Give to WWAMI
ľ¹ÏÖ±²¥ WWAMI aims to provide high quality medical education to ľ¹ÏÖ±²¥ns. We rely on
private financial support to help ensure we continually improve academic excellence
and access to high quality educational experiences. Your contribution can provide
the margin of excellence essential to ľ¹ÏÖ±²¥ WWAMI’s continued growth and improvement.
The following funds represent different ways your gift can be put to use.
Xavier Engle Spirit Award
In honor and memory of Xavier Engle, the ľ¹ÏÖ±²¥ WWAMI Medical Education Program has
established the Xavier Engle Scholarship for ľ¹ÏÖ±²¥ WWAMI medical students, at the
ľ¹ÏÖ±²¥. In recognition of Xavier's academic excellence and
outstanding personal achievements beyond medicine, the recipients will have demonstrated
intellectual curiosity, passion and achievement in and outside of healthcare. .
Dr. Robert Fortuine ľ¹ÏÖ±²¥ WWAMI Scholarship Endowment
Fortuine Scholars must be ľ¹ÏÖ±²¥ WWAMI students with an expressed interest in practicing
medicine in ľ¹ÏÖ±²¥'s tribal health system and are preferably ľ¹ÏÖ±²¥ Natives and/or
from rural ľ¹ÏÖ±²¥.
The Fortuine Scholarship will help to nurture the next generation of ľ¹ÏÖ±²¥ tribal health physicians with essential financial support for their medical education while honoring Dr. Fortuine's won personal commitment to ľ¹ÏÖ±²¥ Native health.
ľ¹ÏÖ±²¥ WWAMI Biomedical Excellence Endowment
Provides support for the broadest spectrum of innovative programs. Its flexibility
allows the development of exciting new programs that might otherwise lack the seed
funding so vital to dynamic fields such as biomedicine.
ľ¹ÏÖ±²¥ WWAMI Student Success
Focuses on the most critical needs to ensure the success of program graduates. For
current students it provides the latest extras, technological and otherwise, that
maintain quality education. Additionally, it enhances the quality of the applicant
pool through support for pathway programs leading to medicine.
ľ¹ÏÖ±²¥ WWAMI Biomedical Research
The pursuit of new biomedical knowledge – research – is the hallmark of the best medical
schools. Extramural grants support these efforts, but leave gaps that must be provided
from other funds to maintain the viability of a research program. This fund enables
those activities.
ľ¹ÏÖ±²¥ WWAMI’s Della Keats Summer Enrichment Program
The Della Keats Program is the foundation for ľ¹ÏÖ±²¥ WWAMI’s pathways programs. Its
most visible feature is a six-week intensive summer program for minority, rural and
other disadvantaged ľ¹ÏÖ±²¥n high school students interested in careers in medicine
and other health-care fields. The program fosters, affirms and encourages high school
students’ interest in the medical profession by allowing them to further explore health-care
careers.
To make a contribution to one of these important purposes, either fill out and return the form or make an online contribution at .