UMHS launches new Alumni Association website

UMHS has launched its brand-new Alumni Association website, featuring all the latest information about the growing UMHS alumni community. Graduates can stay connected with former classmates by visiting the UMHS Alumni Association site often for news, announcements, events, and much more.

UMHS has graduates working in a wide range of medical specialties, from internal medicine and family medicine to cardiology, neurology, psychiatry, anesthesiology, emergency medicine and ophthalmology to OB-GYN and sports medicine and many more. Our new Alumni Association website offers a forum where our graduates can reconnect with other UMHS alumni, inform us about one’s current residency, fellowship, private practice, and recently published research, get involved with UMHS to help our admissions department recruit new students at college fairs and pre-med clubs, learn about speaking and livestream opportunities, UMHS events in your area, virtual and in-person alumni mixers, and more.

Class Notes

Curious where UMHS graduates are working now? Visit Class Notes, a page on the UMHS Alumni Association website where graduates can discover where their fellow UMHS graduates are working now, their contributions to medicine and their personal milestones.

Class Notes is the go-to spot to see how UMHS alumni are making a difference in the USA and Canada. Alumni members may fill out our Class Notes form to share their own updates with the UMHS Alumni Association and the UMHS community. 

The mission of the UMHS Alumni Association is to promote the interest, welfare and advancement of the University, to advance the cause of medical education, and to maintain close and mutually beneficial relationships among the alumni, students and institutional leadership of UMHS.

Special section

A special section includes the following:

• Get involved as a UMHS grad

The UMHS Alumni Association is looking for alumni volunteers. Learn about ways you can get involved by filling out this survey. Also, the survey updates us about your residency, fellowship, private practice, recently published research and more. Click to get involved with UMHS.

• UMHS Alumni Association Facebook Group

Join the UMHS Alumni Association Facebook Group.  Our Facebook Group is a way to communicate with fellow UMHS Alumni, stay informed about upcoming UMHS events in your area, speaking opportunities, announcements and much more. Join the Facebook group.

• Refer a student today

UMHS is proud to offer an alumni referral program to encourage deeper connections between our past and future students. Click to learn the steps on how to participate in the program.

Alumni Association Awards & future site plans

The UMHS Alumni Association website has many exciting things planned for the near future, including the UMHS Alumni Association Awards.

The UMHS Alumni Association plans to hold its first annual UMHS Alumni Association Awards in the 2024-2025 school year. We will honor and recognize outstanding alumni with a series of awards. UMHS alumni, faculty, staff and medical professionals will be encouraged to nominate alumni for one or more of the awards listed below. 

Award categories include the UMHS Dr. Robert Ross Memorial Alumni Award, in memory of the founder of UMHS, Dr. Robert Ross. The award will recognize an alumnus whose professional achievements and contributions to healthcare have helped improve the lives of the people in the community in which the alumni member serves, via a residency, fellowship or professional private practice or through research. The UMHS Alumni Health Equity Award will recognize an alumnus making a difference in medically underserved areas and/or minority communities, including but not limited to: rural areas, inner-city areas, low-income areas, Black, Latino/a, Asian, Native American and First Nations communities, LGBTQ+ communities, women’s health issues, and more. Finally, the UMHS Alumni Early Achievement Award will honor a UMHS alumnus who has graduated in the past five years and has excelled in their career, making significant contributions to public health through clinical care, medical science, research or humanitarianism. UMHS will post a nomination form on the Alumni Association website in late 2024 or early 2025 and an official voting ballot a few weeks afterward.

Visit the site regularly to learn about upcoming virtual and in-person alumni mixers. Other future plans for the site include a secure searchable alumni portal, an alumni mentorship program and more.  

Visit the UMHS Alumni Association website.

To be featured on the UMHS Alumni Association website or with questions about submitting Class Notes or anything related to alumni, please email sharrah@umhs-sk.net

(Top photo): Collage of UMHS alumni members throughout the years. UMHS alumni are encouraged to visit the new UMHS Alumni Association website to learn more about upcoming events, submit a Class Note about where they are working now, and more. Collage: Andre Bolourian, UMHS.