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U.Va. Medical School Student Awarded Bowman Scholarship

The C. Richard Bowman Memorial Scholarship at the University of Virginia School of Medicine has been awarded to medical student David Gregory Didden of Arlington, VA.

The fourth-year medical student will receive a year's tuition and fees. Didden was selected for his integrity, enthusiasm and genuine compassion for the ill – qualities that distinguished the late Dr. Bowman. Bowman was a Staunton native who graduated from the U.Va. School of Medicine in 1974 and died in a sailing accident in 1977. The award is presented annually.

Didden received his bachelor's degree at the United States Air Force Academy and is now an Air Force Lieutenant. Upon completion of his residency in family medicine, he plans to practice in a primary care setting with special emphasis in the diagnosis and treatment of the mentally ill. He likes to spend the rest of his free time with his wife Kate and daughter Ellie.

The scholarship was presented on Monday, October 5, at the Bowman Lecture, Management of HIV-1 Infection, given by Dr. John P. Phair, chief of the division of Infectious Diseases and director of the Comprehensive AIDS Center at Northwestern University Medical School. Didden is the 21st recipient of the Bowman Scholarship

Members of the U.Va. medical faculty select five fourth-year students to be Bowman Scholars each year, one of whom receives the Memorial Scholarship. Other Bowman Scholars selected were Brian Winters Behm of Grafton, OH; Amy Tietz Cooke of Ann Arbor, MI; Rebecca Lynne Nelson of Alexandria, VA; and James Samuel Pope of Wytheville, VA.

October 21, 1998