SCHOOL EVENTS
School Awards Ceremony
2 p.m., Friday, May 16
Collins Diboll Auditorium
1440 Canal Street School Spring Commencement Ceremony
4.p.m., Saturday, May 17
Dixon Hall, Uptown campus
Students walking in the ceremony must arrive by 3:30 p.m. Degree candidates should view instructions.
UNIVERSITY EVENTS
Unified University Commencement Ceremony
For tickets and general information, visit the university commencement website. 
|  Ian Rawson serves as chairman
of the board of directors of
Hôpital Albert Schweitzer Haiti (HAS),
providing health care and community health
and development for the 610-square-mile
district in central Haiti.
Ian Rawson to Deliver Spring Commencement Speech at School Ceremony
Ian G. Rawson received his PhD in medical anthropology in 1975 from the University of Pittsburgh and his master’s degree in political science in 1969 from the American University of Beirut, Lebanon. He also attended the Harvard University School of Public Health executive program in health planning and management. He is an adjunct professor at Carnegie Mellon University and three other Pittsburgh area universities and serves as a board member or consultant for many community health organizations. In addition, Rawson has advised community health programs in Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Guatemala and the Dominican Republic.
Rawson currently serves as chairman of the board of directors of Hôpital Albert Schweitzer Haiti (HAS) and directs the organization’s finance and development functions in Pittsburgh. The hospital in Haiti was founded in 1954 by Ian’s mother and stepfather, Larry and Gwen Mellon. Now serving as a model for health care organizations in developing countries, HAS Haiti continues to provide health care and community health and development for the 610-square mile district in central Haiti.
Rawson retired as President of Hospital Council of Western Pennsylvania and its affiliated entities in May 2005, a position which he held since 1997. At the same time, he also served as President of AmeriNet Central, a national healthcare group purchasing organization, from May 1997 to September 2002. Before his position with Hospital Council, Rawson served in senior management with Allegheny Health, Education and Research Foundation and Allegheny General Hospital for 15 years. Prior to that, he served as an associate professor of the University of Pittsburgh’s Graduate School of Public Health for seven years.
Read the Fall 2007 commencement speech by Joel Lamstein |
