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The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Class of 2022 Convocation 

May 25, 2022

The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Convocation Ceremony is an extraordinary event for our graduating students and their guests. It is a milestone event for all, and a moving recognition of our graduates’ professional accomplishments, unbelievable dedication and commitment, and of the unfailing support of family and friends who helped make their achievements possible.


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The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Convocation Ceremony for the Class of 2022 was held on Wednesday, May 25, 2022. Watch the recording of the event.

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Order of Events

A PDF version of the program is also available.

Opening

Roy C. Ziegelstein, Sarah Miller Coulson and Frank L. Coulson, Jr. Professor of Medicine and the Mary Wallace Stanton Professor of Education

Welcome

Paul B. Rothman, The Frances Watt Baker, M.D. and Lenox D. Baker, Jr., M.D.
Dean of the Medical Faculty and Chief Executive Officer, Johns Hopkins Medicine

Greetings

Shari Lawson, Assistant Dean for Medical Student Affairs and 2001 Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Alumna

Comments

Katherine Chretien, Associate Dean for Medical Student Affairs
Vignesh Sadras, Medical Student
Peter J. Espenshade, Associate Dean for Graduate Biomedical Education
Kaitlin Wood, Graduate Student

Address

Richard Axel, M.D. University Professor and Co-Director, Zuckerman Institute for Mind Brain Behavior
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Announcement of Awards

Katherine Chretien, Associate Dean for Medical Student Affairs
Paul B. Rothman, The Frances Watt Baker, M.D. and Lenox D. Baker, Jr., M.D. Dean of the Medical Faculty and Chief Executive Officer, Johns Hopkins Medicine
Kevin W. Sowers, President, Johns Hopkins Health System and Executive Vice President, Johns Hopkins Medicine

Announcement of Teaching Awards and Special Awards

Paul B. Rothman, The Frances Watt Baker, M.D. and Lenox D. Baker, Jr., M.D.
Dean of the Medical Faculty and Chief Executive Officer, Johns Hopkins Medicine

Presentation of Masters and Doctor of Philosophy Diplomas

Paul B. Rothman, The Frances Watt Baker, M.D. and Lenox D. Baker, Jr., M.D.
Dean of the Medical Faculty and Chief Executive Officer, Johns Hopkins Medicine
Roy C. Ziegelstein, Sarah Miller Coulson and Frank L. Coulson, Jr. Professor of Medicine and the Mary Wallace Stanton Professor of Education
Peter J. Espenshade, Associate Dean for Graduate Biomedical Education

The Graduate Student Oath

Administered by
Erika Darrah, Associate Professor of Medicine

Presentation of Doctor of Medicine Diplomas

Paul B. Rothman, The Frances Watt Baker, M.D. and Lenox D. Baker, Jr., M.D.
Dean of the Medical Faculty and Chief Executive Officer, Johns Hopkins Medicine
Roy C. Ziegelstein, Sarah Miller Coulson and Frank L. Coulson, Jr. Professor of Medicine and the Mary Wallace Stanton Professor of Education
Katherine Chretien, Associate Dean for Medical Student Affairs

The Oath of Hippocrates

Administered by
Robert Shochet, Senior Director for Patient Experience, Professor of Medicine, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Former Director, JHUSOM Colleges Advisory Program

Closing

Theodore L. DeWeese, Interim Dean of the Medical Faculty and Chief Executive Officer, Johns Hopkins Medicine

Speaker: Richard Axel, M.D.

Dr. Axel is a University Professor and Co-director of the Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute at Columbia University and an Investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. In earlier studies along with his colleagues, Michael Wigler and Saul Silverstein, they developed gene transfer techniques that permit the introduction of virtually any gene into any mammalian cell. These studies not only afforded a novel approach to isolate genes but also permitted a detailed analysis of how they worked. This approach led to the isolation and functional analysis of the gene for the lymphocyte surface protein, CD4, the cellular receptor for the AIDS virus, HIV.

He then began to apply molecular biology to problems in neuroscience with the expectation that genetics could interface with neuroscience to approach the relationship between genes and behavior. Their studies on the logic of the sense of smell revealed over a thousand genes involved in the recognition of odors and provided insight into how genes shape our perception of the sensory environment. Current work in the lab centers on how the recognition of odors is translated into an internal representation of sensory quality in the brain and how value is imposed on this representation to elicit meaningful thoughts and behavior.

Richard Axel, M.D.

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