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2022 SPECIAL SESSION I

22208202D
SENATE RESOLUTION NO. 630
Offered May 31, 2022
Celebrating the life of Catherine Agustiady-Becker, DO.
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Patron-- Lewis
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WHEREAS, the specialty of emergency medicine and the Virginia College of Emergency Physicians lost a rising physician leader, compassionate physician, colleague, and friend in Catherine Agustiady-Becker, DO, who passed away on May 3, 2021; and

WHEREAS, Dr. Agustiady-Becker was a distinguished graduate of the State University of New York (SUNY) at Buffalo and the University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine and completed her emergency medicine residency at SUNY at Buffalo; and

WHEREAS, Dr. Agustiady-Becker was respected for her compassionate care of her patients and clinical acumen; she appreciated the diversity of emergency medicine and the unique opportunity she had to care for patients at the time when they needed it most; and

WHEREAS, Dr. Agustiady-Becker was dedicated to physician leadership and was a rising leader at the Virginia College of Emergency Physicians (VACEP) and in the field of emergency medicine; and

WHEREAS, Dr. Agustiady-Becker was a former leadership and advocacy fellow at VACEP, where she developed a mentorship platform within the college; she was not only dedicated to her patients but to changing the policies and practices of emergency medicine for the greater good; and

WHEREAS, Dr. Agustiady-Becker was devoted to physician wellness and balance between professional development and family life; she wrote about her experiences as an emergency physician and the challenges all physicians face with candor and wrote eloquently of her love of the practice of emergency medicine; and

WHEREAS, Dr. Agustiady-Becker was a world traveler and avid outdoorswoman who loved to hike; above all, she was a devoted mother, a loving wife, and a caring daughter to her mother, who had always been her role model; and

WHEREAS, Dr. Agustiady-Becker will be fondly remembered and dearly missed by her husband, Jacob; her sons, Wyatt, Theodore, and Quentin; her extended family, friends, and colleagues; and the countless patients and physicians across the country whom she selflessly served; now, therefore, be it

RESOLVED, That the Senate of Virginia hereby note with great sadness the loss of Catherine Agustiady-Becker, DO, a rising star in emergency medicine; and, be it

RESOLVED FURTHER, That the Clerk of the Senate prepare a copy of this resolution for presentation to the family of Catherine Agustiady-Becker, DO, as an expression of the Senate of Virginia’s respect for her memory.