HUNTINGTON, W.Va. – Ten fourth-year medical students at the Marshall University Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine were inducted today into the Gold Humanism Honor Society (GHHS) in a ceremony at the Byrd Clinical Center Auditorium.

The society, established in 2002, is an association of individuals and medical school chapters whose members are selected as exemplars of empathy, compassion, altruism, integrity and service in working with patients, their families and others in the field of medicine.

The students were nominated for the organization by their peers and include the following individuals:

• Zubair A. Ansari
• Don A. Bertolotti
• Caroline “Carly” L. Brady
• W. Dennis Carr
• Lora B. Fetty
• Rebecca “Becca” M. Hayes
• Joshua F. Hendrix
• Sammy Hodroge
• Corey A. Keeton
• Douglas C. vonAllman

Additionally, four medical residents and four faculty members were inducted into the society. The residents are:

• Amy M. Bair, M.D., Department of Surgery
• Kimberly R. Becher, M.D., Department of Family and Community Health
• Susan M. Lopata, M.D., Department of Pediatrics
• Lauren M. Thompson, M.D., Department of Pediatrics 

Faculty inductees included:

• Sean Loudin, M.D., Department of Pediatrics
• Adrienne M. Mays, M.D., Department of Family and Community Health
• Charles C. McCormick, M.D., Department of Family and Community Health
• Kathleen M. O’Hanlon, M.D., Department of Family and Community Health

Marshall’s chapter of GHHS was established in 2012.

Date Posted: Monday, November 18, 2013