The Aetna Foundation/NMF Healthcare Leadership Program was created in 2011 to help address the severe national shortage of physician-leaders who are committed to the health of underserved communities. The program provides $5,000 scholarships to second- and third-year medical students from underrepresented minority groups with a commitment to serve medically underserved communities.
The recipients of medical school scholarships include:

Carmen E. Cancino, a third-year medical student from the University of Illinois College of Medicine at Chicago, who was a recipient of a Albert Schweitzer Fellowship Award and who created a Young Doctors Club for middle school students in a predominantly African-American and low-income neighborhood.

Monique Chambers, a second-year medical student at the University of California, Davis who initiated the first elective course at UC Davis designed specifically on the social determinants of minority health outcomes. She is also co-director of the Imani Clinic, a student-run free clinic providing primary care to the uninsured in a historically African-American neighborhood.

Cassandra M. List, a second-year medical student from the University of Illinois College of Medicine at Chicago, who serves as co-president of the school’s chapter of the Latino Medical Student Association and as a Spanish interpreter in community health clinics.

Shamsideen O. Musa, a third-year medical student from the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine, who developed a weekend science curriculum taught by Pritzker medical students to urban teenagers interested in science and medicine and who also founded a student program, Big Sibs-Little Sibs, in which medical students from minority backgrounds mentor minority undergraduates interested in medicine.
Our mission is to promote wellness, health, and access to high-quality health care for everyone, while supporting the communities
we serve. |
For updates and announcements from the Aetna Foundation
subscribe to our e-mail list. |