Dean Learman: It is my pleasure to welcome you to the White  Coat Ceremony of the Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine for the class of 2025.

Aubrey Knight: As you  have your freshly ironed pristine white coats placed on your backs, may this not only serve to  remind you of this next step in your journey to becoming an M.D., but also as a reminder of our  responsibility to the health of our patients. 

Alexander Inn, class of 2025 president: We come together as one at Virginia Tech Carilion  School of Medicine from our individual paths of life. Bringing our own experiences, values,  and cultures to form a diverse community. We strive to not only recognize our differences  and those in the communities we serve, but also understand that we are all human. Humans with  imperfections, struggles, and emotions. Therefore we champion diversity, equity, and inclusion, and aim to treat all patients in their entirety. We vow to a life of learning from both our patients and peers, as we lead with integrity to improve the way we treat others and build trusting relationships. We promise to wear our white coats with humility. We admit we are not perfect, and have so much to learn from the world around us. Therefore we dedicate our lives to achieving  excellence in our classrooms, clerkships, and practices. We always put our patients first, listening to their stories responding to their concerns and simply being present in their time of  need. Together as a family we will celebrate each other's successes, while supporting each other in  times of hardship. We will be kind to one another with unconditional love. We will remind each other of how hard we have worked to get this far and of the shared vision we hold for improving the health and well-being of others we are the class of 2025. 

Dean Learman: On behalf of all of the physicians  here today, it is with great pride and abundant expectations that I formally welcome the Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine's class of 2025 to our profession.

White Coat Ceremony

The purpose of the ceremony is to clarify for students, prior to their entrance into the medical community, that a physician’s responsibility is to both take care of patients and also to care for patients. In other words, doctors should care as well as cure. The Arnold P. Gold Foundation designed the White Coat Ceremony to welcome entering medical students and help them to establish a psychological contract for the practice of medicine. The event emphasizes the importance of compassionate care for the patient as well as scientific proficiency and includes several elements:

  • Welcome to the profession of medicine by the dean and faculty
  • Recitation or discussion of an oath (such as the Hippocratic Oath or a student-written oath), which represents the public acknowledgment by the students of the responsibilities of the profession and their willingness to assume such obligations in the presence of family, friends, and faculty
  • Cloaking of students in their first white coats
  • An address by an eminent physician role model
Luke Arney
Luke Arney
Courtney Barth
Courtney Barth
Randall Bissette
Randall Bissette
Julia De Luca
Julia De Luca
Sachi Dholakia
Sachi Dholakia
Mia Edelson
Mia Edelson
Areej Ennasr
Areej Ennasr
Monica Gerber
Monica Gerber
Haseeb Goheer
Haseeb Goheer
Jacob Grondin
Jacob Grondin
Bria Hall
Bria Hall
Brian Hansen
Brian Hansen
Alice Holmquist
Alice Holmquist
Alana Hull
Alana Hull
Alexander Inn
Alexander Inn
Farwah Iqbal
Farwah Iqbal
Adam Jacobwitz
Adam Jacobwitz
Navin Jayaswal
Navin Jayaswal
Merly Konathapally
Merly Konathapally
Sarah Kremer
Sarah Kremer
James Kwok
James Kwok
Leanna Ladner
Leanna Ladner
Chloe Lessard
Chloe Lessard
Yifan Li
Yifan Li
Han Lim
Han Lim
Connor Madalo
Connor Madalo
Christine Marlow
Christine Marlow
Jania Molotkova
Jania Molotkova
Ryan Morse
Ryan Morse
Sankar Muthukumar
Sankar Muthukumar
Ethan Nethery
Ethan Nethery
Devon Pleasants
Devon Pleasants
Gemma Nielsen
Gemma Nielsen
Grace Rovenolt
Grace Rovenolt
Evan Sandefur
Evan Sandefur
Ainee Sarkissian
Ainee Sarkissian
Tyler Shick
Tyler Shick
Ali Toloczko
Ali Toloczko
Raymond Uymatiao
Raymond Uymatiao
Paul Varghese
Paul Varghese
Matthew Vinson
Matthew Vinson
Nancy Wu
Nancy Wu
Eileen Xu
Eileen Xu
Hong Ye
Hong Ye
Mosufa Zainab
Mosufa Zainab