2nd Annual Trina Wijangco, MD, Memorial Scholarship Tournament on Nov. 23
Temple/St. Luke’s School of Medicine, St. Luke’s Sports Medicine and St. Luke’s Development are once again teaming up for the Second Annual Trina Wijangco, MD, Memorial Scholarship Pickleball and Cornhole Tournament on Sunday, November 23, 2025.
The event – which is open to the public – will be held at St. Luke’s SportsPlex and Pickleball Lehigh Valley, 4636 Crackersport Road, Allentown, and will include competitive and social pickleball and cornhole games, lunch for participants, live music, a raffle and prizes. The event runs from 11am – 3pm.
This event is a celebration of Dr. Wijangco’s life and is a Memorial Scholarship Fundraiser. The registration fee is $35 for pickleball, $25 for cornhole, or $20 as a spectator.
All proceeds from the event will benefit the Trina Wijangco, MD, Memorial Scholarship Endowment Fund, which awards scholarships to deserving students who are dedicated to enhancing diversity in medical education and/or have a proven track record of serving historically underserved or underprivileged communities.
“Dr. Wijangco left a mark on our medical school with her selflessness and her drive toward health equity and outcomes. Trina believed in going into medicine to help and heal others. To know her was to know a genuine love for others,” says Shaden Eldakar-Hein, MD, Senior Associate Dean of the Temple/St. Luke’s School of Medicine.
Dr. Wijangco earned her MD from the Temple/St. Luke’s School of Medicine in 2021 and was instrumental in co-founding the Diversity and Inclusion Taskforce at Temple/St. Luke’s, a student organization with a goal of supporting traditionally underrepresented minority medical students. She was pursuing her residency in internal medicine at Mount Sinai Beth Israel Hospital in New York at the time of her death.
“The biggest testament to Dr. Wijangco is that the club is still active and helping individuals from all walks of life,” says Ike Akusoba, MD, Director of Student Advocacy and Community Engagement at Temple/St. Luke’s.
Registration for the Trina Wijangco, MD, Memorial Scholarship Pickleball and Cornhole event is available online. Please reach out to Lynn Glass at 484-526-8876 or at Lynn.Glass@sluhn.org with any questions.
About St. Luke’s
Founded in 1872, St. Luke’s University Health Network (SLUHN) is a fully integrated, regional, non-profit network with annual net revenue of more than $4.5 billion. With 23,000+ employees at 16 hospital campuses and 350+ outpatient sites, it is the Lehigh Valley’s biggest employer.
The Network’s service area includes 11 counties in two states: Lehigh, Northampton, Berks, Bucks, Carbon, Montgomery, Monroe, Schuylkill and Luzerne counties in Pennsylvania and Warren and Hunterdon counties in New Jersey. St. Luke’s hospitals operate the largest network of trauma centers in Pennsylvania, with the Bethlehem Campus being home to St. Luke’s Children’s Hospital.
Dedicated to advancing medical education, St. Luke’s is the preeminent teaching hospital in central-eastern Pennsylvania. In partnership with Temple University, the Network established the Lehigh Valley’s first and only four-year medical school. It also operates the nation’s oldest School of Nursing, established in 1884, and 50+ fully accredited graduate medical educational programs with 500+ residents and fellows.
St. Luke’s has been named a Leapfrog Group and Healthgrades Top Hospital and a Newsweek World’s Best Hospital. It is the only Lehigh Valley-based health care system to earn Medicare’s five-star ratings (the highest) for quality, efficiency and patient satisfaction. In 2025, the Network earned straight A’s from Leapfrog across all of its 11 acute care hospitals. It has earned 100 Top Hospital designations from Premier 11 years in a row, including in 2021 when its flagship University Hospital was identified as THE #1 TEACHING HOSPITAL IN THE COUNTRY. Utilizing the Epic electronic medical record (EMR) system for both inpatient and outpatient services, the Network is a multi-year recipient of the Most Wired award recognizing the breadth of SLUHN’s information technology applications such as telehealth, online scheduling and online pricing information.
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