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The Opportunity to Dream Bigger

January 14, 2023 Comments Off on The Opportunity to Dream Bigger

NMF scholar Shanice Cox shares how mentorship and an NMF scholarship empowered her to succeed. Shanice Cox, a first-generation Jamaican-American and third-year medical student at the Burnett School of Medicine…

In Memoriam: Robert Tranquada, M.D.

December 19, 2022 Comments Off on In Memoriam: Robert Tranquada, M.D.

The National Medical Fellowships (NMF) is deeply saddened by the passing of NMF Board Member Emeritus Dr. Bob Tranquada. He served with distinction on the NMF Board of Directors for…

Johnson & Johnson and NMF Welcome Second Cohort of Alliance for Inclusion in Medicine (AIM) Scholars

December 7, 2022 Comments Off on Johnson & Johnson and NMF Welcome Second Cohort of Alliance for Inclusion in Medicine (AIM) Scholars

AIM is an innovative, three-year service-learning program that exposes medical students from diverse backgrounds to career opportunities within pharmaceutical medicine and equips them with the skills to become clinicians and…

Reimagining Health Care: Celebrating Equity Change Agents Raises More than $1,035,000 for National Medical Fellowships  

November 28, 2022 Comments Off on Reimagining Health Care: Celebrating Equity Change Agents Raises More than $1,035,000 for National Medical Fellowships  

Held on Saturday, November 5 in Miami, Florida, National Medical Fellowships’ (NMF) first national event honored people and organizations advancing health equity and diversity in health care and clinical research…

Preparing a New Generation of Diverse Clinical Researchers 

November 22, 2022 Comments Off on Preparing a New Generation of Diverse Clinical Researchers 

National Medical Fellowships to partner with AstraZeneca to train more clinicians underrepresented in medicine to lead clinical research as principal investigators.   To ensure that clinical research findings benefit all populations,…

National Medical Fellowships to Celebrate 75 Years and Expanded Strategy to Advance Health Equity

October 20, 2022 Comments Off on National Medical Fellowships to Celebrate 75 Years and Expanded Strategy to Advance Health Equity

Oct 20, 2022, 11:53 ET ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — National Medical Fellowships (NMF) will celebrate its 75th anniversary with a gala and awards ceremony to honor the organization’s legacy…

Scholars Share Impact of Service-Learning

October 5, 2022 Comments Off on Scholars Share Impact of Service-Learning

National Medical Fellowships’ longest running service-learning programs, the NMF Primary Care Leadership Program (PCLP) and the United Health Foundation/NMF Diverse Medical Scholars Program, prepare scholars to deliver care with cultural…

Diversifying the Health Workforce through the Impact of AIM

September 23, 2022 Comments Off on Diversifying the Health Workforce through the Impact of AIM

Johnson & Johnson and National Medical Fellowships (NMF) celebrate completing the inaugural cohort’s first year of the innovative three-year service-learning program. In alignment with Our Race to Health Equity (ORTHE),…

The Joys of Mentorship

June 10, 2022 Comments Off on The Joys of Mentorship

For NMF alumnus Ira Solomon, MD, MPH, a connection between his medical education and career at Johnson & Johnson has come full circle. Serving as vice president and chief safety officer…

In Memoriam: Dr. Preston J. Phillips, MD

June 6, 2022 Comments Off on In Memoriam: Dr. Preston J. Phillips, MD

National Medical Fellowships was deeply saddened to learn that NMF Dr. Preston J. Phillips lost his life in a mass shooting on June 1, 2022 while working at Saint Francis Hospital…