TSF The Levi Watkins Innovation and Leadership Development Scholarship
Opens Jul 1 2023 12:00 AM (CDT)
Deadline Sep 30 2023 11:59 PM (CDT)
Description

Levi Watkins, MD was an accomplished cardiothoracic surgeon and social activist at Johns Hopkins Medical Center, and made medical history by working with innovative physicians and engineers to implant the first automated internal cardiac defibrillator in a human-being. The Watkins Scholarship will provide a training and/or development grant to support travel to a center of excellence to acquire additional clinical, translational or leadership training to enhance skills and practice in an area of innovation or surgical significance.  This award in his name will provide support of up to $5,000 for up to two weeks to support the work of a cardiothoracic surgeon. This award is intended to defray the travel and lodging expenses.

Eligibility
Cardiothoracic surgeons who are within 10 years of first faculty appointment, and who are certified or eligible for certification by the American Board of Thoracic Surgery (ABTS) or its equivalent outside the United States. The scholarship will be open to all applicants with particular consideration to the merits of candidates, the strength and achievability of the proposal and demonstration of a record of overcoming social and personal hurdles in the early stages of career development as surgeons.

The applicant must be a cardiothoracic surgeon who is a member of an underrepresented demographic group in medicine as defined by the AAMC.

Application Deadline: 9/30/23

TSF The Levi Watkins Innovation and Leadership Development Scholarship


Levi Watkins, MD was an accomplished cardiothoracic surgeon and social activist at Johns Hopkins Medical Center, and made medical history by working with innovative physicians and engineers to implant the first automated internal cardiac defibrillator in a human-being. The Watkins Scholarship will provide a training and/or development grant to support travel to a center of excellence to acquire additional clinical, translational or leadership training to enhance skills and practice in an area of innovation or surgical significance.  This award in his name will provide support of up to $5,000 for up to two weeks to support the work of a cardiothoracic surgeon. This award is intended to defray the travel and lodging expenses.

Eligibility
Cardiothoracic surgeons who are within 10 years of first faculty appointment, and who are certified or eligible for certification by the American Board of Thoracic Surgery (ABTS) or its equivalent outside the United States. The scholarship will be open to all applicants with particular consideration to the merits of candidates, the strength and achievability of the proposal and demonstration of a record of overcoming social and personal hurdles in the early stages of career development as surgeons.

The applicant must be a cardiothoracic surgeon who is a member of an underrepresented demographic group in medicine as defined by the AAMC.

Application Deadline: 9/30/23

Opens
Jul 1 2023 12:00 AM (CDT)
Deadline
Sep 30 2023 11:59 PM (CDT)