Gary Plant, a student at ETSU’s Quillen College of Medicine, has been awarded the Pisacano Leadership Foundation Scholarship. He is the first medical student from the university, as well as the state, to receive the award.
Only five students in the nation claimed this honor for 2001. It includes approximately $40,000 in award money.
As a student in ETSU’s accelerated residency program, Plant is completing his final year of studies at the Quillen College of Medicine while also serving in his first year of residency training in family practice with ETSU Family Physicians of Bristol. He earned his undergraduate degree from the University of Oregon and came to the Quillen College of Medicine in 1998. While a student at Quillen, Plant has studied in the Rural Primary Care Track.
The Pisacano Leadership Foundation is headquartered in Lexington, Ky., and was founded in 1991 by the American Board of Family Practice in honor of its founder and first executive director, Dr. Nicholas J. Pisacano.

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