The Southern Medical Association's Research and Education Endowment Fund provides for two (2) annual scholarships.

  • The “Society of 1906" to commemorate the associations founding, and
  • The “Society of 1924 to commemorate the foundling of the SMA Alliance.

Each award provides financial assistance in the form of a $2,000 scholarship for tuition or other required expenses to a 3rd year medical student in need of financial aid who exhibits both academic and leadership qualities.

Year Recipient School State
2013 Brian T. Buning University of South Alabama College of Medicine Alabama
2014 Nathanial S. Nolan University of Missouri School of Medicine Missouri
2015 Allie Steinberger Tulane University School of Medicine Louisiana
2016 Douglas Bennion University of Florida College of Medicine Florida
2016 Narine Wandrey University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio Texas
2017 Daniel Peters University of South Carolina School of Medicine South Carolina
2017 Benjamin Smood University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine Alabama
2018 Paul Oh Keck School of Medicine at USC California
2018 Andres Santos Paul L Foster School of Medicine Texas Tech University HSC at El Paso Texas

Scholarship Application Period is June - August.