MEDIA ADVISORY

CONTACT: Doug Carlson, College of Medicine

(850) 645-1255; doug.carlson@med.fsu.edu

Aug. 7, 2019

Members of the Florida State University College of Medicine Class of 2023 will receive white coats this week, in a traditional ceremony symbolizing the importance of compassionate care for patients and the scientific proficiency expected of physicians.

The featured speaker is Shermeeka Hogans-Mathews, M.D., a 2015 graduate of the FSU College of Medicine. She now is a College of Medicine faculty member and practices family medicine/behavioral health at the new FSU PrimaryHealth in southwest Tallahassee.

Also honored will be 18 members of the Class of 2020 who have been inducted into the FSU Chapman Chapter of the Gold Humanism Honor Society.

The ceremony will take place:

FRIDAY, AUG. 9

6 P.M.

RUBY DIAMOND CONCERT HALL

TALLAHASSEE, FLORIDA

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