Plastic surgery practitioners give full-ride med school scholarship to Arizona student [Video]

PHOENIX (AZFamily) — Arizona has a serious shortage of health care providers, and the problem is worse in rural and low-income areas. Two Valley brothers, Doctors Ali and Tamir Mosharrafa, who operate a successful plastic surgery practice in Scottsdale, are investing in the next generation by funding a full-ride scholarship to medical school.

“If we don’t intervene and do something, there are going to be just countless Americans that don’t have access to the health care that they need,” said Tamir Mosharrafa.

We caught up with their first recipient, Rocio Gastellum-Castilllo, who is in her first year at the University of Arizona College of Medicine. “It has been very, very hard. Med school is med school, so there are times where you have to go to sleep at two in the morning but get up at six to go to class,” Gastellum-Castillo said.

She’s come a long way to living out her dream. “I am from Nogales, Sonora. I was born there. …