We have conferred degrees on healthcare professionals since our first commencement in 1922 as the Pennsylvania State College of Optometry (PSCO). Over the years the name of our institution may have changed, but the excitement and anticipation of commencement day has remained the same.

This is a day of great pride for our graduates as well as their families and friends. The faculty and staff of Salus University are proud of what our graduates have achieved during their time with us and hope you will join us in this celebration of their achievements. Congratulations to the families and friends of the Class of 2024 for your ever-important, unheralded support of your graduate. Congratulations to the Class of 2024! We are proud of what each of you has accomplished. 

 

Honors & Achievements

Pennsylvania College of Optometry

Awards

Alumni Association Award Optometry Accelerated Scholars Program

  • Aaron M. Rydzynski

Alumni Association Award Optometry Traditional Program

  • Brandon J. Butters

Dr. John E. and Ethel M. Crozier Memorial Award

  • Marya Siddiq

Good-Lite Pediatric Award

  • Brandon J. Butters

Clinical Excellence Citation

  • Suite 1: Brandon J. Butters
  • Suite 2: Tanner Johnson
  • Suite 3: Olmedo Restrepo
  • Vision Rehabilitation: Stephen J. Shalamanda Jr.
  • Neuro-Ophthalmic: TuQuynh Nguyen Duong
  • Pediatrics: Megan Marie Dunn
  • Scholars: Megan Marie Dunn

College of Optometrists in Vision Development Award for Excellence in Vision Therapy

  • Samantha Jordan Taylor

Dr. Arthur Shlaifer Memorial Award

  • Paul W. Maglioli

Eshenbach Award for Excellence in Low Vision

  • Noah T. Kauffman

Noir Low Vision Award

  • Brandon J. Butters

Beta Sigma Kappa Award

  • Aaron M. Rydzynski

Cooper Vision Excellence in Contact Lens Award

  • Liza Rose Levy

Blanchard Contact Lens Excellence Award

  • Ryder Elliott Elder
  • Rick Anthony Nero

GP Contact Lens Clinical Excellence Award

  • Gillian Patricia Uldrich

Conforma Laboratories Award

  • Abigail Katherine Hoang
  • Diana Mamoud
  • Pratik J. Patel
  • Nahomie S. Possible
  • Olmedo Restrepo
  • Danielle Anne Torre

Alcon Student Scholarship Award

  • Michelle Casuga Lopez

Johnson & Johnson Award

  • Jenny Dang

Pediatrics and Binocular Vision Service: Award for Excellence

  • Kendall Joy Mattoni

Dr. & Mrs. H.C. Verma Award

  • Viral M. Shah

Donald H. Evans Award

  • Michelle Casuga Lopez

Graduation with Honors

Summa Cum Laude

  • Sampson Listowell Abu
  • Brandon J. Butters
  • India Deirdre Donofrio
  • Megan Marie Dunn
  • Lindsay Loren Lelas
  • Paul W. Maglioli
  • Kendall Joy Mattoni
  • Aaron M. Rydzynski
  • Marya Siddiq
  • Morgan Marianna Yelverton

Magna Cum Laude

  • Gini Selena Beltran
  • TuQuynh Nguyen Duong
  • Ryder Elliott Elder
  • Noah T. Kauffman
  • Erica Krepostman
  • Rick Anthony Nero
  • Divya Patel
  • Stephen J. Shalamanda Jr.
  • Manisha Talwar
  • Jennifer Elizabeth Vu

Cum Laude

  • Aayh Abdelgawad
  • Rushil Vinay Brahmbhatt
  • Rayanne Elise Brown
  • Claire Chabin
  • Kelvin Nunez Compres
  • Jenny Dang
  • Emi J. Girgis
  • Kayla Aliyah Hawkins
  • Laura Micela Osborn Holtz
  • Tarek Khalil
  • Michelle Casuga Lopez
  • Diana Mamoud
  • Samantha Angela Muncey
  • Alexis Kim Nivaud
  • Corbin M. Reppert
  • Jheel Shah
  • Gillian Patricia Uldrich
  • Fayaz Yahiya Vizam

Adornments

Beta Sigma Kappa

  • Aayh Abdelgawad
  • Gini Selena Beltran
  • Brandon J. Butters
  • Megan Marie Dunn
  • TuQuynh Nguyen Duong
  • Ryder Elliott Elder
  • Emi J. Girgis
  • Noah T. Kauffman
  • Simran Kaur
  • Lindsay Loren Lelas
  • Michelle Casuga Lopez
  • Paul W. Maglioli
  • Kendall Joy Mattoni
  • Syeda Zainab Narmeen
  • Rick Anthony Nero
  • Erin L. Nguyen
  • Aaron M. Rydzynski
  • Jheel Shah
  • Stephen J. Shalamanda Jr.
  • Ashley Ji-yoon Suh
  • Manisha Talwar
  • Fayaz Yahiya Vizam
  • Jennifer Elizabeth Vu
  • Yi-Kwen Nicolle Wah
  • Morgan Marianna Yelverton

 

Gold Key Honors Society

  • Melanie Diane Bale
  • Brandon J. Butters
  • Claire Chabin
  • Jennifer Chan
  • TuQuynh Nguyen Duong
  • Ryder Elliott Elder
  • Emi J. Girgis
  • Sean LaMont Lewis
  • Michelle Casuga Lopez
  • Samantha Angela Muncey
  • Syeda Zainab Narmeen
  • Sarah Salman
  • Stephen J. Shalamanda Jr.
  • Jourden Huynh Wise

Optometry Advanced Studies

Anterior Segment

  • Ashmita Sharma Jandwani
  • Syeda Zainab Narmeen
  • Sarah Salman

Contact Lens

  • TuQuynh Nguyen Duong
  • Ryder Elliott Elder
  • Divya Patel
  • Marya Siddiq
  • Gretchen Mae Suter
  • Gillian Patricia Uldrich
College of Health Sciences, Education and Rehabilitation

Awards

Alumni Association Award Speech-Language Pathology Program
  • Jacqueline Albor
  • Alyssa Marie Dallmer
  • Rachel Lauren Hedricks
  • Shawnna Lynn Lamond

Speech-Language Pathology Outstanding Leadership Award

  • Carly Theresa Clayton

Speech-Language Pathology Clinical Excellence Award

  • Caitlin Murphy Grace

Alumni Association Award Master of Science in Occupational Therapy Program

  • Lexi Danielle Hunn

Occupational Therapy Outstanding Leadership Award

  • Lexi Danielle Hunn
  • Laniyah Rhoades

Occupational Therapy Excellence in Scholarship Award

  • Payton S. McGowan 
  • Angela Reichwein

Occupational Therapy Superior Professionalism Award

  • Marisa A. Guardino
  • Jessica Vanessa Hunkler

Occupational Therapy Clinical Excellence Award

  • Kiley Virginia Gallagher
  • Jaclyn Rose Kuhn
  • Hadley Arden Turner
  • Shelby Williams

Occupational Therapy Service to the Community Award

  • Megan Delawder
  • Patrick Joseph Kenney

Alumni Association Award Doctor of Occupational Therapy Program

  • Emma Harriet Kaplan

Alumni Association Award Biomedicine Program

  • Jenny Ann Rajan

Graduation with Honors

Summa Cum Laude

  • Jacqueline Albor 
  • Madelyn Bernetich
  • Lily Campoli
  • Brenna Lynn Clowney
  • Nichole Coyne
  • Alyssa Marie Dallmer
  • Stevie Goldman
  • Caitlin Murphy Grace
  • Rachel Lauren Hedricks
  • Emma Harriet Kaplan
  • Jessica Leigh Kusters
  • Shawnna Lynn Lamond
  • Kaylyn Regina Lawson
  • Brittnee Jane Livingston
  • Erin Marie O'Connell
  • Brielle Irene Piecyk
  • Alexa Marie Raspanti
  • Sara Garrell Simone
  • Kellyn Weist
  • Franciene T. Wilson

Magna Cum Laude

  • Mary Kathleen Carney 
  • Carly Theresa Clayton
  • Jessica Concannon
  • Sydni Ariel Delfiner
  • Kylie Anne DiGiacomo
  • Olivia Brooke Fogarty
  • Joshua Edward Hartley
  • Madelyn Marie Kallmeyer
  • Hannah Rose Lovenwirth
  • Zhuokai Luo
  • Rachael Noelle Montesano
  • Devin Haley O'Brien
  • Jenny Ann Rajan
  • Michelle Roginsky
  • Nina Marie Scola

Cum Laude

  • Meghan Marie Brems
  • India Jenkins-Brown
  • Jacqueline Rose Ostaszewski


Osborne College of Audiology

Awards

Alumni Association Award Audiology Program

  • Maximilian Bauer
  • Ann Maria Benny
  • Samantha Rose Charlton
  • Anu Mohan Mohanan Geetha Kumari
  • Alexandra Patella

Student Academy of Audiology George S. Osborne Service Award

  • Shayna M. Sawyer

Victor Hugo Bray Fourth Year Clinical Excellence Award

  • Keira Aislinn Mehigan
  • Leticia Ramirez

Graduation with Honors

Summa Cum Laude

  • Jennifer Nicole Curtin
  • Sofiya Dorokhin
  • Kaitlyn Marie McCarthy
  • Keira Aislinn Mehigan
  • Simone Milyavsky
  • Alexandra Patella
  • Brooke Sussman

Magna Cum Laude

  • Karissa Grace Boutross
  • Brian E. Bureau
  • Megan Elizabeth Kirkpatrick
  • Leticia Ramirez
  • Ivelca Antonia Rodriguez
  • Shayna M. Sawyer

Cum Laude

  • Danielle M. Baran
  • Alexandra Marie Jackson

Adornments

Alpha Upsilon Delta

  • Samantha Rose Charlton
  • Jennifer Nicole Curtin
  • Sofiya Dorokhin
  • Kaitlyn Marie McCarthy
  • Keira Aislinn Mehigan
Division of Global, Interprofessional, and Specialized Programming

Awards

Alumni Association Award Blindness and Low Vision Studies Program

  • Elaine Elizabeth Covaliuc
  • Jeannine Penzone
  • Carolyn Marie Pijanowski
  • Guillaume Seraglini


AmbuTech O&M Award

  • Jeannine Penzone

Excellence in Direct Service Award

  • Jeannine Penzone

AVRT Excellence in Vision Rehabilitation Therapy

  • Elaine Elizabeth Covaliuc
  • Carolyn Marie Pijanowski

Dr. Audrey J. Smith/JVIB Award
  • Carolyn Marie Pijanowski

Leadership Award

  •  Carolyn Marie Pijanowski

Graduation with Honors

Summa Cum Laude

  • Suha Saleh AlMusa
  • Elaine Elizabeth Covaliuc
  • Jeannine Penzone
  • Kathryn Julia Pierce
  • Carolyn Marie Pijanowski
  • Guillaume Seraglini

Magna Cum Laude

  • Wanda Maria Easter

Legacy Families

Jacqueline Albor, SLP

  • Paige Albor, MS '18 - Sister

Lily Campoli, SLP

  • MaryBeth Campoli, MSOT '16

Claire Chabin, OD

  • Sophie Chabin, MEd '14 - Mother

Tanner Johnson​, OD

  • Hannah Johnson (Boykin), MSOT '22 - Spouse

Wonil Ko​, OD

  • Esther Ko, Resident '19 - Sister

Liza Levy​, OD

  • Robert Levy, OD '93 - Father

Payton McGowan​, MSOT

  • Tracy Offerdahl-McGowan - Mother

Adaeze Nnabue​, OD

  • Alexander Nnabue, OD '94 - Father

Lucy O'Connor​, OD

  • Thomas O'Connor, OD '88 - Father

Shivani Patel​, OD

  • Sita Patel, OD '13 - Sister-in-Law

Kathryn Pierce, BVI

  • Mary Pierce, MEd '17 - Sister

Abanob Samwil, OD

  • Ledia Samwil, OD '23 - Sister

Trenton Shuke, OD

  • Keith Shuke, OD '95 - Father
  • William Shuke, OD '89 - Uncle
  • Daniel Anderson, OD '89 (MS VRT) - Uncle

Carly Wasson, MSOT

  • Jillian Muller (Wasson), MS '17 - Sister

Anita Werner, MSOT

  • Annette Zamboni-Werner, OD '89 - Mother
  • Francis Joseph Werner, OD '88 - Father
  • Alexander Werner, OD '19 - Brother
  • Anderson Werner, OD '21 - Brother