Postbac Premed Class Day
Friday, May 15, 2026, 2:30 p.m.
Morningside Campus Location: Low Rotunda
Doors Open: 2 p.m.
Ceremony: 2:30 p.m.
Reception: Immediately following the ceremony
Watch the Ceremony Livestream
Please note that registration is required for graduates, guests, and faculty.
At Postbac Premed Class Day, Dean Colgrove presents the completing class and each student walks to the stage while their name is read, and receives a GS alumni pin.
There are also remarks and congratulatory addresses from Dean Rosen-Metsch, Dean Colgrove, the keynote speaker, and a student speaker from the completing class. A reception will be held following the ceremony.
Event photos, along with a recording of the ceremony, will be sent out to attendees in the week following the celebration.
Keynote Speaker | Jonathan Mermin, MD, MPH
Jonathan Mermin, MD, MPH, is Dean of the Columbia Mailman School of Public Health. Previously, he was Director of the National Center for HIV, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Director of the Division of HIV Prevention at CDC. He spent 10 years in Africa as the Director of CDC-Uganda and Director of CDC-Kenya. He is a retired 2-star Rear Admiral and Assistant Surgeon General in the U.S. Public Health Service. He has focused his career on science-based, pragmatic research and public health programs that decrease incidence, mortality, and health disparities. He completed an internal medicine residency at UCSF-San Francisco General Hospital, a preventive medicine residency at CDC and the California Department of Health Services, and an Epidemic Intelligence Service fellowship at CDC. He is a graduate of Harvard College, Stanford University School of Medicine, and has an MPH from Emory University.
Student Speaker | Rem Myers ’26PBPM
After graduating from Hamilton College in 2011 with a double major in theatre and biochemistry, Rem Myers traveled to Indonesia, where he taught English under a Fulbright grant. Afterwards, he moved to San Francisco, where he taught high school math/science and worked as a professional theatre director. He obtained a master’s degree in theatre education in 2019, and then moved to New York to run the Upper School Theatre Program at the Spence School, where he continued to work while studying at Columbia. In addition to his classes as a Postbac, Rem has volunteered at Memorial Sloan Kettering and CUIMC. Rem spends his free time with his family: his wife, Preetha, their daughter, Amrita, and their pets, Aja and Oliver. Rem hopes to teach future physicians while practicing medicine in a specialty that puts him in close contact with his patients.
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Graduating Students
Eligible students are encouraged to register via the Student Success Portal by Tuesday March 31.
Guests
All registered students will receive an email with a guest registration link. Students may invite up to four guests and each guest must have their own registration with a unique email address. Please complete guest registration before the deadline on Friday, May 8 at 12 p.m.