ΑΩΑ Induction
Pritzker Inducts Newest Members to Alpha Omega Alpha
Michael J. Collins, MD; ΑΩΑ Visiting Professor, 2008
“For too long I neglected this journey. It was an obstacle to be overcome, an ordeal to be endured; for I had never chosen the journey, I had chosen the destination…. I have discovered that here isn’t so important after all. I find myself looking back with particular fondness for how I got here.”
—Jun Matsui, reading from Dr. Michael Collins’s book Hot Lights, Cold Steel: Life, Death and Sleepless Nights in a Surgeon’s First Years, at the ΑΩΑ Induction Ceremony.
The national honor society Alpha Omega Alpha recognizes those students, residents, faculty, and alumni who demonstrate academic excellence, outstanding leadership, dedication to service, and a great capacity for fairness and compassion. Once chosen to receive the honor, ΑΩΑ students from the Class of 2008 choose faculty members, residents and fellows, and alumni to also receive recognition at the induction ceremony.
The Pritzker School of Medicine and the ΑΩΑ Class of 2008 welcomed the following University of Chicago members to the Illinois Beta Chapter of the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society on February 26, 2008.
Class of 2008 ΑΩΑ Medical Student Members
- Katherine Bekeny
- Amanda Britt
- Jessica Buck
- Nicole Cipriani
- Daniel Clayburgh, PhD
- Jennifer McDonnell
- Jill Huber
- Matthew Kalscheur
- Rohan Lall
- Jun Matsui
- Itai Pashtan
- Jennifer Pogoriler, PhD
- Katie Sharff
- Erik Stoltenberg
- Elizabeth Sullivan
- Alan Thong
- Colin Walsh
Alumni Membership
- Richard Cote, MD ’80
Professor of Pathology and Urology
University of Southern California
Keck School of Medicine - Rex Haydon, MD ’96, PhD
Department of Surgery
Volunteer Clinical Faculty Award
- Clement Rose, MD
Department of Medicine
President, Medical Staff
Weiss Memorial Hospital
Faculty Membership
- Nora Jaskowiak, MD
Department of Surgery - John H. Schumann, MD
Department of Medicine
Resident and Fellow Membership
- Laron Johnson, MD ’04
Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care - Megan Tarr, MD
Department Obstetrics and Gynecology - Nathan Stitziel, MD
Department of Medicine
