GA-PCOM Students Named National Health Service Corps Scholars

(SUWANEE, GA – February 27, 2015) Two Georgia Campus – Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine (GA-PCOM) students, Nichole Love (DO’17) and Sandra Sheffield (DO’18), have been honored as 2014 National Health Service Corps Scholars (NHSC).

Love, from New Orleans, Louisiana, first graduated from Texas Southern University in Houston, Texas, with a Bachelor of Science in environmental health sciences. She then received her Masters of Public Health in behavioral and community health sciences at Louisiana State University in New Orleans before earning her Masters of Biomedical Sciences from GA-PCOM, where she currently studies osteopathic medicine. Love now lives in Atlanta.

Sheffield, who currently resides in Suwanee, is originally from Honduras and has lived in the United States for eight years. She completed her Bachelor of Science at the University of North Florida in Jacksonville, Florida, before enrolling at GA-PCOM.

The NHSC is a federal government program that helps bring health care to those who need it most, according to their website. The scholarship program – with a highly competitive application process – assists in paying students’ tuition and other educational costs. Love and Sheffield will also earn stipends in return for a commitment to work at least two years in an underserved community after graduation and completion of primary care residency training. The NHSC has thousands of approved sites located in urban, rural and frontier communities throughout the U.S.

More than 1,800 students applied from 400 schools across the country and about 10 percent of applicants were granted the scholarship award. The Georgia Campus – Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine ranked among the top 20 schools with NHSC scholarship awardees.

About GA-PCOM

Georgia Campus – Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine (GA-PCOM) is a private, not-for-profit branch campus of the fully accredited Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine, a multi-program institution with a 116 year tradition of educational excellence. Located in Suwanee, GA-PCOM offers the doctor of osteopathic medicine degree, the doctor of pharmacy degree and a master’s degree in biomedical sciences. The campus includes the Georgia Osteopathic Care Center, an osteopathic manipulative medicine clinic, which is open to the public by appointment. For more information, visit www.pcom.edu or call 678-225-7500.

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