AAMC Caring for Community Grant Program

2008 Grant Recipients Sponsored by Pfizer Inc.

Boston University School of Medicine: Outreach Van Project
A mobile outreach service for the homeless that provides basic necessities such as food, clothing, toiletries, and dental supplies as well as basic medical care and referrals to primary care physicians and detoxification programs.

Mount Sinai School of Medicine: (EHHOP) East Harlem Health Outreach Program
A free, primary care student-run clinic and health education outreach program for uninsured and underinsured residents of East Harlem, New York. The clinic operates on Saturday mornings at a Mount Sinai Hospital outpatient facility.

University of Florida College of Medicine: Equal Access Clinic
A free clinic run by medical students that provides healthcare to the under and uninsured population of Alachua and surrounding counties. Expanded services will include more medications, imaging and laboratory tests, and dental services.

University of Kansas School of Medicine: JayDoc Community Clinic
UK medical students provide free medical care, preventive services, and health counseling/education to the area's medically underserved during Saturday clinics.

University of Missouri-Columbia School of Medicine: MedZou Student Run Free Clinic
A weekly, student-run free clinic that will serve the uninsured population and provide transitional care to patients awaiting appointments at the Family Health Center.

University of New Mexico School of Medicine: Community Vision Project
Mobile eye clinics will provide basic vision care services and will include a public eye health campaign to at-risk populations (predominantly American Indian and Hispanic) in urban and rural areas.

University of Washington School of Medicine: Aloha Inn Clinic
A weekly, free clinic that provides smoking cessation, blood pressure monitoring, general health education, and social service referrals to residents of the Aloha Inn, a transitional housing facility for homeless adults. Expanded services will include primary care.

Vanderbilt University School of Medicine: Shade Tree Community Diabetes Program
This project will expand its diabetes counseling program, launch an outreach effort to raise community awareness, and establish education and support networks to educate patients about proper diabetes care for the uninsured and underinsured population in East Nashville.

Wake Forest University School of Medicine: DEAC (Delivering Equal Access to Care) Clinic
A student-run clinic that will provide high-quality, free healthcare to Winston-Salem's underinsured and uninsured individuals one evening per week.