The Pilar Ortega MD Scholarship is awarded each year to one outstanding MOLA-MRF Scholar, doubling their scholarship amount.
The award aims to recognize an individual who uniquely exemplifies and demonstrates Leadership: exemplary and passionate leadership, inspires others, paves a path and innovates when necessary, and welcomes challenges, Academic vision: intellectual curiosity, asks excellent questions and seeks their answers in an evidence-based fashion, demonstrates strong commitment to disseminating knowledge through activities such as teaching, research, presenting, and/or publishing, and Meaningful action: as an agent of change, is not satisfied with knowledge alone, but rather converts knowledge into action to make an impact in the community