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To uphold our heritage, The Trust Fund sponsors the following programs:

  • The Boots Cooper, M.D., WMC’65 Scholarship: awarded to a 3rd or 4th year female medical student who has demonstrated and maintained academic merit and demonstrated financial need; interest/specialization in cardiology preferred. (See list of recipients.)
  • The Barbara A. Carson, M.D., WMC’70 Scholarship: awarded to a 3rd or 4th year female (non-traditional) medical student who has demonstrated and maintained academic merit and demonstrated financial need; interest/specialization in internal medicine preferred. (See list of recipients.)

  • The Virginia M. Badger, M.D., WMC'61, Scholarships: awarded to two 3rd or 4th year female medical students who have demonstrated and maintained academic merit and who demonstrate financial need; interest/specialization in orthopedics, particularly pediatric orthopedics, preferred (See list of recipients.)

  • The Lila Kroser, M.D., WMC’57 Scholarship: awarded to a 3rd or 4th year female medical student who has demonstrated and maintained academic merit and demonstrated financial need for the specific purpose of deferring travel expenses associated with attending a medical conference; pursuing an off-campus clerkship; or engaging in volunteer services or obtaining further medical training at an away location. (See list of recipients.)
  • The Mary DeWitt Pettit, M.D., Fellowship: awarded to a young female faculty member to aid in advancing her career. In 1978, the Trust Fund established the Mary DeWitt Pettit Fellowship in honor of the former chairperson of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology. Through this generosity, the fellowship funds research or other special projects which enable the recipient to acquire the credentials to advance in academic rank. (View the guidelines [PDF, opens in new window].) (See list of recipients.)
  • The WMC/MCP Phyllis Marciano, M.D., WMC’60 Woman in Medicine Award: given to a physician, scientist, or staff member, preferably at the Drexel University College of Medicine, to recognize her leadership, teaching of students, care of patients, and status as a role model for women in medicine. (See list of recipients.)
  • The WMC/MCP Trust Fund Woman One Scholar: The Woman One program at the Institute for Women's Health and Leadership of Drexel University College of Medicine provides medical scholarships for talented under-represented minority women at the college. Click here to read about Woman One and the Scholarship Fund. The Trust Fund has committed to support a Woman One Scholar beginning in the fall of 2011. (See list of recipients.)
  • Support for the Drexel University College of Medicine Archives and Special Collections, including a grant for their digitization project, making the Archives accessible to everyone.
    • The Archives and Special Collections, which houses the Women in Medicine Collection, is part of the Legacy Center at Drexel University College of Medicine, an internationally-recognized center for research on women in medicine. It is the official repository of the institution and contains records of enduring administrative, fiscal, legal or historical value. Records date from 1850 to the present and include department minutes, records and correspondence of the president, dean and faculty, college publications, student theses, alumnae/i records and obstetrical and medical case books.
    • The Women in Medicine Collection is the most comprehensive collection in North America on women physicians. It consists of the personal papers of women physicians, records of women’s hospitals throughout the local medical women’s organizations. The Archives and Special Collections is also the official home for the historical collection of the American Medical Women’s Association (AMWA), given to the institution in the late 1940’s by Bertha Van Hoosen, M.D., founder and first elected president of the Medical Women’s National Association (now known as AMWA), and also the collection of the Medical Women’s International Association (MWIA).
  • Funding to the Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine (ELAM) Program’s “Emerging Leaders in Academic Medicine” semiannual presentations.
  • Support for the mission and programs of The Foundation for the History of Women in Medicine.
  • Availability of low interest loans and scholarship support for our medical students.


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