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Vista View 10 RVUCOM Students Provide High School Sports Physicals On a Saturday in mid-August, thirteen RVUCOM second-year students gathered in the OMM Lab of the campus to welcome students from Chaparral High School for sports physicals. OMM Fellows Kay Yien Kelts, OMS-IV and Danielle Sedivy Wurtz, OMS-IV were also on hand to help supervise the exams. The event was organized by Jill Pitcher, D.O., Assistant Professor of Family Medicine and Camille Bentley, D.O., Associate Professor of Family Medicine. Kenneth Ramey, D.O., Assistant Professor of Osteopathic Principles and Practices, and Kylie Kanze, D.O., Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, also supervised the exams. Dr. Pitcher reflects on the day. “We were able to use the OMM room, which was perfect, and we will likely do this again next year. We ended up seeing 35 of the 60 that signed up - there is always attrition, especially at first.” She continues to say that “the students did a wonderful job, the staff and parents from Chaparral expressed how impressed they were with the University and the students doing such a thorough exam, and that they were very grateful for being able to get their sports physicals done here.” AJ Ryan, OMS-II examines a student Boris Bayerman, OMS-II checks a student’s blood pressure Sondra Mason, OMS-II checks a student’s heart RVUCOM Student Posters Chosen for Display at AOA/BIOMEA Seminar Four RVUCOM second-year, Global Medicine Track students, Vanessa Campbell, Edward Lin, Erin Philpott, and Tom Rogers, have had their research posters selected to be presented during the Poster Session at the upcoming Annual AOA Bureau on International Osteopathic Medical Education and Affairs (BIOMEA) International Seminar. The Seminar, “Osteopathic Medicine in the Global Community”, is scheduled for October 30th, along with the AOA’s 116th Annual Osteopathic Medical Conference & Exposition (OMED) in Orlando, Florida. In addition, Erin Philpott’s poster “Identifying Risk Factors Involved in the Spread of Dengue Virus in Guyana” was also chosen as the first place abstract in the Research Category of the BIOMEA/SOMA Poster Competition, to be held at the Seminar. Only two winners were chosen for each of the two categories in this competition. Congratulations to all!
Vista View Eric E. Gish, D.O. Notable & Noteworthy Achievements Eric E. Gish, D.O., Chair of the Department of Osteopathic Principles and Practices and Assistant Professor of Osteopathic Principles and Practices has had many recent noteworthy achievements to announce. Over the summer, Dr. Gish was involved with the American Osteopathic Association (AOA) house of Delegates as one of the delegates from the State of Colorado through Colorado Society of Osteopathic Medicine (CSOM). He has also been elected as President Elect for CSOM. If everything goes according to plan, he’ll become the President of CSOM next year. In addition, Dr. Gish has been elected President of the Colorado State Society of ACOFP which is a Family Physicians College. Dr. Gish has also been selected for the Health Policy Fellowship through the AOA. Selection for the Fellowship is met through application and endorsement. Dr. Gish was endorsed for the Sondra Holloway, OMS-IV Sondra Holloway, OMS-IV was elected as a member of the Colorado Springs Osteopathic Foundation at their Annual Board and Membership Meetings. Congratulations, Sondra! fellowship by Bruce Dubin, D.O., RVU Acting President, along with Terry Boucher, Executive Director of CSOM. Dr. Gish explains,”The Fellowship is geared toward teaching you how health policy is formed, and giving you the knowledge and the background to get involved in health policy development. Essentially, we get to be a player in the health policy realm. I’ll learn how to create health policy briefs, how to critically read articles, and start working on some of the issues that pertain to the profession. “From a CSOM/ACOFP standpoint, it will help me understand the process much clearer and as I maintain my involvement with the House of Delegates,” continues Dr. Gish. “It gives me an idea of what can be done and what needs to be done to help secure, not only the future of the profession and access of care for patients, but also the future of the profession for students who graduate.” Dr. Dubin has also completed this fellowship and is serving as Dr. Gish’s sponsor along with RVU. Congratulations, Dr. Gish! A manuscript, co-authored by RVUCOM Associate Professor of Pathology, Dana Gryzbicki, M.D., Ph.D., has recently been published in the Cancer Cyptopathology. The manuscript is entitled, “Cytologic-Histologic Correlation”. Congratulations, Dr. Grzybicki! Four RVUCOM Students Selected for Undergraduate Student Fellowship RVUCOM has announced the acceptance of four fellows for the Harold I. Magoun, Jr. D.O. Predoctoral Osteopathic Fellowship, an undergraduate student fellowship. The third-year students chosen for the Fellowship are Anthony Furlano, Amber Koon, Nathan Nakken and Lauren Prest. As fellows, the students will be on a three-month rotating fellowship. They begin by rotating three months within the department, learning how to become instructors/teachers/ professors, enhancing their clinical skills and their hand skills – learning techniques from RVUCOM Faculty – and working Anthony Furlano, OMS-III Amber Koon, OMS-III Nathan Nakken, OMS-III Lauren Prest, OMS-III in the clinic, where they will see their own patient populations under the direction of David Kanze, D.O., the Fellowship Director. Then the next three months, they’ll be out on their routine rotations. They continue to rotate every three months in and out of the department. The goal is for the fellow to take what they learn here at the University and apply it to rotations and take what they learn at rotations and apply it here; In this way, they will become much stronger, both clinically and academically. The Fellowship also helps provide an opportunity for them to become future educators for the profession. Harold Magoun, Jr., D.O., came from a family of osteopathic physicians. His father, Harold Magoun, Sr., D.O., F.A.A.O., wrote one of the texts that RVU still uses today. Dr. Magoun, Jr. retired from his Denver practice in October 2011 and passed away in May of this year. He was kind enough to bequeath/ donate to the University, two of the McManus tables used in the OMM lab, which were used to treat multiple celebrities, sports figures and national figures during his practice. 11 1
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