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

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Kieran Mahan, D.P.M. Associate Dean for Academic Affairs ASSOCIATE DEAN FOR ACADEMIC AFFAIRS CcTjjl School of Podiatric Medicine TEMPLE UNIVERSITY Acdifemlc AUtU (Aon 2IS 25-5363 KM«M f Mih n OPM ft, 215-629-490 fqMh Jl R»c» SV »mjhanPMfMn urrfM »Ou ffitafethU. P 19107 «w» Wr«Ic 0u To The CUM Of 20X3 I would like to personally congratulate each of you and your families for your successful completion of the academic requirements at the Temple University School of Podlatrk Medicine. Your graduation is a proud moment for both you and your famflies. It is also a proud moment for os as we have seen you develop your clinical knowledge and skills over the last few years. Many of you have had to overcome both personal and professional challenges to get to this point. I congratulate you and wish you personal and professional success in the future. When you came to TUSPM you joined a profession that Is still evolving and maturing. Even over the course of my own professional lifetime there have been dramatic changes. In order to continue to advance the profession, each and every one of you must be personally involved with helping it grow. Certainly the most Important way to do that is to make each and every patient encounter a successful one where you deliver the best possible care In a caring and compassionate way. In addition there are other ways that you can contribute to the profession: research, education, and political leadership are just a few of the different ways that together we can advance the profession, for me, this has been a wonderful place to recetve my own education and a wonderful place to have the opportunity to teach you. This profession provides outstanding opportunities for each and every one of you that you can seite with hard work and dedication. Again, congratulations on this success and good luck In your future endeavors. I hope that you will look back upon the knowledge you gained at TUSPM as the foundation upon which your career was built. Sincerely, UL t UtA— Kieran T. Mahan, DPM Associate Dean for Academic Affairs temple university school of podiatric medicine 8

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School of Podiatric Medicine TEMI L£ UNIVERSITY Of! of tfw On (igNkM KoceSl'Ml ftviodotofM w V IO? fat2«VMV-t9n tmtil |miU' i Aivn(im !ntn dc 6 Wtp H «Uy, t mw Oj l orw2IS-62SM00 DEAN May 14,2013 John A. Mattiacci, D.P.M. Dean To the Graduating Class of 2013: This year marks the forty-seventh commencement ceremony of our school. It is with a sense of pleasure that I write this letter to the Class of 2013. F.ach 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 ftrj 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 being a 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 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 pride. I challenge you to use that degree to the benefit of both your practice and your alma matter os those who have gone before you have done. I want you to become active with your alumni association and maintain connection with your clussmalcs. 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 bock 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 wc will never forget you and the lime 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. Sincerely 2013 ACHILLES 7

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ASSISTANT DEAN FOR EDUCATIONAL AFFAIRS School of Podiatric Medicine TEMPLE UNIVERSITY educational AHwi {.girth M ac»5itwC Ph-todM , PA 59107 P oneilS-«SS2S7 Pa»21S-«29.t9?9 r-tnW |6u'i« iuipm Mu w 0 wwm impit Mu TO THE CLASS OF 2013: Congratulations! Through dedication and sacrifice, you have successful completed an intense and demanding four year journey. You are now poised to enter a challenging and rewarding profession This stage of you career is only the beginning of a continual commitment to education. Through the growth of the profession, you are bettor trained physicians at an eartier stage than those that preceded you Continue to push the boundaries of knowledge that will lead to new discoveries and advances. It has been a pleasure to work with you both as individuals and as a group As you begin this new phase of your life set your goals high and strive to be the best that you can be Good luck to each of you and I wish you a happy and successful life. James P. Burke, Ph.D. Assistant Dean for Educational Affairs 2013 ACHILLES 9