118 medical students to graduate from Wright State’s Boonshoft School of Medicine April 28

The Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine will hold its spring 2024 graduation ceremony on Sunday, April 28, at 2 p.m. in the Wright State Nutter Center.

A class of 118 medical students from the Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine will celebrate graduation on Sunday, April 28, at 2 p.m. in the Wright State Nutter Center.

In addition to the conferring of degrees, the ceremony will include a “hooding ceremony” in which graduates receive traditional regalia denoting their status and profession.

Graduating students will also take a professional oath to mark the start of their medical careers and sign a registry to commemorate their first use of the initials M.D. following their names.

The graduation ceremony will be live-streamed at wright.edu/streaming and on Wright State’s Facebook page and YouTube channel.

In July, the graduates will begin prestigious residencies and receive advanced training in the medical specialties of their choice. The new physicians will enter outstanding residency training programs in Dayton, throughout Ohio and nationwide. A complete list of all matches is available at medicine.wright.edu/match.

Gregory Toussaint, M.D., interim dean of the Boonshoft School of Medicine, will deliver the commencement address.

Gregory Toussaint, M.D., interim dean of the Boonshoft School of Medicine, will deliver the commencement address at the medical school’s graduation ceremony.

Before he was appointed interim dean in August 2023, Toussaint served as associate professor of pediatrics and associate dean for clinical skills education.

As associate dean for clinical skills education and a member of the Department of Pediatrics, Toussaint was involved with teaching in all four years of the medical school curriculum. Under his leadership, the medical school’s Skills Assessment and Training Center received Wright State’s 2021 President’s Award for Excellence: Outstanding Unit.

Toussaint previously served as assistant dean and director of admissions in the Office of Student Affairs and Admissions and director of the pediatrics clerkship at the Boonshoft School of Medicine.

He has also served as medical director for inpatient general pediatrics at Dayton Children’s Hospital.

Toussaint joined the Boonshoft School of Medicine in 2005 after a nearly 34-year career with the U.S. Air Force.

After graduating from the U.S. Air Force Academy, he received his medical degree from Virginia Commonwealth University. He completed a pediatric residency at the Air Force’s Wilford Hall Hospital in San Antonio and a fellowship in general academic pediatrics at Boston Children’s Hospital.

In addition to positions as a general pediatrician or medical staff chief at Air Force facilities in the United States and overseas, Toussaint served three tours as commander of forward-deployed, combat support field hospitals for operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.