Graduation | Friday 10 July pm

Professor Natalie Armstrong joined City St George’s as Executive Dean of the School of Health & Medical Sciences in January 2025. Natalie is an internationally recognised health services researcher whose work uses ideas and methods from the social sciences to better understand, and seek to address, problems in the delivery of high[1]quality healthcare.

Prior to joining City St George’s, Natalie was the Deputy Head of the College of Life Sciences at the University of Leicester, having previously been a Head of Department. As part of her role, Natalie was also the University-appointed Non-Executive Director to the University Hospitals of Northamptonshire Group.

Natalie is Professor of Health Services Research having completed a BSc (Hons) Politics & Sociology at the University of Warwick, an MSc in Medical Sociology at Royal Holloway, University of London, and her PhD at the University of Nottingham. Following postdoctoral positions at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and the University of Warwick, Natalie took up her first academic post in 2008 as Lecturer in Social Science Applied to Health at the University of Leicester. She was promoted to Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor in 2014, and to Professor in 2017.

Natalie’s appointment as the inaugural Executive Dean of the School of Health & Medical Sciences at City St George’s, followed the completion of the merger between City, University of London and St George’s, University of London. As part of her role, Natalie is delighted to be the University-appointed Non-Executive Director to the St George’s, Epsom and St Helier Hospital Group.

Presiding Officer: Elisabeth Hill, Deputy President & Provost, City St George’s, University of London

The procession will enter the Hall, accompanied by Marshals, in the following order:

1. Students’ Union Mace
2. Officers of the Students’ Union
3. Chaplains
4. Academic staff
5. Departmental presenters
6. Senate
7. Council
8. Executive Dean of School
9. Assistant Vice-President
10. University Mace
11. Deputy President & Provost

Order of the ceremony

1. Incoming procession: accompanied by ‘Prelude to Te Deum’ by Charpentier
2. Opening address: Professor Elisabeth Hill, Deputy President & Provost, City St George’s, University of London
3. Officiating Dean’s speech: Professor Natalie Armstrong, Executive Dean, School of Health & Medical Sciences
4. Award of degrees
5. Closing address: Dr Ali Raja (Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery)
6. Pledge: Dr Robert Nagaj
7. Outgoing procession: accompanied by ‘La Réjouissance from Music for the Royal Fireworks’ by Handel

School of Health and Medical Sciences
Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery
Betuel Prize

• Awarded to the highest scorers in the CPSA stations relevant to all surgical specialities
• Hoda Al-Haddad (joint winner)
• Alexandra Orton (joint winner)
• Ayesha Gani (runner up)

Brackenbury Prize for Medicine

• Awarded to the highest scorers in the CPSA stations relevant to Medicine
• Rebecca Carr-White (winner)
• Rachel Goldberg (runner up)

Clinical SSC (Student Selected Component) Prize

• Awarded to the best Final Year Clinical SSC submission
• Selina Lui

Emergency Medicine Prize, supported by the Sir F Laking and WD Dakin Fund

• Awarded to the highest scorers in the CPSA stations relevant to Emergency Medicine
• Rachel Goldberg (winner)
• Rachel Fowden-Hulme (runner up)"

Joe Collier Prize for Excellence in Pharmacology

• Awarded to the highest scorer in the PSA Exam
• Eleanor Hamilton-Begley (winner)
• Benien Obaid (runner up)

Kathleen Valles Prize in Renal Medicine

• Awarded to the highest scorers in exam questions and stations relevant to renal medicine
• Dorottya Fricska (joint winner)
• Samuel North (joint winner)
• Shreyasi Kesarwani (joint winner)
• Oritsejolomi Okpako (joint winner)
• Eruvieoghene Inije (joint winner)
• Muhammad Abbas (joint winner)
• Eredia Agbonwan (joint winner)
• Sofia Cheema (joint winner)
• Katherine de Brett (joint winner)
• Rachel Fowden-Hulme (joint winner)

Nominees for the University of London Gold Medal Viva

The top four performing candidates in the Final Year examinations and who have been awarded four distinctions or three distinctions and one merit are put forward as City St George's University of London Gold Medal candidates.

• Rachel Fowden-Hulme
• Anna Cackett
• Shreyasi Kesarwani
• Katerina Cheliotis

Non Clinical SSC (Student Selected Component) Prize

• Awarded to the best Final Year Non Clinical SSC submission
• Hannah Mahmood

Public Health Prize, supported by the Sir F Laking and WD Dakin Fund

• Awarded to the best presentation undertaken during the Public Health placement
• Nicole Jordanou (winner)
• Georgia McCulloch (runner up)

The City St George's RGCP South London Faculty Prize

• Awarded to one of the 5 highest scoring students according to the Lee Prize criteria and who is judged to have written the best GP reflective practice submission
• Rachel Fowden-Hulme

The Freeling Prize

• Awarded to the highest scorers in the CPSA stations relevant to Clinical Communications
• Jaime Parsons (winner)
• Anna Cackett (runner up)

The Johnson Prize in Anaesthetics and Critical Care

• Awarded to highest scorers in the CPSA stations relevant to Anaesthetics and Critical Care
• Rowan Wilson (winner)
• Jaime Parsons (runner up)

The Lee Prize in Family Medicine

• Awarded to the highest scorers in the CPSA stations relevant to Primary Care
• Rebecca Carr-White (winner)
• Asher Renton (runner up)

The Professor Tim Northfield Medal for Medicine

• Awarded following a special viva examination for students who are the top five performing candidates in terms of overall mark at the Final Year Examinations and have been awarded four Distinctions or three Distinctions and one Merit (Medical Sciences, Clinical Science, Clinical Specialties, and Clinical Practice).
• Shreyasi Kesarwani (winner)
• Marianne O’Connor (runner up)
• Anna Cackett (finalist)
• Rachel Fowden-Hulme (finalist)
• Rowan Wilson (finalist)

Undergraduate Programme Prize

• Awarded to the highest scoring student across all assessment areas in Final year
• Jaime Parsons

Masters in Physican Associate Studies
Postgraduate Programme Prize

• Tilly Maria PATTERSON

Reflection Competition 2025 Priize

• Rabeea Bhutta (winner)
• Sophie Davison (runner up)

School of Health and Medical Sciences

Presenter: Tripti Chakraborty

Masters in Physician Associate Studies

• Asma Ismail Abdullahi
• Deji Dean Ohi Osayande Agbede
• Adilah Ahammed
• Mohamed Abdulkader Ahmed
• Blessing Uzor Trail Akpenyi-Hilary
• Imtihan Sanin Alam
• Abir Khalid Ali
• Zaineb Anwar
• Arianne Colline Joyce Icylin Barnett-Daley
• Rabeea Zain Bhutta
• Yuliya Vasylivna Bortnyak
• Emmanuella Adimely Buenor
• Joshua Oliver Harry Conway
• Nirmohi Sanjay Dave
• Sophie Laura Davison
• Ayse Bernis Demir
• Chloe Emily Douglas
• Rida Fatima
• Toby James Flanagan
• Natalie Benefah Gyau
• Huda Mohamed Hassan
• Kyrah Charlton Amber Henry
• Dilaniya Herald
• Eliza Lavinia Burke Hon Eliza Roche
• Nahida Hussain
• Apiraa Jasotharan
• Jhalani Antoinette Johnson
• Sharuga Kalaimohan
• Powrniha Karunakaran
• Doga Arda Kucuk
• Nathalie Christiana Temitope Shade Lenders
• Rydhm Luthra
• Haoran Ma
• Zarmina Mohamadi
• Sabrina Mohamed
• Bruce Monteiro De Castro Veloso
• John Darren Delfino Obmasca
• Iyanuoluwa Paul Odesanya
• Suliat Oyeneyin
• Mathilde Elizabeth Morgan Palmer
• Tilly Maria Patterson
• Eleanor Georges Pernette
• Humaad Qurban Raja
• Theepthy Rajendran
• Noelia Rivera Melian
• Jonelle Charlotte Robinson-Fenton
• Jarra Sisay
• Rohith Srikanth
• Jordan Andrew Stocker-Palmer
• Susanna Shiranthi Thevathas
• Martina Trudu
• Aneesa Uddin
• Sneha Uthayakumar
• Maria Faye Gaylin Vaz Furtado

Postgraduate Certificate in Healthcare Studies

• Lola Violet Alice Carias
• Laura Margarida Chicharo Freire
• Abbie May Holloway
• Iffat Hussain
• Rahima Hussain
• Israa Ahmed Malik
• Borna Matubber
• Lamisa Mazumder
• Karishma Mirza
• Husnain Mufti
• Onyiyechukwu Elizabeth Okafor
• Hope-Zoe Oshioneh Okiki
• Humairah Rahman
• Fahima Sheikh
• Tanya Davids Ssebana
• Bretha Thavabalasingam
• Mateina Pressi Traore

Postgraduate Diploma in Healthcare Studies

• Masuma Begum Hadi
• Mezu Carmelite Iheanetu
• Beth Emma Tigar Linfield
• Michelle Adaku Ofoegbu

Presenter: Dr Sarah Krishnanandan

Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery

• Marzuq Omeiza Okemena Abbas
• Muhammad Zaeem Abbas
• Muridi Awes Abdulkadir
• Ayaan Mohamud Abdulle
• Ayman Saleh Mohammed Abdulrahim
• Eredia Egarton Agbonwan
• Fabian Ubaejiaka Chinedu Aguigwo
• Omar Ahmad
• Mariam Ahmed
• Muhammad Safuan Ahmed
• Samid Uddin Ahmed
• Shariq Husaam Ahsan
• Lara Mazin Hyder Saleem Al-Asady
• Alfred William France Aldridge
• Hoda Al-Haddad
• Arooj Ali
• Hafsah Zahra Ali
• Muna Ali
• Musaddiq Ali
• Zubayr Mu'Adh Ali
• Charlotte Allen
• Nilash Ambihapathy
• Amina Amer-El-Khedoud
• Ehsan Amirzai
• Aileen Denisha Anthonipillai
• Matthew Ariya Arden
• Raksana Ayub
• Daniel Badeli
• Omolara Maria Badmos
• Nithya Balchandra
• Jessica Louise Ballantine
• Kabirah Titilope Balogun
• Valentine Funmilola Balogun
• Ptolemy David Willmott Banks
• Benjamin John Barnes
• Mohammed Ibrahim Bashir
• Stephanie Nicole Bean
• Yael Ben-David
• Catriona May Rose Best
• Shreya Bhasin
• Ishika Bhattarai
• Dhruvi Bhobe
• Zuzanna Maria Bober
• Sandra Boles
• Kavya Bose
• Bishr Bourghli
• Anna Lubomira Brierley
• Florence Brook
• Nicholas Alistair Brown
• Rebecca Grace Brown
• Rhea Ebony Brown
• Asmaar Butt
• Anna Kathryn Cackett
• Filippo Cainelli
• Amber Cairney-Witter
• Chay Michael Callaghan
• Rebecca Louise Carr-White
• Yat Chun Cambridge Chan
• Amina Cheddidi
• Sofia Cheema
• Katerina Stamatina Cheliotis
• Callum Clohessy
• Abigail Francesca Colletta
• Katerina Maria Haroulla Constantinou- Hickman
• Jessica Sarah Coyle
• Francesco Criminisi
• Roberta Zuleika Frederika Crowther
• Katherine Sophia de Brett
• Nicolas Luc Francis De La Rocha
• Leila Dobreva
• Nhikkol Liberty Yvonnhe Flores Ducci
• Rebecca Helen Edge
• Lara Camilla Egendal
• Benjamin William Ekbery
• Stefano Aiman Helmy Elias
• Nicholas Evans
• Farah Faddul
• Ibrahim Faizi
• Joy Ololade Famuyiwa
• Siu Yuen Oscar Fan
• Gavin Dominic Fernando
• Grace Mercedes Fielding
• Victoria Sophie Foster
• Rachel Gail Fowden-Hulme
• Dorottya Ibolya Fricska
• Syeda Nabaha Fuad
• Ayesha Rizwan Gani
• Annie Marie Catherina Gillespie
• Timon Girgis
• Rachel Goldberg
• Joshua Nahum Golding
• Areg Gotoh
• Sophie Lili-Rose Gray
• Simranjeet Singh Grewal
• Steven Guan
• Noor Ul Hudda Gul Muhammad
• Khushi Gupta
• Jessica Gurung
• Nisha Gurung
• Nazanin Hajimohammadimalekabadi
• Luqman Abdul Hadi Chaudary Hamed
• Hafsha Hameed Lebbe
• Adam Waleed Jordan Hamideh
• Eleanor Hamilton-Begley
• Aniya Jenna Haque
• Arjinder Hara
• Abigail Victoria Hargreaves
• Syed Raed Ul Hasan
• Alfaiya Hashmi
• Syeda Ayesha Hashmi
• Holly May Hayden
• Matthew Benjamin Edward Hayes
• Niamh Healy
• Joseph David Henley
• Katherine Elisabeth Tozer Higton
• Kaze Hau Yi Ho
• Aman Kaur Hoonjan
• Victoria Millicent Horler
• Anna Rose Howe
• Claudia Rose Howells
• Cloe Hubbard
• Sian Catherine Hunt
• Hana Khuram Hussain
• Rukhsar Hussain
• Mujgana Hussainy
• Farha Idrees
• Ahsan Iftikhar
• Aizenosa Anthonette Imafidon
• Eruvieoghene Samuel Inije
• Mirza Asam Iqbal
• Elspeth Florence Jackson
• Mikaeel Hassan Jaffer
• Zahrah Jahangir
• Rohan Narinder Kranti Jain
• Peter Dale Jefferies
• Fynn Connor Jordan
• Nicole Christina Jordanou
• Sara Hameed Kadhm
• Shri Prashant Kakodkar
• Charalambos Karaiossifides
• Yasemin Keith
• Shreyasi Kesarwani
• Hameem Anbar Khan
• Maryam Aqsa Khan
• Varundeep Singh Khosa
• Keeane Arvi King
• Sophie Claire Kinirons
• Man Chi Daphne Ko
• Muhammad Abbas Lalji
• Rafal Emad Hassan Latif
• Charlotte Rose Leadbetter
• Nathan Scott Ho Cheung Leung
• Selina Xue Yun Lui
• Emily Elizabeth Lynch
• Matin Maanoosi
• Yasmin Abdiwahab Mahi
• Hannah Naz Mahmood
• Jeremiah Oluwatoyin Makinde
• Nikhil Joseph Manoj
• Emiliya Elizebath Martin
• Akshara Mathi
• Sofia Mavili
• Catherine Claire McCarthy
• Georgia May McCullough
• Liam David McGrenaghan
• Rose Elizabeth Mary McLaren
• Jack Geoffrey Meadows
• Reem Megahed
• Ikram Zahia Mezghrani
• Alexia Micallef
• Portia Miller
• Suhur Ahmed Mohamed
• Tomador Tarig Ahmed Mohammed
• Hafsah Mohamud
• Christopher James Fitzgerald Morrissey
• Nabiha Muhseen
• Haniya Mukhtar Ahamed
• Ananya Mundwadkar
• Michelle Rutendo Munyoro
• Diego Fernando Najera Saltos
• Arkhash Nandakumar
• Thusani Nanthakumaran
• Sujay Nataraja
• Agith Navalan
• Aamya Neeraj
• Precious Oseahumen Nemedia
• Jacquelyn North
• Samuel David North
• Aleksandra Maria Nowak
• Benien Obaid
• Marianne Isobel O'Connor
• Priya Odedra
• Kehinde Oluwatomisin Ojuri
• Kevin Chibuzor Okonkwo
• Oritsejolomi Aghogho Okpako
• Alexandra Mary Orton
• Eve Stella Osborne
• Elizabeth Harriet Eve Outhwaite
• Tom Oscar A Owens
• Daniel Llewelyn Parrish
• Jaime Louise Parsons
• Yaswant Perumal
• Asqlan Pirzada
• Isobel Lois Preece
• Cameron Jay Pugh
• Hiba Mariam Qureshi
• Vishaanth Raguraj
• Ali Sardar Raja
• Rishi Rasavathanan
• Saleh Rashid
• Kabir Rattu
• Tasnima Aktar Raysa
• Adeel Rehman
• Asher Simon Renton
• Tirion Eirlys Polly Rhys Bonta
• Camilla Mary Lavinia Robathan
• Christopher John Robbs
• Jonathan Daniel Anthony Rodriguez
• Joseph Simon Ruffle
• Sami Sabouba
• Sthitapragyan Sahoo
• Az-Zubayr Sahraoui
• Sanjay Sakthivel
• Mohammod Rafi-Ul Najib Salam
• Amber Saleem
• Mohamed Akram Sattar
• Jashan Selvakumar
• Lakshmi Shabu
• Halia Shah
• Ronak Jayant Shah
• Baiju Pradeep Sharda
• Aryan Sharma
• Janki Hiteshkumar Sharma
• Emelia Mary Morcom Shead
• Sadiyah Sheikh
• Hussayn Shinwari
• Nour Mohamed Shoukry
• Sarisha Sachin Shrivastav
• Zaid Hazim Fadil Shuber
• Shiza Siddiqui
• Chloe Joanne Simmonds
• Jaiveer Singh
• Paarth Singhal
• Sowmi Sinnathurai
• Vharun Sivakumar
• Benjamin Francis William Smeaton
• Arjun Singh Sohal
• Richard James Southcott
• Alexander John Stringer
• Gemma Victoria Swain
• Hannah Constance Tabor
• Sakib Jillul Tariq
• Ranaa Taurobally
• Jack Steev Tituana Lliguin
• Hsiu Yen Tung
• Sharan Vaitheswaran
• Meghana Vipin
• Katy Elizabeth Walden
• Marcus Vincent Fraser Walklett
• Charlotte Elizabeth Ward
• Emily Coral Rose Watkins
• Hannah Teresa Emily West
• Luke Samuel Jahan White
• Edward Alec Wilson
• Rowan Phillip Wilson
• Alice India Wood
• Aleyna Zara Yildiz
• Malika Yusuf Mohamed
• Kiyana Zarnani

BSc (Hons) in Human Life Sciences

• Victoria Temitope Idowu
• Mann Mittal
• Rajan Pal
• Yasmin Taghvaipour
• Inayah Wazir
• Mohamed Yongawo

The City St George’s, School of Health & Medical Sciences (Tooting) Skills and Recognition Award is an initiative where students can showcase the skills they’ve developed in academia and extra-curricular initiatives and activities outside of their programme of study. The Award offers students the opportunity to make the most of their experience by reflecting on and demonstrating essential transferrable skills that will benefit them throughout their entire careers.

There are two types of Award – the School of Health & Medical Sciences' Skills and Recognition Award, which focuses on 7 skills, and the School of Health & Medical Sciences' Skills and Recognition Master Award, which focuses on all 11 skills: Commercial awareness, Communication, Digital literacy, Innovation and creativity, Interpersonal, Leadership and management, Analysis, Planning & organisation, Research & investigation, Problem solving and Teamwork.

Congratulations to our recent City St George’s, School of Health & Medical Sciences (Tooting) Award Prize winners:

City St George’s, School of Health & Medical Sciences (Tooting) Skills and Recognition Award

• Desiree Oppey
• Diyendra Withana

City St George’s, School of Health & Medical Sciences (Tooting) Skills and Recognition Master Award

• Elnaz Abdollahi-Khormaie
• Aribah Ahmed
• Sinin Alattar
• Ashmeet Arora
• Aditi Atri
• Nikolina Bajaka
• Kabeerah Balogun
• Rabeea Bhutta
• Mary Carrillo-Evans
• Francesca Coppola
• Calynn Da Cunha
• Chrisel D'Souza
• Elvia Edison
• Emerald Essuman
• Thasmiya Khaja Israr Ahmed
• Kiranjit Khera
• Uhuru Amani Lambert
• Tomador Mohammed
• Aseel Nasser
• Shokat Niknezhad
• Ella Pakoglu
• Zafirah Rahman
• Nazakat Suleymanova