Commencement 1999 Student Prizes and Awards Dr. Harry S. Altman Award (outstanding achievement in pediatric ambulatory care) David Aaron Bomback Alumni Association Award (outstanding service to P&S) Blanche Yee Man Fung Virginia P. Apgar Awards (excellence in anesthesiology and intensive care) James P. Fraiman Soudip Saha Michael H. Aranow Memorial Prize (best exemplifying the caring and humane qualities of the practicing physician) Anthony Raiteri Herbert J. Bartelstone Award (exceptional accomplishments in pharmacology) David Aaron Bomback Alvin Behrens Memorial Fund Award (outstanding graduate entering ophthalmology) John Marcus Facciani Edward T. Bello, M.D., Listening Award (to a graduating student who will best portray the art of listening to patients, colleagues, and self in practicing medicine) Heidi A. Hopkins Robert G. Bertsch Prize (emulating Dr. Bertsch’s ideals of the humane surgeon) David Aaron Bomback Coakley Memorial Prize (outstanding achievement in otolaryngology) Mark C. Griffin Titus Munson Coan Prize (best essay in biological sciences) Shailan Bhupendra Shah Thomas F. Cock Prize (excellence in obstetrics and gynecology) Catherine Rose Salva Rosamond Kane Cummins’52 Award (graduate entering orthopedics with academic excellence, sensitivity, kindness, devotion to patients, and the fine human qualities she exemplified) David Aaron Bomback Dean’s Award for Excellence in Research: Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at P&S Matthew E. Cunningham Alexander Flint Gate Pharmaceuticals’ Award (excellence in family medicine or obstetrics/gynecology) Ganya E. Alvarado Arnold P. Gold Foundation Award (demonstrated compassion, scientific excellence, devoted patient care, and a humanistic role model) Marla Catherine Mikelait Dr. Charles F. Hamilton Award (excellence in pulmonary disease) Richard MacIntosh Thomas Janeway Prize (the highest achievement and abilities in the graduating class) Scott Lewis Schissel Albert B. Knapp Scholarship (awarded at the conclusion of the third year to the medical student with highest scholarship in the first three years) Scott Lewis Schissel Dr. Harold Lamport Biomedical Research Prize (excellence in research) Kevin Forrest Kwaku John K. Lattimer Prize in Urology (outstanding essay in urology) Jon-Erik Cleophas Holty Barbara Liskin Memorial Award in Psychiatry (empathy, scholarship, and excellence exhibited by Barbara Liskin) Susan Annette Turner Robert F. Loeb Award (excellence in clinical medicine) Scott Lewis Schissel F. Lowenfish Prize in Dermatology (creative research in dermatology) Tami Jeanne Smith Admiral David Willard Lyon Award (outstanding academic achievement by a student serving in the U.S. armed forces) Wade T. Gordon Dr. Cecil G. Marquez, B.A.L.S.O. Student Award (outstanding contribution to the Black and Latin Student Organization and the minority community) Ana Griselda Cepin Edith and Denton McKane Memorial Award (outstanding research in ophthalmology) Jason C. Wickens Medical Society of the State of New York Award (outstanding community service) Monica Manandhar Dr. Harold Lee Meierhof Memorial Prize (outstanding achievement in pathology) Juliet C. Park Drs. William Nastuk, Beatrice Seegal, and Konrad Hsu Award (demonstrated successful laboratory collaboration between student and faculty) Scott Lewis Schissel Marie Nercessian Memorial Award (exhibiting care, unusual concern, and dedication to helping sick people) Joseph Patrick Donahue New York Orthopedic Hospital Award (outstanding performance in research and clinical work) Stefano M. Sinicropi Joseph Garrison Parker Award (exemplifying, through activities in art, music, literature, and the public interest, that living and learning go together) Rosemary Vittoria Sampogna Samuel W. Rover and Lewis Rover Awards (for outstanding achievement) in: Anatomy and Cell Biology— Scott Lewis Schissel Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics Randolph S. Watnick Genetics and Development— Yu Chen Shankar Srinivas Physiology and Cellular Biophysics— John O’Brien Clarke III Rebecca A. Schwartz Memorial Prize (achievement in pediatric cardiology) Nicole Alice Sherry Helen M. Sciarra Prize in Neurology (outstanding achievement in neurology) Magdalena A. Petryniak Aura E. Severinghaus Scholar (superior academic achievement) Ganya E. Alvarado Miriam Berkman Spotnitz Award (excellence in research of neoplastic diseases) Philip Adam Friedlander William Perry Watson Prize in Pediatrics (excellence in pediatrics) Ann E. Salerno Dr. William Raynor Watson Memorial Award (excellence in psychiatry throughout four years of medical school) Mathilde M. Hajek Dr. Allen O. Whipple Memorial Prize (outstanding performance in surgery) Catherine A. Doyle Sigmund L. Wilens Prize (excellence in pathology) Michael John Bank

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