{"id":92707,"date":"2025-05-13T03:30:21","date_gmt":"2025-05-13T07:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/?p=92707"},"modified":"2025-05-15T08:22:22","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T12:22:22","slug":"college-of-medicine-and-life-sciences-to-recognize-graduates-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/05_13_2025\/college-of-medicine-and-life-sciences-to-recognize-graduates-friday","title":{"rendered":"College of Medicine and Life Sciences to Recognize Graduates Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"

The University of Toledo College of Medicine and Life Sciences will celebrate its 2025 graduates at a commencement ceremony on Friday, May 16.<\/p>\n

The event begins at 2 p.m. in Savage Arena on Main Campus. More than 200 students will receive doctor of medicine, doctor of philosophy or master\u2019s degrees.<\/p>\n

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Dr. Reshma Jagsi, an internationally recognized physician-scientist and advocate for equity in medicine, will deliver the keynote address at The University of Toledo College of Medicine and Life Sciences commencement ceremony on Friday.<\/p><\/div>\n

Dr. Reshma Jagsi, an internationally recognized physician-scientist and advocate for equity in medicine, will deliver the keynote address.<\/p>\n

The College of Medicine and Life Sciences Class of 2025 includes 165 students receiving medical degrees, 41 students receiving master\u2019s degrees and 11 students receiving doctoral degrees.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are proud to recognize the efforts and accomplishments of our students and honored to welcome Dr. Reshma Jagsi to campus,\u201d said Dr. Imran Ali, dean of the College of Medicine and Life Sciences. \u201cShe is emblematic of why we go into this field \u2014 to make a difference in our communities and in the lives of our patients. As our graduates go on to the next step in their careers, I know they too will leave a positive mark on the world.\u201d<\/p>\n

The recipient of a medical degree from Harvard University and a doctor of philosophy degree from the University of Oxford in England, Jagsi is currently a board-certified radiation oncologist and department chair at Emory University. The author of more than 500 publications, she has devoted her career to improving the quality of care for breast cancer patients as well as studying issues of bioethics and gender equity in academic medicine.<\/p>\n

Jagsi said she hopes to inspire graduates to reflect on what drew them to the field of medicine, the people who helped make their accomplishment possible, and their duty to use their voice and professional privilege to be a force of good.<\/p>\n

\u201cEquity is not a polarizing concept,\u201d she said. \u201cIt is simply the pursuit of respectful, fair treatment of everyone in our society. Not only is it the right thing to do for us to make sure that all people have access to the best quality of healthcare we can provide and that all people have the opportunity to contribute their talents to the healthcare professions \u2014 it is the smart thing to do as well.\u00a0It helps us accomplish our mission of elevating the health of our whole society.\u201d<\/p>\n

As UToledo\u2019s newly minted physicians begin their practice, she encouraged them to both serve and listen to their patients.<\/p>\n

\u201cPatients are our best teachers,\u201d she said.\u00a0\u201cOne of my patients still texts me every birthday; another recently sent me a book of gratitude prayers; yet another filmed a video to inspire other patients to participate in clinical research. These are the human connections that make this career worthwhile.\u201d<\/p>\n

In addition to delivering the keynote address, she will be awarded an honorary doctor of science degree.<\/p>\n

The College of Medicine and Life Sciences\u2019 ceremony is UToledo\u2019s final spring commencement ceremony.<\/p>\n

UToledo hosted multiple spring commencement ceremonies for the colleges of Arts and Letters, Business and Innovation, Education, Engineering, Health and Human Services, Law, Natural Sciences and Mathematics, Nursing and Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences May 2, 3 and 11.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\"Portrait<\/a>

More than 200 graduates will be celebrated at the 2 p.m. event, which features a keynote address from an internationally recognized physician-scientist and advocate for equity in medicine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":849,"featured_media":92708,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,38,1,7],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92707"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/849"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92707"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92712,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92707\/revisions\/92712"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}