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Third-Year Scholar Awarded Dr. Vincent and Mary Hayes Lepore Scholarship
A hallmark of work ethic and passion in the calling of medicine, the Dr. Vincent and Mary Hayes Lepore Scholarship was recently awarded to Kayla Trautman, a third-year medical student at LECOM. Trautman, in accordance with the Scholarship requirements, will present her Match results into an OB/GYN Residency in her fourth year of study.
The Scholarship was begun by Dr. Vincent Lepore in loving memory of his parents, Dr. Vincent and Mary Hayes Lepore. The senior Dr. Lepore was born and raised in Youngstown, Ohio; and he met his wife while both were attending Youngstown State University (YSU).
Dr. Lepore attended and graduated from medical school in Rome, Italy in 1957, during which time their son and only child, Vincent, was born.
The family returned to Youngstown and Dr. Lepore served his internship at St. Elizabeth Hospital, completing his residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology in 1963.
During his expansive career, Dr. Lepore delivered more than ten thousand babies.
In 2011, Dr. Lepore was awarded the Mahoning County Medical Society Physician of the Year Award. He was a member of the voluntary clinical faculty at the Northeast Ohio Medical College where he taught Obstetrics and Gynecology until his death in 2016.
Mary Hayes Lepore was by her husband’s side, supporting him during their entire married lives.
The Dr. Vincent and Mary Hayes Lepore Scholarship endures as a testament to a life lived in the noble service of medicine and LECOM is especially proud that Kayla Trautman will continue in the path established by this medical luminary.
