2024 IFM Scholarship Opportunities

DNPs of Color is proud to partner with IFM is to offer annual scholarships that expand access to functional medicine training for clinicians who are making a difference in their communities.

The Functional Medicine for All Scholarship is intended for clinicians worldwide who are beginning their certification journey and who are currently working with medically underserved communities. The scholarship award includes the cost of the September Applying Functional Medicine in Clinical Practice (AFMCP) and the option to attend virtual facilitated sessions with functional medicine professionals to enhance program learnings.

Eligibility Requirements

Clinicians must have taken at least one of the following courses:

Introduction to Functional Medicine
Therapeutic Food Plans
Lifestyle: Foundations for Functional Medicine
Must NOT have taken AFMCP and must NOT have taken more than one APM.
Must be able to demonstrate work in or with medically underserved communities. BIPOC practitioners and those working with BIPOC communities encouraged to apply.
Clinicians must qualify for IFM Certification to be eligible.

If you applied for the 2024 Founders’ scholarship and selected to opt in for the Functional Medicine for All scholarship, you do not need to reapply. Our team will review your submitted application.

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Dr. Danielle McCamey

FOUNDER, PRESIDENT, CEO

Danielle McCamey, DNP, APRN, ACNP-BC, FCCP grew up in a single-parent family home in Northern VA. Inspired by her mother, she became a nurse and received her Bachelor of Science in Nursing from the University of Virginia.

Dr. McCamey started her nursing career at Georgetown University Hospital. Shortly afterwards, she obtained her Master of Science from Georgetown University, specializing in Acute Care Advanced Practice. She then received a Doctorate in Nursing Practice from Georgetown University, where her dissertation focused on integration of palliative care screening of neurosurgical patients on admissions.

She has over 16 years of critical care nursing experience and nearly a decade as an Acute Nurse Practitioner. Currently, she works as the Chief Advanced Practice Provider of the Preanesthesia Testing Department and Senior Advanced Practice Provider in the Surgical Intensive Care Unit. She also is chair of the MedStar Doctoral Nurses Collaborative. In 2019, she was inducted as a Fellow in the American College of Chest Physicians.

Dr. McCamey is the founder, CEO and president of DNPs of Color, Inc., was inspired to create DNPs of Color because she wanted to create a space, a community for DOCs to elevate themselves, the nursing profession and communities through the richness of our diversity. Danielle has a passion for mentoring students, especially those interested in nursing. In her free time, she enjoys traveling, spending time with family and riding her motorcycle.