School of Medicine

American Geriatric Healthcare Professionals Award Victoria Kozar with the Edward Henderson Student Award

Victoria "Tia" Kozar, a third-year medical student at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine, is this year’s recipient of the Edward Henderson Student Award given by the American Geriatric Healthcare Professionals in recognition of her extensive community involvement, significant leadership skills, record of academic excellence, and strong commitment to geriatrics care.

UConn Health celebrated its 52nd Commencement on May 8, 2023. New doctors from UConn medical and dental schools celebrating together.

UConn Health’s 52nd Commencement Celebrates Hundreds of New Doctors

UConn Health Graduates are Ready to Enter the Health Care Workforce for Connecticut and the Nation

Sights and scenes during the School of Engineering's Commencement ceremony in Gampel Pavilion

2023 Commencement at a Glance

This weekend, students in full regalia gathered with their classmates and processed together to Gampel Pavilion and the Jorgensen Center for the Performing Arts to hear their names called as they join the great community of graduates stretching all the way back to 1883

Future Dr. Ezigbobiara Umejiego graduates from UConn's medical school of May 8, 2023 (Photo by Tina Encarnacion/UConn Health).

Class of 2023: Future Ophthalmologist Ezigbobiara Umejiego

Read this Q & A with the future Dr. Ezigbobiara Umejiego. Find out why he can’t wait to help care for the urban underserved, the profound influence the Health Career Opportunity Program (HCOP) and CT AHEC have had on students like him at UConn Health, and why those wishing to enter medical school should look no further than UConn.

Drone views of the UConn entryway sign lit green for Earth Day. March 16, 2022.

Celebrating UConn’s Class of 2023

A class full of passion, ambition, and hope

Class of 2023 Rafael Olivieri-Ortiz

Class of 2023: Future Diagnostic Radiologist Rafael Olivieri-Ortiz

Read this Q & A with the future Dr. Rafael Olivieri-Ortiz about his UConn School of Medicine experience providing him with a welcoming school environment, early patient care exposure, all the tools necessary to be the best physician, mentorship by the Health Career Opportunity Program, and his love for radiology.

Group portrait in front of a fire truck

UConn Health Screens Firefighters for Skin Cancer

Dermatologists, residents, students offer free screenings for UConn and community firefighters, whose occupational exposures increase their risk of melanoma and other cancers

Future Dr. Edesiri Igbuya graduates from UConn's medical school on May 8, 2023. On March 17 she celebrated her successful match into OB/GYN residency training with HCOP founder and director Dr. Marja Hurley.

Class of 2023: Future OB/GYN Edesiri Igbuya

Read this Q & A with the future Dr. Edesiri Igbuya on why she is entering the field of Obstetrics and Gynecology with residency training at UMass and how mentorship of the Health Career Opportunity Program was a very special part of her UConn medical school journey.

Class of 2023 SOM Jonathan Harrell

Class of 2023: Future Emergency Medicine Doctor Jonathan Harrell

Read this Q & A with the future Dr. Jonathan Harrell sharing his UConn School of Medicine experience, why the emergency medicine field grabbed his heart, and how mentorship by the UConn Health Career Opportunity Program made a difference.

Paige Holden

Class of 2023: Future Surgeon Paige Holden

Read this Q & A with future Dr. Paige Holden about her UConn School of Medicine experience.