Scholarship Recipients

The American Medical Writers Association Southwest Chapter Scholarship for Biomedical Communications

Essay competition winners and links to their essays, published in the chapter newsletter (in PDF format).

2005 - David L. Primm for his essay, The Influence of Neurostimulation on Medical Writing. (PDF - July 2005)

2004 - Lubna Patrawala for her essay, Prospective Identification of Prostate Cancer Stem Cells. (PDF - July 2004)

2003 - Lisa Kennedy, a doctoral student in epidemiology at the School of Public Health, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. Her essay was titled The Use of Cyclooxygenase 2 Inhibitors in the Prevention of Esophageal Carcinoma. (PDF - July 2003)

2002 - Jessica Indrigo, a PhD candidate in molecular pathology at The University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston. Her winning essay was titled CAbs: A Driving Force in Novel Therapeutics. (PDF - July 2002)

2001 - Adrienne Carmack, a third-year medical student at the Texas A&M University Health Science Center in College Station, Texas. Ms. Carmack's essay was titled WWW: Wishy-Washy Waste or a Well-founded Wealth of Wisdom? (PDF - July 2001)