Palo Alto Medical Foundation Awards Three Pre-Med Scholarships to Local Students

Palo Alto, Calif. – The physicians of the Palo Alto Medical Foundation (PAMF) have awarded three local high school students a PAMF Pre-Medical Scholarship to help pay for their undergraduate studies.

The students are Bryan Alas from Eastside College Preparatory School in East Palo Alto, Eduardo Bent from Mountain View High School, and Stephen Durdle from Menlo-Atherton High School.

Established in 1993, this scholarship provides $5,000 a year (a total of $20,000) to students in the communities PAMF serves who attend a four-year college and plan to pursue careers as doctors. Unlike most other scholarships, which are one-time awards, the PAMF scholarship repeats for all four years of college.

"This scholarship provides financial assistance to outstanding scholars who have overcome significant hardships to pursue their dreams of becoming physicians, and who have demonstrated their desire to give back to the community," said Rebecca Leon M.D., chair of the PAMF Pre-Med Scholarship Committee.

Alas will attend the University of California, Berkeley and is seeking a career as an orthopedist. Bent will attend Santa Clara University and plans to go into primary care medicine or radiology. Durdle will attend the University of California, Davis, and hopes to become a radiologist or surgeon.

High school students interested in applying for the scholarship next year should contact their college guidance counselors in January.

For more information, contact:

Ben Drew
PAMF Public Affairs
drewb1@pamf.org
650-444-3019

Cynthia Greaves
PAMF Public Affairs
greavec@pamf.org
650-934-8614