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Roosevelt New Orleans Hotel,
New Orleans
February 5-7, 2013
Travel Grants / Visiting Professorships
AAS Student Travel Grant
Awarded every year
Purpose:
As part of the AAS mission to increase diversity in our membership, we are pleased to offer an annual AAS Student Travel Grant. This award is presented to a medical student from an underrepresented minority.
Application:
- Department chairs and clerkships directors should encourage eligible medical students to apply for this unique opportunity
- Candidates must submit an application form, an essay describing their commitment to becoming a leader in academic surgery (300-word limit), and a letter of support from their chair or clerkship director
- The deadline for RECEIPT of applications is to be determined.
Winner Receives:
- Complimentary registration to the Academic Surgical Congress being held February 14-16, 2012
in Las Vegas, Nevada - A $500 travel stipend and up to 3 nights hotel accommodation at the meeting hotel
- Complimentary medical student AAS membership for one year
- Award certificate presented at the AAS Awards Session during the Academic Surgical Congress
- Name published in the AAS newsletter and in the program of the Academic Surgical Congres
AAS 2012 Travel Grant winner:
Dani O. Gonzalez, Howard University College of Medicine
Previous Award Winners:
2007 Babafemi "Wande" Pratt, Harvard School of Public Health
2008 Juliet A. Emamaulle, University of Alberta, Canada
2009 Kerry-Ann C.A. Stewart, University of Rochester
2010 Ashanti L. Franklin, Children's Hospital Los Angeles
2011 Andrew Ibrahim, Case Western Reserve University and Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine