Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine – Minnesota Campus inducts Gold Humanism Honor Society members

The Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine – Minnesota Campus chapter of the Gold Humanism Honor Society inducted eight fourth-year students, four residents and four faculty members.

This prestigious national honor society recognizes students, residents and faculty who exemplify the humanistic passion that motivated them to enter medicine in their work with patients and colleagues on the health care team.

Election to the Gold Humanism Honor Society is student-driven. Third-year students are asked to nominate colleagues whom they would trust to care for a member of their own family. The top 15% of those nominated are invited to join. The new inductees select for membership a limited number of residents and faculty whom they admire for the humanistic qualities they have observed during their clerkships.

Medical student inductees

• Rohin Aggarwal (MED ’20)
• Andrea Aul (MED ’20)
• Julia (Claire) Cambron (MED ’20)
• Joseph Gottwald (MED ’20)
• Megan Heeney (MED ’20)
• Alice Huang (BMS ’14, MED ’20)
• Alexis Johnson (MED ’20)
• Kristyn McLeod (MED ’20)

Resident inductees

• Joshua Ellis, M.D. (EM ’19), Department of Emergency Medicine
• Justin Kirkham, M.D., Ph.D. (PD ’20), Department of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine
• Monica Krause, M.D. (N ’21), Department of Neurology
• Katrina Williamson, M.D. (I ’21), Department of Medicine

Faculty inductees

• Elizabeth Cozine, M.D. (MED ’11, FM ’14), Department of Family Medicine
• Margaret Gill, M.D. (MED ’93, FM ’96), Department of Family Medicine
• Deanne Kashiwagi, M.D. (HIM ’09), Division of Hospital Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine
• John Ratelle, M.D. (I ’13, CMR ’14), Division of Hospital Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine

Gohar Manzar, Ph.D. (MED ’19), Year 4 medical student, was presented the Lavins Center Student Award for Excellence in the Medical Humanities award by Daniel Hall-Flavin, M.D. (I ’80, P ’83), medical director, and Johanna Rian, Ph.D., program director. This award recognizes outstanding artistic, scholarly or clinical skills, and achievements related to the field of medical humanities. Dr. Gohar was selected by as the recipient of this award on the basis of her service as senior editor of The Tempest, a creative arts journal published by and for medical students, her outstanding work as a literary and visual artist, and her strong advocacy of the humanities in medical education.

J. Michael Bostwick, M.D. (P ’98), serves as the chapter‘s faculty adviser.