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Please check back; additional events will be added as details become available. To view the items below, scroll down the page or click an entry in the following list: OverviewOn Saturday, May 18, 2013, the CGU community will join together to celebrate the achievements of the class of 2013. CGU's 86th commencement will be held at Mudd Quadrangle, located north of Honnold-Mudd Library at the southeast corner of Tenth Street and Darthmouth Avenue. The ceremony, beginning at 9 a.m. and concluding about 11:30 a.m., will feature the conferral of degrees, the awarding of honorary degrees to distinguished individuals, and greetings by university officials and our commencement speaker. Tickets are not required. Each graduating candidate is recognized by name and will walk across the stage to shake hands with either the provost, the president, or the chairperson of the board of trustees. Doctoral and MFA candidates (CGU's terminal degrees) will be hooded on stage. Immediately following the ceremony receptions will be held at various venues.
Honorary Degree RecipientsDavid Blumenthal, MD, MPP, one of the nation’s preeminent health information technology experts, thought leaders on primary care and professionalism, and foremost health policy scholars, recently became the President of The Commonwealth Fund. He is the Samuel O. Thier Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Chief Health Information and Innovation Officer at Partners Healthcare System in Boston.
David A. Kessler, MD, JD, is Professor of Pediatrics and Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the University of California, San Francisco. He served as the Dean of the School of Medicine and the Vice Chancellor for Medical Affairs at UCSF from 2003 to 2007 and the Dean of the Yale University School of Medicine 1997-2003. Kessler also served as Commissioner of the United States Food and Drug Administration under Presidents Bush and Clinton. Raynard S. Kington, MD, PhD, MBA, serves as president of Grinnell College. Previously he served in a range of positions at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) including NIH Principal Deputy Director and NIH Acting Director. Prior to NIH, he was a Division Director at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, where he led the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, one of the nation’s largest studies assessing the health of the American people. Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, MD, MBA, is the fourth president and CEO of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, a position she assumed in January 2003. She originally joined the staff in April 2001 as Senior Vice President and Director, Health Care Group. Prior to coming to the Foundation, Lavizzo-Mourey was the Sylvan Eisman Professor of Medicine and Health Care Systems at the University of Pennsylvania, as well as Director of the Institute on Aging. While in government service, Lavizzo-Mourey worked on the White House Health Care Policy team. She will also be this year's featured commencement speaker. J. Mario Molina, MD, is President and Chief Executive Officer of Molina Healthcare, Inc. In 1980, his father, C. David Molina, MD, founded Molina Healthcare to address the special needs of low-income patients. Dr. Mario Molina was elected Chairman of the Board and assumed the chief executive role in 1996. Molina is a member of numerous organizations, including the American College of Physicians, and serves on the School of Community and Global Health’s Board of Advisors.
Student SpeakerDeborah Hearn-Chung Gin, PhD, 2013, School of Educational Studies. Gin's areas of research included pedagogy, higher education administration, multicultural education engagement, and diversity inclusivity. Gin is associate professor in ministry at Azusa Pacific School of Theology and senior faculty fellow in the Center for Teaching, Learning, and Assessment at Azusa Pacific University.
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