2015 Graduation Gallery
2015 Graduates of the Virginia Tech Carilion School Of Medicine enjoy commencement exercises on Saturday, May 9, 2015. (David Hungate/ VTCSOM)
![Graduating class of 2015](/content/medicine_vtc_vt_edu/en/student-life/events/2015-graduation-gallery/_jcr_content/content/adaptiveimage_1247885943.transform/m-medium/image.jpg)
Forty bright, creative, entrepreneurial students became the second graduating class at the Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine on May 9. Amid classic pomp and circumstance, each graduate was addressed with the prefix “Doctor” for the first time as they were called to be hooded and receive their diploma.
![Diplomas for 40 brand new doctors await their recipients.](/content/medicine_vtc_vt_edu/en/student-life/events/2015-graduation-gallery/_jcr_content/content/vtmulticolumn_1358290627/vt-items_0/adaptiveimage.transform/m-medium/image.jpg)
![View from the stage inside the Shaftman theater in historic Jefferson Center](/content/medicine_vtc_vt_edu/en/student-life/events/2015-graduation-gallery/_jcr_content/content/vtmulticolumn_1358290627/vt-items_1/adaptiveimage_902770700.transform/m-medium/image.jpg)
![A closeup of the school’s ceremonial mace.](/content/medicine_vtc_vt_edu/en/student-life/events/2015-graduation-gallery/_jcr_content/content/vtmulticolumn_1358290627/vt-items_1/adaptiveimage.transform/m-medium/image.jpg)
2015 Graduates of the Virginia Tech Carilion School Of Medicine enjoy commencement exercises on Saturday, May 9, 2015. (David Hungate/ VTCSOM)
![Graduate Scott Dart gives a thumbs up as he takes the stage.](/content/medicine_vtc_vt_edu/en/student-life/events/2015-graduation-gallery/_jcr_content/content/vtmulticolumn_783207477/vt-items_0/adaptiveimage_169912.transform/m-medium/image.jpg)
![Faculty speaker, Thomas Kerkering](/content/medicine_vtc_vt_edu/en/student-life/events/2015-graduation-gallery/_jcr_content/content/vtmulticolumn_783207477/vt-items_1/adaptiveimage.transform/m-medium/image.jpg)
![Dean Cynda Johnson greets guest speaker Dr. Louis Sullivan, founding dean of the Morehouse School of Medicine.](/content/medicine_vtc_vt_edu/en/student-life/events/2015-graduation-gallery/_jcr_content/content/vtmulticolumn_530063473/vt-items_0/adaptiveimage_1472762947.transform/m-medium/image.jpg)
![Guest speaker Dr. Louis Sullivan.](/content/medicine_vtc_vt_edu/en/student-life/events/2015-graduation-gallery/_jcr_content/content/vtmulticolumn_530063473/vt-items_1/adaptiveimage.transform/m-medium/image.jpg)
![Graduating student Sanghee Suh, speaks at graduation](/content/medicine_vtc_vt_edu/en/student-life/events/2015-graduation-gallery/_jcr_content/content/vtmulticolumn_1812193422/vt-items_0/adaptiveimage.transform/m-medium/image.jpg)
![Student speaker, Jeeshan Faridi](/content/medicine_vtc_vt_edu/en/student-life/events/2015-graduation-gallery/_jcr_content/content/vtmulticolumn_1812193422/vt-items_1/adaptiveimage.transform/m-medium/image.jpg)
![Megan Whitham is hooded by Dr. Bruce Johnson and Dr. Michael Friedlander](/content/medicine_vtc_vt_edu/en/student-life/events/2015-graduation-gallery/_jcr_content/content/vtmulticolumn/vt-items_0/adaptiveimage.transform/m-medium/image.jpg)
![Robert Varipapa is hooded by Dr. Bruce Johnson and Dr. Michael Friedlander](/content/medicine_vtc_vt_edu/en/student-life/events/2015-graduation-gallery/_jcr_content/content/vtmulticolumn/vt-items_1/adaptiveimage.transform/m-medium/image.jpg)
![Graduate Lauren Poindexter is overjoyed to receive her diploma from Dean Cynda Johnson.](/content/medicine_vtc_vt_edu/en/student-life/events/2015-graduation-gallery/_jcr_content/content/vtmulticolumn_1296775578/vt-items_0/adaptiveimage.transform/m-medium/image.jpg)
![Lauren Poindexter embraces Dean Cynda Johnson as she receives her diploma.](/content/medicine_vtc_vt_edu/en/student-life/events/2015-graduation-gallery/_jcr_content/content/vtmulticolumn_1296775578/vt-items_1/adaptiveimage.transform/m-medium/image.jpg)
![The Class of 2015 assembles for a picture with the school seal immediately after the ceremony.](/content/medicine_vtc_vt_edu/en/student-life/events/2015-graduation-gallery/_jcr_content/content/vtmulticolumn_1166404604/vt-items_0/adaptiveimage.transform/m-medium/image.jpg)
![What’s a graduation celebration without a selfie with the dean?](/content/medicine_vtc_vt_edu/en/student-life/events/2015-graduation-gallery/_jcr_content/content/vtmulticolumn_1166404604/vt-items_1/adaptiveimage.transform/m-medium/image.jpg)
![Graduating class throws up their hats in celebration of 2015 graduation.](/content/medicine_vtc_vt_edu/en/student-life/events/2015-graduation-gallery/_jcr_content/content/adaptiveimage.transform/m-medium/image.jpg)