PA Hunro Family Scholarship
Donate to the PA Hunro Family Scholarship Fund
Support the next generation of Physician Associates by contributing to the PA Hunro Family Scholarship Fund! Your donation helps provide aspiring PAs with financial assistance, ensuring they can focus on their education and future careers in healthcare. Together, we can make a lasting impact.
The PA Hunro Family Scholarship is awarded to deserving future PAs who demonstrate healthcare experience prior to PA school, intention to improve public health, and represent a diverse, cultural perspective that will add value to the cultural sensitivity and competency needed in medicine today.
This scholarship was established in honor of PA Sokan Hunro, a Cambodian-American refugee who immigrated to California in 1982 after surviving the Killing Fields in Cambodia. Starting with very little, he obtained his GED and associate degree from Long Beach City College, and went on to complete advanced degrees from Charles Drew University’s PA program in 1988 and Masters of Public Health from Loma Linda University in 1993.
Over a professional PA career of 35 years, PA Hunro practiced in various specialties including addiction medicine, pediatrics, and occupational medicine. He has led and actively contributed as a PA for medical missions in Cambodia, Haiti, and the US-Mexico border. His professional work and volunteerism inspired his son to also pursue a career as a PA. Together, father and son co-founded Project Thank You, America, a community volunteer service that serves Thanksgiving meals to hungry and homeless communities in the Inland Empire, and instituted a public library in PA Hunro’s Cambodian village to encourage literacy and English-learning among the children of the village.
The PA Hunro Family Scholarship was established by PA Aaron Hunro in honor of his father, Sokan Hunro. As a previous CAPA student scholarship recipient, he wanted to highlight his father’s exemplary work with patients and the community while “paying it forward” to hard-working PA students who will go on to also pave their own inspiring pathways in the profession.
This scholarship will begin accepting applications in April 2025, with the first award expected to be granted in June 2025. Please check back soon for more information or contact CAPA via email at capa@capanet.org.
