Christine Matthews Dalton, MD ’13 was an inaugural class alumna who joined our HWCOM faculty before she passed away on Thursday, November 13th, 2014. This scholarship was created in her memory and is awarded each year to a 4 th year medical student concentrating in Family Medicine that exhibits the following qualities which Dr. Matthews Dalton so profoundly displayed: integrity, resilience, strength of character, and a passion for patient care and student education.