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Alumni Class Scholarships

Alumni Class Scholarships

As SIU School of Medicine alumni, we invite you to join us in thanking those who came before you and helping those who have the same dreams that you once had through a gift to your class scholarship.

Through a gift to your class scholarship, you are thanking those who came before you and helping those who have the same dreams you once had.

School of Medicine Scholarship Endowment

School of Medicine Scholarship Endowment

Support our future physicians as they work to fulfill the mission of SIU School of Medicine.

Please support us in training future physicians to meet the needs of the communities we serve.

School of Medicine Alumni Scholarship

School of Medicine Alumni Scholarship

SIU School of Medicine alumni can show their support by giving a gift to help our future physicians as they work to fulfill the mission of SIU School of Medicine.

SIU School of Medicine alumni can show their support by giving a gift to help our future physicians as they work to fulfill our mission.

Physician Assistant Scholarship

Physician Assistant Scholarship

Support our physician assistant students as they work to fulfill the mission of SIU School of Medicine.

Support our future physician assistants as they work to fulfill the mission of SIU School of Medicine.

MEDPREP Scholarships

MEDPREP Scholarships

Support our MEDPREP students’ dreams of a medicine or dentistry career through a scholarship gift.

Support our MEDPREP students’ dreams of a medicine or dentistry career through a scholarship gift.

Aging Research

You gift to geriatric research will help our scientists learn more about extending healthy lifespans.

You gift to geriatric research will help our scientists learn more about extending healthy lifespans.

Alliance for Women in Medicine and Science

Alliance for Women in Medicine and Science

Your gift to SIU Medicine's Alliance for Women in Medicine and Science will help support initiatives that will promote equity, career advancement, work-life balance and community service for women in medicine and science.

Your gift to AWIMS will support initiatives that will promote equity, career advancement, work-life balance for women in medicine and science.

Simmons Cancer Institute - Research and Patient Support

Simmons Cancer Institute - Research and Patient Support

Your gift will help fund complementary programs, therapies and amenities for our patients, their families and caregivers.

Your gift will help fund research and complementary programs, therapies and amenities for our patients, their families and caregivers.

Cardiology

Supporting SIU Medicine's Division of Cardiology helps us support healthy hearts so that loved ones can stay together longer, and we can find treatments and prevention for heart disease.

Your gifts help us support patients with cardiovascular conditions through SIU Medicine's comprehensive cardiology department.

The Smith Center for Alzheimer's Research and Treatment

The Smith Center for Alzheimer's Research and Treatment

Help us support programs, patient care and research to help patients with Alzheimer's disease and related disorders.

The Center for Alzheimer's Research and Treatment assists patients and families through patient care, education, research and service to the community.

Center for Clinical Research

Center for Clinical Research

Your gift will support our ability to conduct high quality clinical research studies that provide patients with alternative treatments for a variety of debilitating conditions that are not widely available.

Your gift will support high quality clinical research studies that provide patients with alternative treatments that are not widely available.

Center for Human and Organizational Potential

Center for Human and Organizational Potential

Your gift to the Center for Human and Organizational Potential will have an impact on all employees of SIU Medicine.

The Center for Human and Organizational Potential is for staff, faculty, learners, community members and SIU School of Medicine as a whole.

Circadian Disorders Research

Circadian Disorders Research

Your gift to circadian disorders research will help us lean how better sleep can help us live healthier lives.

Your gift to circadian disorders research will help us lean how better sleep can help us live healthier lives.

Civil Service Council

Civil Service Council

Give a gift to help SIU School of Medicine civil service employees continue their education.

Give a gift to help SIU School of Medicine civil service employees continue their education.

Dean's Excellence Fund

Dean's Excellence Fund

Give a gift that will help all areas of SIU School of Medicine's mission.

The Dean's Excellence Fund provides support to advance the mission of SIU School of Medicine.

Department of Population Science & Policy

Department of Population Science & Policy

SIU Medicine Department of Population Science and Policy is working to improve health equity in Illinois.

Support the Department of Population Science and Policy’s vision of a healthier central and southern Illinois.

Dermatology Residency

Dermatology Residency

Your gift to the residency program will help us continue to provide excellent and enjoyable training in medical dermatology, dermatologic surgery, and dermatopathology.

Your gift to the dermatology residency program will help continue to provide excellent training in dermatology, dermatologic surgery, and dermatopathology.

Diabetes Research

Diabetes Research

Your gift will help researchers learn more about the causes, treatments and potential cures for diabetes.

Your gift will help researchers learn more about the causes, treatments and potential cures for diabetes.

Emergency Fund for Medical Students

Emergency Fund for Medical Students

Your gift will help medical students who may be experiencing unforeseen situations that impact or interrupt their academic coursework.

Your gift will help medical students who may be experiencing unforeseen situations that impact or interrupt their academic coursework.

Emergency Medicine

Emergency Medicine

SIU has a long tradition of innovation in education. Your gifts can help us move forever forward in our training of our future and seasoned physicians.

Help us support the Department of Emergency Medicine at SIU School of Medicine.

Enos School Partnership

Enos School Partnership

Give a gift to help Enos school children.

SIU School of Medicine's volunteer committee has been part of the Springfield Public School District Partners in Education Adopt-a-School program since 1985.

Equity, Diversity & Inclusion

Equity, Diversity & Inclusion

Your gift helps us create an organizational culture that respects individual differences, where persons of various backgrounds can flourish in a harmonious, secure, nurturing environment.

Your gift helps create a culture that respects differences, where persons of various backgrounds can flourish in a harmonious, secure, nurturing environment.

Family & Community Medicine

Family & Community Medicine

Gifts to Family and Community Medicine will help train primary care physicians to improve the health of the communities we serve.

Gifts to Family and Community Medicine will help train primary care physicians to improve the health of the communities we serve.

Family Medicine Food Pharmacy

Family Medicine Food Pharmacy

SIU Center for Family Medicine is a community of primary care services to help improve the lives of our patients. We also offer a food pharmacy to help with food, personal care items and household items that they might need. Your support will help them live healthier lives.

SIU Center for Family Medicine is a community of primary care with services to help improve the life and well-being of our patients.

Gastroenterology

Gastroenterology

Your gift supports the Division of Gastroenterology's work in education, patient care, research and service in the community.

Your gift supports the Division of Gastroenterology's work in education, patient care, research and service in the community.

Global Health

You gift helps train our providers and learners to serve to the communities in other parts of world by strengthening their health care capabilities through education, patient care and research.

You gift helps train providers & learners to serve in other parts of world by strengthening their health care through education, patient care and research.

Hearing Loss Research

Hearing Loss Research

Your gift will help us find treatments and cures through our world-renown research in hearing loss.

Your gift will help us find treatments and cures through our world-renown research in hearing loss.

Infectious Disease

Infectious Disease

Your gift will help the Division of Infectious Diseases provides diagnosis and treatment to patients suffering from various forms of infectious diseases, training to learners and research in the latest advances in medical treatment.

Your gift helps the Infectious Diseases Division provide diagnosis & treatment to patients, training to learners and research in medical treatment.

Internal Medicine

Internal Medicine

Your gift to the Department of Internal Medicine at SIU School of Medicine supports efforts in education, research and exceptional patient care for the communities that we serve.

Your gift to the Department of Internal Medicine at SIU Medicine supports education, research and exceptional patient care for the communities that we serve.

Maternal-Fetal Medicine

Maternal-Fetal Medicine

Your gift will help us provide the highest quality care to women with high-risk pregnancies to ensure the best outcome for mother and baby.

Your gift will help us provide the highest quality care to women with high-risk pregnancies to ensure the best outcome for mother and baby.

Medical Education

Medical Education

Your gift to the Department of Medical Education will help SIU School of Medicine remain innovative and internationally renown in training future physicians.

Your gift to the Department of Medical Education will help SIU School of Medicine remain innovative and internationally renown in training future physicians.

Medical Humanities

Medical Humanities

Your gift supports critical dialog about health, health care and the human condition through the Department of Medical Humanities' teaching, research and service endeavors.

Your gift supports teaching, research and service endeavors in the Department of Medical Humanities.

Medical Library

Medical Library

Your gift to the Medical Library helps us to advanced research, education and teaching through an environment in which users can study, seek and create information or explore new knowledge sources.

Your gift to the Medical Library helps us to advanced research, education and teaching.

Medicine-Psychiatry

Medicine-Psychiatry

Your gift to the Medicine Psychiatry will help us treat and diagnose those with psychiatric disorders as we train psychiatrists & psychologists through our education and research programs.

Medical Student Resource Fund

Medical Student Resource Fund

Supporting the Student Resource Fund helps us provide educational and social needs for our medical students that they wouldn't otherwise have.

Supporting the Student Resource Fund helps us provide educational and social needs for our medical students that they wouldn't otherwise have.

MRI Initiative

By SIU School of Medicine

The SIU Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) Initiative is a group of faculty members dedicated to bringing high-resolution MRI imaging to the Carbondale campus.

Neurosurgery

SIU delivers state of the art, full-service neurosurgical care from neurosurgeons with expertise in all areas of neurosurgery. Your gift will help us remain innovative in the field in order to provide exemplary care to all our patients.

Help us support the division of neurosurgery at SIU Medicine.

OB-GYN and IVF Center

OB-GYN and IVF Center

With your help, SIU School of Medicine's Obstetrics & Gynecology Department, including our Fertility & IVF Center can help more couples have healthy babies.

With your help, SIU School of Medicine's Fertility & IVF Center can help more couples find solutions so they can start a family.

Orthopedics - Division & Research

Orthopedics - Division & Research

Your gift to SIU orthopedics helps us to be a leader in high quality education, cutting edge research, and comprehensive and compassionate patient care.

Your gift to SIU orthopedics helps us to be a leader in high-quality education, cutting-edge research and comprehensive and compassionate patient care.

Parkinson's Disease & Other Movement Disorders

Parkinson's Disease & Other Movement Disorders

You gift to the Parkinson Disease and Movement Disorders Clinic can help us lean how to better treat and prevent these disorders.

You gift to the Parkinson Disease and Movement Disorders Clinic can help us lean how to better treat and prevent these disorders.

Pediatrics - Department, Residency & Patient Support

Pediatrics - Department, Residency & Patient Support

Help us support the Department of Pediatrics at SIU School of Medicine.

Your gifts will help us continue to provide the best care for our young patients and innovative educational opportunities to our learners.

Plastic Surgery - Division & Residency

Plastic Surgery - Division & Residency

Your gift supports the Department of Plastic Surgery's efforts in education, patient care, research and community service.

Your gift supports the Department of Plastic Surgery's efforts in education, patient care, research and community service.

Tracey Meares Representation Matters Award at SIU Plastic Surgery

Tracey Meares Representation Matters Award at SIU Plastic Surgery

Donate to support the Tracey Meares Representation Matters Award.

This award offers a training opportunity in plastic surgery to a visiting medical student from an underrepresented population.

Psychiatry

Your gift to the Department of Psychiatry will help us treat and diagnose those with psychiatric disorders as train psychiatrists & psychologists through our education and research programs.

Your gift will help us treat and diagnose those with psychiatric disorders, train psychiatrists, psychologists and researchers in the areas of psychology.

Pulmonary Medicine

Pulmonary Medicine

Your gifts supports the Pulmonary Medicine Division in the diagnosis and treatment of lung disorders, training to learners and research in advances in medical treatment.

Your gift supports the Pulmonary Medicine Division in the diagnosis and treatment of lung disorders, training and research in advances in medical treatment.

Resident Resource Fund

Resident Resource Fund

Supporting the Resident Resource Fund provides educational needs to our resident physicians that they wouldn't otherwise have.

Supporting the Resident Resource Fund provides educational needs that they wouldn't otherwise have.

Rheumatology

Your gift will not only help our physicians and patients manage these conditions, but it will help our researchers to find treatments and cures.

Your gift will not only help our physicians and patients manage these conditions, but it will help our researchers to find treatments and cures.

SIU STRONG Pandemic Fund

SIU STRONG Pandemic Fund

Your gift will help SIU School of Medicine continue to address current and future needs associated with the COVID-19 pandemic.

Your gift will help SIU School of Medicine continue to address current and future needs associated with the COVID-19 pandemic.

Surgery

Your gift to the department of surgery residency fund will help us to improve the quality of surgical health care through clinical practice, research and education to our service area population.

Your gift to the surgery department residency fund will help us to improve surgical clinical care, research and education to our service area.

Telehealth

Your gift to Telehealth provides access to care with specialists and primary care providers through video and telecommunications technologies.

Your gift to Telehealth provides access to care with specialists and primary care providers through video and telecommunications technologies.

Urology

Your gift to SIU's Urology Department will help us provide the best urologic patient care, research and educational opportunities to our region.

Your gift to SIU's Urology Department will help us provide the best urologic patient care, research and educational opportunities to our region.

Vascular Surgery

Vascular Surgery

Your gift supports Vascular Surgery in providing cutting-edge treatment of artery and vein disease to prevent stroke, death, limb loss and disability.

Your gift supports Vascular Surgery in providing cutting-edge treatment of artery and vein disease to prevent stroke, death, limb loss and disability.

SIU White Coats 4 Black Lives Scholarship

SIU White Coats 4 Black Lives Scholarship

In an effort to end racism in medicine and create awareness of racism as a threat to the health of people of color, SIU School of Medicine has established the White Coats 4 Black Lives Scholarship.

SIU White Coats 4 Black Lives Scholarship was created to help end racism in medicine & create awareness of racism as a threat to the health of people of color.

Willis, Shekar, Willis 50th Anniversary Scholarship Challenge

Willis, Shekar, Willis 50th Anniversary Scholarship Challenge

Jerrold Willis, MD, '77; Prashanth Shekar, MD, '90 and Ryan Willis, MD, '98, are issuing a challenge to their classes in honor of the 50th Anniversary. Each will match the gifts from his respective class, up to $50,000 to endow a scholarship.

Members of the Class of 1977, 1990 or 1998, can support any area of the School of Medicine for this challenge.

Alton Family & Community Medicine Residency

Alton Family & Community Medicine Residency

Gifts to the Alton Family and Community Medicine will help train primary care physicians to improve the health of the communities we serve.

Jean Dinges Memorial Scholarship

Jean Dinges Memorial Scholarship

Support SIU School of Medicine

The Jean Dinges Memorial Scholarship is awarded to a female medical student at SIU School of Medicine to support female physicians in Southern Illinois.

BRA Day

Support the BRA Day fund and give hope to a woman who is dealing with breast cancer.

The BRA day fund supports efforts to inform women of their option for breast reconstruction at the time of a cancer diagnosis.

Cancer Research

Cancer Research

Researchers at Simmons Cancer Institute are working to find treatments for and prevention of all types of cancer. Join us in the fight against cancer!

Researchers at Simmons Cancer Institute are working to find treatments for and prevention of all types of cancer. Join us in the fight against cancer!

Research Scholars Program

Research Scholars Program

Your gift will support our medical students who are interested in pursuing research during their medical education.

Your gift will support our medical students who are interested in pursuing research during their medical education.

E. Shannon Stauffer Endowment

E. Shannon Stauffer Endowment

Your gift will help us train technically skilled, academically accomplished orthopedic surgeons.