The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Class of 2026 Convocation took place on Wednesday, May 20. Listed below are members of the DOM honored at the event.
Grand Marshal: Dr. Katherine Chretien, professor in the Division of Hospital Medicine at JHH
Marshals: Dr. Khalil Ghanem, professor in the Division of Infectious Diseases, and Dr. Gyanu Lamichhane, associate professor in the Division of Infectious Diseases
The Oath of Hippocrates: Dr. Rakhi Naik, associate professor in the Division of Hematology
Department of Medicine Student Awards
Every year, the Department of Medicine recognizes outstanding medical students with the following awards at the School of Medicine Convocation Ceremony. Please join us in congratulating this year's award recipients.
Jacob Shaw is the 2026 recipient of the Sol Goldman Award, given annually to a Hopkins medical student who is recognized by the faculty of the Division of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology for excellence in geriatrics and exceptional sensitivity to older patients. This award is made possible by an endowment given by the family of Sol Goldman to perpetuate an interest in and commitment to geriatric medicine and gerontology among medical students.
Jordyn Hurly was selected to receive the 2026 Warfield T. Longcope Prize in Clinical Medicine. The award, established in honor of Dr. Longcope, director of the Department of Medicine from 1922 to 1946, recognizes a graduating student entering the field of medicine whose performance in clinical medicine exemplifies in outstanding fashion the academic excellence and the human qualities that mark the true physician.
Teaching Awards
Dr. Jose Manuel Monroy Trujillo, associate professor in the Division of Nephrology, received the George J. Stuart Award, established in 1969 following the bequest of a grateful patient, George J. Stewart of Washington, D.C. to honor an outstanding clinical teacher in the SOM. He was selected by senior students.
Dr. Edward Kasper, professor in the Division of Cardiology, received the Barry Wood, Jr. Award for Excellence in Teaching honoring teachers voted by the students in the preclinical years to have been most inspirational and/or effective.
Dr. Olive Tang, fellow in the Division of Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine, received the House Staff Teaching Award, established by the JHM Student Senate, which honors a member of the house staff for excellence in clinical teaching. The award aims to not only recognize an individual's contributions, but also the importance that the students attach to the concept of house officers as teachers.
Dr. Ravitej Khunkhun, part-time faculty in the Division of GIM, received the Professors' Award for Excellence in Teaching that was established in 1981 by the Advisory Board of the Medical Faculty and is intended to honor members of the faculty whose teaching is judged to have had a profound effect on students in the SOM.
