Xue
The T. Campbell Thompson Prize for Excellence in Orthopedic Surgery
Paul PJ Walker
The Mitchell Spivak Memorial Prize in Pediatrics
Cheyenne Smith
The James A. Moore Scholarship in Otolaryngology
Peter Yao
The Gustav Seeligmann Prize for Efficiency in Obstetrics
Sunidhi Singh
The Henry C. and Anne Hayworth First Honor Prize
Ian Nykaza
The Sidney and Viola Borkon Memorial Prize
Sean McCoy
The George S. Meister Prize in Pediatrics
Kelly Madigan Banks
The Elise Strang L’Esperance Prize in Public Health
Lisa Zhang
The George G. Reader Prize in Public Health
Willam Ford
Anna Cornelius-Schecter
The G. Thomas Shires II Prize in Surgery
Nikolay Ivanov
The Alan Van Poznak Award for Excellence in Anesthesiology
Hannah Krinsky
The Richard N. Kohl Prize for Excellence in Psychiatry
Ariel Shalev
The David Clayson Prize for Creativity
Catherine Han
The Charles Horn Prize
Anna Cornelius-Schecter
The Gustave J. Noback Memorial Prize in Anatomy
William Ford
The Gustave J. Noback Memorial Fund for Advanced Study and Teaching in the Field of Anatomy
Emily Lang
The Weiss Prize for Excellence in Clinical Medicine
Carrie Sha
The Medical Society of the State of New York
Cheyenne Smith
The Yvette and Seymour Feil Prize in Medicine
Sanjeethan Baksh
The William C. Thro Memorial Prize
Luiza Perez
The Arthur Palmer Prize for Efficiency in Otorhinolaryngology
Nicola Pereira
The Faith Stewart-Gordon Prize for Excellence in Rehabilitation Medicine
Zachary Smith Crockett
The Jay Lawrence Award for Clinical Proficiency Infectious Diseases
William Ford
The Moselle and Milton Pollack Prize in Medical Ethics
Emily Lang
The Frederick M. Brown, M.D. Award for Allergy and Immunology
Rhea Fogla
The Anthony Seth Werner, M.D., Memorial Prize
Robert Wozniak
The Barbara Slifka Global Health Award
Adrienne Clermont
The Henry Adelman Memorial Award for Excellence in Geriatric Medicine
Anthony Palillo
Ariel Shalev
The Alan von Kreuter Cancer Research Prize
Nikolay Ivanov
The Society for Academic Emergency Medicine’s Excellence in Emergency Medicine Award
Gregory Han
The American Academy of Neurology Medical Student Prize for Excellence in Neurology
Anson Wang
The United States Public Health Service’s Excellence in Public Health Award
Hector Salazar Martinez
The William J. Ledger Prize in Obstetrics & Gynecology
Meridith Pollie
The Fabrizio Michelassi Medical Student Annual Award
Daniel Alfonso
The Herman L. Jacobius Prize in Pathology
Cheyanne Slocum
The Edward Norton Prize in Ophthalmology
Andrew Duong
The Dean’s Research Award
Cheyanne Slocum
The Harold G. Wolff Research Prize
Sabrina Pan
The Sondra Lee Shaw Memorial Prize
Tyler Garman
The Susanna Cunningham-Rundles Medical Student Research Prize
Chayma Boussayoud
Area of Concentration Certificates of Excellence
- Zara Adamou
- Elora Basu
- Chayma Boussayoud
- Adrienne Clermont
- Idil Eroglu
- Khalid Fahoum
- Rhea Fogla
- William Ford
- James Gang
- Tyler Garman
- Radhika Ghosalkar
- Jason Harris
- Daniel Huang
- Wooram Jung
- Neil Kelly
- Sean Kim
- Julia Klein
- Justin Lee
- Brooks Martino
- Jaime Montemayor
- Anjana Rajan
- Charles-Etienne Sauve
- Sachin Shah
- Sunidhi Singh
- Cheyanne Slocum
- Natasha Smith
- Jimmy Xia
- Lisa Zhang
The Medical Student Executive Council Award
Tyler Garman
The Paul Sherlock Prize in Internal Medicine
Alice Zhao
The John Metcalf Polk Prizes
Nathaniel Goldblatt
Elizabeth Reznik
Cheyenne Smith
The Glasgow-Rubin Memorial Achievement Citations
- Hannah Krinsky
- Emily Lang
- Nicola Pereira
- Meridith Pollie
- Elizabeth Reznik
- Ariel Shalev
- Cheyenne Smith
- Carolyn Stewart
The Hayworth-Gold Award for Excellence in Medical Professionalism
Meg Broderick
Tyler Khilnani
Alice Tao
The Compassionate Physician Award
Ariel Shalev
The Good Physician Award
Anna Cornelius-Schecter
The Leonard P. Tow Humanism Awards
William Ford
Teaching Awards
The Leonard P. Tow Humanism Awards
Dr. Juliet Aizer
The Class of 1952 Resident Physician Award
Dr. Corbyn Nchako
The House Staff Teaching Award
Dr. Dana Gurvitch
The Senior List
- Dr. Juliet Aizer, assistant professor of clinical medicine
- Dr. June Chan, assistant professor of clinical anesthesiology
- Dr. Justin Choi, assistant professor of medicine
- Dr. Laura Greisman, assistant professor of clinical medicine
- Dr. Dana Gurvitch, assistant professor of clinical anesthesiology
- Dr. Laura Kolbe, assistant professor of medicine
- Dr. Demetri Merianos, associate professor of clinical surgery
- Dr. Gregory Mints, assistant professor of medicine
- Dr. Mayur Narayan, associate professor of surgery
- Dr. Anthony Ogedegbe, assistant professor of clinical medicine
- Dr. Lawrence Palmer, professor of physiology and biophysics
- Dr. Neal Parikh, assistant professor of neurology
- Dr. Tracy Paul, assistant professor of clinical medicine
- Dr. David Scales, assistant professor of medicine
- Dr. Kaushal Shah, professor of clinical emergency medicine
- Dr. Joshua Weaver, assistant professor of clinical neurology
First Year Teaching Award
Dr. Kathleen Bubb
Second Year Teaching Award
Dr. Juliet Aizer
Volunteer Clinical Faculty Award of Alpha Omega Alpha
Dr. Jason Kendler
The Charles L. Bardes, M.D. Teaching Prize
Dr. Joseph Safdieh
The Richard A. Herrmann, M.D. Teaching Award
Dr. Dimitry Francois
The Elliot Hochstein Teaching Award
Dr. Juliet Aizer