Scholarship Recipient Quotes and Pictures
"Working in and with the community is my passion, and I am eager to become the type of physician that can help improve people's lives not just physically, but emotionally and spiritually as well. With the backing of such a phenomenal organization, I know that my aspirations are supported and I am confident that I will be able to make a difference."
Javay Ross
Physicians of Tomorrow Scholarship funded by
the Audio-Digest Foundation 2008
Charles Drew University/UCLA Medical Education Program
"I sincerely appreciate the Foundation's efforts to relieve the burden of debt on today's medical students. I am proud to be a part of this community and look forward to the day when I can 'pay it forward' and provide this opportunity to another future physician."
Danielle Webster
Physicians of Tomorrow Scholarship 2007
University of Missouri â Kansas City School of Medicine
"This generous scholarship will certainly help me reduce my debt, and I am most excited about the larger scope that the AMA Foundation Minority Scholars Award represents â a vision for equality and excellence through diversity in medicine. These topics are very important to me and I am truly humbled."
Adam Castaño
Minority Scholars Award 2007
University of Michigan Medical School
"I am the son of hard-working, Spanish-speaking immigrants who struggled socially and financially to provide for their children. My attending medical school is part of my family's 'American Dream.' Your gift helps move that dream forward and helps bring me closer to my goal of becoming a competent and compassionate clinician in an underserved community and a scholar on ethical issues in clinical medicine and medical education."
William Martinez, MS
Minority Scholars Award 2005
University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine
"The scholarship has taken me out of a gray area in which I resided for much of my first year of medical school, which included many doubtful situations of whether I would be able to afford to make it through the end of the semester. It will reduce the amount of time that I have to spend at our financial aid office which will directly impact the amount of frustration and stress that I had experienced on a monthly basis. The generosity that has been provided will not be forgotten and I can only hope to make a difference in people's lives the way this award has made a difference in mine."
Ivan E. Porter, II
Minority Scholars Award 2005
Florida State University College of Medicine
Update: Dr. Porter is currently an internal medicine resident at Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Fla.
