Einstein Holds its 54th Commencement Ceremony

U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Margaret A. Hamburg, M.D., will deliver the keynote address at Einstein’s 2012 commencement ceremony, which will take place at Lincoln Center’s Avery Fisher Hall on Wednesday, May 30, at 6:30 p.m.

Dr. Allen M. Spiegel, the Marilyn and Stanley M. Katz Dean at Einstein, will be joined by Yeshiva University President Richard M. Joel to confer approximately 165 M.D. degrees and 16 Ph.D. degrees; among these, 10 graduates will receive both an M.D. and a Ph.D. degree.

Alumni and faculty teaching awards also will be presented. The recipients include:

David H. Abramson, M.D. ’69 — DOMINICK P. PURPURA DISTINGUISHED ALUMNUS/A AWARD
Evelyne Albrecht Schwaber, M.D. ’59 — DOMINICK P. PURPURA DISTINGUISHED ALUMNUS/A AWARD
Roy S. Wu, Ph.D. ’72 — DISTINGUISHED PH.D. ALUMNUS AWARD
Cedric Stuart Raine, Ph.D., D.Sc. — EINSTEIN HONORARY ALUMNUS AWARD
Alfred J. Spiro, M.D. — EINSTEIN HONORARY ALUMNUS AWARD
Carl Grunfeld, M.D. ’75, Ph.D. ’75 — ALUMNI LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Ronald J. Ross, M.D. ’60, F.A.C.R. — ALUMNI LIFETIME SERVICE AWARD
Solomon L. Moshé, M.D. — THE SAUL R. KOREY AWARD IN TRANSLATIONAL SCIENCE AND MEDICINE
Christina M. Coyle, M.D. — SAMUEL M. ROSEN AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING TEACHING IN BASIC SCIENCE TEACHING
Yvonne Man-Yee Choi, M.D. — SAMUEL M. ROSEN AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING TEACHING IN CLINICAL TEACHING
Joseph C. Arezzo, Ph.D. — HARRY EAGLE AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING BASIC SCIENCE TEACHING
Jeffrey R. Avner, M.D. — HARRY H. GORDON AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING CLINICAL TEACHING
Herbert H. Schaumburg, M.D. — LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN TEACHING
Pablo E. Castillo, M.D., Ph.D. — LaDONNE SCHULMAN TEACHING AWARD