Fredric Cantor ’58, ’62 MD, a neurologist and longtime volunteer for the Yale Alumni Service Corps, has made a major gift to establish the Cantor Family Scholarship at Yale School of Medicine (YSM), bringing the school one step closer to its goal of eliminating debt for students with financial need.
The endowed scholarship will primarily support medical students interested in the health and social problems affecting North American indigenous peoples. Cantor hopes that by supporting students interested in examining those challenges, the Cantor Family Scholarship may help lead to positive change.
Volunteer work and philanthropy have taken Cantor to four continents for health-related projects and brought more joy to his life than anything. “I developed such wonderful friendships at the medical school and then when I got to the Alumni Service Corps, I met another bunch of friends, from all different disciplines,” he says. “I was getting easily as much out of it as anything I was giving.”