{"id":92815,"date":"2025-05-20T04:00:20","date_gmt":"2025-05-20T08:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/?p=92815"},"modified":"2025-05-27T10:14:51","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T14:14:51","slug":"college-of-medicine-and-life-sciences-commencement-ceremony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/05_20_2025\/college-of-medicine-and-life-sciences-commencement-ceremony","title":{"rendered":"College of Medicine and Life Sciences Commencement Ceremony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Martina Blazevic is hooded during the commencement ceremony by Dr. Laurie Gottwald, a professor of medicine in the College of Medicine and Life Sciences, during the college\u2019s commencement ceremony Friday afternoon in Savage Arena.\u00a0The College of Medicine and Life Sciences Class of 2025 included 165 students who received medical degrees, 41 students who received master\u2019s degrees and 11 students who received doctoral degrees.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-92816\" src=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/05162025-4965.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. Martina Blazevic is hooded during the commencement ceremony by Dr. Laurie Gottwald, a professor of medicine in the College of Medicine and Life Sciences, during the college\u2019s commencement ceremony Friday afternoon in Savage Arena. More than 200 students received doctor of medicine, doctor of philosophy or master\u2019s degrees.\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/05162025-4965.jpg 748w, https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/05162025-4965-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>From left, Humza Rehman, who was graduating with a doctor of medicine degree, has his regalia adjusted by his father, Dr. Syed Rehman, before the start of the College of Medicine and Life Sciences Commencement.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-92817\" src=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/05162025-4452.jpg\" alt=\"From left, Humza Rehman, who was graduating with a doctor of medicine degree, has his regalia adjusted by his father, Dr. Syed Rehman, before the start of the College of Medicine and Life Sciences Commencement.\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/05162025-4452.jpg 748w, https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/05162025-4452-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Dr. Reshma Jagsi, an internationally recognized physician-scientist and advocate for equity in medicine who delivered the commencement\u2019s keynote address, was awarded an honorary doctor of science degree from Dr. Imran Ali, dean of the College of Medicine and Life Sciences, and UToledo Interim President Matt Schroeder.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-92818\" src=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/05162025-4658.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. Reshma Jagsi, an internationally recognized physician-scientist and advocate for equity in medicine who delivered the commencement\u2019s keynote address, was awarded an honorary doctor of science degree from Dr. Imran Ali, dean of the College of Medicine and Life Sciences, and UToledo Interim President Matt Schroeder.\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/05162025-4658.jpg 748w, https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/05162025-4658-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Before the commencement ceremony, Noor Hassan took a photo of, from left, Marwa Hassan, Meghana Ranabothu and Shangari Varatharajan. All four students received medical degrees at the ceremony.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-92819\" src=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/05162025-4428.jpg\" alt=\"Before the commencement ceremony, Noor Hassan took a photo of, from left, Marwa Hassan, Meghana Ranabothu and Shangari Varatharajan. All four students received medical degrees at the ceremony.\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/05162025-4428.jpg 748w, https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/05162025-4428-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/05_20_2025\/college-of-medicine-and-life-sciences-commencement-ceremony\"><img width=\"120\" height=\"120\" src=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/05162025-4965-150x150.jpg\" class=\"alignright tfe wp-post-image\" alt=\"Dr. Martina Blazevic is hooded during the commencement ceremony by Dr. Laurie Gottwald, a professor of medicine in the College of Medicine and Life Sciences, during the college\u2019s commencement ceremony Friday afternoon in Savage Arena. More than 200 students received doctor of medicine, doctor of philosophy or master\u2019s degrees.\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a><p>Dr. Martina Blazevic is hooded during the commencement ceremony by Dr. Laurie Gottwald, a professor of medicine in the College of Medicine and Life Sciences, during the college\u2019s commencement ceremony Friday afternoon in Savage Arena. More than 200 students received doctor of medicine, doctor of philosophy or master\u2019s degrees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":758,"featured_media":92816,"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\/92815"}],"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\/758"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92815"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92821,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92815\/revisions\/92821"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}