O-Week
Welcome to the Class of 2009!
Orientation Week began on the morning of Monday, September 19th with the traditional Clap-In welcome of the Pritzker Class of 2009. Guided by O-Week Co-Chairs, Jon Hron and Sonya Chawla, over half the Class of 2008 contributed to this week-long series of events designed to support the transition of the next class of students into medical school.
The first day of O-Week concluded with the White Coat Ceremony in Rockefeller Chapel. This year's guest speaker, Abraham Verghese, MD, the Marvin Forland Distinguished Professor in Medical Ethics at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, is also a graduate of the prestigious Iowa Writers' Workshop. He has published two widely acclaimed books and a plethora of articles in the New Yorker, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Washington Post, Esquire, Sports Illustrated and Atlantic Monthly. At the White Coat Ceremony, Dr. Verghese spoke movingly about his recent experiences treating evacuees of New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina.
