Pledging the Hippocratic Oath:
White Coat Ceremony in Gaston Hall, August 2017
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|  Dr. Regina Torsney-Durkin with three M'17 graduates in Philadelphia |
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Letter from the Board Chair
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Dear Medical Alumni Board Members,
Welcome to the 2017-2018 Academic Year of the Medical Alumni Board. It is especially great to celebrate the Medical Reunion of many of our Members. We have achieved so much over the past year due to the hard work of our Chairs and Board Members and will improve with our excellent new staff, Kelli Myers and Kathleen Ott who are profiled in this issue along with our 2 new Board Members. The Nominations Committee worked hard to select these new members from very competitive applicants, Communications has brought us together via these Newsletters, Awards Committee has submitted 4 successful Nominees for the Founders Award to be given on Friday, 2-3-18 and the Philanthropy Committee has emphasized regular alumni giving and Stewardship of Donors.
Supporting our Dean, Stephen Ray Mitchell, M.D., remains a major part of our mission during the curriculum reform and another important item is the solid return of our mentorship of the medical students, the M1's via White Coat Donations and M4's via our "to be re-named" MATCH program. Many alumni reached out to mentor new graduates in their home towns and we look forward to growing that program further. We will also be renewing the "World of Choices" event this Spring. We are inviting the President of the Georgetown Clinical Society to our meetings to increase our outreach. Thank you so much to everyone for your help.
Regina Torsney-Durkin M.D. |
For all those attending the upcoming Medical Alumni Board meeting on Friday October 27, please consider joining the weekend's signature events: the Hoya Med Reunion Kick-Off at the Four Seasons on Friday night and the Family BBQ on Saturday afternoon. Even if this is not a reunion year for you, all board members are welcome and encouraged to attend. Registration is open and you can purchase your tickets to attend online a t medreunion.georgetown.edu.
For a complete schedule of events during med reunion, please click here.
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| Meet Our Newest Board Members |
 Joanne Kechejian M.D.
Joanne (MS'85, M'89) practices internal medicine on Long Island with the Mount Sinai Doctors Faculty Practice, emphasizing preventive health and care for the whole person. After completing her undergraduate degree at Villanova, she entered the Special Masters in Physiology program where she met her husband, Peter (MS'85, M'89). She subsequently completed her medical degree at Georgetown and went on to receive her residency training at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center. Early in her career, her love for Georgetown led her to volunteer as Communications Chair for M'89, where she continues to help reunite her classmates every five years. She has also served as an interviewer through AAP for the past 20 years, and has been an annual supporter of the White Coat Ceremony. In 2016, she was honored by the Georgetown University Alumni Association with the Founders Award. She is the mother of four children, Peter, Katharine (NHS'15, MS'16), Caroline (NHS'17), and Emma (COL'19). In her spare time, you may find her gardening, taking evening walks at the beach, or leading discussions with engaged couples in the Marriage Preparation program of her local parish. | |
Sonja Wanebo M.D.
Sonja (M'93) is a Family Practitioner in Scottsdale, Arizona. After graduating from the
 University of Utah, she completed the Georgetown Experimental Medical Studies program (GEMS '88) prior to attending Georgetown University School of Medicine as a recipient of the Armed Forces HealthProfessions Scholarship. After an internship at National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, MD, she served her Naval commitment as the Medical Department Head for the destroyer tender USS Shenandoah and at the Pentagon. She subsequently completed Family Practice Residency at St John's Medical Center in St Louis, MO. She has a strong interest in alternative medicine and meditation. She has three children, Oliver 18, Grace 17 and Ella 14 and is married to John Wanebo, a neurosurgeon at Barrow Neurological Institute. She enjoys tennis and yoga and is an avid alpine skier which brings her back to her Utah and Colorado roots. |
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Kelli Myers
Director, GUMC Engagement & Annual Giving
Office of Advancement
Kelli joined the Annual Giving team in March 2014, as Director of The Annual Fund for Georgetown Athletics and Hoyas Unlimited which supports the operating costs for 29 intercollegiate programs. Under Kelli's leadership, The Athletics Annual Fund team has received two CASE awards for Best Practices in both Fundraising and Marketing, and the alumni student-athlete giving reached record breaking numbers for the Letterwinners Challenge initiative this year bringing in over 1,267 new donors to athletics for a 53% increase from the previous year. Her commitment to streamlining athletics events has provided an enhanced level of engagement for the alumni experience. Kelli is excited to continue her work at Georgetown and to move into her new role with GUMC.
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Kathleen Ott
Assistant Director
GUMC Reunions & Engagement
 Originally from Cincinnati, Ohio, Kathleen graduated from The Ohio State University with a Bachelor's degree in Communications Analysis & Practice. During her time at OSU, she received the President's Award for Outstanding Leadership and Service.She brings to us event and fundraising expertise, most recently having worked as Annual Giving & Events Associate for the Foundation for Physical Therapy, charitable arm of the American Physical Therapy Association. Kathleen serves on the American Heart Association's DC young professionals board, PULSE, and as Vice President for the DC Chapter of the United Women in Business Foundation. She is passionate about philanthropy and excited to have joined Georgetown University's Advancement team in June. |
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October 27-28, 2017
February 2-3, 2018 |
Medical School Reunion Weekend for those classes ending with a "2" and "7"
Winter Leadership Weekend
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Saturday February 3, 2018
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Medical Alumni Board Meeting
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Match Day and Match Day BBQ
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April 12-15, 2018
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John Carroll Weekend Seattle
| June 1-3, 2018
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Georgetown Main Campus Reunion Weekend
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 MAB member Allison Linden (C'02, M'08, R'15) will be living in Kigali, Rwanda, for the the next 6 months through the Human Resources for Health program. She will be working in the University Teaching Hospital of Kigali, operating and teaching the surgical residents and medical students. Alli graduated from general surgery residency at Georgetown, then pursued fellowship training in pediatric surgery critical care. She recently completed an ECMO fellowship at the University of Chicago Comer Children's Hospital and will start a pediatric surgery fellowship in August 2018. Ali has spent time in over 20 countries.
We are always interested in how our medical alumni are doing!
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Georgetown Medicine in the News
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Called "a class of significant leadership", the 193 graduates of the Class of 2017 embark on their post-medical school careers.
The 196 members of the Class of 2021 are inducted into medical school at the White Coat Ceremony this past August.
Construction begins in January 2018 of the new medical/surgical pavilion at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital. Check out the design of the new hospital!
Dr. Mark Dybul returns to Georgetown to lead a new global health center at the Medical Center.
Georgetown's Medical and Law students working together on the new Health Justice Alliance. Promising results are shown for patients with advanced melanoma being treated with immunotherapy at the Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center.
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