{"id":6874,"date":"2013-09-18T09:53:53","date_gmt":"2013-09-18T13:53:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm\/?p=4362"},"modified":"2013-09-18T09:53:53","modified_gmt":"2013-09-18T13:53:53","slug":"busm-student-ester-han-awarded-ama-foundations-physicians-of-tomorrow-scholarship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/2013\/09\/18\/busm-student-ester-han-awarded-ama-foundations-physicians-of-tomorrow-scholarship\/","title":{"rendered":"BUSM Student Esther Han Awarded AMA Foundation\u2019s Scholarship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-4364\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/2013\/09\/18\/busm-student-ester-han-awarded-ama-foundation%e2%80%99s-physicians-of-tomorrow-scholarship\/han_headshot\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4364 alignright\" height=\"280\" width=\"200\" alt=\"Han_Headshot\" src=\"\/camed\/files\/2013\/09\/Han_Headshot-e1379512403836.jpg\" \/><\/a>Boston University School of Medicine fourth-year\u00a0student\u00a0Esther Han was awarded the American Medical Association (AMA) Foundation\u2019s Physicians of Tomorrow Award\u00a0and received\u00a0a $10,000 tuition-assistance scholarship.<span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"> <\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"> <\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p>Han worked as a Senior Health Care Analyst at the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) in Washington D.C., focusing on promoting culturally and linguistically appropriate health care services, health care quality measurement, and care coordination and patient engagement. Since then, she has continued to work with NCQA and the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists on issues of patient safety and quality improvement. Han served as American Medical Student Association Health Policy Committee Co-Chair, organizing various health policy and public health speakers and events in conjunction with organizations at the BU School of Public Health. She also volunteered with the BUSM Partnering in Alzheimer&#8217;s Instruction Research Study (PAIRS) program.<span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"> <\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"> <\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Han grew up in Ashburn, Va., and graduated from Duke University with a Bachelor of Science in biological anthropology and anatomy and a Bachelor of Arts in Spanish. At George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services, she earned a\u00a0master\u2019s in Public Health.<span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"> <\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"> <\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>This scholarship is presented to 21 fourth-year medical students across the nation. Recipients were nominated by their medical schools and chosen based upon academic achievement and financial need.\u00a0The AMA Foundation has awarded over $61 million in scholarships to deserving medical students since 1950.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boston University School of Medicine fourth-year\u00a0student\u00a0Esther Han was awarded the American Medical Association (AMA) Foundation\u2019s Physicians of Tomorrow Award\u00a0and received\u00a0a $10,000 tuition-assistance scholarship. Han worked as a Senior Health Care Analyst at the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) in Washington D.C., focusing on promoting culturally and linguistically appropriate health care services, health care quality [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7398,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6874"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7398"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6874\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}