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Dr. Jordan Cohen, president of the Association of American Medical Colleges, will deliver the keynote address to the Class of 2004 during the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ)-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School convocation ceremony on Monday, May 24, at 7 p.m., at the Doubletree Hotel in Somerset.

Dr. Cohen, who received an honorary degree from UMDNJ in 1996, is nationally recognized for his leadership in academic medicine. He has served as the president of the AAMC for the past decade and was dean of the School of Medicine at the State University of New York at Stony Brook for six years prior to that. He also has served on more than two dozen professional organizations and is a published scholar on many of the pressing issues facing academic medicine, from graduate medical education to diversity to curricular reform.

The convocation ceremony celebrates the outstanding achievements in academics, clinical studies and community service among this year's graduating physicians and honors distinguished faculty at the school.

The commencement ceremony for the Class of 2004, the largest in the University's history, will take place on Tuesday, May 25, at 10:30 a.m. at the Sovereign Bank Arena in Trenton.

WHAT: UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School Convocation

WHEN: Monday, May 24, from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.

WHERE: Doubletree Hotel

Davidson Avenue

Somerset, NJ