Contributor: John Barkett WG’09
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The Wharton Health Care Management Alumni Association (WHCMAA) is pleased to announce that Geoff Gusoff was selected as a 2016 winner of the June Kinney Alumni Scholarship. Geoff was accepted in the first admissions round for the class of 2018. He will receive a $10,000 scholarship. A second Kinney scholarship winner will be selected in round two.
The Kinney Scholarship Fund was launched by the WHCMAA two years ago to honor June Kinney. The campaign enjoyed widespread and enthusiastic participation, reflecting the program alumni’s admiration for June and commitment to the Wharton HCM Program. According to the scholarship's founding statement, a Kinney scholar is a student who shows “a sense of social mission, as well as those leadership characteristics that will both build community within the class and contribute to the societal health care enterprise after graduation.”
Geoff is deserving of the Kinney Scholarship. Geoff studied social ethics in college and while attending a graduate program at divinity school. His pursuit of social justice took him to Peru where he established a microcredit program for tuberculosis patients, to Boston where he assisted the homeless with Medicaid applications, and to El Salvador where he helped start a computer literacy program at a clinic at which he worked. Already a Penn Medicine student, Geoff is looking forward to using his MBA to help him drive sustainable solutions to society’s toughest health and socioeconomic problems.
We congratulate Geoff on being selected for the Kinney Scholarship. He is an outstanding addition to the growing and influential Wharton alumni network. Be on the lookout for him as we welcome the class of 2018 this summer!