Welcome Alumni!
The Office of Alumni Relations is your link to Drexel, its predecessor institutions, and your fellow alumni. We hope you will maintain a lifelong engagement with our community.
Our office, and this website, strive to be a resource for you, whether you are hoping to network with other alumni, attend an event, or simply tell us about an accomplishment or update your contact information.
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From the Alumni Magazine
1842: 1.8 acres are purchased on Broad Street between Race and Vine Streets for the medical school. Read more.
Loretta Christensen, MD, HU ’84 — Lori, as loved ones called her back then in Gallup, New Mexico, long before her time at Harvard, at Hahnemann, at posts from the Jersey shore to the Indian Health Service — remembers the natural and cultural richness of the Southwest. Read more.
Asif Ilyas, MD, MCPHU ’01, MBA, FACS, is associate dean of clinical research, a newly created position at Drexel University College of Medicine. He is also a professor of orthopedic surgery at Thomas Jefferson University and a surgeon at the Rothman Institute. Read more.
Alumni News
The Legacy Center Archives and Special Collections at the College of Medicine was mentioned in a March 29 Philadelphia Inquirer story about Anandibai Joshee – the first-ever South Asian woman to become a doctor – who graduated from the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania in 1886. Read more.
We are thrilled to introduce you to individuals who hit their professional stride early and demonstrate an eagerness to share their quickly — not easily — gained wisdom and know-how with others to nurture a better future for all. Drexel University College of Medicine alumni Kraftin Ellice Schreyer, MD ’13 and Kathryn E. Bowser, MD ’11, BS Biological Sciences ’07 are among the honored. Read more.
Donald “DJ” Hall, PhD ’20, played an outsized role in keeping Drexel safe during the pandemic as director of the University's ad hoc COVID lab. Now an assistant professor, he’s leading the lab’s transformation into a for-profit diagnostic service. Read more.
Black women’s histories have either been ignored or mentioned only in their support of Black male figures for far too long. More Philadelphians should know about and cherish the trailblazing legacy of Dr. Halle Tanner Dillon Johnson. She was 24 when she entered the Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania (WMCP). Hidden City Philadelphia (March 30, 2023)
The Legacy Center at the College of Medicine was mentioned in a March 30, 2023 Asbury Park Press article about Anandi Joshi, the first Indian woman to graduate with a medical degree in the United States.