Student Loan Repayment Grant Foundation: Awarded Dentists
For more than $300,000 grant money, three of the California dentist has been awarded by the California Dental Association (CDA) Foundation. This has been done to help offset the student loan debt for the exchange on the service they have done the community clinic.
The three California Dentists are Alvaro Ochoa, DDS, of Riverside San Bernardino County Indian Health Inc. in Banning. The second is Teri Ly, DDS, of La Clinica de La Raza at Children’s Hospital in Oakland. And lastly to be mention is Isaac Navarro, DMD, of Family Healthcare Network in Orosi. They are the grantees of CDA Foundation with a maximum of $105,000 as a loan repayment grants in a way of exchange to their devoted commitment to the underserved community.
Since this program has been established in the year 2002, there were seven grantees being acknowledged. With the help Maurice Amado Foundation funding cycle, in 2008 instead of giving two grants they had made it into three.
On annual basis it is estimated that the CDA Foundation Student Loan Repayment Grant has provided more than $500,000 each on dental care.
“We are fortunate that some of the best and brightest have chosen to work in underserved populations, where their services will be an asset to the overall health of the community,” said CDA Foundation Executive Director Jon Roth.
At at La Clinica de La Raza at Children’s Hospital in Oakland, Ly has serve the largely indigent population. And Navarro, at a community clinic in Orosi, the Family Healthcare Network has been his area of concerned. And lastly, Ochoa also understands firsthand the hurdles there are in health care, as well as the financial burden a recent graduate carries with them.
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