Doctors-in-training at Sinai Hospital in Baltimore will have a new scholarship opportunity after a former member of the hospital’s board of directors donated $10 million to LifeBridge Health, allowing the health system to create an endowment that will fund students completing their clinical rotations at its Regional Medical Campus.

The gift — donated by Ellen Weis Platz Wasserman, a founding member of the LifeBridge Health board whose grandfather established a grocery store that became Weis Markets — is the largest from an individual in LifeBridge’s history. It represents an “exclamation point” to her legacy of philanthropy in Baltimore, Sharon Boston, a spokeswoman for LifeBridge, said in an email.

Wasserman, who turned 101 in March, has given nearly $24 million to the health system over the course of 36 years, with many of the gifts focused on teaching clinicians and providing support for vulnerable children.

LifeBridge, which runs several Baltimore-area hospitals and more than 100 other sites in Maryland, announced the donation in a news release Tuesday. The Regional Medical Campus is a two-year-old partnership between the health system and The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences in Washington, D.C., that allows students at the medical school to complete their clinical rotations at Sinai.

“We are so grateful to Ellen Wasserman for this transformational gift to invest in the education of future physicians, who we hope will go on to practice in our communities,” Lifebridge President and CEO Neil Meltzer said in Tuesday’s release. “With her many years of support to Sinai Hospital, our patients and our communities, this gift is part of Ellen’s legacy and a way to take on health disparities and make a positive difference in the health of people, particularly those who may be at increased health risks due to social or economic challenges.”

Students at the Regional Medical Center complete their first two years of medical classroom coursework at George Washington’s campus before coming to Baltimore for their final two years of medical school. At Sinai, the students help care for many patients who come from underserved communities, where economic and social disparities can harm their health.

Fifteen students are currently training at Sinai in the program’s second full year. There will be 60 students — 30 third-year and 30 fourth-year — when the program reaches capacity, LifeBridge said in the release. Students who benefit from Wasserman’s donation will receive annual tuition scholarships of $10,000 and be known as Wasserman Scholars.

“The [Regional Medical Center] students are a remarkable and enthusiastic group of students, and we are so thankful for Mrs. Wasserman’s gift that will support our students in this special learning environment and community-focused program,” said Dr. Scott Krugman, pediatrician and senior associate dean for the Regional Medical Campus, in the release. “The current RMC students have shared how much they value the individualized, hands-on education and training they are receiving at Sinai, as well as connections they are able to build with their patients and our greater community.”

During the students’ first year at Sinai, they rotate through all medical specialties offered at the hospital, from family and internal medicine to pediatrics, psychiatry, obstetrics and gynecology, neurology and surgery. They can take electives like population health, value-based care and technology, and digital health during their second year.

While Wasserman’s endowment will ensure ongoing scholarship support for students at the Regional Medical Center, the program previously has received support from the Herman & Walter Samuelson Foundation, the Kahlert Foundation, Louis and Phyllis Friendman, the Blavatt Family, the Israelson Family Foundation and Dr. Stanley Friedler.

“Ellen Wasserman is a caring and compassionate woman who always asks about our patients and how we can help people in our communities,” said Julie Cox, chief philanthropy officer for LifeBridge, in Tuesday’s release. “We are so appreciative for her leadership and support to LifeBridge Health over more than a quarter century.”

Each year, more than 160 medical residents work and train at Sinai Hospital, including those from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and the University of Maryland School of Medicine, as well as The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences and other schools.

In addition to Sinai, LifeBridge operates Levindale Hebrew Geriatric Center and Hospital, Grace Medical Center in Southwest Baltimore, Northwest Hospital in Randallstown and Carroll Hospital in Westminster.