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 2025
The John T. Wolf M.D. Outstanding Native American Medical Student of the Year Award
DeAnalisa Jones, M.D. Ph.D.
DeAnalisa Jones, MD PhD (Mvskoke, Cherokee) is a recent graduate of the MD/PhD program at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (ISMMS) in New York, NY. She graduated as the valedictorian of Catoosa High School in Catoosa, OK and moved to New York, NY to attend Columbia University in 2011. In 2015, she received a Bachelor of Science in Biomedical Engineering from the Columbia University Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and began the Post-baccalaureate Research Education Program (PREP) at ISMMS. She received an NIH Diversity Supplement award for her research during PREP. DeAnalisa matriculated into the MD/PhD program at ISMMS in 2018 and successfully defended her PhD thesis “Modeling the ultrastructural features of ventricular cardiomyocytes: Implications for Ca 2+ signaling in heart failure” in the lab of Eric Sobie, PhD in 2023 and was supported by an F31 predoctoral fellowship from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. While at ISMMS, DeAnalisa also founded the school’s ANAMS chapter, served as its president from 2019-2025, was a Member-at-Large of the ANAMS National Executive Board from 2020-2023, and received the ANAMS Student Research Scholarship in 2019. In her final year of the MD/PhD program, DeAnalisa completed visiting rotations at University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health sponsored by the Native American Center for Health Professions, the Cheyenne River Health Center on the Cheyenne River Sioux Reservation, and Rikers Island Correctional Health Services, and she was honored at her ISMMS graduation in May with a Distinction in Community Service and Global Health, the Arthur Cederbaum Excellence in Mentoring by a Graduate Student Award, and the Social and Racial Justice Award. Dr. Jones is now a first-year resident physician in the Research Track of the Internal Medicine Residency Program at The Mount Sinai Hospital with a research focus on cardiovascular disease risk in American Indians in collaboration with the Strong Heart Study.
ANAMS Student Research Scholarship
Dayton “Buddy” Kalanikumupa'a Seto-Myers
Aloha mai! 'O wau ‘o Dayton “Buddy” Kalanikumupa'a Seto-Myers. I am a Kanaka ‘Ōiwi (Native Hawaiian) medical student at the University of Washington School of Medicine (UWSOM). I co-lead the UWSOM Association of Native American Medical Students, am a member of the UW Center for Indigenous Health, and conduct Native Hawaiian & Pacific Islander health research for the Ola Pasifika Lab. I graduated Stanford University in 2022 with honors in Human Biology. My scholarship is centered on expanding culturally responsive health care for Indigenous communities in diasporic or displaced environments. Outside of medicine, I enjoy hoe wa‘a (paddling) or anything outdoors and in the water.
The Kelsie Gleason Creative Passion Memorial Scholarship
Andres D. Parga, M.D.
Andres D. Parga, MD, is a PGY-1 Transitional Year resident at HCA Florida Oak Hill Hospital and a proud Yaqui and Mexican-American scholar committed to advancing health equity in underserved communities. Originally from Arizona, he holds a Bachelor of Science in Biochemistry from the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa and earned his medical degree from the American University of the Caribbean. His creative work explores the intersection of medicine, culture, and advocacy, with published art and research addressing dermatologic disparities in migrant and Indigenous populations. Dr. Parga aspires to pursue a dermatology residency with a continued focus on rural and Indigenous health.
The Linda Don Community Outreach Scholarship
Cassie McCoy
Cassie McCoy is a citizen of the Peoria Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma, where she serves on the election committee of the tribe. Cassie McCoy is from Tulsa, OK, and has a Bachelor of Science in Biomedical Engineering and minor in mathematics from the University of Oklahoma where she graduated cum laude. Cassie attended the Cherokee Nation campus and completed the Tribal Medical Track. She served as the AIMS ambassador for the Cherokee Nation campus, the Vice President of NASOM, and secretary of the Pediatrics Club. She is a member of Sigma Sigma Phi Honors society (SSP) and the Gold Humanism Honor Society. She is currently the Southern Representative for the ANAMS.
Cassie will complete her residency in Pediatrics at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, where she plans to continue to work with Native communities. Cassie has a passion for increasing representation in medicine and has been working to help develop pre-med admission workshops for Native Students.
The Emerging Leader in Tribal Public Health Scholarship
Grace Fuller
Grace Fuller is a fourth-year medical student at UNC Chapel Hill and a proud member of the Hopi Tribe. Her work spans maternal and child health, urban Indigenous housing, and tribal public health advocacy. She is committed to a future in pediatrics shaped by accountability to Native communities, guided by cultural humility, and driven by a deep belief in Native resilience and strength.
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