Scholarships

Program overview

• The HIMSS Foundation Scholarship Program annually awards scholarships to student members studying in the healthcare information or management systems field. The six scholarships are awarded to the student(s) deemed most deserving as determined by the HIMSS Foundation Scholarship Review Board. In addition to the cash award, recipients receive an all-expense paid trip to the 2007 HIMSS Annual Conference and Exhibition in New Orleans. (Some restrictions may apply.)

Type of Scholarships

• 2006 Scholarships:

o Healthcare Info and Management Systems Undergraduate
o Healthcare Info and Management Systems Masters
o Healthcare Info and Management Systems PhD.
o Richard P. Covert, PhD, FHIMSS Scholarship for Management Systems
o Healthlink Informatics Scholarship
o Sentillion Scholarship

Past recipients

• HIMSS would like to congratulate the 2005-06 HIMSS Foundation Scholarship winners!
• HIMSS Foundation Undergraduate recipient: Byron Pitts, University of Central Florida, Ocala, FL
• HIMSS Foundation Masters recipient: Alena Lehrer, USC School of Policy, Planning & Development, LA, CA
• HIMSS Foundation PhD recipient: Muhammad Walji, UT Health Science Center, Houston, TX.
• HIMSS Foundation Richard P. Covert, Ph.D., FHIMSS recipient: Peter Schermerhorn, The Graduate College of Union University, Schenectady, NY
• Sentillion recipient: Mary Benham-Hutchins, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
• HealthLink recipient: Devashish Saini, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL
• MANI recipient: Sharon Milligan, IUPUI, Indianapolis, IN