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

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. i School of Podiatric Medicine TEMPLE UNIVERSITY (■9 rth « Rkc SlftH Ph-’ IHpha. to 19107 Offlc of »H 0 n p c y?IS-«5 54CO tm ) n oi «'Olo4ooi. tcfnplf rOj Wt hKe ’podolryttu'C cdu May 16.2011 To the Graduating Class of 2011: This year marks the forty-fifth commencement ceremony of our school. It is with a sense of pleasure that I write this letter to the Class of 2011. Each of you has just completed the most challenging four years of your lives and 1 take pride in congratulating you. More than that, however. I want to tell you that you arc 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 take the school with you. You will forever be identified as a Temple University graduate. TUSPM and you will always be connected. We have given you the finest education in the nation. We have given you clinical experience that is unequaled 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 carry 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 pride. 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. I want you to become active with your alumni association and maintain connection with your classmates. Your alumni peers have generously endowed scholarships for the benefit of TUSPM students and have given of their financial resources for the continual upgrading of TUSPM. I want you to come back to Philadelphia to visit us periodically and 1 want you to visit us on the web consistently. Wherever you go in you life, you lake our name and you remain our graduate. Never forget that because we will never forget you and the time that you 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. Dean Sincerely © y Ufaplc MHiWfcftlj btkool of podiatric hvcdioihc

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 School of Podiatric Medicine TSWPLE UNIVERSITY Department of Podiatric Medicine and Orthopedics 148 N. 8th St 3rd Floor Philadelphia, PA 19107 phone 215-625-5385 fax 215-413-0506 May 2011 Dear Class of 2011: Congratulations on your Graduation!! 1 know you are enjoying sharing this milestone with your family and friends and I am grateful I am able to witness your Commencement ceremony. o------------------ Dr. Vlahovic Associate Professor I am honored and humbled that you have named me “Clinician of the Year”. It means so much coming from a class that I have had the honor of getting to know both as students and now as friends. This honor means so much coming from your class particularly as 1 see you as a group of amazing, intelligent, driven, and compassionate people. 1 truly have enjoyed spending time with all of you beginning in third year in my classroom to the present time in clinic. You have inspired me over the last two years as I have learned so much from my interactions with you, and 1 hope you remember what 1 taught you about verruca! As one of your attendings, it has been a pleasure watching you grow during your third and fourth years into the doctors you have become. 1 have high hopes for your class as I see you as future leaders (and movers and shakers) of our profession. As one of your colleagues, 1 am proud to have you as the newest members in my profession. Wishing you all the Best, Tracey C. Vlahovic, DPM Associate Professor Temple University School of Podiatric Medicine 0011 aokiU-64 1

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(XvvociaUv (o’t (Icabemic (iffahy) School of Podiatric Medicine TEMPLE UNIVERSITY I AudonM Affair f ! •'jCf StWt Wk 19107 f or 21W2S-J2S7 t» 21 629-1929 imtl xrlrOf :r-cf fdu vwti wm '.fmpkarAj February 1,2011 To the Class of 2011: It doesn't seem possible that four years have passed since we first met. I am delighted to congratulate you on your successful completion of an intense and demanding o-------------------- James R Burke, Ph.D. Associate Dean for program. Through hard work and sacrifice, you have overcome the challenges and hardships and are now ready to enter a vibrant and rewarding profession. Your Academic Affairs experience, training and education have prepared you to meet the many new challenges of the 21s1 century. Your four years at TUSPM was just the beginning of your education in podiatric medicine. Continue to be independent learners throughout your careers. Always set high goals and maximize your potential. You have demonstrated a commitment to the profession and I am sure that this fervor will remain with you as you begin your career as a practitioner. It has been a pleasure working with you and I wish each of you a happy and productive life. ooii aohU-oc n