[MUSIC PLAYING] Good afternoon, everyone. Welcome to the 2021 virtual
masters graduation ceremony. I'm George Daley, Dean of
Harvard Medical School. Thank you to everyone
who orchestrated this event, an impressive
enough undertaking in an ordinary year, and
a singular achievement during these challenging times. Thank you, and welcome to our
keynote speaker, Dan Barouch, Director of the
Center for Virology and Vaccine Research at the Beth
Israel Deaconess Medical Center and the William Bosworth
Castle Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Very early in the
COVID-19 outbreak, Dr. Barouch pivoted
from his work on HIV to confront the novel
coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2. His work has been a key
part of the efforts that led to the development
and deployment of Johnson & Johnson's single shot vaccine
against the virus, a truly remarkable achievement. We're very much looking forward
to hearing from Dr. Barouch today. Welcome to our
faculty and staff, and especially to the
families, friends, and loved ones of our
graduating students. Although we can't be together
in person on the Harvard campus, it's a pleasure to
present our graduates and hear their
personal stories as we share this happy occasion. Most of all, congratulations
to you, our Spring 2021 masters graduates. You've not only conquered
the rigorous coursework for your degrees, you've
concluded your studies amid a worldwide disruption,
the likes of which has not been seen
in our lifetimes. Today, I'm told we celebrate
more than 140 graduates across eight programs. The geographic, demographic,
and interdisciplinary diversity of this year's
graduates is remarkable, with students from nearly
three dozen nations, from Brazil to New
Guinea, from Malawi to Malaysia, the
members of the master's class of 2021 hail from every
continent, save Antarctica. You have served,
and will continue to serve, all over
the world, furthering the mission of
Harvard Medical School to alleviate
suffering and improve health and well-being for all. Even more than in
previous years, your graduation is a
testament to your hard work, your creativity, and
your perseverance. You and your loved
ones should be proud of your accomplishments. We've all had to rapidly
adapt to a new normal, and that has not been easy. Many of you have confronted
unexpected health care burdens from the COVID-19 pandemic,
both in your own lives and in your service in
medical, scientific, policy, and related spheres. The current health crisis
has struck every one of us so profoundly, and
yet you persevered to complete your degrees. Your connections with one
another, with your colleagues, and with those
with whom you serve have only grown and strengthened
during these trying days. Although the pandemic
lends a bittersweet tinge to what should be unalloyed
joy, I will say this to you, if you can get through this,
you can get through anything. And you have not
only gotten through, you've done so with
outstanding results, seeking to improve our
understanding and treatment of disease and wellness
at every level, from the molecular
to the global, addressing the acute, urgent
needs of responding to novel diseases, such as
COVID-19, and seeking long-term systemic solutions
to persistent, intractable inequities. The breadth and
depth of the work you have produced
in your short time as students at Harvard
Medical School is inspiring. I know you will continue
to do great things. Your work here has
prepared you well to help find answers to some of
the most challenging questions we face in medicine, from
foundational questions about basic biomedical science,
to the crucial questions of how to deliver the best possible
care to all who need it. How to treat our patients
with the care they deserve, and how to train the next
generation of leaders to carry on our work
in years to come. I have faith that what
you have learned here will prepare you to lead the way
as we face an uncertain future. And you will do so
not merely as members of the biomedical community,
but as global citizens. Whether you're dedicated
to academia or industry, the private or public sector,
global health or community health, you have
fulfilling careers ahead. I look forward to
seeing where you go next and the ways
in which you will make the world a better place. I ask all of you in
attendance here today to join me in congratulating
our master's graduates. And now, I'd like to
introduce our dean for graduate education,
Dr. Rosalind Segal. Dean Daley, thank you for
your wonderful message to the graduates. I am Rosalind Segal,
Harvard Medical School Dean for Graduate Education,
and it is my great pleasure to welcome all of you to
the 9th annual graduation ceremony for the
master's programs at Harvard Medical School, and
the second online ceremony. Welcome, Dr. Barouch, graduates,
families, friends, faculty, program heads and managers,
and distinguished guests. This is a very welcome day
of celebration for us all. For our wonderful
graduates, this is the culmination
and celebration of one, two, or more years
of creative and diligent work in advanced biomedical
and health studies. Much of their work and
studies have been carried out under the difficult
circumstances of the pandemic, but these students have
persevered and excelled in spite of the obstacles. For families and
friends, this is a moment to recognize the achievements
of their loved ones and to look forward
to future careers. For the outstanding
faculty and staff, this is a celebration of
educating the next generation of leaders in biomedicine
and health sciences and a recognition of your
dedication and resilience. Congratulations to all of you. Today celebrates the graduates
of eight master's programs, bioethics, biomedical
informatics, clinical investigation,
clinical service operations, global health delivery,
health care quality and safety, immunology,
and medical education. While these eight programs
are each very distinct, they share the goal of
working with and educating future leaders who will
advance our ability to understand and treat
diseases that afflict people and optimize the ways in which
we care for diverse patients. The pandemic, and our
response to this crisis, highlights why these
goals are so critical. The graduates of
each program are well prepared to deal
with repercussions of the new coronavirus, and with
so many other pressing health concerns. Whether it is the immunologist
deciphering the immune response to SARS-CoV-2, the
biomedical informaticians, who can rapidly identify
the novel sequences in each of the new viral variants, the
clinical investigators, who can test new therapies, the
leaders in clinical service operations, who can rearrange
clinical care to deal with this great crisis, and
those in health care safety and quality, who make
sure to prevent hospital based transmission. Those in bioethics ensure
that we treat all patients fairly and equitably. Experts in global
health delivery coordinate responses to the
pandemic across the world, while those in
medical education help us to adapt our teaching
and pedagogy to this time of social distancing. I know that all of you, like
our speaker, Dan Barouch, have worked hard through
the past challenging year to move past this global crisis,
so it is important for you to graduate and continue
your efforts to make the world a better, safer,
and a more equitable place. The need for experts
in all these areas explains the rapid growth
in our master's programs. Today, we are
graduating 144 students from the eight programs. We have 123 students
continuing in their programs, and we already have
over 220 students who will be starting new
programs in the fall. We are committed to our
students and their training, and we look forward
to developing a group of dedicated
and involved alumni. We welcome you all as you join
this expanding and inspiring group of leaders. Throughout this pandemic,
I have been so impressed by the dedication and
leadership of all the program heads and managers. This is a group
that works together to share best
practices in education and in biomedical
sciences, and is undaunted by any
impediments in their path. You provide critical training,
mentoring, and support for all the students
and you, yourselves, are fantastic role models. Thank you so much
for all you do. I also want to take
this opportunity to thank Dr. Johanna Gutlerner,
the Associate Dean for Graduate Education. In so many ways, Johanna is
the heart, soul, and brain of the HMS master's programs. She works tirelessly
to advance the careers of all the students. This is an opportunity
for us all to thank her. And I want to thank Kim
Lincoln, the Director of Student Affairs, and Naima
Abdullahi, who, together, worked to make
the master's programs work seamlessly. An important component
of graduation ceremonies is always the keynote address. At HMS, we invite a
distinguished biomedical investigator to address the
graduates and inspire us all. This year, it is
fitting that the keynote be delivered by an investigator
who has been working tirelessly to develop and advance a
vaccine for coronavirus. I have the distinct honor of
introducing Dr. Daniel Barouch. Dr. Barouch graduated summa
cum laude from Harvard College. He then did his PhD work
as a Marshall Fellow at Oxford University before
returning to Massachusetts to do medical school here at
Harvard, followed by residency and fellowship at Mass
General Hospital and Brigham and Women's Hospital. As an infectious
disease specialist, a major goal of his
research has been to develop vaccines
for viral diseases. Starting in 2000, he began
work aimed at developing a vaccine against HIV. While this effort has not
yet been fully successful, the work that he had
done provided a framework when he pivoted
towards developing a vaccine against SARS-CoV-2. This work, done together
with Johnson & Johnson, led to one of the
vaccines that are now enabling us to begin to see
the end of this pandemic. His work on vaccines and
on immunological responses to viral infections have
been recognized by election to the American Society
for Clinical Investigation and the American
Association of Physicians, as well as the Drexel
Prize in Immunology. Dr. Barouch, it is
a special pleasure to introduce your keynote
address for the Harvard Medical School master's program
graduating class of 2021. Hello, and welcome. My name is Dan Barouch,
I'm the Director of the Center for Virology and
Vaccine Research at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical
Center, as well as the William Bosworth Castle
Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Congratulations to this year's
2021 Harvard Medical School master's program graduates
in bioethics, bioinformatics, immunology, clinical
investigation, medical education, clinical
service organization, health care quality and safety,
as well as global health. Your achievements
are remarkable, and your futures are bright. I'd like to offer
just two suggestions as you complete this
exciting journey and start on the next
adventure of your life. First, regardless of your chosen
field, tackle hard problems. There are plenty
of people who can handle straightforward issues
that face our world today. And second, regardless
of your chosen field, try to find ways to make
the world a better place. With your training and
experience and intelligence, you all have the
remarkable ability to help solve the most pressing
issues facing our society and world. As an example, I'd like to share
some of our own experiences over the past 16 months,
with the COVID-19 pandemic and the
development of vaccines. This story starts
in December of 2019, with a new disease that emerged
in Wuhan, China, a pneumonia of an unknown cause. In January of last year, the
sequence of a novel coronavirus was identified, and the
virus was eventually called SARS-CoV-2. Although we had no
idea that it would lead to the worst global
pandemic of our lifetime, in fact, in a
century, there were early warning signs that led
us, and many other groups around the world, to
start developing a vaccine for this new virus right away. In fact, the WHO
estimates there are over 250 independent vaccine
programs for COVID-19 throughout the world. So how were COVID-19
vaccines made so quickly? Some people say
they were rushed. I say they were made
very efficiently. But they were actually
not made in a year, they were actually
made over decades, because the resulting COVID-19
vaccines actually represents scientific progress, decades
of advances in vaccinology and virology and
immunology, particularly in the development of
new classes of vaccines, called gene based vaccines. These include messenger
RNA vaccines, as well as vector vaccines, and these were,
in fact, the first vaccines to cross the finish line
in the United States. There have also been major
advances in sequencing methods that allowed rapid
identification of SARS-CoV-2 shortly after the
outbreak began, as well as unprecedented
collaboration and massive amounts of
funding and resources poured into the development
of COVID-19 vaccines. Clinical trials were large
and allowed for rapid safety and efficacy evaluation,
and very sadly, because they were conducted
during the global surges, there were many
transmission events that rapidly allowed the
evaluation of these vaccines. So currently, in
the United States, we have three vaccines
approved under emergency use authorization. The first two were
the mRNA vaccines and the third one, which
I'll tell you a few more words about, is a viral
vector based vaccine. This third vaccine
is the vaccine that we had a scientific
role in helping to develop. The J&J Ad26 COVID-19
vaccine, in which we utilized vaccine technology
that our group developed, not for coronaviruses,
but rather for HIV, over the last 15 years. On January 10 of last year,
the SARS-CoV-2 sequence was released by the
Chinese researchers. We worked on the
sequence over the weekend and developed candidate vaccine
immunogens electronically, so when we got back to the lab
on January 13 of last year, we were ready to
order synthetic genes and the vaccine development
process essentially begins. By the end of
January, we decided to collaborate with
our industry partner for our HIV program,
J&J, and in February, we started to perform initial
tests of vaccines on animals. By the end of March,
manufacturing of clinical grade vaccine was initiated,
and by the end of July, first in-human clinical
trials started. By the end of September,
phase three efficacy trials were started, and
the results were announced at the end of
January of 2021, leading to FDA approval for
emergency use authorization at the end of February. And during this
calendar year, J&J has committed to provide
at least a billion doses of this vaccine to the world. This vaccine demonstrated
a high efficacy of 85% against severe
COVID-19 in the three major geographic regions that
were studied in the United States and Latin America
and South Africa, including against
the most worrisome of the viral variants,
such as those that emerged in Brazil and South Africa. This vaccine then complements
the two mRNA vaccines that have been rolled out in the
United States since December. The J&J vaccine also has
some unique advantages, including being a
single shot vaccine, with no sub-zero
freezing cold chain. So together, these
three vaccines are being rolled out
in the United States and should facilitate the
mass vaccination campaign in the United States,
as well as globally, and several other
vaccines have already started rolling out globally. For the J&J vaccine,
the vaccine rollout was paused for 10 days for
very rare, but severe, cases of thrombosis. This pause was lifted
after a detailed review and demonstration of very
strong risk/benefit analyses, as well as treatment
defined for these cases. And this shows the commitment
to safety surveillance with all of these vaccines. The perspective on COVID-19
vaccine development is very bright and, in
fact, offers a light at the end of the tunnel for
the pandemic, both in the United States and, hopefully,
for the world. Vaccine development for COVID-19
has proceeded faster than for any other
pathogen in history, safety and public trust
are absolutely critical. The viral variants
that have emerged will require further
study, vaccines may need to be updated and
additional variants may emerge, but global vaccination is
critical for the prevention of future variants and also
for ending the pandemic. And we feel that
multiple vaccines need to be implemented
in parallel to accelerate the vaccine rollout in the
US and throughout the world. In fact, one of the
most compelling reasons to accelerate the
vaccine rollout is to help prevent the
emergence of new viral variants that might threaten
resurgent viral pandemic. So, I'm often
asked the question, when will the pandemic end? And I cannot answer that
any better than anyone else, but I do feel that it's a
race between vaccination of the world and the emergence
of variants that can undermine vaccine control. This is a global pandemic and
requires a global solution, so as the United States
reaches closer and closer to the majority of adults
becoming vaccinated, we shouldn't forget the
fact that there are still a large number of
people in our country that need to be vaccinated,
and a huge number of people in the world who need
to be vaccinated. And we can't be safe
until everyone is safe, because the virus surging
anywhere in the world leads to risks of variance
everywhere in the world. But when historians
in the future look back on the pandemic,
they will undoubtedly document many terrible things. But the shining light will be
seen as the power of science, and the compassion of medicine,
to help solve global health problems. And in particular,
the development of treatments and
vaccines and understanding of this disease,
the basic virology and the basic immunology, public
health tools that ultimately will lead to the end
of this pandemic. So you all are now well equipped
to make your contributions to the world. If I can just reiterate
my two suggestions, that you may wish
to consider as you venture forth into
the next chapter of your lives and careers. First, I would suggest that
you tackle hard problems, because the world
needs you for that. And second, try to find
ways to make the world a better place,
because no one is as equipped as you
are to accomplish that important task I know
you will all be successful. Congratulations and good luck. Thank you very much. It is now my pleasure to
introduce to you our student speaker, Dr. Anika Singh. Anika completed her
medical school training at University College Dublin. At the end of this
ceremony, she will be a graduate of the Harvard
Medical School Master of Medical Science in
Clinical Investigation. While in the program, she
has been the president of the master's student council
and she is also a research trainee at Brigham
and Women's Hospital, in nephrology, with
a research focus on the important subject of
blood pressure regulation in hemodialysis patients. She brings professionalism,
poise, dedication, and fierce intellect
to all of these tasks. Anika, it is a pleasure
to introduce you. We look forward
to your talk today and to seeing where your
studies and training take you in the future. Hi, everyone. My name is Anika Singh. Like you, I'm graduating
today from a master's program at Harvard Medical School. Wow. In my case, from the
master's of medical science and clinical investigation. I also represent you in my role
as president of the master's student council. On all our behalf, I would
like to thank Dean Daley, Dean Segal, Associate Dean
Gutlerner, and Kim Lincoln for all the work that goes
into making this possible, and for inviting
me to speak today. I know we would all like
to thank our program directors, faculty,
and program admin, and my personal thanks to my
mentor, Finnian McCausland, and the MMSCI team, Kitty
Cacioppo, Claire O'Connor, and Melissa Compos-Zamora. What a year it has been. I think I can
speak for all of us when I say that this year was
certainly not what we expected. Whether it was through
the sudden shift onto the online
space, uncertainty about what the next
day would bring, in terms of public
health guidelines, or what our lives
would look like as we pictured this very moment. This year, we also experienced
the Black Lives Matter movement, where we were
reminded that, in the words of another Harvard graduate,
Amanda Gorman, that the norms and notions of what just
is, isn't always justice. We watched this country go
through a tumultuous election, as well as experienced
threats to our democracy. What we learned in
this past year or so could not have been taught
to many classes before us. Resilience, focus,
teamwork, looking out for others, and most
of all, flexibility. All of these attributes, in
addition to our coursework, will help us forge our way
through the ever changing new normal, that this
year and future years will have in store for us. In preparation for
this moment, where we move to the next phase in our
careers as health care leaders, we've worked our way through
the rigorous academic challenges presented to us
through our coursework, pushed the boundaries
in our specialties to ask novel
questions, reflected on complex ethical issues,
tackled large data sets, and found a way to add
to the body of knowledge in the scientific community. Throughout this year, we've
also seen the theories we discussed in the
virtual classroom come to life with the rapid
development of the COVID-19 pandemic. The complexity and, for
lack of a better word, unprecedented nature
of these times not only opened our eyes to
how quickly things can change, but also exemplified the
need for every single person graduating today, as experts
and their respective fields. And with the guidance
and mentorship of program directors,
faculty, and research mentors at the cutting edge,
we've been given the tools to aid in transforming
the health care landscape using novel
evidence-based techniques. These two years, I've
learned about the importance of community. For me, I built a community in
my research lab, the dialysis unit, and with my classmates. I learned that research is more
than statistical significance, it's being there to smile
and talk to patients and maybe being the reason they
come in for treatment that day because they know you'll
be there with another fun fact about Smokey Robinson. Even though they know them all. I learned diligence
and commitment from my classmates
who attended lectures in the middle of the
night in their local time. I learned fortitude
from my classmates who stayed strong despite not
being able to go home and see their families. I learned that we can build
connections and friendships and share thoughts and
experiences and laughter with the greatest
minds in medicine, all through a computer
screen or device. I learned that even
through tough times, our potential is limitless. With that, I would like to thank
all of our families and friends and pillars of support, without
whom we wouldn't be here today. Congratulations to the Harvard
Medical School master's class of 2021! I can't wait for a time when
we can celebrate together in person. But for now, we did it! At this time, we invite you
to take a moment of silence to remember our
graduates' loved ones who have passed away this year. While they may no
longer walk with us, their candle will forever
burn bright in our hearts. On behalf of all of us at
Harvard Medical School, I offer you and your family
my deepest condolences. And we also offer
our condolences to all those who
have lost loved ones in this very difficult time. I would like now to turn to what
is the happiest part of today's commencement. And now, the program
administrators of each program will read the names of the
wonderful 2021 graduates. Master of bioethics. [POMP AND CIRCUMSTANCE PLAYING] Fatima Alhamar. Asma Alzaidy. Hi, everyone. I'd like to thank my family,
program leadership, faculty, and my fellow students for
the best academic year ever. Sravya Chary. Thank you to my family and
friends for all of the love and support over
the last few years. And congratulations to all
of the other graduates. Stephanie Dephoure. Bijal Desai. Jessica Gordon. Douglas Wayne Hanto. I'd like to thank my
wife, Mary, and my family for their patience and support. I'd also like to thank
Tony Monaco for a place to stay while I commuted
for in-person class. Izzy Hernandez. As a first-gen Puerto Rican,
Jewish professional student from Queens, New
York, I'm beyond proud to be graduating from
a master's in bioethics from Harvard Medical School. Thank you, all who supported me. Josh Hyatt. Hey everyone, we made
it, congratulations! Thank you to all my friends and
family for all your support. Good luck in the future. Thanks, everyone. Adelaida Jasperse. Shika Esi Kalevor. Thank you to Peter
for loving me, to my parents, my brother,
and all my aunties and cousins and
uncles who raised me. I couldn't have
done it without you. Douglas Knittel. Anna Krotinger. Kathie Lee. Connie Lu. Gakii Masunga. I just want to say
a big thank you to mom and dad
and my big sister, Abby, and all my friends
and family for all your love and support in these
last couple of years. I love you all so much! Mary McCarthy-Tiella. Congratulations, class
of 2021, we did it! Now, let's go
celebrate together. Meera Midha. Walker Morrell. To mom and dad and my
grandparents and Olivia, thank you so much
for believing in me and supporting me and helping
me be the best version of myself along the way. I love you all. Phoebe Ozuah. Hi, everyone, I just
want to say a big, big thank you to my
family and friends, and a huge congratulations
to the rest of the graduating class. Phani Paladugu. I'm so thankful, honored,
and humbled to be here today. Thank you for everyone in
supporting me in my journey, and congratulations
to my classmates. We did it! Thank you. Soojin Park. Fiona Pat. Samara Peters. I want to thank my
family for supporting me through a crazy master's program
and all of my classmates, who helped me along the way. Thanks guys! Khoa Tu Pham. Hi, my name is Khoa, and I
want to celebrate this moment with my friends, families,
mentors, especially my parents. Paul Pouzet. Eva Regel. Emily Schumacher. Ally Sterling. Sarah Katherine Sullivan. Giselle G. Vitcov. Katherine Wang. Congratulations,
everybody, we did it! I sound like Elle
Woods, but I'm so grateful to have been able
to learn from all of you, and a huge thank you to
the faculty, as well. Indigo Weller. David Zuckerman. Congratulations to
the class of 2021. Thank you so much to the faculty
at the bioethics program, to the friends I made along
the way, and my family. Master of Biomedical
Informatics. Kareem Abdalla. Huge thanks to my friends, Drew,
[INAUDIBLE],, and [INAUDIBLE],, and to my amazing wife
and family for helping me get through this program. Also, got to shout
out Palestine, we are praying for you. Parker Bannister. Thank you to my
family, my friends, and the DDMI faculty for such
a great educational experience. Nicole Benson. Iris Braunstein. Noah Brown. Paola Calvachi Prieto. I just want to say
a quick thank you to my parents, my sisters,
my husband, my grandparents, my in-laws, and my friends,
who helped me and supported me throughout this journey. [INAUDIBLE] Stone Chen. I'd like to give a big thank
you to my family and all the great people
I met at Harvard. Thank you for being part of my
journey, you are all amazing, and I love you all. Don't forget to
eat more broccoli! Abbie Cheng. Leina Essakalli Houssaini. I want to thank my whole
family, and more particularly, my parents and
[INAUDIBLE],, thank you for always believing in me. A special mention for
[INAUDIBLE] and my sibling. Mitchell Flagg. Peter Hong. Jingyi Liu. Lucy Liu. Chen Lu. Andrew Marshall. Jiazhen Rong. Yujie Shao. Zachary Strasser. Kathleen Sucipto. Dany Thorpe. Congratulations, class of 2021. Vivek Anand Upadhyay. I want to thank my
wife, Selena, and I also want to recognize my
departed mother-in-law. I love you both, I couldn't
have done this without you. Xiaoou Alice Wang. Richard Yoo. Kira Zhang. Qi Sara Zhang. I want to thank my family and
friends for all your support. I couldn't do it without you. Master in Clinical
Service Operations. Sarah Al Youha. Thank you, it's been great. Sulaiman Almazeedi. Shamlan Alqinai. I'd like to thank my family and
friends for always supporting me, and Mara and
Kevin, for making this a wonderful
educational experience. Thank you. Salman Al-Sabah. Kristen Dulling. Thank you to those who
supported and believed in me on this
journey, and I hope that I can use this
opportunity to tell others that anything is possible. Thank you, Harvard. Radwa Emam. Brenda Ephraim. Thank you to all
those in my personal and professional community who
supported me on this journey. Fred Farias. Hi, I'm Fred Farias, thank you
to all my family and friends for their support
during this journey. And also, thank you to our
program directors, Dr. Kevin Tucker and Mara Bloom. Jonathan Harding. Syed Muhammad Dildar Hussein. Daniel Francisco Isaza-Pierotti. Susan Jacob. Congratulations, fellow
graduates, we did it! This has been such an
incredible experience. Thanks to our faculty,
mentors, family, and friends. Best wishes and congratulations. Lisa Kang. Thank you, Herman and Kim, for
supporting me in this journey. [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH] I love you. Sabhi Maswadeh. Ammar Najjar. Ardhy Nugrahanto. Oliver Nwofia. Precious Pogoson. I want to say thank you to
God, to my family, and MCSO classmates and faculty. Congratulations, class
of 2021, we did it! Esraa Radi. I just want to
say a quick thanks to my professors,
classmates, and to my family and friends, who have supported
me throughout this journey. Thank you all, and
finally, we did it! Ryan Sullivan. Ahmed Abdelrahman [correction] I would like to say thank you to
my mom, professors, colleagues, and all my friends for
this engaging, enriching, and fruitful journey. And finally, we did it! Teresa Zhang. I want to say thank
you to my family and to my friend who helped
me throughout this journey. Never thought I could be
part of Harvard in my life, and I'm just so happy. Master of Health Care
Quality and Safety. Ahmed Nasreldin. [INAUDIBLE],, thanks to God,
who helps me to achieve that. Thank you, my family, my wife,
my daughter, my classmates, my coworkers, thank you
to you, [INAUDIBLE].. Lilia Bacu. Mohamed Eldeeb. Mostafa Hafez. Today is an [INAUDIBLE] one. [INAUDIBLE] Nadav Levy. Ahmed Osman. Daniel Taupin. Qian Wang. Takashi Watari. Congratulation, everyone. Thank you for everything,
my mentors, my colleagues, and my family. [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH] Kenneth Whittemore. Jonathan Zebrowski. Wen Zhang. Liana Zucco. Master of Medical Sciences
in Clinical Investigation. Osama Abushawer. Adressa Lumi Akabane. The past two years
have been amazing. Thanks so much for
everyone who supported me, my mom, my dad, my sister. Thanks for everything. We made it! Reem Alsowaiegh. Hi. I'd just like to
say a big thank you to my mom, my husband,
[INAUDIBLE],, my sister, [INAUDIBLE],, and
my daughter, Jenna, for their unconditional
love and support. I love you, thank you all. Siqin Chen. Edgar Gerardo Dorsey Trevino. I want to say thank you to
my family, to my friends, to my girlfriend, and to
my mentor for their support and guidance throughout
this journey. [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH] Mohamedraed Soliman Elshami. Arzu Kalayci. I'd like to thank my mentor,
all teachers and program directors, friends, and family
for this graduation at Harvard. Thank you. Ali Kiapour. Hirotada Kobayashi. Thank you so much, my family, my
friend, my mentor, and everyone who has supported me. Congratulations to class 2021. Shijun Li. Yan Lin. Jiangtao Liu. Majed Mazen M. Malak. Elie Massaad. Two beautiful years at
Harvard, just ending. Thank you for all those
who have been with me through this beautiful journey. I can't wait to see
you on my next chapter. Forever a Harvard alumni. Makiko Mitsunami. I would like to thank my family,
friend, committee member, and my mentor for their
invaluable support on his journey. Congratulations to
the class of 2021. Anika Tara Singh. Big thank you to the
MMSCI class of 2021, the MMSCI team, master's
student council, my mentor, Finnian McCausland
and the McCausland lab, and my family and friends. Congrats, everyone! Ugo Uzoeghelu. This is for anyone who has
been told your dreams are not big enough or that
people like you don't deserve anything good. Continue to put in the work,
never give up on that dream. It does get better. Li Zhao. Master of Medical Sciences
in Global Health Delivery. Afom Tesfalem Andom. I like to thank my families,
friends, and school [INAUDIBLE] for all the wonderful support
throughout my journey. Thank you very much. I love you all. Wubaye Walelgne Dagnaw. Anika Heavener. Sitalire Kapira. I'm so grateful to
the lord for this, thank you, my wife, [INAUDIBLE],,
and my son, [INAUDIBLE].. Thank you to mom, my
siblings, and their families. Robert Mancuso. Terence Bowie Mark. Enas Mohamed. Thanks to the department
of global health, thanks to my family and
friends and love you all. Ana Cristina Sedas. Habib Sheriff. To my friend who
convinced me [INAUDIBLE] that Harvard is my place. To my parents and siblings
who have waited two years, and to my mentors and
faculty, I love you all. Bartholemew Wilson. Ayesha Zaman. Thank you, Amah,
thank you, Papa, thank you, my husband, Vikas,
and our entire global health delivery family. Yay, we did it! Master of Medical
Sciences in Immunology. Aiquan Chang. I would like to say big thank
you to my parents, friends, classmates, and professors for
all of your unwavering support along my journey at Harvard. Congrats, everyone. Maggie Chen. Yiran Caterina Cheng. Camilo Faust Akl. Jingwen Hu. I'd like to thank
my family, friends, and mentors for the support. Congratulations, class
of 2021, and the best of luck for future adventures. Jacob Jeffrey Ingber. Congrats, class of 2021. It's been great two
years, I can't wait to see what everyone does next. Shivan Lala. Min Liu. Ksenia Morozova. Scarlett Qian. Peyton Waddicor. Sabrina Weeks. Chongyang Wu. Kimmy Ye. Long Yuan. Rongjia Zhang. I would like to thank all
of my friends and families for your support and
love during these years. Xi Zhao. Master of Medical Sciences
in Medical Education. Reem Alansari. Hi, everyone, this
is Reem Alansari, it's an honor to
be graduating today from Harvard Medical School. I want to thank my wonderful
family for their amazing love and support during this journey. Ramiro Esparza. I want to thank my family for
this degree, Sylvia, Natalia, this wouldn't be possible
without your help. Papa, mama, Denise,
Carlos, [INAUDIBLE],, it is for all of you. Thank you so much. Dominique Harz Fresno. Thank you to my family, friends
at HMS for all the support and help. We did it! Dr. Warachaya Phanphruk. I am honored to be part
of Harvard Medical School graduate. Thank you, Harvard. Thank you faculty of medicine
[INAUDIBLE] University and thanks to my family. Hello, I'm Rebecca Brendel,
the Director of the Master of Bioethics program. Along with our
mighty education team of Brooke Tempesta
and Amanda Chieco, and the faculty
leadership and staff of the Center for Bioethics. Congratulations, 2021 Harvard
Medical School master's graduates. We admire your resilience,
marvel in your courage, and welcome your leadership
in changing the world. Congratulations. Hey, graduates. My name is Nils
Gehlenborg, and on behalf of the faculty and staff
of the Master of Biomedical Informatics program, it
is my distinct pleasure to congratulate you
on your achievements. I wish you farewell as your time
as students at Harvard Medical School comes to an
end, and I sincerely hope that your connections
with your programs at Harvard Medical School will
last a lifetime. I'm Ajay Singh, the
program director of the Master of Medical Science
in Clinical Investigation. On behalf of the
program leadership team, Finnian McCausland, Martina
McGrath, Rosalind Adam, Melissa Campos-Zamora, Kitty
Cacioppo, Claire O'Connor, and myself and the [INAUDIBLE]
and faculty, congratulations. It's been a really
hard year, especially with all the remote
work, but you did it, and we are so happy. Congratulations. My name is Kevin Tucker
director of the MCSO program. On behalf of Mara Bloom,
the faculty, administration, and staff of the
MCSO program, I want to say a hearty
congratulations to all the 2021 graduates of the Harvard
School master's programs. Based upon the work
that you've done, we know that you will
have meaningful impacts in your organizations and
in future positions to which your career path leads. You have clearly learned
a lot from the coursework that you've done, but
equally importantly, you've learned from each other and the
faculty have learned from you. Best wishes for the future. Beloved students, I'm Joia
Mukherjee, the faculty director of the Masters of Science
and Global Health Delivery. On behalf of Christina
Lively, Bailey Merlin, and the whole department
of Global Health and Social Medicine, we are so
proud of you, your work, and your commitment to improve
the lives of the vulnerable around the world. We're grateful that you and
all the masters students graduating today will
continue this important work as our alumni,
colleagues, and friends. My name is Anjala Tess, and
I'm the program director for the Masters in Health
Care Quality and Safety. On behalf of Katie King, Melissa
Campos Zamora, and the rest of our faculty and
course directors, I want to add my
congratulations to our students and to all the students in
all the graduate programs. We look forward to seeing how
high you soar in your careers. We're very proud of you. Please remember, you always
have a community here to return to and
share your journey. I'm Shiv Pillai,
I'm the director of the Masters in
Immunology program. And on behalf of Mike Carroll,
Selena Sarmiento, and all the faculty and students in
the Harvard immunology program, I'd like to congratulate
each and every one of you on an amazing two
years here, and on your terrific
achievements we look forward to seeing what you do in the
coming years and decades. And I know that you're
all going to be amazing and we hope you'll
stay in touch. Hello, I'm Jennifer
Kesselheim, I serve as the program
director for the Master of Medical Sciences in
Medical Education program. And on behalf of our associate
program director, Ayres Heller, and the faculty and staff of
the MMSC in medical education, we want to congratulate
the class of 2021. We are so very proud of
you and we'll miss you, but we know that you'll make
a great impact on your fields in the future. We wish you the very best
of luck in your next steps and hope that you stay in touch. Hi, I'm Rosalind Segal, I'm
the dean for graduate education at Harvard Medical School. On behalf of Johanna Gutlerner,
Kim Lincoln, Naima Abdullahi, and all of Harvard
Medical School, I want to congratulate all
the wonderful 2021 graduates of HMS masters programs. You are inspiring. [APPLAUSE] [MUSIC PLAYING]
