Join our admissions team on Tuesday, January 7, 2025, for an information session and Q&A covering Alice L. Walton School of Medicine’s unique curriculum, student opportunities, and admissions requirements. Register now: https://lnkd.in/gJs6mqTm Unable to make it? Keep an eye on our social media and admissions web page for future webinar dates. #AWSOM #Admissions #MedicalSchool #MedicalEducation #MedicalStudents #PreMed #Webinar
Alice L. Walton School of Medicine
Higher Education
Bentonville, AR 10,583 followers
This is AWSOM: A medical school on a mission in Bentonville, Arkansas.
About us
Founded in 2021, Alice L. Walton School of Medicine (AWSOM) is a nonprofit, four-year MD program that will enhance traditional medical education with the arts, humanities, and whole health principles. The School’s culture embraces self-care to empower students to care for their own well-being as well as their patients’. The School’s state-of-the-art medical education facility is under construction in Bentonville, Arkansas on the Crystal Bridges campus, home to Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art and Heartland Whole Health Institute. The School has been granted preliminary accreditation status by the Liaison Committee on Medical Education. Applications are live on AMCAS now for AWSOM's inaugural class of 48 students, starting July 2025.
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http://ALWmedschool.org
External link for Alice L. Walton School of Medicine
- Industry
- Higher Education
- Company size
- 51-200 employees
- Headquarters
- Bentonville, AR
- Type
- Educational
- Founded
- 2021
Locations
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Primary
Bentonville, AR, US
Employees at Alice L. Walton School of Medicine
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Sharmila Makhija MD MBA
Founding Dean and CEO, Alice L. Walton School of Medicine
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Jason Degn
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Diptiman Bose, MS, M.Ed., Ph.D., RPh
Professor of Foundational Sciences, Pharmacology, Alice L Walton School of Medicine
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Adam Dean
Leadership Coaching | Recruitment Specialist | Medical Higher Ed
Updates
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Alice L. Walton School of Medicine is proud to be a part of this transformative mission to improve our state’s health care by educating the next generation of compassionate, forward-thinking physicians. To learn more about health care transformation happening in Northwest Arkansas, watch #AWSOM founder Alice Walton in full conversation with Steve Mackin, President and CEO of Mercy: https://lnkd.in/dM7cffes #HealthCare #NorthwestArkansas #NWA
Shaping the Future of Health Care in Northwest Arkansas
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Alice L. Walton School of Medicine faculty and staff worked with the Northwest Arkansas Children's Shelter to identify a family for our AWSOM Adopt-A-Family holiday program. AWSOM team members shopped, wrapped, delivered, and wished this family (along with all of those served by NWACS) a happy holiday! If you would like to join AWSOM in giving back this holiday season, consider donating an item from the NWACS needs list: https://nwacs.org/needs/ #AWSOM #NWA #NorthwestArkansas #Outreach
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Alice L. Walton School of Medicine is honored to be featured in Northwest Arkansas’s top stories of 2024 along with the Alice L. Walton Foundation, Mercy, and Heartland Whole Health Institute. We’re looking forward to #AWSOM things to come in 2025, as we work together to improve health care in the Heartland! Read the full list: https://lnkd.in/gNYzwmrE #NWA #NorthwestArkansas #HealthCare #MedicalEducation
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Join a medical school on a mission to improve health care in the Heartland and beyond. Alice L. Walton School of Medicine is actively hiring for a variety of dean-level, faculty, and staff positions including: 🔸Assistant Dean for Clinical Education: https://lnkd.in/gydVBAMa 🔸Genetics/Cell and Molecular Biology Faculty: https://lnkd.in/gP6Aqayx 🔸Medical Microbiology/Immunology Faculty: https://lnkd.in/g994wUBn 🔸Director of Medical Student Research Projects: https://lnkd.in/gT2sEzDN 🔸Information Services Specialist, Library: https://lnkd.in/gbn7KdQ6 View all openings and apply online: https://lnkd.in/gVwwmMgz #AWSOM #Hiring #Recruiting #MedicalSchool #JobAlert #MedicalEducation #Education #Medicine #FacultyJobs #HigherEdJobs #Recruitment #EducationJobs #BentonvilleAR #JobSeekers #Jobs #NorthwestArkansas #NWA #Bentonville
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Interested in applying to Alice L. Walton School of Medicine? Join us online next Tuesday, December 10 at 11 a.m. CST for an information session and Q&A led by our admissions team. Sign up here: https://lnkd.in/gZgK3QGA Keep an eye on our social media and Admissions page for future webinar dates. #AWSOM #Admissions #MedicalSchool #MedicalEducation #MedicalStudents #PreMed #Webinar
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The health leaders and visionaries who serve as Alice L. Walton School of Medicine's Board of Directors joined Founding Dean & CEO Sharmila Makhija MD MBA, Executive Vice Dean Yolangel Hernandez Suarez, and other leadership for a tour of AWSOM's one-of-a-kind medical education facility. Learn more about the #AWSOM Board of Directors on our website: https://lnkd.in/gEJxYCEN #MedicalEducation #BentonvilleAR
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Alice L. Walton School of Medicine has announced the hiring of four key faculty members including Chelsey Deel, MD - Associate Professor of Pathology, Alexis Gillett, PT, DPT, EdD - Associate Professor of Anatomy, Stephen Nix, MD - Assistant Professor of Pathology, and Trager Hintze, PharmD, BCCCP - Assistant Professor of Pharmacology. Get to know our #AWSOM faculty: https://lnkd.in/gqcGXvUM #MedicalEducation #Faculty
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Join our admissions team at 4 p.m. CST this Wednesday, November 20 to learn more about Alice L. Walton School of Medicine’s unique curriculum, student offerings, and more. This webinar will include a Q&A session. Sign up here: https://lnkd.in/gGpqDbck Check the Admissions page on our website for future webinar dates. #AWSOM #Admissions #MedicalSchool #MedicalEducation #MedicalStudents #PreMed #Webinar
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Alice L. Walton School of Medicine Associate Professor of Anatomy Alexis Gillett, PT, DPT, EdD, recently represented AWSOM and connected with medical professionals from around the world at two national conferences. At the American Public Health Association 2024 Annual Meeting, Dr. Gillett presented her research “Increasing American Indian Enrollment in Medical Education for Community Health” as part of the American Indian, Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian Caucus session “Uplifting Our People: Current Efforts to Further Indigenous Health.” At the ACOI: American College of Osteopathic Internists and American College of Osteopathic Obstetricians and Gynecologists 2024 Annual Convention and Scientific Sessions, Dr. Gillett supported student doctors Christopher Scroggins, OMS II and Ty Mote, OMS II as a faculty advisor for their poster presentation “Heart of the Matter: Severe Cardiomegaly, Structural Remodeling, and Congestive Heart Failure in a Cadaveric Donor.” To the team’s knowledge, this is the largest recorded instance of severe cardiomegaly ever reported in a cadaveric donor and they aim to continue research on this unique case. Learn more about Dr. Gillett on our website: https://lnkd.in/gW6DiYHT #ACOI2024 #MedicalEducation #PublicHealth #CommunityHealth