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Physician Assistant Program
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YOUR SUPPORT TODAY PREPARES THE PHYSICIAN ASSISTANT LEADERS OF TOMORROW


As a College of Health Sciences supporter, you bring Samuel Merritt’s mission to life: creating skilled professionals who serve diverse communities. Thank you for transforming healthcare with us!


Since you share our vision for a healthier future, we wanted to share the College’s 2024 priorities with you: 

• Train healthcare professionals to provide state-of-the-art services. 

• Increase the engagement of under-represented communities in all fields of the health sciences, with a focus on innovation, excellence, and research. 

• Develop programs that shape students into compassionate experts.


Will you join us as we advance these causes through scholarship giving?



Scholarship funds help to cover tuition, fees, and living expenses enabling SMU students to focus more on their education and less on holding down a job or taking out student loans.


“Thank you so much for your generous donation. I genuinely appreciate it and am honestly forever grateful. I was really stressed out with my laptop having issues and it has been affecting my learning so much but thanks to your help, hopefully I can get my laptop fixed or use that money towards a new laptop. It may not seem like much to you, but it would genuinely make such a big difference in my educational journey towards becoming a PA.”
- PA ’24 Student and Scholarship Recipient
A future community helper




What degree programs are in the College of Health Sciences? - Your gift supports these future healthcare professionals! 


•  Master of Physician Assistant Program

•  Master of Social Work

•  Doctor of Physical Therapy Program

•  Doctor and Master of Occupational Therapy Program




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Physician Assistant Scholarship Dollar-for-Dollar Match
Thanks to the Sverchek Family Match Challenge, all gifts made to support PHYSICIAN ASSISTANT students will be matched dollar-for-dollar, up to $3,000.
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Board Bonus Match!
Thanks to a generous Board of Regents donor, all gifts will be matched dollar-for-dollar, up to $5,000.
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Borgeson Family Strong Start Challenge
5:00PM DEADLINE: Our generous supporters Gerry (DIP ’68, Nursing) and Phil Borgeson are challenging us to give early! If we reach 50 donors before 5:00pm on May 14th, we will unlock a $10,000 donation to benefit student scholarship this year.
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