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Scholarship Honoring Black and Hispanic Med Students is Awarded to TouroCOM Middletown Student

Determined to Serve the Underserved, Gloria Okafor, M.S., of California, Prepares to Provide Culturally Sensitive Care

Gloria Okafor, M.S., OMS-II at TouroCOM Middletown, graduated from U.C.L.A. with a B.S. in Biology. She hails from the rural and medically underserved town of Taft, California, which at one time was a sundown town. Recently Okafor was awarded the “Rebecca Lee Crumpler, M.D. Scholarship” from the Association of Black Women Physicians (ABWP). The award, which goes to 10 Black or Hispanic/Latinx female medical students every year, is named after the first Black woman to earn a medical degree in the U.S., in 1864. Okafor is the only DO among this year’s awardees.

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