Ivy Day Award Winners for 2022

Ivy Day traces its origin to 1909 when the eminent dermatologist and internationally acknowledged authority on Hansen’s Disease, Isadore Dyer, M.D., became Dean of the School of Medicine. He served as Dean until 1920. At the laying of the cornerstone of the Richardson building on the university campus that year, a sprig of ivy was brought from the School of Medicine building on Canal Street as a symbol of the transplanted and continuing part of the medical school. The tradition of Ivy Day is continued by the planting of the ivy each year.

Students Peter Haskins and Margaret Higgins were selected to be the ivy planters this year.

Tulane Medical Alumni Association Student Recognition Award and Class Agent Award

Seta Degan

Leonard Tow Humanism in Medicine Faculty Award

Rebekah Byrne, MD

Tulane 34 Recipients

Russell Ledet
Tara Reza
Bailey Ross

Alpha Omega Alpha (Academic Honor Society, Leadership, Service)

Althea M. Alquitran
Evan P. Arnold
Scott M. Berman
Abraham B. Chabot
William N. Dickson
Leah M. Evans
William B. Fleming
Meredith N. Freeman
Katherine E. Freer
Judy N. Fustok
Joshua A. Geller
Kei K. Goldberg
Jonathan A. Hermel
Carrie E. Huang
Nathan M. Johnson
Katherine A. Jolin
Mardeen S. Karim
Joseph J. Kim
Mychajlo S. Kosyk
Jennifer D. Mansour
Yusuke L. Nakagawa
Vaishali H. Oza
Tara Reza
Bailey J. Ross
Ivy G. Sandquist
John R. Spartz
Anna G. Stathopoulos
Canhnghi N. Ta
Dean Q. Tran
Jeffrey D. Trojan
Surya V. Veerabagu
Alexander A. Yacob

Gold Humanism in Medicine Honor Society

Althea M. Alquitran
Erika M. Bennett
Scott M. Berman
Mimi Chen
Aaron Cotton-Betteridge
Hannah P. Daneshvar
Gina L. DeFelice
Samuel J. Eggers
Leah M. Evans
Bailey M. Grimsley
Peter J. Haskins
Rebecca F. Herbert
Taylor A. Hopper
Mardeen S. Karim      
Jean Lafontant
Russell J. Ledet
Jacob T. Packer          
Michael A. Razavi
Tara Reza
Emma K. Satchell
Daniel R. Schecter                  
Daniel S. Sholder
Megan L. Snyder                                
Eva G. Stoops
Lucy P. Tomb
Jeffrey D. Trojan

DeBakey Scholars

Hiwot Abate                                       
Ayman Ali                                           
Aaron Alokozai                                               
Alexander Cao Zhang                         
Aaron Cotton-Betteridge                   
Triet Do                                  
Robert Drury                          
Harika Echuri                                    
William Fleming
Paulina Giacomelli
Matthew Hennrikus
Taylor Hopper
Alexander Jafari
Adedoyin Johnson
Mardeen Karim
Kevin Lam
Jennifer Mansour                              
Anisha Narayan                                  
Scott Ninokawa
Vaishali Oza                           
Jacob Packer                          
Joshua Pincus
Michael Razavi                                   
Emma Satchell                       
Daniel Schecter
Anna Stathopoulos
Spencer Steadman
Suraya Veerabagu
Sarah Wang
Ryan Wortman

Recognition of U.S. Military graduates

Air Force

Manuela Gaviria
Melissa Infosino
Jacob Packer
Anita Pechenenko

Army

Christine McEvoy

Navy

Andrew Fuglestad
Bailey Grimsley
Matthew Hennrikus
James Krolopp
Phillip Quach

USPHS 2022 Excellence in Public Health Award

Carrie Crook

MD/MPH Student Award for Excellence

Samuel Eggers
Jean Lafontant

American College of Physicians Internal Medicine Award of Excellence

Faisal Kirdar

Richard W. Freeman Prize

Tara Reza

Leonard Tow Humanism in Medicine Award presented by the Arnold P. Gold Foundation

Jeffrey Trojan

Achievement Award in Inter-American Friendship and Understanding

Sydney Labat
Olayemi Olubowale

American Academy of Neurology Medical Student Prize for Excellence in Neurology

Natalie Sholl

American Medical Women’s Association Glasgow-Rubin Achievement Award

Kei Goldberg
Vaishali Oza

American Medical Women’s Association Glasgow-Rubin Achievement Citation

Katherine Freer
Katherine Jolin
Mardeen Karim
Jennifer Mansour
Anna Stathopoulos

C. Thorpe Ray, MD, Internal Medicine Award

Rachael Stevens

Charles M. Nice Award in Radiology

Judy Fustok

Department of Medicine Chairman’s Award

Anna Stathopoulos

Dr. Adolph D. Henriques Award

Ayman Ali

Dr. George H. Hauser Award

Jonathan Hermel

E. Edward McCool, Jr., MD, Award

Bradley Guidry
Leila Sabbagh

Society for Academic Emergency Medicine Award

John Spartz

Gold Scalpel Award

Ayman Ali

Harold G. Tabb, MD, Award

Jeffrey Trojan

Harry and Rose Caplovitz Medical Award

Sandra Beauchamp

Hymen S. Mayerson Award

Matthew Hennrikus
Mardeen Karim

Jacob Ambrose Storck Award

Nathan Johnson

James W. McLaurin, MD, Award

Kevin Littrell

John A. King Memorial Award

Melissa Infosino

John E. Lewy, MD, Proparvulis Award

Russell Ledet

John Herr Musser, MD, Memorial Prize

Seta Degann

John M. Smith, Jr., MD, Award for Outstanding Community Service

Taylor Hopper

Joseph Hume Memorial Award in Urology

Robert Drury

Jules B. Puschett, MD, Award

Hannah Daneshvar

Kathy Newman Pediatric Award

Jonathan Hermel

Kemal Akdamar, MD, Memorial Award

Katherine Freer

Leon A. Weisberg, MD, Memorial Award

Natalie Sholl

Louisiana Academy of Family Physicians Family Medicine Excellence Award

Erika Bennett

Medical Book Award, donated by Merck and Company

Althea Alquitran
Scott Berman
Yusuke Nakagawa
Alexander Yacob

Nicholas R. Diluzio Award

Annie Bell
Anna Stathopoulos

Order of the Gold-Tipped Stethoscope

Alec Goldberg

Oren B., MD, and Jane Roberts Gum Arthritis Award

Taylor Fleming

Oscar Creech, MD, Award

Carrie Crook
John Spartz

Querens-Rives-Shore Award in Cardiology

William Fleming

Robert C. Baird III, MD, Award

Hiwot Abate

Sam Hobson, MD, Award

Alarica Dietzen

Schwartz-Stuckey Award

A. Bert Chabot

Scott Gregory Kramer, MD, Family Medicine Award

Dean Tran

Sidney K. Simon Memorial Prize

Sandra Beauchamp

The Rachel Pearline Senior Award

Bailey Grimsley

Thomas A. Giddings, MD, Humanitarian Award

Eva Stoops

Tulane Caldwell Award

Tara Reza

William W. Waring, MD, Award

Alexandra Marcovicci

Dr. George Hauser Award

Jonathan Hermel

Department of Pharmacology Award, in memory of Dr. John Halsey

Mardeen Karim

Tulane School of Medicine Dean’s Award

Joshua Adam Geller
Kei Kimura Goldberg
Jonathan Alexander Hermel
Nathan Michel Johnson
Vaishali Harish Oza
Baily John Ross
Jeffrey Dean Trojan