Over two weekends in March, over 500 applicants are invited to our school to undertake interviews, the final phase of our medical school admission process. They have been selected from over 5,000 who submitted applications.
That process, designed by our Admissions Committee, is the product of much thought and deliberation, with the goal of fairly and objectively matching the aspirations and attributes of applicants to those required to assure success not only in medical school, but in the practice of medicine and service of patients.
The process is a massive undertaking, requiring the participation of no fewer than 179 of our faculty and virtually all members of our first- and second-year classes. In fact, our admission process is the most resource intensive activity undertaken by our school.
Each year, I’m amazed and grateful for the willingness of our faculty and students to give of their time and energy for this purpose. File reviews and interviews are both carried out after regular work hours and on weekends, requiring sacrifice of precious personal time. Why do they do it? They recognize, I believe, that this admission process is critical not only to our success as a school, but for the future well-being of our profession and the society we serve.
Our applicants are also impressed. They consistently comment on the effort, which brings credit to our school and demonstrates a learning environment where faculty and students work together in mutual dedication to our school and profession.
I would like to recognize and extend sincere thanks to all the faculty members involved, who will be listed below. The numbers indicate those who filled multiple assignments. I’d like to particularly note the contributions of Drs. Fred Watkins and Mariana Silva, who were both involved in all aspects of both the File Review and Interview process.
I’d also like to thank our first- and second- year classes. I’d initially thought about listing them as well, but quickly realized that was unnecessary since there was essentially no one to exclude! Their presence and support of applicants speaks volumes about their support of our school, and confirms to me that the process is working well. Special thanks to first year president and vice-president Andriy Katyukha and Victoria-Lee Kim who organized their class events and made no fewer than eight presentations to applicants.
Finally, I’d like to recognize three individuals who deserve particular recognition, our Assistant Dean of Admissions, Dr. Hugh MacDonald, Admission Officer Rebecca Jozsa, and Admissions Assistant Rachel Bauder. They oversee a very complex process that ran flawlessly.
Faculty Members Involved in the Admission Process
Joseph Abunassar
Amy Acker (2)
Melissa Andrew
Yuka Asai
Sussan Askari (2)
Oyedeji Ayonrinde
Allan Baer (2)
Lauren Badalato
Stephen Bagg
Susan Bartel
Erin Beattie
Robert Bechara
Darren Beiko
Sita Bhella
Liz Blackmore
Lysa Boisse Lomax
Mark Bona (2)
Rozita Borici-Mazi (2)
Olga Bougie
J. Gordon Boyd
Michele Boyd
Heather Braybrook
Eric Bruder
Jessica Burjorjee
Jonathan Butler
Cait Button
Cassi Cabrera
Rob Campbell
Susan Chamberlain
Tim Childs
Cheryl Cline (3)
Ken Collins (2)
Robert Connelly (3)
Susan Crocker
Rachael DaCunha
Christine D’Arsigny (2)
Peggy DeJong
Alexandra Di Lazzaro
Kimberly Dow
Scott Dugan
Dale Engen
Gerald Evans
Matthew Faris
Pat Farmer
Paul Fenton
Jennifer Flemming (3)
Chris Frank
Kan Frederick (2)
Imelda Galvin
Jocelyn Garland
Stephen Gauthier
Michelle Gibson
Craig Goldie
Tom Gonder (2)
David Good
Mike Green (2)
Richard Gregg (3)
Andrea Grin (2)
Dianne Groll (3)
Andrea Guerin (2)
Karen Hall Barber (2)
Tim Hanna
Hailey Hobbs
Sharleen Hoffe
Lawrence Hookey
Marisa Horniachek (4)
Robyn Houlden (3)
David Hurlbut (4)
Felicia Iftene (2)
Omar Islam (4)
Melanie Jaeger
Zardasht Jaff
Diederick Jalink
Paula James
John Jeffrey
Albert Jin
Ana Johnson
Amer Johri
Ruzica Jokic
Mala Joneja (2)
Gord Jones
Cherie Jones-Hiscock (4)
Sarosh Khalid-Khan (3)
Frederick Khan
Faiza Khurshid (2)
Julia Kirkham
Greg Klar
Dusan Kolar
Benjamin Kwan
Alenia Kysela (3)
Christine Law
Joshua Lakoff
David LeBrun
Kirk Leifso (3)
Michael Leveridge
Catherine Lowe
Athen Macdonald (2)
Gillian MacLean (3)
Peter MacPherson
Olga Makaewnko
Paul Manley (2)
Laura Marcotte
Kristen Marosi
Tara McGregor
Sarah McKnight (2)
Stephen McNevin (2)
Alex Menard (2)
Daniel Mendonca
Laura Milne
Anne Moffat (5)
Andrea Moore
Benvon Moran (2)
Karim Mukhida
Heather Murray
Pallavi Nadkarni
Brigid Nee
Helene Ouellette-Kuntz
Raveen Pal (2)
Stephen Pang (2)
Archana Patel
Tim Phillips
William Pickett
Armita Rahmani (2)
Andrea Ratzlaff
Damian Redfearn
David Reed
Cara Reimer
Stacy Ridi
Benjamin Ritsma (2)
Johanne Roberge
Nasreen Roberts
David Ruggles (3)
Danielle Rumbolt
Tarit Saha
Dawa Samdup
Karen Schultz
Ian Sempowski
M. Khaled Shamseddin (2)
Gavin Shanks
Mariana Silva (9)
Ian Silver
Matt Simpson
Sarah Simpson
Harpreet Singh
Marco Sivilotti (2)
Ronald Smith
John Smythe
Siddhartha Srivastava
Yi Ning Strube
Devin Sydor
Rob Tanzola (2)
Emidio Tarulli
Julie Tessier
Richard Thomas
Benjamin Thomson
Naji Touma (2)
Anthony Train
Tanveer Towheed
Jessica Trier (3)
Kim Turner
Todd Urton (3)
Janet van Vlymen
Maria Velez (2)
Ashley Waddington (3)
Ross Walker
Ami Wang (4)
Fred Watkins (9)
Shayna Watson (2)
Erica Weir
Hasitha Welihinda (2)
Nishardi Wijeratne
Heather White
Andrea Winthrop
Stephanie Wood
Gavin Wood (3)
Jeremy Wu
David Yen (3)
Khaled Zaza
Shetuan Zhang
Well said! I would like to add: a big shout out to Victoria Lee-Kim (2022) for spearheading our class’ volunteering efforts, and working tirelessly through both weekends!
Couldn’t agree more Lewis. Victoria did a great job and was there most of both weekends. In addition, she and Andriy gave great presentations and had to sit through eight versions of mine!