FIFTY-FIRST CONVOCATION
May 19, 2022
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PROGRAM
Master of Ceremonies
Eric Lamberg
Academic Procession
Chief Marshal
Paul-Neil Czujko
Baccalaureate Graduates
Master’s Graduates
Doctoral Graduates
Faculty Marshals
Karen B. DeChello and Kelly Warren
Faculty
Platform Party
| National Anthem | Celestine Castillo, Clinical Laboratory Sciences ‘22 |
| Welcome | Dr. Harold Paz, Executive Vice President for Health Sciences and CEO of Stony Brook Medicine |
| Introduction of Speaker | Eric Lamberg, Associate Dean |
| Convocation Address | Adesuwa I. Obasohan Watson, BA, MPH |
| Dean’s Advisory Board Student Speaker | Jaydan Donavan Philogene, Respiratory Care ‘22 |
Presentation of Awards |
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| Awards for General Excellence | |
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Clinical Laboratory Sciences |
Jeannie Guglielmo, Clinical Associate Professor |
| Respiratory Care | Lisa Johnson, Clinical Associate Professor |
| Applied Health Informatics | Hants Williams, Clinical Assistant Professor |
| Athletic Training | Xristos Gaglias, Clinical Assistant Professor |
| Medical Molecular Biology | Hana Fukuto, Clinical Assistant Professor |
| Occupational Therapy | Sean Getty, Clinical Associate Professor |
| Physician Assistant Education | Rasheed Davis, Clinical Assistant Professor |
| Post-Professional Physician Assistant Education | Lynn Timko-Swaim, Clinical Associate Professor |
| Speech-Language Pathology | Renee Fabus, Associate Professor |
| Physical Therapy | James Pierre-Glaude, Clinical Assistant Professor |
| The Edmund J. McTernan Honor Award | JoanMarie Schreiber, Assistant Dean |
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Stacy Jaffee Gropack, Dean |
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| Clinical Laboratory Sciences | Jeannie Guglielmo, Chair and Clinical Associate Professor |
| Respiratory Care | Lisa Johnson, Chair and Clinical Associate Professor |
| Applied Health Informatics | Hants Williams, Program Director and Clinical Assistant Professor |
| Athletic Training | Kathryn A. Koshansky, Chair and Associate Professor |
| Medical Molecular Biology | Gloria Viboud, Program Director and Associate Professor |
| Occupational Therapy | Dale Coffin, Chair and Clinical Associate Professor |
| Physician Assistant Education | Donna Ferrara, Chair and Clinical Associate Professor |
| Post-Professional Physician Assistant Education | Lynn Timko-Swaim, Program Director and Clinical Associate Professor |
| Speech-Language Pathology | Renee Fabus, Chair and Associate Professor |
| Physical Therapy | Kyle Hewson, Chair and Clinical Associate Professor |
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Closing Remarks Stacy Jaffee Gropack, Dean Recessional Guests are asked to remain seated until the platform party, |
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Adesuwa I. Obasohan Watson BA, MPH
Adesuwa Watson has been with the Suffolk County Department of Health Services - Office of Minority Health (OMH), since August of 2008. She first served as the Health Program Analyst for the Office and as of April 2021, serves as Director for the Office of Minority Health, which strives to address health disparities and inequities for racial and ethnic minorities in the County. As a Public Health Professional, Mrs. Watson sits on and chairs multiple committees that address health disparities, health promotion, cultural responsive care and community engagement. She received her BA in Psychology, minoring in Biology and Africana Studies and went on to complete her Master’s Degree of Public Health in Social Behavior and Community Health, from the State University of New York at Albany.
As a strong public health advocate, she is passionate about community work, has contributed countless hours to projects that focus on health disparities and community collaboration. Her work centers on raising up voices of the community, access to quality care issues, health literacy, prevention of community violence, behavioral health, HIV/AIDS & STIs & other chronic conditions. Outside of work, she is active in her church and volunteers with several organizations such as the National Council of Negro Women- Suffolk Section, the Anti-Bias Task Force & NAACP of Brookhaven, the Women’s’ Diversity Network’s - Health Equity Task Force on Maternal Mortality and a host of others. She is the proud wife to Dr. Jarvis Watson, who also has a shared passion for leaving the world better than when he found it, as they both feel strongly, that every day we must work to challenge unequal systems, recognizing the power of community engagement and centering equity in all that we do.
AWARDS FOR GENERAL EXCELLENCE
The faculty of each program is asked to select the student who best typifies those qualities of professional competence and human concern in health care that this school seeks to develop.
THE EDMUND J. MCTERNAN UNDERGRADUATE HONOR AWARD
The purpose of the Edmund J. McTernan Scholarship is to further the educational mission of the School of Health Professions and is named in memory of the founding Dean of the school, the late Edmund J. McTernan Sr. This year’s recipients were selected based on the criteria put forth by the fund, including academic achievement.
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Class of 2022 Candidates for Degree BACHELOR OF SCIENCE Clinical Laboratory Sciences |
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| Chloe Camille Albro Anshul Baid Richard Ryan Barnes Briana Tatiana Naomi Blair Estelle Calderon Heather Calderon Mikaela Rose Canavan2 Celestine Castillo3 Christine Mary Cawley Wing Ben Cheung Casey Chung Jennifer Ann Derry |
Keerthana Hanuma Dutta |
Rachel N Marcano2 |
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| Respiratory Care | |||
| Brooke Amaya Alleyne Raged Yousef Altawabini1,4 Givenchy Ayisi-Boahene Angela Nicole Barbone Max Luis Benitez Nancy Chen Xiao Hong Chen Fiona Zi Jia Chung |
Sabrina Leigh Coto Victoria Rae D'Amato4 Minghong Huang Samuel Jo Alicia Lin Amy Lin1,4 Tanyika Lungren |
Morgan Ashley Mancine Chelsea A Mawugbe Nuhan Mohammed Mustafa4 Katelyn Y Ng Sang Jaydan Donavan Philogene Soomin Shin Duyen M. Tran Amy Truong4 |
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MASTER OF SCIENCE Applied Health Informatics |
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| Fahad Abdu Anisha Basil Samantha Benjamin Kaiee Yolan Brown Manleen Kaur Chhabra Ashley Chinnici Alvin K Devasia Alejandro Herrera Andrew Justin Huang Sayeda Maliha Khan Nathalia Andrea Ladino |
Izuchukwu Eberechukwu Matthew |
Faryal Shahid |
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| Athletic Training | |||
| Zakiya Simone Beckles Katie Mae Botterbusch Derek Salvador Castro Yvonne Chen4 Caitlin Hitsous Fitzpatrick4 Sophia LaMarca |
Ashley Livingston Bryan Rengifo Jordan Rucks Olivia Shipley Talia Stagnitta Adam Tamburello Taylor Anne Winthrop4 |
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| Medical Molecular Biology | |||
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Holly Asaro4
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Anthony Huang
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| Occupational Therapy | |||
| Daniel Alexander Adams Shanice Allen Isabella Rose Ardizzone Ashley Armellini Rachel Blitzer Ilana Alexandra Bravo Tara June Caemmerer Laura Calderon Jennifer Chang Kristen Marie Collins Emily Czarnecki4 Ryan Alexandra Doherty Adam Abdelfatah Elba Emily Fallon4 Melissa Lorraine Fenton |
Isabel M Ferreira Ian Gallagher Kaylee Rose Gallo Megan Ann Garvey Katherine Mary Grandazza Emily Handley4 Caitlin Mary Healy4 Ashley Rose Herring Christine Theresa Hess Samantha Paige Hoffman4 Emily Sigal Katz Joseph T. Kovaly Kathryn Elizabeth Krukowski Maureen Margret Laffey |
Priyanka Lal David Thomas Lavan4 Samson Adebowale Lawal Allison Lim Deanna Marion Longo4 Wynchelle Alfaro Manalili Shelby Lynn Mazzone Ashley McAuley Neethu Meloottu Jennifer Grace Messina Alexander John Michalos Jessica Brooke Mitchell4 Katherine Ann O'Shea Veronica Oviedo |
Tiffani Parente Odessa E Roque Kiran Sandh Nadia Irina Serrano Cassandra Mae Silano4 Alyssa Mary Sokolowski4 Madison Margaret Thornton4 Kaitlin Wascher Amanda Hope Welk Amanda Welsher Nicole Dawn White4 Douglas Whitty Melisa Williams Joy Yim |
| Physician Assistant | |||
| Allison K Abbene Tahera Aktar Giselle Alvarado Charles Antig Catherine Arias Irene Oppong Boakye Krista Braaten4 Phillip Joseph Bugbee Noah E Burke Stephanie Lindsay Cekov Curtis L Chen Nushrat Mahfuz Chowdhury Gianna Rose Coscia4 Jessica Crawford4 Julia Mary Dimaria4 Christina Felizardo |
Colleen McEntee Feltner4 Hannah Louise Gallmeier Karen Garcia Erin Gonzalez4 Eda Gulu James Robert Gutierrez Alexus Ann Haddad Elizabeth Harper Aimee Ruth Herschander Luisa Maria Jaramillo Matthew Ting Fung Joe Eun Ho Kim Elizabeth D Kohn4 Kari Ann Krajewski Fozia Lashari Kayla Laurelli4 |
Brittany Marie Lemire Susan Liang Katelin Lightcap Shirley Luo Emily Marie Lydakis4 Julia Marie Mai Ariel Rae Millhauser Brianna Marie Moss Julie Ann Mystkowski4 Artee Narain Misha Nguyen Patrick Anphu Nguyen Alexa Rose Postiglione Ariana Edith Ramos Nakul Rao Danielle Angela Rattotti |
Kayla Reilly Daniel K. Ritter Andrew Junha Ro4 Luke Alexander Rossi Julianna Russo Irene Sajan Melissa Sawaya Michela Jaye Schillinger Kaitlin Nicole Sisson Lawrence Threlfall Michelle Valencia Sydney Marie Vaughn4 Dina Velasquez Nicole Anna Walczyk4 Jennifer Anne Winter Benjamin Wun Sing Young |
| Post-Professional Physician Assistant | |||
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Lynette Chacona |
Preeti Mukhi |
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Speech-Language Pathology |
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Dominique Acacia |
Caitlin Cunningham4 Stephen D'Amico4 Emily Davis Rosemary Ann De Martino Erin Dougherty Natalie Hike Cara Ann Kennedy Jaclyn M Kieffner |
Alexa Kiesling Sarah Patricia Lane Allison Marie Link Susan Ratkiewicz Ayah Zein Elabdin Rimawi Julia James Rivera Mollie Ann Rooney Kourtney Somoza Jessica A Terrell |
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| Doctor of Physical Therapy | |||
| Amy Abdelrazeq Caitlin Mae Airey4 Akintunde Akintayo Jamlen Frondoso Alfano Erick I Almendarez Laura Paige Barreca Yasmine Rose Bassou Rahul S Bathija Vincent Paul Bonura Katherine Borda Karly Mae Cairo Nalini Rai Chamling4 Rose K Christen4 Courtney Leigh Cleary Emma Louise Costa Marissa Marie Cotroneo Michael Anthony D'Adamo Steven Frank Davies Christopher Everett DeBellis Patrick Delacruz |
Dominick DeMarco Nicole DiVirgilio4 Chris-Ashley Jumelle Donald Ryan F Dragotta4 Alexander Michael Eberenz Jessica Fabrizio Jessica Rachel Fare Samuel Faustin Nicole Feist Glen Junior Foreman Danielle Nicole Garfole Victoria Lauren Gianatiempo4 Tatum Goodyear Madison Gore Stephen Patrick Grunbok4 Brian Ivan Guardado Alec John Hadjiyane Russell Hu Jibin Jacob Yuri Kang |
Daniel Norman Keller
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Livia Piraino Stefanie Terese Pollard Evan Qatani Ryan Mary Quick Mehreen Rahim4 Melissa Ann Riback Anika Rivera Danielle Saitta Kyle Patrick Sanchez4 Kelsey Joan Sandwick Talia Sharifiazad Andrew William Sneider4 Nicholas J Strickland Aidan John Swift Alexandra Lee Szymanski Sarina Tan Katla Ann Thorsen4 Michael Joseph Traumiller Clara Rose Vargas Christopher Wallace Emily Williams |
1 Summa Cum Laude
2 Magna Cum Laude
3 Cum Laude
4 Alpha Eta
School of Health Professions criteria for Graduation with Honors for undergraduate degree candidates - at least 60 credits with an HSC cumulative grade point average as follows: Cum Laude 3.6; Magna Cum Laude 3.75; Summa Cum Laude 3.85. Please note: All honors are based on the current grade point average at the time of publication. The actual honor awarded may be different as it is based on the FINAL grade point average, determined after finals are completed. The actual honor will appear on the final transcript and diploma.
In 1982, the School of Health Technology and Management established a chapter of Alpha Eta, the National Honor Society of the Allied Health Professions. Faculty review student records and nominate those students who have demonstrated high scholastic achievement (a grade point average of at least 3.5 for baccalaureate degree candidates and 3.8 for graduate degree candidates) and dedication to their chosen profession. This honor is extended to not more than twenty percent of any graduating class.
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General Excellence Awards Clinical Laboratory Sciences Respiratory Care Applied Health Informatics Athletic Training Medical Molecular Biology Occupational Therapy Physician Assistant Education Post-Professional Physician Assistant Education Speech-Language Pathology Physical Therapy
Athletic Training Backbone Athletic Training Student Award Debbie Whittemore Memorial Award for Academic Excellence Stuart B. Cherney Outstanding Athletic Training Student Award Clinical Laboratory Sciences ASCP Laboratory Student Scholarship 2021 Occupational Therapy Community Service Award Excellence in Fieldwork Jacqueline Barrera Award Vera Jean Clark Brown Leadership Award Physical Therapy Alan Kong Memorial Scholarship Clinical Excellence Award Distinguished Student Award Leadership Award Professional Service Award Physician Assistant Guy Cassara Scholarship Kenneth Whitney PA Memorial Scholarship Marian Eskow Scholarship Respiratory Care Award for Excellence in Cardiovascular Clinical Practice Award for Excellence in Community/Professional Service Award for Excellence in Respiratory Care Clinical Practice Speech-Language Pathology Joan Fox Award from Long Island Speech-Language-Hearing Association NSSLHA Graduate Chapter in the Speech-Language Pathology Department The Henry and Marsha Laufer Scholarship Applied Health Informatics Athletic Training Clinical Laboratory Sciences Physical Therapy Physician Assistant Education Respiratory Care Speech-Language Pathology |
Honor Societies Iota Tau Alpha Athletic Training |
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| Caitlin Hitsous Fitzpatrick Sophia LaMarca Bryan Rengifo Jordan Rucks |
Olivia Shipley Talia Stagnitta Adam Tamburello Taylor Anne Winthrop |
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| Lambda Tau Clinical Laboratory Sciences |
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Mikaela Rose Canavan |
Elizabeth Eve Morseman |
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Pi Theta Epsilon |
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| Isabella Rose Ardizzone Rachel Blitzer Tara June Caemmerer Emily Czarnecki Emily Fallon Melissa Lorraine Fenton Megan Ann Garvey Kaylee Rose Gallo Katherine Mary Grandazza Emily Handley |
Caitlin Mary Healy |
Ashley McAuley |
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| Pi Alpha Physician Assistant Education |
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Curtis L. Chen Hannah Louise Gallmeier Eda Gulu Kari Ann Krajewski Brittany Marie Lemire |
Julia Marie Mai
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| Lambda Beta Respiratory Care |
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Raged Yousef Altawabini |
Nuhan Mohammed Mustafa |
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