STUDENT RESOURCES
Scholarship information, conferences, opportunities and more information on affiliation and chapters as here as well.
ANAMS SCHOLARSHIPS
MEMBERS-ONLY
The John T. Wolf M.D. Outstanding Native American Medical Student of the Year Award
Dr. John T. Wolf, a Muskogee Creek Indian, attended college in Oklahoma and graduated from Dartmouth Medical School in 1976. He completed his residency at Brown University and worked as a physician for the Indian Public Health Service in Tuba City, Arizona from 1977 to 1981. He later served a fellowship in hand and microvascular surgery at the Harvard-affiliated hospitals in Boston. A board-certified plastic surgeon with a sub-specialty in hand surgery, Wolf was a fellow of the American College of Surgeons and a member of the Association of American Indian Physicians. Proud of his American Indian heritage, he enjoyed sports—particularly football, boxing, and soccer.
Purpose: To recognize an ANAMS member for their outstanding efforts in the areas of academic performance, professionalism, leadership, and their contributions and commitment to Native American health.
Application deadline April 15th, 2025.
Please email questions, submissions, etc. to anams1975@gmail.com with ANAMS Scholarship in the email subject line.
ANAMS Student Research Scholarship
Purpose: To recognize the effort and impact of ANAMS members' research on the medical community. We require that submitted research either have been previously presented at a conference or published.
Application deadline April 15th, 2025.
Please email questions, submissions, etc. to anams1975@gmail.com with ANAMS Scholarship in the email subject line.
The Kelsie Gleason Creative Passion Memorial Scholarship
Kelsie Gleason, a Choctaw medical student at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, was known not only for her dedication to medicine and health care, but for many other passions. Kelsie spent much of her spare time working with horses and volunteered at a local therapeutic horse riding center. She majored in Hispanic Studies and used her language proficiency to help other medical students learn medical Spanish. In addition to being a dedicated member of the U.S. Air Force reserves, Kelsie was also an enthusiastic athlete who participated in many obstacle courses and marathons during running season and avidly enjoyed skiing in the winter months. Although Kelsie is no longer with us, ANAMS is proud to honor her creative passion in life by awarding this scholarship in her name.
Purpose: To recognize the creative passions that ANAMS members pursue outside of medicine including areas such as photography, writing, running, climbing, and more!
Application deadline April 15th, 2025.
Please email questions, submissions, etc. to anams1975@gmail.com with ANAMS Scholarship in the email subject line.
The Linda Don Community Outreach Scholarship
Purpose: To recognize the effort and impact of Native American community outreach programs that ANAMS members have participated in throughout the year.
Application deadline April 15th, 2025.
Please email questions, submissions, etc. to anams1975@gmail.com with ANAMS Scholarship in the email subject line.
The Emerging Leader in Tribal Public Health Scholarship
Purpose: Social determinants of health drive much of the inequities we see in Indian Country. We see to recognize leaders in public health for AI/AN communities with this organizational award.
Application deadline April 15th, 2025.
Please email questions, submissions, etc. to anams1975@gmail.com with ANAMS Scholarship in the email subject line.
ANAMS Scholarship Winners 2024
The John T. Wolf M.D. Outstanding Native American Medical Student of the Year Award
Hailey Baker
Hailey Baker is a citizen of the Cherokee Nation and a fourth-year medical student at the University of Minnesota. Raised in interior Alaska, Hailey completed her undergraduate studies at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. She has remained active in promoting Native health throughout her medical education, holding leadership positions in national organizations such as the American Medical Association and the Association of Native American Medical Students. Hailey has a research focus on access to and quality of birthing care for Native people, and intends to specialize in obstetrics and gynecology with the ultimate goal of practicing in tribal health.
ANAMS Student Research Scholarship
Samuel Clay Williams
Samuel Clay Williams, of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina, was born and raised in Tucson, AZ. He attended Washington University in St. Louis as an Annika Rodriguez Scholar, where he obtained his bachelor’s degree in Biology. He then completed a year-long post-baccalaureate program at the National Institutes of Health in clinical microbiology, where he discovered his passion for infectious diseases. Since 2017, Samuel has been a part of the Weill Cornell-Memorial Sloan Kettering-Rockefeller University Tri-Institutional MD-PhD program. He recently received his PhD, working in the lab of Dr. James Krueger on the inflammatory skin disease hidradenitis suppurativa. He is currently completing his last year of medical school and applying for internal medicine residency programs. Samuel aspires to become an infectious disease physician-scientist and minority health advocate, researching illnesses that disproportionately affect Native Americans and other minority groups.
The Kelsie Gleason Creative Passion Memorial Scholarship
Caitlin Wanic
Aanii! My name is Caitlin Wanic and I am a member of the Bay Mills Indian Community. I grew up on my reservation in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan but moved away for undergrad at Dartmouth College. I double majored in Native American Studies and Studio Art with a concentration in painting. After graduating, I completed a premedical postbac at the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor and did some research through the Tribal Services and Solutions Project Fellowship. I conducted my research under the Chief Medical Officer of the Indian Health Service about residencies that serve Indian Country, which showed me the desperate need for Indigenous physicians in all branches of medicine. I am now an M1 at Michigan State University College of Human Medicine and plan on specializing in Family Medicine. Outside of medicine, I enjoy beading/porcupine quillwork, painting, graphic design, and singing/playing guitar. I enjoy art as a way to connect with my Ojibwe culture and as a way to preserve different art forms for future generations.
The Linda Don Community Outreach Scholarship
Alexander Douglas
Alexander Douglas, DO is an internal medicine resident at Oklahoma State University Medical Center in Tulsa, OK. He is originally from Moore, OK and attended undergraduate at the University of Oklahoma where he got a degree in Biomedical Engineering. Alexander is a part of the Santa Clara Pueblo Tribe in Espanola, NM. Before attending medical school, he worked as a medical assistant and scribe in a primary care office. While at Oklahoma State University College of Osteopathic Medicine, he was the Vice-President of his Native American interest group, an ambassador to the Office of American Indians in Medicine and Science, volunteered with the Native American Pre-Admissions Workshop, and was a part of the tribal track. Additionally, Dr. Douglas has served for the last two years on the national ANAMS executive board for his southern region. After completing residency, he hopes to work in academic internal medicine as a hospitalist and work with overcoming health disparities in Native American communities.
The Emerging Leader in Tribal Public Health Scholarship
Brianna Irons
Brianna Irons is 4th year medical student at UC San Diego School of Medicine and a citizen of the Chickasaw Nation. She is currently Chair of the American Medical Association - Medical Student Section’s Committee on American Indian Affairs and the ANAMS Liaison to the American Academy of Pediatrics. Brianna is an advocate for Native youth wellness and representation in the health sciences workforce. She completed her MPH in Quantitative Methods with a concentration in Maternal and Child Health at Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health between her 3rd and 4th years of medical school. Brianna is applying into pediatrics and hopes to strengthen I/T/U healthcare systems through community-based participatory research aimed to improve child and adolescent health.
PRE-MEDICAL STUDENT SCHOLARSHIPS
MEDICAL STUDENT SCHOLARSHIPS
Aetna/NMF Primary Care Fellows
Arthur N. Wilson, MD Scholarship
American Indian Graduate Center
American Medical Association Foundation Medical Student Scholarships
Indian Health Service Scholarship Program
NMF Primary Care Leadership Program
Research Support Fellowship and Tribal Researchers’ Cancer Control Fellowship Program
University of Arizona Graduate Fellowship
United Health Foundation/NMF Diverse Medical Scholars Program
CONFERENCES AND OPPORTUNITIES
Association of American Indian Physicians - Student Programs
Children’s National Minority Senior Scholarship Program
Four Directions Summer Research Program
Harvard-Longwood Short-Term Research Training in Vascular Surgery Fellowship
HIVMA Clinical Fellowship Program
HIVMA Medical Students Program
Johns Hopkins Visiting Elective Program for Underrepresented Students in Pediatrics
Northwestern Visiting Student Elective Program for Students Underrepresented in Medicine
Northwest Portland Area Indian Health Board - Training & Outreach Opportunities
NYU Funded Visiting Elective Program for Students Underrepresented in Medicine
Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) Diversity Program for Visiting Students
Public Health Sciences Institute Project Imhotep
Stanford School of Medicine Underrepresented in Medicine Funded Visiting Pediatrics Clerkship
University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine, Visiting Elective
Scholarship Program
University of Michigan Health System Health Equity Visiting Clerkship
Visiting Clerkship Program, Harvard University, Minority Faculty Development Program
Other Opportunities
AAUW Selected Professions Fellowships
APHA Public Health Fellowship in Government
Biochemical Markers Summer Fellowship
CDC Public Health Informatics Fellowship Program
CDC Summer Graduate Environmental Health Internship
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Public Health Associate Program
Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons Summer Public Health Scholars Program
CPRIT-UT Health-Fellowship in Innovation for Cancer Prevention Research (ICPR)
Department of Homeland Security Education Programs
FDA Tobacco Regulatory Science Fellowship
Federal Opportunities for STEM Graduate students
Federal Opportunities for STEM Undergraduate students
Ford Foundation Pre-Doctoral, Dissertation and Post-Doctoral Fellowships
Fulbright-Fogarty Fellowships in Public Health
GE-NMF Primary Care Leadership Program (PCLP)
Harvard University Center for the Environment - Environmental Fellows program
Kaiser Database of Fellowships and Internships in Health Policy and Related Fields
Kennedy Krieger Institute James A. Ferguson Emerging Infectious Diseases Fellowship Program
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Fellowship Grants
National Institutes of Health Summer Internship Program in Biomedical Research
Native American Summer Research Internship (NARI)
NCHS/Academy Health Policy Fellowship
NIDDK Diversity Summer Research Training Program (DSRTP)
NIH Research Training & Research Career Development
Occupational Health Internship Program
Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) Internships
Office of Minority Health Youth Health Equity Model of Practice (YHEMOP)
ORISE Internships, Fellowships, and Research Opportunities
Presidential Management Fellows Program
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Fellows
Rutgers′ Environmental and Public Health Summer Career-Prep Classroom/Internship Program
School for Advanced Research - Resident Scholars
Summer Health Professions Education Program
United Health Foundation/National Medical Fellowships Diverse Medical Scholars Program
University of Michigan School of Public Health Future Public Health Leaders Program
Veteran's Administration National Diversity Internship Program