Southern California Chapter of HIMSS Scholarship

Sponsored by the HIMSS Southern California Chapter

The Southern California Chapter of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) is pleased to announce a new scholarship for a student of healthcare informatics. Established and funded by the HIMSS Southern California Chapter, this scholarship is awarded to a HIMSS student member who exhibits academic excellence and future leadership potential in the healthcare information and management systems industry.  Southern California student members are all encouraged to apply for the scholarship. 

The amount of the scholarship is $5,000 and is given annually. 

Criteria:

Applicants for the Southern California Chapter Scholarship must fulfill these minimum requirements:

• The applicant must be a member in good standing of HIMSS
• The applicant must be a member of National HIMSS and the Southern California Chapter
• The applicant must be attending a school in Southern California area
• The primary occupation of the applicant at the time the scholarship is awarded must be that of student in an accredited undergraduate, Masters or PhD program related to the healthcare information management systems field. The specific degree program is not a critical factor, although it is expected that programs similar to those in industrial engineering, operations research, healthcare informatics, computer science and information systems, mathematics, and quantitative programs in business administration and hospital administration will predominate.
• Undergraduate applicants must be at least a first-term junior when the scholarship is awarded.
• Previous Foundation Scholarship winners are ineligible.

2008 Scholarship Recipient

Tushar Bansal
University of Southern California