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Tome´ Scholars
Making Student Dreams A Reality

Keana A. Murray an experience that I was unaccus-
tomed to as an undergraduate stu-
Oak Park, MI dent. It was also an experience that I
1st-year M.D. student was not willing to give up.

• What first interested you in • What is your program of study
your program of study or medicine? and area of specialty?
Was there a “lightbulb” or “a-ha” I would like to specialize in
moment? Family Medicine, but I would also
I first became interested in med- like to undergo a fellowship in
icine as a junior at my undergradu- Emergency Medicine.
• Please share how scholarship
ate institution. I had recently heard support helps you — academically,
news of that an elderly woman, who professionally, and personally?
I only met a few months earlier had This scholarship will help me
died from metastatic lung cancer. achieve my educational and career
I honestly cannot explain why
this woman, a stranger, had a such goals. Medical school is expensive Although I hope to devote most
a profound impact on me. Maybe it and this support allows me to com- of my professional time to caring for
was because she reminded me of my fortably focus on my studies without patients, I would also like to teach
own grandmother or maybe it was the stress of finances looming over future students interested in medi-
because her distrust in the medical my head . The scholarship will help cine.
field was a story that I have often by lowering the costs of medical I also would like to be active in
heard repeated by my own friends school and allow me to have more the community that I serve and have
and family. time to focus on my studies and different events that would improve
eventual goals.
The news of her death brought the health and well-being of the
such sadness that I wanted to be a • Do you volunteer with any residents in that community.
change agent in the medical field. I organizations? • If you could say or do one
no longer wanted Black or Brown I currently volunteer with sever- thing to thank your donors, what
people to feel mistreated or mis- al organizations. One in particular is would it be?
heard by medical professionals. I Grady Memorial Hospital’s monthly Thank you for trusting and
Fresh Food Cart. It has been very
no longer wanted them to avoid influential and motivating. This believeing in me. The impact of this
medical attention because of their monthly event distributes healthy scholarship will last generations, as
distrust. I wanted to help people live foods to patients that were deemed it will be multiplied by the many
their best life, physically and men- vulnerable and food insecure. lives it will touch and serve. It does
tally. not just benefit me and my family. It
• Why did you choose More- • What do you hope to accom- will also benefit the underrepresent-
house School of Medicine? plish in your career after gradua- ed and underserved communities
Not only does Morehouse tion/residency? that MSM is committed to help.
School of Medicine’s mission align
with that of my own, but I also chose
this institution because of the over- Thank you for trusting and believeing
whelming positive and motivating
atmosphere it gives to its students “ in me. The impact of this scholarship
As a previous student in the will last generations, as it will be mul-
MSMS program, I learned that tiplied by the many lives it will touch
MSM was my family away from
home. I was continuously motivated and serve.
and encouraged to do better. It was