Temple University School of Podiatric Medicine - Achilles Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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CD temple podiatry ASSOCIATE DEAN Congratulations! On behalf of the faculty, it is my pleasure to congratulate you on your successful completion of an intense and demanding educational program. During your four years you have faced challenges and found ways to accomplish your goals. As you leave the Temple University School of Podiatric Medicine to begin your careers as Doctors of Podiatric Medicine, you are well prepared to deliver to your patients the highest quality care available. It is my hope that your profession provides you with the challenges and rewards that come from sendee to others. Continue to be life long learners so that you can provide state of the art care for your patients. Good luck and best wishes for a happy and successful life. James Burke, ph.D. To The Class of 2009 Sincerely, ames P. Burke. Ph.D. Associate Dean for Academic Affairs 2009 Achilles

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Temple University School of Podiatric Medicine temple podiatry DEAN John A. Mattiacci.D.P.M. To the Graduating ('lass of 2009: This year marks the forty-third commencement ceremony of our school. It is with a sense of pleasure that I write this letter to the Class of 2009. Each of you has just completed the most challenging four years of your lives and I take pride in congratulating you. More than that, however. I want to tell you that you are the Temple University School of Podiatric Medicine While it is true that we have clinics, laboratories, classrooms and dormitories, a school without the vibrant energy of the student is a building whose purpose has disappeared. You arrived at TUSPM at a time of evolution You have seen new faculty, upgrading of facilities and the progress that be part of Temple’s Health Sciences affords. During the past four years, this was your school, but in a larger sense, you became the school. As you begin post graduate training and leave us here in Philadelphia, you lake the school with you. You will forever be identified as 3 Temple University graduate. TUSPM and you will always be connected. We have gi cn you the finest education in the nation. We have given you clinical experience that is uncqualcd in our profession and we have given you the degree of Doctor of Podiatric Medicine. Now it is your turn. Because you will always be a TUSPM graduate, we look to you to cany that degree with competence, compassion, and success. You now enter a career in which your patient and his or her condition will demand your expertise As you enter practice and develop roots in the community that you choose, I ask that you never forget the roots that you leave here at TUSPM You have earned the right to wear the degree that we have bestowed upon you with pnde. I challenge you to use that degree to the benefit of both your practice and your alma matter as those who gave gone before you have done. 1 want you to become active with your alumni association and maintain connection with your classmates. Your alumni peers have generously endow ed scholarships for the benefit of TUSPM students and have giv en of their financial resources for the continual upgrading of TUSPM. I want you to come back to Philadelphia to visit us periodically and I want you to visit us on the web consistently. Wherever you go in you life, you take our name and you remain our graduate. Never forget that because we will never forget you and the time that vou have spent here. Go now and apply those skills that you gained here. Be diligent. Be tenacious. Be inquisitive and be successful. You are now a permanent part of the Temple University School of Podiatric Medicine Sincerely CO

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10 Temple University School of Podiatric Medicine temple podiatry ASSISTANT DEAN FOR INSTITUTIONAL RESEARCH AND PROGRAM STUDY Samuel j. Spadone, d.p.m. Dear Members of the Class of 2009: The time has come to say farewell. You have overcome many obstacles enroutc to this day and earned your rightful places as graduates of the Temple University School of Podiatric Medicine. Henceforth you will be fully vetted members of the profession of podiatric physicians and surgeons. Please accept my sincerest congratulations. On reflection, what must have seemed like a long road for each of you to travel from orientation to graduation has passed so quickly for me that I scarcely know what to make of it 1 have enjoyed coming to know many of you and being of whatever service I could during your tenure here. Now I can only watch you go forth to make your marks upon the world. Know that you do so with my blessing and deepest wishes for success in your future endeavors. 1 suppose that it would be appropriate if I had a few words of wisdom to impart as you embark on the next phases of your lives in a world that has suddenly become all too unpredictable. Unfortunately, I have none to offer. However, I have every confidence that each of you will find your own way by tapping into the strength of character that gave you the resilience to cam your places in this yearbook. To be blunt. I'm not worried about any of you and I trust that the future will find my confidence justified. As you think back upon your student days you may think of them as the best of times and the worst of times, and they were undoubtedly both at some times. Just remember that relationships do not end simply because they change. You will always be welcome to call upon us if we can be of assistance in the future and we would appreciate you're keeping us apprised of the various milestones in your lives. Good luck in all that awaits you. May you live long and prosper. Sincerely, ylcv. Samuel J. Spadone. D.P.M. Assistant Dean for Institutional Research and Program Integrity