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The Henya Shwaartz Scholarship Fund was established by the Larry and Judy Tanenbaum Family Foundation. The award honours Henya Shwaartz, the mother of
Dr. Chaya Shwaartz, an Assistant Professor in the Division of General Surgery at UHN and the Department of Surgery at the University of Toronto.
As a young woman living on a moshav in Israel, Henya Shwaartz experienced two failed pregnancies and suffered a stroke that required her to use a wheelchair for
the rest of her life. With the support of her fellow moshavniks, Henya and her husband adopted their daughter Chaya from Yemen. Dr. Chaya Shwaartz graduated with a medical degree from Tel
Aviv University. Her area of clinical expertise is minimally invasive HPB surgery. She is also appointed as the associate to the program director for the Abdominal Transplant and
Hepatobiliary Surgery fellowship at the University of Toronto as one of her main interests is resident and fellow education. Chaya has won several awards in surgical education.
Through the Henya Shwaartz Scholarship Fund, we will honour three young alumni with awards of $3,000 each, as they carry the values with which they were imbued during their TanenbaumCHAT experience into the next stage of their lives. Alumni will be given the opportunity to apply for a scholarship to be put towards studies in post secondary education. They will be required to submit a letter to the school outlining their ongoing academic achievements and commitment to community service.
Interested alumni must submit a letter of application outlining their post-secondary educational background so far, course of study, and past and current volunteer commitments, as well as an overview of how they consider their time at TanenbaumCHAT to have influenced their journey to date. Specifically, addressing the following question:
Applications must be sent to: alumniawards@tanenbaumchat.org with the subject line: Henya Shwaartz Scholarship Fund. The 2025 application submissions deadline is Friday, May 30, 2025.
Alumni who are under the age of 30 and have graduated no earler than June 2024 are eligable to apply. Applicants must be directly entering or already enrolled in a in a post-secondary educational program. Successful applicants may be awarded the scholarship only once.
Annually, a total of three scholarships, each valued at $3,000 CAD will be awarded to selected applicants.
Each year, applications will be reviewed by an ad hoc sub committee of the board, during the month of June and announcement of the winners will be made in July.
