The Ralph L. Sacco Scholarships in Brain Health are supported by a generous bequest to the American Academy of Neurology and American Heart Association from Sacco, who died earlier this year.
"It is fitting that Dr Sacco planned to continue to support trainees through his generous bequest," Mitchell S. V. Elkind, MD, AHA chief clinical science officer, said in a news release announcing the brain health scholarships.
The AHA is"honored to collaborate with the AAN in support of these brain health scholarships in his memory," Elkind added.and the betterment of brain health," Orly Avitzur, MD, MBA, AAN immediate past president, said in the news release. The long-term goal of the scholarship program is to offer opportunities to eligible trainees at various stages of their careers.
Sacco was chair of the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine Department of Neurology; the Olemberg Family Chair in Neurological Disorders; professor of neurology, public health sciences, human genetics, and neurosurgery; executive director of the Evelyn F. McKnight Brain Institute; director and multi–principal investigator of the Miami Clinical and Translational Science Institute; and senior associate dean for clinical and translational science.
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