Since 1965, the medical community has raised funds to award scholarships to high school seniors entering college or a university. Also eligible to apply are full time students enrolled in medical school, nursing school and those completing health-related courses of study.

Please visit the 10,000 Degrees website (10000degrees.org) for more information about the application process. The application will be available in October 2017. Their email for general inquiries is info@10000degrees.org.

Should you have any questions, please contact Virginia Merwin at healthscholarship@scmaa.org.

Helping Students

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Record year for Giving

A total of $32,500.00 was awarded to 13 students for the 2015-2016 Academic Year. We want to thank each and every one who opened their hearts and wallets to this most worthy cause. Our scholarship recipients are as follows:

Recipients for the academic year 2016-2017

Graduate Student - Past Recipients

Christina Gallerani	4th Year University of California Davis Medical School
Kimberly Hower	2nd Year Touro University D.O.
Sahar Rosenblum	4th Year UCLA David Geffen Medical School
Anna Brunn	1st Year Sonoma State University, MSN
Kelsey Loupy	1st Year University of Colorado Neuroscience, Ph.D.
Briga Mullin	1s Year University of California Irvine School of Medicine

Graduate Student – New Recipients:

Christopher Bauer	2nd Year Lincoln Memorial University, Debusk College, D.O.
Arianna Reismann	Final Year University of San Diego, MSN

Undergraduate Student – Past Recipients

Molly Fuhrman	3rd Year University of the Pacific, Music Therapy
Edgar Garcia-Mora	2nd Year University of San Francisco, BS/RN
Emma Longmire	2nd Year San Diego State University, Pre-Med
Vanessa Nava	conditional on admission to 4 Year college

Undergraduate Recipients – New Recipients

Assmaa Ashooqullah	2nd Year Santa Rosa Junior College, Pharmacy Tech
Brittany Flint	2nd Year Santa Rosa Junior College, Nursing Program
Laryn Hoytt	2nd Year Santa Rosa Junior College, Nursing Program
Jessica Guzman	1st Year Santa Rosa Junior College, Radiology Tech
Patricia Gomez-Osorno	1st Year Santa Rosa Junior College, Pre-Nursing
Yanely Lopez	1st Year Cal State Sacramento, Pre-Nursing
Tommy Nguyen	1st Year University of California, Irvine, Pre-Med
Yinwen Wang	1st Year University of California, Davis, Pre-Med