{"id":99170,"date":"2026-05-19T04:00:20","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T08:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/?p=99170"},"modified":"2026-05-21T09:00:47","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T13:00:47","slug":"college-of-medicine-and-life-sciences-2026-spring-commencement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/05_19_2026\/college-of-medicine-and-life-sciences-2026-spring-commencement","title":{"rendered":"College of Medicine and Life Sciences 2026 Spring Commencement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Toledo College of Medicine and Life Sciences held its 2026 spring commencement ceremony on Friday at John F. Savage Arena, celebrating the newest class of healthcare professionals. Below, Dr. Lisa Rui Zhang is hooded during the ceremony.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-99171\" src=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/05152026-7712.jpg\" alt=\"The University of Toledo College of Medicine and Life Sciences held its 2026 spring commencement ceremony on Friday at John F. Savage Arena, celebrating the newest class of healthcare professionals. Below, Dr. Lisa Rui Zhang is hooded during the ceremony.\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/05152026-7712.jpg 748w, https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/05152026-7712-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Dr. Ethan Kosco is hooded during the ceremony, the final event of UToledo\u2019s 2026 graduation season.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-99172\" src=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/05152026-7360.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. Ethan Kosco is hooded during the ceremony, the final event of UToledo\u2019s 2026 graduation season.\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/05152026-7360.jpg 748w, https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/05152026-7360-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Dr. David J. Skorton, center, president and CEO of the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), who served as the commencement speaker, receives an honorary Doctor of Science, honoris causa, from Dr. Imran Ali, left, dean of the College of Medicine and Life Sciences, as Dr. Eleanore Awadalla, UToledo trustee and vice chair, right, looks on.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-99173\" src=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/05152026-6843.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. David J. Skorton, center, president and CEO of the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), who served as the commencement speaker, receives an honorary Doctor of Science, honoris causa, from Dr. Imran Ali, left, dean of the College of Medicine and Life Sciences, as Dr. Eleanore Awadalla, UToledo trustee and vice chair, right, looks on.\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/05152026-6843.jpg 748w, https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/05152026-6843-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Dr. Bryce DeLong, left, watches the hooding ceremony as she waits with Dr. Laurie Gottwald, chief of dermatology.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-99174\" src=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/05152026-7234.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. Bryce DeLong watches the hooding ceremony as she waits with Dr. Laurie Gottwald, chief of dermatology.\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/05152026-7234.jpg 748w, https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/05152026-7234-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/05_19_2026\/college-of-medicine-and-life-sciences-2026-spring-commencement\"><img width=\"120\" height=\"120\" src=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/05152026-7712-150x150.jpg\" class=\"alignright tfe wp-post-image\" alt=\"The University of Toledo College of Medicine and Life Sciences held its 2026 spring commencement ceremony on Friday at John F. Savage Arena, celebrating the newest class of healthcare professionals. Below, Dr. Lisa Rui Zhang is hooded during the ceremony.\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a><p>UToledo awarded graduate and medical degrees to 209 students during Friday\u2019s ceremony at John F. Savage Arena.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":758,"featured_media":99171,"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\/99170"}],"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=99170"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99177,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99170\/revisions\/99177"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}