OSU-CHS Class of 2016 graduates receive awards at banquet

Thursday, April 28, 2016

Several OSU-CHS graduates and faculty were recently honored for their achievements last week during the Class of 2016 Awards Banquet last Wednesday or the 2016 Commencement Ceremony on Thursday.

Student honorees include:

Matthew Haney, Regents’ Distinguished Student Award
Joshua Floyd, Academic Excellence Award
Heather Hensley and Matthew Smith, Alumni Recognition Award
Sydni Jones Imel, Clinical Excellence Award
Heather Hensley, Leadership and Service Award
Matthew Smith, Leadership and Service Award
Matthew Smith, Student D.O. of the Year
Jacob Curley, Mind, Body and Spirit Award
Dusti Sloan, Outstanding Biomedical Sciences Graduate Student Award
Kandace Hughes, Outstanding Health Care Administration Graduate Student Award
Dane Robertson, Chairman’s Award for Outstanding Forensic Sciences Student

Departmental honors were awarded to the following students:

Joshua Floyd, Anatomy and Cell Biology
Caleb Scheckel, Biochemistry
Matthew Else, Family Medicine
Shane Hnatusko, Emergency Medicine
Muna Gharfeh, Internal Medicine
Joshua Floyd, Microbiology
Micah Wright, Obstetrics and Gynecology
Dave Peyok, Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine
Jacob Curley, Pathology
Courtney Sauls, Pediatrics
Brandon Hilburn, Pharmacology
Cameron Leavitt, Physiology
Brandy Kalami, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Rafel Alvarez, Radiology
Joanna Bartholomew, Rural Medicine
Erica Benda, Rural Medicine
Rachel Black, Rural Medicine
Jake Borgsmiller, Rural Medicine
Amanda Hale, Rural Medicine
Matthew Haney, Rural Medicine
Shane Hnatusko, Rural Medicine
Heather Jones, Rural Medicine
Janell Largent, Rural Medicine
Dirk Lenaburg, Rural Medicine
Allison Moore, Rural Medicine
Alisha Murrow, Rural Medicine
David Peyok, Rural Medicine
Hilda Rodriguez, Rural Medicine
Constance Rogers, Rural Medicine
Laura Sanford, Rural Medicine
Eric Sparks, Rural Medicine
Maria Vachapittack, Rural Medicine
Stormy Walkup, Rural Medicine
Bret Haines, Surgery

The following members of the OSU Chapter of Phi Kappa Phi honor society were recognized:

Jacob Borgsmiller
Jacob Curley
Joshua Floyd
Muna Gharfeh
John Ground
Matthew Haney
Brandon Hilburn
Sydni Jones Imel
Susan Kerns
Caleb Scheckel
Maria Vachapittack
Amy Wilson

Robin Dyer, D.O., associate dean for academic affairs, and Bill Meek, Ph.D., professor of anatomy and cell biology, were the recipients of Outstanding Educator of the Year awards.