Twenty graduate level Colorado health professions students who have agreed to practice for at least the first two years of their careers in a Colorado rural or urban underserved community will be inducted at The Colorado Trust Health Professions Scholar Program awards dinner on March 6.

Seven new scholars are from the Central Colorado Area Health Education Center (CCAHEC), which covers the seven counties of the metro area plus four other surrounding counties. They include: Carol Benzing, Pharmacy; Morgan Ehlers, Pharmacy; Bethany Fiebelkorn, Psychology; Kyle Gateley, Medicine; Aimee Jacoby, Physician Assistant; Hector Lopez Frisbie, Physician Assistant, and Clayton Shaw, Physical Therapy. The scholars are supported in part by a two-year scholarship from The Colorado Trust that provides up to $15,000 years for two years for full-time enrolled students and $7,500 yearly for students enrolled half time. The scholarship targets enrolled graduate level nursing, allied health, dental, pharmacy, medical and public health students.

For more information, contact Kris Wenzel at 303.724.0359 or k.wenzel@ucdenver.edu.