2015 Distinction in Research Honorees Announced
We would like to congratulate the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai students who will graduate in May with Distinction in Research.
Graduation with Distinction in Research recognizes students who have taken primary responsibility for an original research project, and whose work results in a peer-reviewed manuscript on which they are the first author or in a first author manuscript judged to be of publication quality by a Distinction in Research Committee. We are delighted to recognize these students for their creativity, originality, and commitment to original scholarship.
Congratulations to the following students:
- Devora Aviva Aharon
- Levana Goldberg Amrock
- Alexandra Elise Bachorik
- Salina S. Bakshi 2015
- James Arthur Bradley
- Dana Lynne Casey
- Paul Michael Cavallaro
- William Chang-Yuen Chen
- Yuting Patrick Chiang
- John Joseph Chiosi
- Jennifer Leigh Cohen
- Shemille Afeshia Collingwood
- James William Clift Cornwall
- Matthew Ross Danzig
- Rebekah Carrel Diamond
- Gary J. Esses
- Lauren Deborah Feld
- Jason S. Flamendorf
- Javier Zabdi Guzman Tejero
- Lindsay Kim Haines
- Marie Oliva Hennelly
- Karen Blake Jacobson
- Rajiv Jayadevan
- Ioannis Konstantinidis
- Sameer Lakha
- Amanda Candice Leiter
- Michael Li
- Sar Silber Medoff
- Jillian Elizabeth Nickerson
- Hannah Takahashi Oakland
- Michael Pan
- Elizabeth Joy Pedowitz
- Daniel Peter Perl
- Alexander Pinhas
- Anna Hallie Podolsky
- Nathan Hutzel Raines
- Mariya Rozenblit
- Monica Hope Schwartzman
- Jonathan A. Schwitzer
- Matthew Evan Seigerman
- Siri Prasad Shastry
- Richard Jason Silvera
- Emily Arielle Steinberger
- Christopher Thomas Su
- Evan Charles Tschirhart
- Michael Jiah-Ching Yen

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