Financial Aid and Scholarship Committee
Charge
The charge of the Financial Aid and Scholarship Committee is:
- To establish procedures for application of institutional financial aid and to establish procedures to be used for evaluation of these applications.
- To act together as a committee to determine recipients of awards using donor criteria and information from the proposed recipient(s) aid profile.
- To make award recommendations as needed to the Dean of the College of Medicine for award of available internal scholarship funds.
- To review requests for assistance deemed to be unusual by the Director of Financial Services and to review appeals from medical students concerning denial of aid.
Structure
The Financial aid and Scholarship Committee shall consist of the following:
- Two Basic Science Department faculty members
- Two Clinical Science Department faculty members
- Two Community representatives (one of whom may be a practicing physician)
- One University faculty member
- One Resident representative (appointment for duration of residency)
- Four medical students - One from each freshman, sophomore, junior and senior class (appointment for duration of matriculation)
- One Associate Dean of Student Affairs (ex officio, non-voting)
- One Director of Development (ex officio, non-voting)
- One Director of Financial Services (ex officio, non-voting)
- One Assistant Director of Financial Services (ex officio, non-voting)
- One Administrative Assistant to the Associate Dean of Student Affairs (ex officio, non-voting)
2020-2021 Financial Aid and Scholarship Committee Members
Tom Kwasigroch, PhD (Chair) | Associate Dean for Student Affairs | Ex-Officio | Non-Voting |
Rick Storey | Washington County, TN Trustee | 4/6/21 | |
Paul Monaco, PhD | Professor of Biomedical Sciences | 4/6/21 | |
Joe Florence, MD | Professor Emeritus |
4/6/21 | |
Jay Davis | Class Representative | 4/6/21 | MS3 |
Christopher Pearce | Class Representative | 4/6/21 | MS2 |
Peter Anthony Jones | Class Representative | 4/6/21 | MS1 |
Brooke Baxter Bartow | Class Representative | 4/6/21 | |
Joyce Underwood | Director of Financial Services | Ex-Officio | Non-Voting |
Christi Franklin | Assistant Director of Financial Services | Ex-Officio | Non-Voting |
Carol Sloan | Director of Development at Quillen College of Medicine Office of Institutional Advancement | Ex-Officio | Non-Voting |
Rusty Lewis | Associate Dean Finance & Administration | Ex-Officio | Non-Voting |
Kenneth Olive, MD | Executive Associate Dean for Academic and Faculty Affairs | Ex-Officio | Non-Voting |
Todd Jones, CFP, AIF, MBA | Sr. LPL Financial Consultant, Certified Financial Planner | 4/6/21 | |
Deidre Pierce, MD, MHA, CPE, FACP | Assistant Dean for Student Affairs | 4/6/21 | |
Michael Ostapchuk, MD, MSed | Associate Dean for GME, DIO | 4/6/21 |