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

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Dear Class of 2014: Congratulations and felicitations! It is with great joy and excitement that 1 regard the wonderful milestone that you have achieved at this point in your education. I am incredibly humbled by your choice of me as your Clinician of the Year. This distinction is all the more meaningful because yours is the first class with which I had the pleasure of w orking throughout the entirety of your third and fourth years. I have witnessed so much grow th in each of you over these past two years, and I look forw ard to your further accomplishments, not only in your personal lives, but in our profession as a w hole. Too. I must recognize the other members of the faculty and staff at Temple University School of Podiatric Medicine as they have been on integral part of your education, and should share in this accolade with me. Each of you has a unique gift. These talents may not be the same for everyone, but each makes you who you are and helps to define you as a physician. No matter how you choose to proceed with your future in medicine, 1 ask that you do so with honesty, integrity, and utmost compassion for your patients and the profession. It isn’t what we do today or tomorrow that is noticed, but what we have done that ultimately will tell the story of our greatness in the end. I conclude my remarks here with some advice. To use an old adage, never forget that there is more than one way to skin a cat. One person’s manner is not necessarily the sole method. You will work with a lot of people throughout your life. Each will provide learning for you, whether it be good or bad. Furthermore, you don't have to implement everything you learn. Take the good, the bad, and the ugly, filter them through logic and sound judgment, and then-and only then-- implement them in your practice. Remember: at the end of the day. you are only as great as the amount of time and effort you have put into being the best you can possibly be. As a physician and a person, you must never stop learning or educating, and you must always go the extra mile to be the best. Doctors of the Class of 2014, it is with the greatest pleasure that 1 welcome you to this great profession. It is truly an honor to now call you my colleagues. Although no longer will you be here physically at TUSPM. please know that my door, email and phone arc always available to you whenever you need me. Best of luck in all of your endeavors. Again, my congratulations! Sincerely, Dr. Moore Joshua L. Moore, DPM JOSHUA L. MOORE, DPM Clinician of the Year

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Dear Class of 2014, Thank you for allowing us to capture your personal journeys and achievements over the past four years. Through these pictures, we hope you are able to look back at your time at TUSPM with fond memories and smile. LETTER FRl THE EDITORS We wish everyone the best of luck and fortune in your future endeavors. Carry on for Podiatry. Your Editors-ln-Chief, Ashley, Romy, and Shyam

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School of Podiatric Medicine TEMPLE UNIVERSITY Offit o t h Dun BpMi «t lUcr Street ftuUdrlphv. HS 1910 phowl IV«V5400 fa.2IS-6i9-1919 «r l (mrwcoOluipm ic«tk ; rOj nub Mt? tompW w»j May 13.2014 I'o ihc Graduating Class of 2014: rhis year marks the forty-eighth commencement ceremony of our school. It is with a sense of pleasure that I write this letter to the Class of 2014. 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 ms 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 post 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 tliat you never forget the roots that you leave here at TUSPM. You have earned the right to wear the degree that wc 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 have 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. 1 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 wc will never forget you and the time that you have spent here. Go now and apply those skills tliat you gained here. Be diligent. Be tenacious. Be inquisitive and be successful You arc now a permanent part of the Temple University School of Podiatric Medicine. Sincerely Mattiacci l%■ JOHN A. MATTIACCI, DPM Dean 7