{"id":146001,"date":"2025-11-07T20:26:40","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T01:26:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=146001"},"modified":"2025-11-07T20:26:40","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T01:26:40","slug":"2nd-annual-trina-wijangco-md-memorial-scholarship-tournament-on-nov-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=146001","title":{"rendered":"2nd\u00a0Annual Trina Wijangco, MD, Memorial Scholarship Tournament on Nov. 23"},"content":{"rendered":"

2nd<\/sup>\u00a0Annual Trina Wijangco, MD, Memorial Scholarship Tournament on Nov. 23<\/strong><\/p>\n

Temple\/St. Luke\u2019s School of Medicine<\/a>,\u00a0St. Luke\u2019s Sports Medicine<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0St. Luke\u2019s Development<\/a>\u00a0are once again teaming up for the Second Annual\u00a0Trina Wijangco, MD, Memorial Scholarship Pickleball and Cornhole Tournament<\/em>\u00a0on Sunday, November 23, 2025.<\/p>\n

The event \u2013 which is open to the public \u2013 will be held at\u00a0St. Luke\u2019s SportsPlex and Pickleball Lehigh Valley<\/a>, 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 \u2013 3pm.<\/p>\n

This event is a celebration of Dr. Wijangco\u2019s life and is a\u00a0Memorial Scholarship Fundraiser<\/a>. The\u00a0registration fee is $35 for pickleball, $25 for cornhole, or $20 as a spectator<\/a>.<\/p>\n

All proceeds from the event will benefit the\u00a0Trina Wijangco, MD, Memorial Scholarship Endowment Fund<\/a>, 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.<\/p>\n

\u201cDr. 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,\u201d says Shaden Eldakar-Hein, MD, Senior Associate Dean of the Temple\/St. Luke\u2019s School of Medicine.<\/p>\n

Dr. Wijangco earned her MD from the Temple\/St. Luke\u2019s School of Medicine in 2021 and was instrumental in co-founding the Diversity and Inclusion Taskforce at Temple\/St. Luke\u2019s, 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.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe biggest testament to Dr. Wijangco is that the club is still active and helping individuals from all walks of life,\u201d says Ike Akusoba, MD, Director of Student Advocacy and Community Engagement at Temple\/St. Luke\u2019s.<\/p>\n

Registration for the\u00a0Trina Wijangco, MD, Memorial Scholarship Pickleball and Cornhole<\/em>\u00a0event\u00a0is\u00a0available online<\/a>. Please reach out to Lynn Glass at 484-526-8876 or at\u00a0Lynn.Glass@sluhn.org<\/a>\u00a0with any questions.<\/p>\n

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About St. Luke\u2019s<\/strong><\/p>\n

Founded in 1872, St. Luke\u2019s 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\u2019s biggest employer.<\/p>\n

The Network\u2019s 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\u2019s hospitals operate the largest network of trauma centers in Pennsylvania, with the Bethlehem Campus being home to St. Luke\u2019s Children\u2019s Hospital.<\/p>\n

Dedicated to advancing medical education, St. Luke\u2019s is the preeminent teaching hospital in central-eastern Pennsylvania. In partnership with Temple University, the Network established the Lehigh Valley\u2019s first and only four-year medical school. It also operates the nation\u2019s oldest School of Nursing, established in 1884, and 50+ fully accredited graduate medical educational programs with 500+ residents and fellows.<\/p>\n

St. Luke\u2019s has been named a Leapfrog Group and Healthgrades Top Hospital and a Newsweek World\u2019s Best Hospital. It is the only Lehigh Valley-based health care system to earn Medicare\u2019s five-star ratings (the highest) for quality, efficiency and patient satisfaction. In 2025, the Network earned straight A\u2019s 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\u2019s information technology applications such as telehealth, online scheduling and online pricing information.<\/p>\n

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\nSam Kennedy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

2nd\u00a0Annual Trina Wijangco, MD, Memorial Scholarship Tournament on Nov. 23 Temple\/St. Luke\u2019s School of Medicine,\u00a0St. Luke\u2019s Sports Medicine\u00a0and\u00a0St. Luke\u2019s Development\u00a0are once again teaming up for the Second Annual\u00a0Trina Wijangco, MD, … Continue reading 2nd\u00a0Annual Trina Wijangco, MD, Memorial Scholarship Tournament on Nov. 23<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":146002,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[69,482],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-valley","category-press-release-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Trina-Wijangco.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146001"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=146001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146001\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/146002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=146001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=146001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=146001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}