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Graduates Cherish UC While Looking Forward to Careers in Medicine

headshot of Cedric Ricks By Cedric Ricks 260-415-8554
2 minute read May 22, 2015

Jenna Slaughter cherishes the close friendships she developed in study sessions and anatomy lab while Leslie Applegate remains touched by the connections she made with patients during her third- and fourth-year rotations. 

Andrew Warner is hopeful the personal lessons he shared about post-traumatic stress will stay with his colleagues who will someday treat sick veterans; Alex Cortez is pleased a course in medical Spanish and Latino Health will train future medical students to adequately assist a growing Latino community.

Their experiences, talents and memories are part of the legacy the Class of 2015 will leave the UC College of Medicine. This weekend Slaughter, Applegate, Warner and Cortez will be among 164 graduates who will receive medical degrees from the college and embark on careers in medicine as physicians or researchers. They will participate in an 11 a.m. hooding ceremony at Aronoff Center for the Arts in downtown Cincinnati, Saturday, May 23.

The quartet found time during the last week of classes to share their journeys to the Queen City.

Slaughter, who did undergrad at the University of Pennsylvania, and Cortez, a graduate of Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan, were attracted to UC as result outreach efforts by the College of Medicine’s Office of Diversity and Inclusion. Applegate considered the College of Medicine after attending Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., as an undergraduate and felt the need to be closer to her family in Lexington, Kentucky. Warner, a Green Beret, completed his undergraduate degree at UC and then remained a Bearcat.

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