Columbia University Medical Center Celebrates 2005 Commencement
NEW YORK, NY - The Class of 2005 from Columbia University’s College of Physicians and Surgeons, Mailman School of Public Health, School of Dental and Oral Surgery and School of Nursing graduate this week and move on to become leaders in their medical fields.
These highly trained medical professionals will care for patients at many of the world’s most prestigious medical institutions, including nearly 20 percent of the graduating class of the College of Physicians and Surgeons who will become residents at NewYork Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center.
Each year, students from the College of Physicians and Surgeons choose a professor to receive the Distinguished Teacher Award. The Class of 2005 chose Steven Z. Miller, M.D., who died in a plane crash Oct. 19. Dr. Miller was well-known in the movement to promote humanism in medicine, and was on his way to conduct a workshop promoting compassionate medical care. He had led more than a dozen such workshops nationally, working on skills such as understanding patients' religious beliefs and how that might affect treatment. Dr. Miller has received the Distinguished Teacher Award multiple times over his career at CUMC, and this year it will be posthumously accepted by his wife, Dr. Dodi D. Meyer.
Columbia P&S students will also recognize a fellow student, who should be graduating with them. David Huang passed away in a drowning accident weeks before he was to begin his third year at the school. David’s fellow students have raised more than $50,000 to endow an annual college scholarship to be awarded in his name to a graduating high school student from the Northern Manhattan Community.
Listed below are the graduation ceremonies that will be held on the Columbia University Medical Center Campus:
College of Physicians & Surgeons, May 18, 1:30 P.M., Columbia University Medical Center Garden Keynote speaker: Jeffrey Sachs, PH.D., Quetelet Professor of Sustainable Development, Professor of Health Policy and Management and Director of the Earth Institute, Columbia University
Programs in Occupational Therapy, May 18, 2:00 P.M., Alumni Auditorium Keynote speaker: Trisha Meili, “Central Park Jogger”
Mailman School of Public Health, May 18, 4:00 P.M., Columbia University Medical Center Garden Keynote speaker: Geoffrey Canada, President and CEO of Harlem Children’s Zone, and author of “Fist Stick Knife Gun: A Personal History of Violence in America.”
School of Nursing, May 18, 6:30 P.M., Alumni Auditorium Keynote speakers: Patricia A. Grady, PhD, RN, FAAN, Director of the National Institute of Nursing Research; Karen Hein, MD, past president of the William T. Grant Foundation; and Laura Landro, Assistant Managing Editor of The Wall Street Journal
School of Dental and Oral Surgery, May 19, 11:00 A.M. Columbia University Medical Center Garden Keynote speaker: William Maas, DDS, MPH, Director, Division of Oral Health, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion
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