2025 Alumni Awards Honorees

Dr. Simón Barquera is a Medical Doctor (MD, 1994) from Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (UAM), Mexico City, with a Master’s (1996) and PhD (2005) in Nutrition Epidemiology from the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University, Boston...

Charles Goldblum, CFA, CFP® graduated from Tufts in 1991 with majors in English and German Area Studies. While at Tufts, Chuck was active in the Leonard Carmichael Society.  He studied at Tufts in Tubingen in 1989, the year of the reunification of Germany...

Javier Macaya is a Europe and Americas-based strategic and M&A advisor, Non-Executive Director and Investor.  Javier has a thirty-year investment banking career in New York City and London where he has worked at JP Morgan, James D Wolfensohn Inc and Goldman Sachs, where he headed Latin American Investment Banking Services...

Dr. Abe Abdulwaheed is a founding member of Lux Dental Inc., which operates locations in Quincy, Cambridge, Saugus, Somerville, and Brockton, Massachusetts. He currently serves as the CEO and Chief of Oral Rehabilitation, leading a team of thirteen general dentists and multiple specialists.

Michael Atkins graduated from Tufts University with a degree in Chemistry in 1976 and Tufts Medical School in 1980. He then did Internal Medical Residency, Chief Residency, Hematology-Oncology Fellowship followed by ten years on staff at Tufts-New England Medical Center...

A double Jumbo, Dr. Jonathan Epstein received his DVM from the Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine and MPH from Tufts Medical School in 2002. He is an epidemiologist and the Founder of One Health Science, a scientific research and policy consultancy (onehealthscience.com)...

Nancy Nelson Bello is a 1969 graduate of Jackson College where she majored in Economics.  After graduation, Nancy married husband, John A68.  Shortly thereafter, John was deployed to Vietnam and Nancy moved to the Bay Area where she worked for 3 years in computer programming for Pacific Bell...

 E. Michael Fung retired as chairman of JPMorgan Private Bank in Asia and senior country officer of the bank's Hong Kong branch end of 2015.   He is currently running his private family office, SouthBay Investment Advisors Limited, as chairman and principal...

Dr. Kalahn Taylor-Clark, PhD, MPH recently joined Merck as Vice President, & Head of Social Impact and Sustainability. She oversees the ESG/sustainability, global impact investment and giving, and mission aligned corporate initiative portfolios for the company...

Gerard Gaughan M.D. is a Clinical Professor of Medicine at TUSM. Following graduation from the medical school in 1971, Dr. Gaughan served his residency with the Tufts Medicine Service at Boston City Hospital...

Christine Conlon graduated from Tufts University in 1993, having studied at Eliot-Pearson to obtain a BA in Child Study. From there, Christine immediately pursued her master's degree (MSW) from Simmons University School of Social Work...

Dan Kaplan has co-chaired the Tufts Foster Children’s Party Committee since shortly after graduating from Tufts in 1996.  Since graduating with a B.A. in Computer Science, Dan has held a variety of software engineering and leadership roles in Boston-area technology companies...

Marie Pereto-Hedin has been passionate about developing programs that engage and inform senior alumni and strengthen their connections to Tufts. Marie is President of the Tufts Senior Connection, a shared interest group sponsored by the Office of Alumni Engagement, created to focus on the needs and interests of our alumni over 55...

Scott Reed was born in Columbus, Ohio, and raised in the Boston area.  He attended Tufts University and graduated with a B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering in 1979.  Following graduation, he began a 40-year career at GE’s Aircraft Engines facility in Lynn, MA retiring in 2019...

Manal Cheema, a native of Sharon, Massachusetts, is a lawyer and currently serves as a lieutenant in the U.S. Navy Judge Advocate General’s (JAG) Corps...

Since graduating from Tufts University School of Arts & Sciences in 2015, Lesley Wellener has built her career in Washington, DC, where she works as a Manager in Deloitte’s Human Capital Consulting practice. At Deloitte, she focuses on workforce transformation and strategic change management for Fortune 500 companies, Federal Government agencies & State Government agencies undergoing large-scale digital modernization...