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Commencement 2008
Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner gave the keynote
address at the 29th annual Commencement ceremony
on June 7. Brunner, Ohio’s first female secretary of state,
received the 2008 John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award,
the nation’s most prestigious honor for elected officials.
Convocation 2008
With 117 students, the class of 2012 marks OU-COM’s largestever—and
its top-performing. “I am extremely proud of this
year’s class, which has both the highest grade point average
and the best medical college admission test scores in our
college’s history,” says Dean Jack Brose, D.O.
Anne Pope, federal co-chair of the Appalachian Regional
Commission, delivered the keynote address at the 33rd
Convocation ceremony August 18.
2012 class profile
56% female, 44% male
85% Ohio residents
10% from Southeastern Ohio
or Appalachian Ohio counties
27% minority students
Cultural Competency
First international
surgery rotation
A group of OU-COM students headed to La
Ceiba, Honduras, in November for the college’s
new clinical immersion in Hospital Suizo.
“The hospital-based experience gives a
perspective on a foreign medical system. This is
unlike our other international rotations that set
up temporary clinics,” says Assistant Professor
of Surgery David Drozek, D.O. (’83), who led
the two-week program for third- and fourthyear
students.
In the first week, the group performed
surgeries at Hospital Suizo for patients waitlisted
at the local government-sponsored
hospital. Drozek says that Hondurans unable
to afford private hospital fees often wait months
for federally funded care.
Next, students followed up with surgery
patients and visited local health care facilities
Student Life
Tapped out
Chad Keller, OMS II, (right) Student
Government Association president,
welcomed the Class of 2012 with collegebranded,
reusable water bottles. Keller
says the bottles will replace about 12,000
disposable water bottles previously served
at SGA-sponsored lunch lectures this year,
reducing waste and saving the SGA $2,500.
and a medical school in San Pedro Sula, where
they shadowed local medical students.
Hospital Suizo is part of a non-profit
foundation that provides medical care at about
half the cost of private hospitals, without the
wait of government-sponsored hospitals.
Drozek lived in Honduras for seven years,
where he worked with Hospital Suizo’s
General Director Doris Eggenberger. In March,
Eggenberger visited OU-COM, where she
recounted leaving her home in Switzerland to
found Hospital Suizo in 2000 after witnessing
Honduras’ poverty-stricken health care system.
“A lot of people don’t have dreams or goals,”
Eggenberger said. “You just have to have one
and do it.”
By Natalie Cammarata
OUM
For photos and reports from our students who
went to Honduras, go to
www.oucom.ohiou.edu/oum.
Accolades
Keith Watson, D.O., named
AOF Educator of the Year
“Few osteopathic physicians have had more
influence on postdoctoral medicine than
Dr. Keith Watson,” (above) says American
Osteopathic Foundation President Gilbert S.
Bucholz, D.O., who presented Watson’s award at
the July 2008 American Osteopathic Association
House of Delegates meeting in Chicago.
Watson, associate dean for graduate medical
education and associate professor of surgery,
is also chair of the Centers for Osteopathic
Research and Education board. Bucholz says
that Watson has brought the CORE, OU-
COM’s statewide consortium of teaching
hospitals, to a national prominence that is the
envy of medical educators, both osteopathic
and allopathic.
Regional Innovations
Health information network
connects Southeastern Ohio
Twenty health care organizations have
formed the Appalachian Health Information
Exchange (AHIE) to help coordinate use
of health information technologies such as
electronic record keeping and the electronic
exchange of health information in Ohio’s
Appalachian communities.
AHIE, which elected its first board in April,
was born out of a National Library of Medicine
grant OU-COM won through the National
Institutes of Health. The association is assessing
needs and developing strategies to incorporate
information technologies into the region.
Before coming to Ohio, Watson taught first
at the Oklahoma State University College of
Osteopathic Medicine, where he chaired the
Department of Surgery, and then at the Des
Moines University College of Osteopathic
Medicine, where he was a professor of surgery,
associate dean for clinical affairs and project
director of the Standardized Performance
Assessment Laboratory.
“Dr. Watson has gone to extraordinary
lengths to improve and promote osteopathic
postgraduate education by developing new
programs, conducting mock accreditations
and increasing the visibility of osteopathic
residency programs,” Bucholz says.
“I am very honored,” Watson says. “I see this
award as reflecting all the individuals at the
CORE and OU-COM. We do this together.
It’s important for all of us to share this honor.”
By Richard Heck
Ross
Franklin
Fairfield
Pickaway
Pike
Scioto
Licking
Hocking
Vinton
Jackson
Lawrence
Guernsey
Muskingum
Perry
Gallia
Visit the AHIE Web site at
www.oucom.ohiou.edu/AHIE/
Coshocton
Morgan
Athens
Meigs
Noble
Washington
Belmont
Monroe
HONORS & APPOINTMENTS
Mario Grijalva, Ph.D.
Director of the Tropical Disease Institute
Coordinator of the Surveillance and Information Systems Work Group
World Health Organization’s Global Network for Chagas Elimination
John Kopchick, Ph.D.
Goll-Ohio Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology
• AMVETS Silver Helmet Award
54 th Silver Helmet Awards Banquet (March 29; Alexandria, Va.)
• Honorary Doctor of Science degree
Indiana University of Pennsylvania Commencement (May 10)
Brian Phillips
Chief Information Officer
Ohio Broadband Council (appointed by Gov. Ted Strickland)
Barbara Ross-Lee, D.O.
Former Dean
Ruth Purdy, D.O., FACOI
College Advocate
Both named “Pioneers in Osteopathic Medicine”
American Osteopathic Association House of Delegates Annual
Meeting (July 18; Chicago, Ill.)
Martha Simpson, D.O.
Assistant Professor of Family Medicine
Ohio Department of Insurance Advisory Committee on Eligibility
and Real Time Claim Adjudication
GRANTS
Mark Berryman, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Biomedical Sciences
“Role of CLIC in epithelial morphogenesis”
$154,875, NIH (4/1/2008 – 3/31/2010)
Karen Coschigano, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Sciences
“Cross-talk between growth hormone and inflammation pathways
in kidney damage”
$221,250, NIH (3/10/2008 – 3/9/2010)
Mario Grijalva, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Biomedical Sciences
“Characterization of Trypanosoma cruzi in Southern Ecuador”
$201,839, NIH (5/1/2008 – 3/31/2010)
Jane Hamel-Lambert, Ph.D.
Director of Interdisciplinary Mental Health, and
Kathy Trace, M.H.A., R.N.
Director of Community Health Programs
“Rural health outreach special initiative”
$189,677, HRSA (8/1/2008 – 7/31/2009)
Frank Horodyski, Ph.D.
Professor of Biomedical Sciences
“Molecular and functional characterization of
the allatotropin receptor”
$420,000, NSF (11/1/2008 – 10/31/2011)
Susan Williams, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Biomedical Sciences
“Collaborative research: Ecological and functional morphology
of feeding in free-ranging mantled howling monkeys”
$6,200, NIH (5/1/2008 – 12/31/2008)
RETIREMENTS
Gerald Rubin, D.O.
Associate Professor, Family Medicine
Suzanna Theodoras
Diabetes Nurse Educator
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Winter 2009
Robert Woodworth, D.O., M.P.H.
Associate Professor of Social Medicine
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