Scholarships

The HIMSS Foundation annually awards over $60,000 in cash scholarships. Scholarships are awarded to HIMSS student members who have achieved academic excellence and have the potential to be future leaders in the healthcare information and management systems industry.

Twelve scholarships are awarded to the student(s) deemed most deserving as determined by the HIMSS Foundation Scholarship Review Board.

Foundation Scholarships

Healthcare Information Management Systems
Undergraduate, Masters and PhD

Richard P. Covert, PhD, FHIMSS Scholarship for Management Systems

HIMSS Chapter Supported Scholarships

New England HIMSS Dvora Brodie Scholarship
Sponsored by the HIMSS New England Chapter

Florida Chapter Scholarship
Sponsored by the HIMSS Florida Chapter

New York Chapter Scholarship
Sponsored by the HIMSS New York Chapter

Northern California Chapter Scholarship
Sponsored by the HIMSS Northern California Chapter

Southern California Scholarship
Sponsored by the HIMSS Southern California Chapter

Corporate Supported Scholarship

Beacon Partners Scholarship

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Eclipsys Clinical Informatics Scholarship

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IBM Scholarship

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2008 Scholarship Recipients

HIMSS would like to congratulate the following 2008 HIMSS Foundation Scholarship Recipients:

HIMSS Undergraduate
Allison Sutterfield
University of Mississippi Medical Center

HIMSS Masters
Ateret Haselkorn
Johns Hopkins University

HIMSS PhD
Joshua Vest
Texas A&M Health Science Center

Richard P. Covert, Ph.D., FHIMSS Scholarship for Management Systems
Ashlea Bennett
Georgia Institute of Technology

New England HIMSS Dvora Brodie Scholarship
Krishna Yeshwant
Harvard Medical School

HIMSS New York Chapter Scholarship
Harrison Fox
Columbia University

HIMSS Northern California Chapter Scholarship
Megan Yee
University of California, Berkeley

HIMSS Southern California Chapter Scholarship
Tushar Bansal
University of Southern California

HIMSS Florida Chapter Scholarship
O. Erhun Kundakcioglu
University of Florida

Beacon Partners Scholarship
Valerie McCleary
College of St. Scholastica

Eclipsys Clinical Informatics Scholarship
James Kevin Brantley, RN
The University of Alabama at Birmingham

IBM Scholarship
Richard Holden
University of Wisconsin-Madison

Please visit chapter websites to learn more about scholarships available from HIMSS Chapters. Visit our complete list of local chapter websites.