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6 Oklahoma Family Physician Report Fall 2010
Residents And Students Attend Conference In Kansas City
The National Conference of Family Medicine Resident and
Student Members was held July 29 through July 31 in Kansas
City, Mo. Representing Oklahoma were 18 medical students,
10 residents and faculty and staff members.
The Family Health Foundation of Oklahoma supports the
students’ trip to Kansas City each year by providing a
Jennifer Adams, MSII
Ryan Adams, MSIV
Chee Yoon S. Bauer, MSII
Jessica Blount, MSIV
Ali Canton, MSIV
Jenny Chen, MSIV
Munim Deen, MSII
Diana Farrow, MSIV
Joshua Li, MSIII
Students Residents
Bradley Long, MSII
Megan McMahan, MSIV
Jennifer Montague, MSIV
Ann Nguyen, MSIV
Victoria Nguyen, MSIV
Terry Rimmer, MSIV
Anant Singhal, MSII
Lisa Siswanto, MSIV
Stephen Twyman, MSII
Researchers at the University of
Oklahoma’s Department of Family and
Preventive Medicine, in collaboration with
clinician members of the Oklahoma
Physicians Resource/Research Network,
are carrying out a number of exciting
projects that could benefit all family
physicians.
The National Heart, Lung and Blood
Institute awarded the OU-DFPM a grant
to study ways to help primary care
practices implement the latest asthma
guidelines. Forty-eight practices from
Oklahoma and western New York have been chosen at
random to receive four different types of assistance. The results
will provide information for future quality improvement
initiatives throughout the country.
A similar project, funded by the Agency for Healthcare
Research and Quality, will investigate ways to help practices
implement chronic kidney disease guidelines and then spread
the lessons they learn to other practices in their communities.
Practices interested in participating will be recruited and
enrolled beginning in November 2010.
In addition, AHRQ, the Oklahoma Health Care Authority
and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services have
provided funding for a project designed to link primary care
practices to nutrition education programs offered by the
Oklahoma State University Cooperative Extension program.
Forty-eight practices in Oklahoma – 24 of them already have
been recruited – will be involved in this project over the next
two years. The other 24 will be recruited and enrolled in
mid-2011.
scholarship to help offset their travel and lodging expenses.
The Great Plains Family Medicine Residency Program, Saint
Anthony Family Medicine Residency Program, OU-OKC
Department of Family Medicine and OU Tulsa Department of
Family Medicine covered the expense of the students’
registration fees.
Misty Bogle, MD
Zach Fowler, DO
Kemka Hekerem, MD
Vikas Jain, MD
Kelley Lobb, MD
John Long, MD
Huy Luu, DO
Benjamin Mayer, DO
Kristy Price, DO
Rachel Ray, DO
Faculty
Steve Crawford, MD
Brian Coleman, MD
Audra Fox, MD
Chelsey Griffin, DO
Heather Harshman, MD
Lauri Hess
Sue Hinrichs
Rick Jones
Rev. John McVay
Cheyn Onarecker, MD
Researchers And Clinicians Collaborate On New Projects
Another AHRQ-funded project involves
connecting primary care practices in Norman to a
regional health information exchange organization,
SMRTNET, and to a preventive services reminder
system to see if the additional information improves
patient care. Norman was chosen because most of the
primary care practices there use the same electronic
health record, and they are connected to one another
through a community-based electronic hub.
Other DFPM-OKPRN initiatives are focused on
poison ivy, brown recluse spider bites and
prioritization of interventions for patients with
multiple risk factors and chronic medical problems.
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