The annual celebration honors Feinberg’s founders and welcomes a new class of medical students to campus. This year’s Founders’ Day address was delivered by Stephanie Eisenbarth, MD, PhD, chief of allergy and immunology and director of the Center for Human Immunobiology.
“You have opened a new portal to your life’s work that focuses on medicine and science very few are privileged to enter,” said Eric G. Neilson, MD, vice president for Medical Affairs and Lewis Landsberg Dean, in his address to the students. “There is a myriad of exciting times ahead for you, not the least of which is working in a medical center teeming with world-class hospitals.”
On Friday, June 21, Feinberg’s Physician Assistant Program’s Class of 2026 celebrated the beginning of their medical journey with a white coat ceremony. The newly formed class comes to Feinberg from 15 different states and collectively holds degrees from 27 different academic institutions across 14 different undergraduate majors.
“Your resilience, your dedication, and your tenacity have brought you here today. And we are all incredibly proud of you and what you have accomplished already, and what you will accomplish as you pursue achieving this dream of becoming a PA,” said keynote speaker Daytheon Sturges, PhD, PA-C, vice chair for Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in the department of Family Medicine at the University of Washington School of Medicine.
