[Source: UA News] – A Nigeria native who works with neurologically challenged children and a teletrauma program coordinator who links University of Arizona trauma surgeons with rural hospitals in Southern Arizona are among the incoming students at the UA College of Medicine who will participate in the 16th annual White Coat Ceremony 5-6:30 p.m. Friday, Aug. 6 in Centennial Hall on the Tucson campus.
The president of the first class to graduate from the UA College of Medicine in 1971 will address the incoming Class of 2014. Neurosurgeon Dr. Volker K.H. Sonntag, vice chairman emeritus of the Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix and professor of clinical surgery at the UA College of Medicine, will deliver the keynote address, “The Privilege to Care.”
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