FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
May 21, 2003

THREE UC DAVIS MEDICAL STUDENTS WIN SCHOLARSHIPS

(SACRAMENTO, Calif.) — The UC Davis School of Medicine announced that three students have received scholarships.

Mariam A. Hazem, a first-year student, won a $1,000 Amin and Nancy Habbas Scholarship. The endowment fund was established in the early 1990s to help high-achieving students of Arab origin enrolled at the UC Davis School of Medicine. Selection is based on leadership potential, community and extracurricular involvement, financial need and academic achievement. Hazem went to school in Amnan, Jordan and moved to the United States after finishing high school. Her parents, Fryal and Ahmad Hazem, reside in Hayward.

Second-year medical students Jennifer C. Millen and Helen Bailey each won a $2,500 Julita A. Fong Scholarship. The endowment fund, established in 1992, benefits women medical students who are members of the American Medical Woman’s Association and in need of financial assistance. Dr. Fong lives in Reedsport, Ore.

Millen holds a master’s in public health from UC Berkeley and is interested in health policy as well as women’s health. She is co-president of the Women in Medicine, American Medical Woman’s Association at UC Davis. She is a 1991 graduate of Fieldston High School in New York City and the daughter of Christine and Sean Millen, who reside in New York City.

Helen Bailey, who is also active in Women in Medicine, American Medical Woman’s Association, is interested in psychiatry and pediatrics. She graduated from Henry M. Gunn High School in Palo Alto in 1994. Her father and stepmother, Patrick and Nancy Bailey, reside in Palo Alto, and her mother and stepfather, Alice and Jim Bauder, live in Scottsdale, Ariz.

Through the efforts of Millen and Bailey, Women in Medicine worked with Student Physicians for Social Responsibility last fall to raise awareness of domestic violence and set up a training session for medical students on how to talk to patients about domestic violence. They also organized a lecture on the hormone replacement therapy controversy and a dinner meeting with women physicians to discuss balancing work and family life.

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