 Ladies and gentlemen Please welcome to the stage president and chief hospital executive of hack and sack meridian ocean medical center Jason Kreitner. Good evening Wow What a night, okay? This is a really really exciting especially for the team over here on the on my by my right shoulder Couldn't predict better weather than that weather than this right? I mean last week. Grant. I'm sorry I'm crazy. We call it audible. We're gonna go downstairs. I'm like no Ocean Medical Center. It sounds as ocean their name. We got to do this outside if we took a chance and and I'm so glad we did It's a beautiful night and we're able to extend the invitations. How many people can arrive we have a live streaming So, uh, it's working out really well. So, uh, welcome to an a really amazing evening It is my privilege and honor to welcome you to our inaugural residency graduation ceremony that marks another Significant milestone for Ocean Medical Center. Thank you for joining us in person and for those that are watching virtually Okay, and 2018 we established our residency program that included eight family medicine and six Psychiatry residents a year later. We added eight internal medical residents I am pleased to say that today We currently have 60 residents in a growing clinical academic program This accomplishment would not have happened without the vision of leadership and support of hack and sack meridian health Board of trustees or hostile board of trustees and our CEO and mr. Bob Garrett It is my pleasure to acknowledge two visionaries that made this dream come true and they're here this evening Dr. Vincent Pavona our chief medical officer whose legacy and tireless dedication and Establishing the graduate magical education program at Ocean Medical Center will live on forever. Thank you Vinnie Kim This could not have been done without your guidance and your leadership and Dean Lynn There's Dean Dean is our former president of the medical center who's guided the vision of transforming Ocean Medical Center into a premier community teaching hospital Yeah, I'm honored and humbled to have you join us today as we celebrate our first graduation. I know you're very proud Dean I would also like to recognize and thank us a faculty program directors. That's a Kelly Esserie Cron house Dr. Ramon Soka Who have supported our residents during this critical part of their clinical and professional journey, yeah Dr. David Coons for his leadership again and academic guidance And our nurses clinical leaders and physicians for their strong collaboration and communication Where there are residents who have guided them throughout their journey and help them hone on their skills Yeah, I am grateful to the Ocean Medical Center Foundation and the generosity of the Grunner Foundation That has been instrumental in the success of our graduate graduate medical education Are providing a generous gift to help us establish and grow the new program Heather Barberi Executive directors here with my foundation Heather. Thanks for being here and appreciate all your support and Finally, I'm honored to be joined here this evening with our first resident graduating class and their families I don't have to tell our residents that Residencies are intense. It was the busiest the most challenging time of your career. I'm sure you would agree You worked diligently for long hours as part of your graduate medical training You are an integral part of our health care team and have made a significant contribution to all of our successes Your dedication to our clinical teams and our patients was outstanding Get this right no one could have predicted a pandemic during your clinical training All right, did you sign up for this? Did you expect this that anybody ever thought this just a year and a half ago? You're continued to shine with compassion during this pandemic your resiliency enabling us to provide the best care For our patients and just as a side you really got Ocean Medical Center through really one of the most challenging times This organization has ever been through You're your support to our nurses I know we've recognized a lot of our residents throughout this past year We're supporting our team and when we needed you guys you guys are there for us and just really can't thank you enough for all Have you done for Ocean Medical Center and our team? In addition, you have all passed the American Board of Family Medicine Board examination for practice and family medicine during this time every single one of you that is truly truly amazing Besides you guys this is an on-script besides be guys being tremendously bright I mean our physicians in our team really help I'm sure I guide you in during that testing and process through certainly their experiences really transitioning to your knowledge So I congratulations. That's a huge accomplishment This evening we're celebrating this academic milestone and our remembrance garden. This is a special place This is why I like to call a sacred ground here at Ocean Medical Center. That's our remembrance garden We have planted a native crepe myrtle tree in honor of our team members who passed from COVID-19 and unfortunately We had two team members that many of you know did pass Through this really difficult time for all of us It also celebrated our past with an hourglass memorial and we buried a time capsule to remember the past as you look forward to that to the future That's how to our garden there and to our right. I Invite all of us to take a moment of silence to imagine a future that looks very different from the past To remember those who have lost to the pandemic and reflect and how we will make a difference moving forward Thank you. I'm humbled and proud to congratulate our first graduating class our Pioneers churro blazers and future health care leaders congratulations With that like to introduce dr. Kent sable my boss regional president of the southern region Ken Good evening. So how about a round of a round of applause for Jason Crichtner? Who has been our fearless leader at Ocean Medical Center? At least for the past year during this crazy pandemic So I'm gonna go off script a little bit and there's about four points I want to cover today The first is I just want to say thank you to all of our residents You know as Jason said you didn't sign up expecting this to be a pandemic and Residency is hard enough and I'll talk about mine in a second It's hard enough to do a residency in normal times when we're in the middle of a pandemic Once in a lifetime once in a hundred years for all of you to you know Really, you know come to work every single day Be there for your patients for their families for each other and never complain. Did they complain? No, okay Never complain. I never heard you complain Is truly remarkable and it's really you know the precursor to what you are all going to be in your careers as attending physicians Having gone through this. I truly believe you can accomplish anything at all. So thank you for that The second point I want to cover is congratulating you for being the first you can only be the first once and You are in all eternity the first graduating class at Ocean Medical Center And you will forever be able to brag about that and for all future generations To be able to say you are the first and there's something wonderful about being first So congratulations to all of you for being the first Graduating class at Ocean Medical Center So third is you know this month about 19 years ago I was in your shoes. I was graduating from an emergency medicine residency program at Cooper Hospital in Camden and My chairman said to us and I'll never forget You know, don't try to change the world all at once You know worry about one patient at a time and I think that advice has really kind of helped me as I was Going through my early career practicing medicine And realize realizing that you know, it's going to be hard to boil the ocean. You can't do it all at once You're not going to save the world all at once, but that one patient that's in front of you that's the patient you're connecting with and Being able to have that connection and that bond is a privilege and an honor That you should never ever take for granted and never abuse these patients who come to us and as an emergency physician myself They come to see me. They tell me their entire life story within 30 seconds. They don't even know me They get undressed they allow us to examine them You know when you think about the power that all of you have all you have to do is just focus on that one patient And how can you help that one patient? How can you make that patient's life better? And if you do that? I think you're gonna find it much more manageable and a lot less stressful and last but not least I Remember, you know around this time again 19 years ago. I was preparing to finish residency I finished my last shift on June 30th 2002 and I started as an attending physician at my monities medical center July 1st of 2002. I don't know if any of you are taking time off. If you are I recommend it But I didn't I wanted to get a paycheck and I wanted to get moving But I remember that first shift at my monities, which was a very busy Urban, you know Brooklyn Brooklyn, New York very busy. I look at Ramon who was there with me tertiary crazy emergency department very very sick patients and They were double parked all around the ER So there was one patient in the back and then a stretcher in front And I walked into the bathroom and I was dripping sweat I was so terrified and scared and I thought there's no way I can do this. I Washed my face off. I think I called my dad. I said dad. I don't know about this place I'm worried. I'm gonna kill somebody And he said, you know what you got to rely on your training you got to be confident you're here for a reason and You're gonna be fine and so my message to all of you is you're gonna be fine You may be a little freaked out when that first case and whatever whatever area you're going into whether you're doing You know private practice or joining a group or whatever But you know the first time when you don't have that attending physician there to make that decision for you It's gonna be anxiety producing You're gonna you're gonna you know, you like it's comforting to have the attending physician always available to make those decisions And you may not have that anymore although you'll always have someone you could bounce things off of but just remember You were trained by amazing doctors here at Ocean Medical Center You were trained in a wonderful organization with excellent support and trust trust yourself Trust your training trust your your work ethic Trust everything that has gotten you to this place in your career, and you will be absolutely fine So again, I want to just end by saying thank you Congratulations. Good luck to all of you if you ever need anything whether it's to Dr. Coons to Dr. Vavona to Jason to any of your mentors here to myself we're only a phone call or an email away and We'll always be here for you and thanks for making us proud as the first inaugural class at Ocean Medical Center Thank you So now it is my distinct honor and privilege to welcome Dr. David Coons to the stage Dr. Coons is a wonderful individual holds a lot of titles He's a co-chief academic officer for hack and sack meridian health He's a vice president for academic affairs at Jersey Shore University Medical Center And he also serves as the designated institutional official at Ocean Medical Center He's a wonderful colleague and be happy to bring him up here. So Dr. Coons Well, thank you for that generous introduction and good evening everybody particularly to the graduates This is such a a proud evening, and I'm so honored to be with all of you I think mr. Creighton or use the term Heroes and I'm so happy I could reiterate that word to your families These young people in the front row truly are our heroes Because of their work during the pandemic, but also for their trust in us Coming to a program as you heard that had no track record The reason people come to residence these is because there's a track record But they had great confidence in us, and I'm so appreciative that you did for us I was reminiscing with the Dr. Vavona, Dr. Salka and Dr. Cronehouse going back to Dean Lenz days when he was the president Looking at a document from 2014 When some of us probably including Dr. Lake, maybe Dr. Winku We're looking at our plans for residencies at Ocean Medical Center, and I remember I actually have the consultants report saying if you do everything just right You'll be able to start July 1st 2018 Almost three years later, and we stuck to the plan and what a group that we were able to to recruit You know we've now acknowledged a few people. I'd like to take a minute and acknowledge a couple more One is my predecessor dr. Tom Brindiske I think the residents remember dr. Brindiske. He was in my role from 2015 until 2018 And we're very appreciative of his support to get our program started I reached out to dr. Brindiske earlier this week He's vacationing with his family on the west coast actually in Arizona But he wanted me to extend his congratulations to all of you I also want to acknowledge two people who I think the residents would agree and the fellow future fellow would agree Are instrumental to the success of our program. So those are our two coordinators Rose and Laura and Christine Lake. How about a hand for them? And finally, I'd like to thank two people who Oversee the office of academic affairs at 1610 Who really also are the glue to keep this program together and to help put this evening together for us Francisco Hernandez and Catherine Sheridan and I thought I'd talk with you just for a couple of minutes about Something we haven't talked about a lot this evening and that's about friendship We know that a lot has been lost during covid and one Item that's been written about is the loss of friendship It may be a few instances where the pandemic has brought a few people together, but more likely because of social isolation And a lack of inability to travel Friends have drifted apart And as you come out of this maelstrom a little bit of residency I'm going to challenge you to resurrect your friendships with your co-residents With your friends before you started residency because that is truly something That will sustain you during your entire life Dr. Sable reminisce a little bit. I'd like to do the same and I'm going to go back even further to the fall of 1986 And the fall of 1986 I was a second-year resident at a hospital in philadelphia And one of my mentors and friends was two years ahead of me. He was actually at that point a chief resident And I really looked up to him. He was smart. He was organized. He was Energized. He was optimistic He had a lot of qualities. I hoped I could build in my career After I finished my residency. I stayed at that hospital at his suggestion and he continued to mentor me in different roles as I learned my craft I wrote down and I've always thought about this He believed in me before I believed in myself As time went on we drifted apart as friends will will do I stayed in the city of philadelphia another hospital. He started moving on To different positions in retrospect. He was moving around quite a bit A job two years here a job three years there I thought it was because that's what it took to move into uh physician leadership, which is what he told me he wanted to do and he Left patient care, which was really a strength of his There was a time that he called me somewhat desperate to A come and give a lecture at the hospital where he was working at a time After all he had done for me. I was happy to reschedule patients quickly jump on a plane And go out visit him and give the lecture I stayed and had dinner with him and his wife who was another resident with us And for the first time I noticed something was different He that energy wasn't there that optimism wasn't there That wonderful relationship. He I remember what he and his wife seemed a little strained I shrugged my shoulders everyone has a bad day or bad week and didn't think a lot more about it A few years later his name is tim. Tim called me with a health crisis He said that he had ulcer disease with the complication of hemorrhage or bleeding The bleeding was so bad that it landed him in the intensive care unit At a small hospital where he was working He stayed there for several weeks and was so debilitated or weak. He then needed to go to rehabilitation There was a prolonged period where he was out of his job. They couldn't keep his job open for him So then he was terminated from his job He also told me in that phone call that he was an alcoholic That what had triggered the severe bleeding was the use of pain medications for some chronic muscular pain or bone pain and alcohol Tell me it wasn't an alcoholic during residency, but several years later he Used alcohol as a stress reliever as he moved into these more and more difficult positions He'd start drinking after a few months Things would calm down for a while Then the pressures would build again. He'd go back to drinking or keep drinking And right before his performance really started to drop off He would leave that position and go somewhere else We talk a lot today about wellness and resilience And whenever I hear one of my colleagues use that term, I think about tim We didn't really know what wellness was back then Tim was committed to getting himself back together And now it was my turn to help him just that he had done at the beginning of my career He applied for a position as a hospitalist that was really not a term also Back then And I remember getting a call from the department chair at the hospital where he had applied to work He had by the way committed to Going to his state's physician assistance program for health He had been part of Alcoholics Anonymous And that department chair called me as I was one of his references and said Can I trust him to take care of our patients? And I assured him I would do everything that I could To stay in touch with him and help him if he had any problems As he moved into this new position So here he is in a small one-room apartment by now. He had gotten divorced Restarting his career So for a period of time I called him every week And then every two weeks then every month And he slowly got himself back on his feet And that was such a rewarding feeling for me Over the next couple years he remarried. He had a daughter And things seemed to be quite stable for tim About four weeks ago Tim called me. I was at home My wife and I were in the kitchen. She saw his name on my phone She said I'm sure you two have a lot to catch up on Uh, see if you can find a time so tim we can go visit tim His new wife and his new daughter who we've never seen After a few seconds I could tell something was wrong In tim's voice and he shared that He's developed some new neurologic problems He's been advised not to work and not to drive He asked me not to feel sorry for him He said while I still feel pretty good I wanted to call The four or five most important people in my life Outside of my family and tell them what was happening I asked him if I could share his story I said we have some graduations coming up for our resonance And he said yes, you may I was thinking about a quote, um about tim And that's growing apart doesn't change the fact That for a long time we grew together side by side Our roots will always be tangled So for all of you keep your roots tangled Keep your roots tangled with us at ocean medical center Sometimes stories don't only have a happy ending But I'm so grateful to have had this long and wonderful relationship with tim Now I'd like to acknowledge an outstanding physician and leader whose vision of educating the next generation of physicians Is one of the reasons why we're here this evening My dear friend and colleague dr. Vincent Vivona Chief medical officer of ocean medical center Dr. Vivona's overwhelming compassion for the care of patients is truly legendary For more than 40 years. You must have been about eight 10 40 years he's contributed to the care of patients here in ocean county Because of his commitment to delivering high quality and safe patient care Ocean medical center has consistently maintained an a Hospital safety grade by leapfrog has been awarded a top teaching hospital And thanks to his tireless efforts and support of the development of the gme programs here at ocean We are graduating our first class this evening award I have to have a a pause here for a second The notes say hold up the award. I'm very happy to do so This award acknowledges dr. Vivona's contributions to the cornerstone of patient care safety and quality And will be given to a resident or residents every year From now until eternity Who has emphasized these important essential basics throughout their residency? This is the dr. Vincent j resident of the year award On behalf of the medical executive committee Jason kreitner the residency program directors and residents It is my privilege and honor To pay tribute to your legacy By dedicating the ocean medical center resident of the year award in your name Dr. Vivona, will you please come to the stage? Thank you for all you've done for academic medical education our patients team members residents and the community well I really appreciate the recognition I have to really say that I've had a tremendous team behind me And supported me For the gme project that we had it was long. It was not always easy But finally we we did develop a fantastic product To go forward and it's evidenced By the first graduating class and the academic success that you all have achieved It's always a little disadvantage to be like the fourth speaker down But uh, I am going to probably repeat some things but maybe from a different perspective I have been on staff for 42 years the last six is cmo I want to see is an institution that has always been dedicated to teaching medical students and allied health professions The genesis of our c gme program began in 2014 With informal discussions between administration and medical staff and team members For all for their opinions and the possibility of establishing a teaching program As dr. Coons stated in 2015 our gme consultants assessed the institutional capabilities And resources were establishing the current programs and the future transitional residency Which is actually starting this July so all the points of the assessment were right on Today we are now graduating our first class of family medicine residents And the psychiatry residents who psychiatry residents who is pursuing a fellowship This first class of future graduating classes in internal medicine family medicine psychiatry in our new transitional year Our testimony to the success of our program was a long three years for these graduates None of them saw or even imagined what was to come A pandemic which began over a year and a half ago, which was one half of their academic residents Occurred Our residents all of them faced the challenge Looked fear in the eyes and despite all took care of our patients The hospital administration and team members stood by their side With no hesitation and the ultimate crutch was our dedicated medical staff Through how hard we picked them up when needed as well as the gme teaching staff They will always remember this universal medical crisis The last pandemic is over a hundred years ago This experience will influence how they practice medicine and approach the care of their patients They may not know it now, but they will know it the next couple months It will be embedded in their professional persona and they will be better physicians for it Also, despite all that was going on with the various distractions of the pandemic as that they're uh As we well said all of our family medicine residents passed their family medicine boards That's that's a pearl, you know, you don't have to worry about that coming forward except when you take the research It was an important milestone in the universe of medicine remember that a very important milestone You should be proud of yourselves, especially with all the pandemic issues that you have to deal with I used to see you running around the hospital masks on running everywhere But you're never coward you were right there and I was very proud of that It is also testimony to our gme program the individuals behind it And the resolve of residents to be the best they can be A great culture, which is important to our institution And legacy to pass on to our future residents Lastly, I like to think thank dean win Actually dean win when I first served as a medical director on the gme clock And then became the cmo when they twisted my arm the dean was there and Dean was always mentioning possible gme program. We had such a great great culture in teaching I mean our thoughts are private faculty with fantastic teaching. It couldn't you couldn't really Compare it I like to thank him for his foresight and knowing pushing the gme program and providing a real Rapid impetus for what we have today to Jason Creightner Who continues to preserve our culture And promote our academic agenda To kin sable for his overall and zealot support and yes, can I like your jokes The dave coons who personally for me a great academic leader, but was probably one of the best mentors I've ever had To kelly it was three crown house permeal chariot And remonde sople and all-star team Remember that Okay, the gme staff and their important administrative support The gme committing as our compass And a tremendous gme medieval staff Providing the education I proudly accept this award. I'm honored really honored. It's a legacy for me And uh, you know, even if I knew I wasn't going to receive an award Back then 30 40 years ago. I would have still been done what I've done, but I really Enjoy it. I'm going to miss it to an extent. I do have plans to come back and some some Extra a curriculum type of things with the hospital and I hope all the success For my residents that are here. I'm proud of you. I remember the day you first came on campus, especially in Moscow and uh And you really really performed and I think that It is a it pretends a good class is the good classes for the next Year's coming Now Thank you very much It is my honor and privilege to present this year's resident of the year award to To Nicole Gabrielle Beskurski Our second award is to sade fraisian Tikaia I would like to introduce the star of the program Who uh is our program director for family medicine And we are proud to say that we have a hundred percent Ford pass rate, which As Dr. Coons would say in the academic world. That's what we want Dr. Kelly Usui Kronhaus husband Ken Kronhaus So give up the stage Oh, good evening as As the previous speakers have all said I might be a little bit redundant But I also have the opportunity to share A little bit about each of the graduates and as they're processing around I will try to be brief So I would just like to begin by thanking Hackensack Meridian the hospital board or trustees for their leadership and support In our effort to launch the gme programs at ocean medical center So we are now a teaching hospital that's attracting more applicants for resident positions every year We couldn't have done it without the support Of the leaders such as dr. Clark dr. Vovona dr. Coons the ocean medical center leadership Under dean lin jason kreitner can sue check can sable marie foley danaker gary gray and mike verna All who had an integral role in getting this off the ground So I would also like to thank the medical staff and dr. Walter weingup as the president of the medical and dental staff and the entire ocean medical center staff Who were delighted and gratified to share their knowledge and clinical skills with the residents during long hours of teaching and mentoring And of course our gme office is by far the best Thanks to francisco, hinanda's cat. Sheridan angela shand my fellow program. Dr. Ramon sulka per mill charioth The associate program directors sabba afsal dr. Ken Cronhaus and coordinators jennifer rosanne You make gme a great place to work and i'm always happy when I get to be there A very special thanks to my family medicine program coordinator christine lake And our family medicine core faculty dr. Lisa kasanoff's dr. scott druckman dr. chris baiter For making everything come to life and my sincere thanks and gratitude to the associate program dr Dr. Ken Cronhaus for being my support and foundation and supporting me in this Dream on this wild ride through all of our challenges and victories So but last but not least let's give a round of applause to the graduating class of 2021 So thanks to these residents for taking a leap of faith and joining us on this journey We couldn't have asked for a better first cohort of residents to be our inaugural class Thank you for the pleasure of teaching you mentoring me and mentoring you and tonight celebrating you So before I introduce each of them, I just want to take a minute to pause and acknowledge all of our Accomplishments so in addition to taking care of patients 24 7 We did have an 100 percent pass rate on the family medicine boards For scholarly activity we produced 23 posters nine publications and six research awards both local regional and national And to those patient encounters we had over 8400 inpatient 13200 outpatient 2000 pediatric outpatient and over 300 ob deliveries for these eight people And um, we had a great gme team and we all participated on a project for interprofessional teaming to reduce the inpatient length this day As first year residents they placed third place in the njfp Resident knowledge bowl and we were hoping to go back and defend but then of course the pandemic hit so that was put on hold They were very adaptable and shifted with all the changes and challenges that came with kovid changes to their schedules and Policy changes every day. There were an integral part of the care team Doing extra shifts in the icu being advocates for the patients and a conduit of information Between the care team and the families for that we will be for everything full So now I would like to Introduce each of them and dr. Cohn house will hand the diplomas and dr. Coons if you would also please come to the stage So as I was preparing these remarks, I was commenting to myself the strengths of each resident So we're extremely proud of all of our graduates. They're well-rounded physicians to excel in all the acgme core Competencies they embody what it means to be a family physician. They provide comprehensive patient centered and compassionate care So first we have dr. Nicole babushkin who's a graduate of ross university A native of brooklyn and we're happy to say that she's going to cause the jerseyshore home We can always rely on her calm profession demeanor and she's passionate about community She'll be joining hmh primary care with dr. Rothberg and his associates Next dr. Erica de clemente a graduate of university medicine health sciences st. Kitt. She's a strong advocate for resident education and scholarly activity Dr. de clemente is leaving us to move to k. Bretton island over scotia Well, she will provide full-spectrum family medicine to the residents of victoria county hospital in a rural fishing village Next dr. Brittany grilla a graduate of st. George's she was elected as one of our third-year chief residents Dr. Grilla was foundational to our scholarly activity She's been selected to present her research at national aafp meetings and winning awards at in jfp and ob hospital's conferences Dr. Grilla is returning to her hometown of long island and has taken a job as a nocturnus for northwell health Huntington hospital Next dr. Meja halaria a graduate of chicago medical school rosalyn franklin university of medicine and sciences Dr. Halaria served as our wellness committee representative for all three years and is passionate about integrative medicine She's joining h hack and sac meridian health primary care and fork at river One of our residency teaching practices and she will be providing outpatient care and joining the faculty She'll also be completing an integrative medicine fellowship with the university of arizona andrew wild foundation Dr. Brindan keys is a graduate of ross university school of medicine He's excelled as a leader and mentor of junior residents He is always an advocate for high quality evidence-based care Dr. Keys is returning to long island and will be joining pro health hospitalist group Hey, dr. Jeff moscow a graduate of the university of new angling college of osteopathic medicine and a native of ocean county Dr. Moscow is an advocate for osteopathic education and served as our resident osteopathic manipulation medicine education teacher He will be joining rowan university school of osteopathic medicine omm fellowship in stratford Dr. Meja Patel is a graduate of spartan health sciences school of medicine also a native of ocean county Dr. Patel served as our second co-chief resident a strong advocate for peers and program We are fortunate that dr. Patel is staying on with hack and sack brilliant health jackson family medicine And we'll be joining the program faculty Next dr. Charles cj rickowski a graduate of medical university of america's Dr. Kowski served as the program representative to the graduate medical education committee for two years We are fortunate to have dr. Kowski staying in brick with dr. Kaskarina's practice our family practice and he will also be joining the faculty for inpatient teaching Let's have a round of applause for the 21 2021 family medicine residence Thank you, dr. Cronhouse plural it's now My pleasure to introduce dr. Ramon sulka And dr. Saba Afsal from the department of psychiatry to introduce their graduate Good evening, everyone. We are very excited to be here tonight before I start I just really want to thank dr. Coons our gme team hospital leaders dr. Sable jason dr. Vibona Thank you for everything you do I am Saba Afsal i'm the associate training director of journal psychiatry residency program here at ocean medical center And I would like to acknowledge dr. Ramon sulka Who's the current program director of our psychiatry residency training program? He has a long list of titles But I will just mention one here that he is a chair Founding chair of the hackensack meridian school of medicine for the department of psychiatry and behavior health and a true leader and visionary and a great mentor I would like to recognize my faculty members here and the administrative staff for all the support and contribution to this outstanding program No bias here, of course And Thank you kelly. Thank you ken. Thank you promille. Thank you to all the program directors for working with us and collaborating with us And accommodating our psychiatry residents. I'm there, you know Teaching and the education you guys provide it's it's really valuable. So I really appreciate that So, you know, I'm not going to spend more time here I'll get to the business We are very excited to introduce our graduate to you Today shade day and fresh year Shade I would also like to extend my warm welcome to your family and friends who are here and especially your three-year-old daughter jade I can keep hearing and I know I still remember jade was born when you were an intern And she's highly adored by all her uncle and aunts and all psychiatrists Following her milestones all the time hi jade And I'm just gonna take one more minute to brag about shade's achievements and accomplishments. So please bear with me Dr. Frasier attended rovin university school of osteopathic medicine where she earned her doctor of osteopathic medicine in 2017 She's a diversity leadership fellow in the american psychiatry association and the vice chair of associations Minority fellowship program a huge honor for all of us and the ocean medical center In april she received a presidential appointment to a three-year tenure on the westmark award committee of the american psychiatry association Dr. Frasier has a keen interest in community service Social justice and advocacy work Her passions are children women's and maternal mental health and their intersection with the law and mental health policy Dr. Frasier will begin her fellowship training in child and adolescent psychiatry this july at westchester medical center In new york with future plans to pursue second fellowship in forensic psychiatry Shade we are really proud of you. You are rock star. I wish you all the best in all your future and their lives It's now my pleasure to introduce dr. Walter wincoup president of the ocean medical center medical and dental staff Who will lead the residents in reciting the Hippocratic oath dr. Wincoup? Good evening It's truly an honor and a privilege to be here with you all this evening On behalf of the medical staff of ocean medical center We want to say thank you We want to say thank you for making these years so much fun for us Because not only have we had the opportunity to work with you and teach with you But you have taught us so much You taught us about your character You taught us about what it means to be a physician You reminded us Why we decided to do this in the first place So thank you. It's truly an honor As you look toward the next part of your careers know that you're ready You know, we've had the honor and the privilege of working with you. We've seen you in action You're ready And you pastor boards We're extremely grateful for the care that you provided our patients We're extremely grateful for the camaraderie For how you've worked with our broader medical staff our nurses or respiratory therapists Watching you engage in a truly multidisciplinary way. That's the future of health care and you did it with expertise and applause I want to take this moment to thank someone who really needs to be thanked a lot and that's your families You know, we've all been residents And it's hard, you know and without family support. It's even harder. So I know that a lot of you probably all of you had a lot of support from your families And I just want to say thank you to them and give them a round of applause as you've heard Half of you we stand right here in ocean county as far as Family medicine and you look forward to working and seeing what you do also But for those of you that travel outside of new jersey Um, we're excited to have you back come back any time Come visit come back and work whatever All right good So, uh, with that said, um with the residents physicians and dentists in the audience And on and uh and here, please stand with me to recite the oath of hypocrite I do solemnly swear By that which I hold most sacred That I will be loyal to the profession of medicine and just and generous to its members That I will lead my life and practice my art in uprightness and honor That into who's whatsoever house I shall enter it shall be for the good of the sick To the utmost of my power Holding myself aloof from wrong From corruption and from the tempting of others to vice That I will exercise my art solely for the care of my patients And will give no drug and perform no operation For a criminal purpose far less suggested That whatsoever I shall see or hear Of the lives of my patients, which is not fitting to be spoken I will keep in viably secret These things I do promise And in proportion as I am faithful to this oath May happiness and good repute Be evermine and may the opposite befall me if I am false to my word Thank you. You may be seated And at this time I'd like to invite uh, Francisco Hernandez, uh to the podium Mr. Hernandez Thank you all who have joined us today this evening in person or virtually To celebrate the graduation at Ocean Medical Center's first class of residence The past three years have undoubtedly been a memorable experience in the office of graduate medical education We will miss you and we wish you the best of luck in your medical careers Residents and faculty and program directors, please stay for photos here on the stage Have a great evening and enjoy the weekend Once again, we want to remind residents faculty and program directors to please stay for group photos on the stage Everybody else. Thank you for joining us and enjoy your evening