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May 2000
Medical School, Graduate Division Commencement Michele Allegra Gomez, MD, received the prestigious Gold-Headed Cane Award of the UCSF School of Medicine during commencement ceremonies Friday (May 19). Runners-up for the award were Leonard Razzu Allmond, MD, and Sarah van den Hoek Graff, MD. They were among the 144-member School of Medicine graduating class, which held its ceremony at the Nob Hill Masonic Center in San Francisco. The UCSF Graduate Division held its commencement ceremony for 32 master of science and 32 doctor of philosophy candidates on Friday in Cole Hall.
While at UCSF, Gomez cofounded the Disability Interest Group to provide support to students, faculty and staff with a range of disabilities. Gomez will enter the UCSF family practice residency program based at San Francisco General Hospital Medical Center in the fall. Allmond, 27, received his undergraduate degree from Princeton University in 1994, followed by two years of graduate studies in biomedical sciences and veterinary medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. He will enter an otolaryngology residency program at the University of Miami-Jackson Memorial Medical Center. Graff, 31, earned her undergraduate degree in classics from Princeton University in 1990, and subsequently earned a master’s degree in ancient Greek in 1994 after study at Harvard and Stanford Universities. She also completed a premed post-baccalaureate program at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, before beginning her studies at UCSF. Graff will do her residency in psychiatry at UCSF. All three students, along with UCSF faculty members Roger Boles, MD, UCSF professor of otolaryngology; William F. Hoyt, MD, UCSF professor emeritus of ophthalmology; and Elliot Rapaport, MD, UCSF professor of medicine at the UCSF-affiliated San Francisco General Hospital Medical Center, were inducted into the Gold-Headed Cane Society at a ceremony on May 17. At the Graduate Division commencement, the UCSF Graduate Students' Association and Graduate Division Alumni Association presented special faculty mentor awards to Kimberly Topp, PhD, assistant professor, Curriculum in Physical Therapy, and Cori Bargmann, PhD, professor of anatomy. Links: Student Honored for Her Commitment to Serve Needy Communities
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The
Gold-Headed Cane Award, the highest honor a graduating medical student
can receive, is presented to the UCSF senior medical student judged
by classmates and faculty as best exemplifying the qualities of a "true
physician." Gomez, 33, received her undergraduate degree in public policy
from Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International
Affairs in 1989. She subsequently completed a stint as a health and
HIV educator in the central African nation of Cameroon, despite sustaining
an injury during training that required amputation of her lower left
leg.