LITTLE ROCK — The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) College of Medicine received a $110,000 grant from the Dorothy Snider Foundation, a fund managed by the Memphis Medical Society, for student scholarships.
“This is an exciting development in our efforts to generate more scholarships, and the effects will be life-changing for aspiring physicians in the College of Medicine,” said Steven Webber, M.D., dean of the College of Medicine and UAMS executive vice chancellor. “Gifts of this magnitude enable substantive scholarships and are an investment in our mission to produce outstanding doctors for Arkansas. We are grateful to the Dorothy Snider Foundation and the Memphis Medical Society for their partnership.”
Snider grew up in Manila, Arkansas, in the 1920s and 1930s. She remained in the region throughout her life, eventually moving to Memphis, Tennessee, where she passed away Nov. 22, 1969. Her legacy lives on through the lives and education of the hundreds of young health care providers that her foundation has helped support over the decades.
The Memphis Medical Society is a nonprofit, physician professional organization, dedicated to uniting and advocating for the physicians of Shelby County and their patients. The Society is a trusted source of up-to-date health care industry news and resources to make physicians’ lives better at home and at practice. It is the local chapter of the Tennessee Medical Association. Each year, the Society’s distribution committee provides over $250,000 in scholarships, mostly to medical and nursing students. The organization’s collective giving to UAMS is more than $2 million.
“The Dorothy Snider Foundation is proud of its longstanding partnership with UAMS, which spans nearly our entire 57-year existence,” said Clint Cummins, MHA, chair of the Memphis Medical Society. “Not only has the state of Arkansas and the entire region benefited from this partnership, we have also continued to benefit from UAMS scholarship recipients who chose to ‘pay it back’ by contributing to our mission. We look forward to strengthening this partnership to improve the health care of all Arkansans.”
