ABC Medical Student Scholarships Now Accepting Applications. The Association of Black Cardiologists (ABC) is now accepting applications for its 2026 Medical Student Scholarship Program, supporting aspiring physicians committed to academic excellence, leadership, cardiovascular health, and advancing equity in underserved communities. This year, ABC will award fifteen scholarships in total.

Few lives in American medicine speak as powerfully to the necessity of representation and resilience as that of Dr. Cleveland "Cleve" Francis Jr. An ABC Emeritus Member, cardiologist, recording artist, and health equity advocate, Dr. Francis has spent more than five decades navigating and dismantling systemic racial barriers in two of America’s most culturally rigid institutions: medicine and [...]

As the cardiovascular community continues to unpack the newly released 2026 ACC/AHA/Multisociety Guideline on the Management of Dyslipidemia, ABC is proud to highlight that former ABC Preventive Cardiology Committee Co-Chair Karol E. Watson, MD, is among the leading voices helping to contextualize what these guidelines mean for clinicians and patients. Dr. Watson, of the David Geffen School of [...]