Pre-Health Scholarships
Professor Michael Green and Ann Sartori Scholarship
The Professor Michael Green and Ann Sartori Scholarship awards a $3,000 scholarship to a student who demonstrates financial need and dedication to pursuing a career in the health professions.
The scholarship honors the memory and impact Dr. Michael Green has had on students and colleagues by establishing an ongoing fund to help highly motivated and deserving students in the Pre-Health Professions Post-Baccalaureate Certificate Program.
About the Green and Sartori Scholarship
Professor Michael Green
Michael Green grew up in the Bronx, New York and attended the Bronx High School of Science (1964). He earned a bachelor's degree at City College of New York (1968) and a Ph.D. in molecular biology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison (1972).
For 39 years, he was a professor in the Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology at St. Louis University Medical School. In 2014, he retired and moved to San Francisco where his two children and two grandchildren live. During his retirement, he volunteered at the California Academy of Sciences and taught Molecular Pathophysiology and Immunology courses (fall 2015 to fall 2017) in our Pre-Health program at San Francisco State University.
While he mentored hundreds of medical and graduate students during his long career, he often mentioned his time at San Francisco State University as one of his favorite teaching experiences.
Ann Sartori
Ann Sartori grew up in Plymouth, Wisconsin. After spending six years in a convent studying to be a nun, she left religious life because she wanted to learn more about women’s rights and the social justice movements of the 1960s.
She met Michael Green in 1968 at the University of Wisconsin, Madison and they married the next year. They moved to St. Louis, Mo. in 1975 where they raised two children, Josh and Sarah. Ann was a Montessori-certified pre-school teacher for many years. In 1986, she graduated from St. Louis University Law School and was admitted to the Missouri Bar Association.
Today, she lives in San Francisco and enjoys spending time with her two grandchildren.
- You must be enrolled in at least 6 units in the Pre-Health Professions Post-Baccalaureate Certificate Program.
- You must have a minimum 3.0 GPA in the SFSU Pre-Health program.
- You must use the award for academic expenses related to attending SFSU.
- You must submit a 500-word statement describing your financial need, how you will use the funds to complete the program or apply to health professional school and your past contributions in a clinical or community setting.
- You must ask one SFSU faculty member to submit a letter of support.
- You must submit a copy of your current unofficial SFSU transcript.
Professor Luna Abdallah Memorial Scholarship
The Professor Luna Abdallah Scholarship honors the lasting legacy of Professor Luna Abdallah and her profound impact on students and colleagues in the Pre-Health Professions Post-Baccalaureate Certificate Program.
The scholarship was established through generous contributions from students, staff, colleagues, friends and family in her memory following her passing.
Information about future scholarship funding will be posted here when it becomes available.
About the Abdallah Scholarship
Professor Abdallah earned her Ph.D. in Neuroscience from the Université Pierre et Marie Curie in Paris, France. She worked as a research associate at the University of California, San Francisco and taught at the University of San Francisco prior to starting at San Francisco State University. Before her passing, she had taken on the lead role at the Pre-Health program after serving for several years as Program Co-Director and instructor within the College of Science & Engineering. Professor Abdallah’s passion for public education and social justice were the main drivers throughout her personal and professional life. Her family has chosen to honor her memory by setting up this fund to support scholarships for highly motivated and deserving students in the Pre-Health program at SFSU.
- You must be enrolled in at least 6 units in the Pre-Health Professions Post-Baccalaureate Certificate Program.
- You must have a minimum 3.3 GPA in the SFSU post-baccalaureate program.
- You must use the award for academic expenses related to attending SFSU.
- You must submit a 500-word statement describing your financial need, how you will use the funds to complete the program or apply to health professional school and your past contributions in a clinical or community setting.
- You must ask one SFSU faculty member to submit a letter of support.
- You must submit a copy of your current unofficial SFSU transcript.