Perelman School of Medicine 2020 Commencement
February 11, 2020
To:Faculty, Students, and Staff
From:J. Larry Jameson, MD, PhD
Suzanne Rose, MD, MSEd
It is our pleasure to invite you to join us as we celebrate Commencement on May 17, 2020, at the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts and recognize the outstanding achievements of our graduating medical class. We are privileged this year to welcome back to Penn as commencement speaker Katrina Armstrong, MD, MSCE. A distinguished member of the Penn faculty and Penn Medicine leader for many years, Dr. Armstrong now serves as Chair of the Department of Medicine and Physician-in-Chief at Massachusetts General Hospital and is the Jackson Professor of Clinical Medicine at Harvard Medical School.
Dr. Armstrong is a graduate of Yale University and the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. She was a resident and chief resident in Medicine at Johns Hopkins and completed a research fellowship and Masters of Science in Clinical Epidemiology at Penn. In 1998, she joined the Penn faculty and led a research program in cancer control. Over the years, Dr. Armstrong took on multiple leadership roles, including serving as the Associate D