More than 200 degrees conferred at 45th College of Medicine commencement

Penn State College of Medicine held its annual commencement ceremony May 17. This year, 129 medical students and 76 graduate students received degrees in the ceremony at Founders Hall on the Milton Hershey School campus.

Remarks were delivered by Elizabeth Atnip, medical student class representative and daughter of Dr. Robert Atnip, a Penn State Hershey physician and faculty member; and Shane A.J. Lloyd, graduate student representative.

Dr. Bradford C. Berk, senior vice president for Health Sciences at the University of Rochester and CEO of the University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC), was the guest speaker. Berk was recruited to URMC in 1998 as chief of the Cardiology Division. He founded URMC’s Aab Cardiovascular Research Institute. Berk then served as chairman of medicine until 2006, when he became CEO.