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“Getting Through: Uplifting Words on Overcoming, Persevering & Achieving”

Longtime donor Ludlow B. Creary, M.D., M.P.H., F.A.A.F.P. has authored a recently published book. With a title influenced by the scripture, “I can do all things through Christ who strengthens…

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FARE Diversity Scholars Present Research at AAAAI Conference

FARE Diversity Scholars Hang Nguyen and Sydney Butler, MPH presented their food allergy research findings at this year’s annual meeting of the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology (AAAAI).…

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Black History and Generations of Health Care Visionaries

By NMF President and CEO Michellene Davis, Esq. Black history in the United States is a lived history, extending back more than 400 years in this country, when Africans were first…

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Women Physicians Lead Podcast Features NMF Leaders Discussing Diversity in Health Care

Podcast host Dr. Lisa Herbert describes her mission as one to help increase the number of women physicians in leadership roles by equipping them with the personal and professional development…

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NMF Selects Bathsheba Philpott as Vice President of Philanthropy

Philpott will lead efforts to grow resources and partnerships for the 76-year-old organization dedicated to supporting underrepresented students in medicine and health professions. After a nationwide search, the National Medical…

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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…