HST Graduation

May 25, 2022, 10am-1pm

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2021 Event Details:

All members of the community are invited to celebrate our graduating students.

YouTube Premiere Video: https://youtu.be/5KilbR-CKcQ
Virtual Reception: https://harvard.zoom.us/j/96131203312 Password: HSTGRAD
Graduation Program Booklet

HST 2021 Graduation Video Watch Party – YouTube Premiere - 5pm

Watch the HST 2021 Graduation Video together with live chat. The video will include remarks by faculty leadership, student speaker, Aditya Kalluri, MD, PhD and individual slide shows/vignettes for each graduate who chose to be featured. Have your champagne glasses ready when the video ends with a toast!

Graduation Reception – Zoom - approximately 6pm

https://harvard.zoom.us/j/96131203312 Password: HSTGRAD

Immediately following the Video Watch Party, we'll open the reception, with several breakout rooms hosted by faculty, staff and alumni (see Party Room details below).

GRADUATES ONLY gather in the group photo room for a quick gallery style group photo.
Family and friends are welcome to join any of the breakout party rooms, where they can meet up with their graduate after the group photo. Please feel free to move yourselves among these party rooms. You can leave a party room and join a new one at any time.
New to Zoom? Download instructions on navigating breakout rooms
Show off your community spirit with an HST virtual zoom background

Party Room Details

Overview of who is hosting each room.

Main Room

Host: David Hansen, Curriculum Support Assistant

Guests start in the main room, can select a breakout room themselves from the list below, or ask the host to assign them to a breakout party room below.

Graduate Photo Room

Host: Traci Anderson, Academic Programs Manager

Immediately following the end of the video ~ 6pm, graduates gather in this breakout room for a group photo. [GRADUATES ONLY, please]

Room Hosts: Hundert/Mitchell

Edward Hundert, MD, Dean for Medical Education, HMS
Rick Mitchell, MD, PhD, Associate Director, HST

Room Hosts: Kamihara/Solomon

Junne Kamihara, MD, PhD, HST/London Advisor and Associate Director
Daniel Solomon, MD, Morgan-Zinsser HST Associate Director, Clinical Learning

Room Hosts: Brown/Greenberg

Emery Brown, MD, PhD, HST Director, MIT
Julie Greenberg, PhD, HST Director of Education

Room Hosts: Frosch/Smith

Matthew Frosch, MD, PhD, HST/London Chair of Admissions and Associate Director
Zara Smith, MD Admissions Coordinator

Room Hosts: MIT Academic Office Staff

Traci Anderson, Academic Programs Manager
Joseph Stein, Academic Programs Assistant
Laurie Ward, Graduate Administrator
Megan Wong, Academic Programs Assistant

Room Hosts: HMS Academic Office Staff

Karrol Altarejos, Program Coordinator
Patty Cunningham, Academic Program Manager
Kate Hodgins, Senior Curriculum Manager

Room Hosts: Recent Alumni

Kay Everett, MEMP PhD ’14, HST MD ’16; Cardiology Fellow, DFCI
Ashley Mateus, MEMP PhD '15; VP Decision Support and Strategic Planning, Akili Interactive
Alex (German) Polacheck, MEMP PhD '14; Associate Director, GSK
Sofia Vallila, SHBT PhD '14, Associate Professor, MGH-Institute of Health Professions

Room Hosts: Recent Alumni

James Ankrum, MEMP PhD ’13; Associate Professor in BE, University of Iowa
Zuzana Tothova, HST MD ’09, PhD; Assistant Professor, Medical Oncology, HMS, DFCI

Open Rooms A-D

Four un-hosted rooms for family and friends to gather for small group chats.