The GLMS Foundation is pleased to announce the creation of a new charitable fund aimed at assisting UofL medical students to engage in advocacy .
This fund is named in loving memory of Dr . Bob DeWeese who highly valued advocacy and dutifully served the 48th district as a legislator for 24 years in the Kentucky House of Representatives .
The DeWeese Family made a donation of $ 10,000 to begin this fund to help defray travel and accommodation costs for attending advocacy meetings in cities outside of the Louisville area such as the AMA Annual Meeting in Chicago and the AMA Medical Student Advocacy Conference in Washington D . C .
The Foundation is opening this fund up for additional donations from GLMS physician members and others to continue to build on this fund until the corpus is large enough to annually support students from the interest alone .
The Foundation will begin providing financial assistance for advocacy students for UofL medical students beginning in 2025 .
To make a donation to this Medical Student Advocacy fund , visit tinyurl . com / DeWeeseAdvocacyFund