Call for Nominations

Nominations are now open for the OSU-CHS Board of Directors. Know of a colleague or former classmate who is passionate about giving back to their alma mater? If so, nominate them today. You are welcome to nominate yourself or a former classmate for this position. Each position is a one-year term and you will begin in the Secretary role.

To be eligible to be nominated, you must be a graduate of OSUCOM or OSUCHS, be current on your membership dues, attend quarterly virtual meetings, and attend OSU-CHS Alumni Association sponsored events.  Nominate Here

Events

Wednesday, April 21st at Noon

OSU Office of Rural Health and Rural Professorship Spotlight

Featuring: Dr. Mark Woodring and Dr. Krystal Vonfeldt

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In the News

“Oftentimes youth with the most significant emotional and behavioral needs are prescribed the most medications, and yet are less likely to have seen a child and adolescent psychiatrist,” said Dr. Sara Coffey, OSUCOM '08, assistant clinical professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at OSU Center for Health Sciences. See Full Story

OSU-CHS Associate Professor of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Anne Weil shares findings from her dig site in Cimarron County

Dr. Anne Weil of the Oklahoma State University Center for Health Sciences, has been with OSU since 2006. Cimarron County, which is the location of a number of dinosaur finds in Oklahoma, is where Weil and her team do their digging.

“I’m working on a site that is producing a different sauropod entirely,” Weil said. “Of the two big groups of sauropods, this would be the other group. It’s producing apatosaurus. Now, Oklahoma is known for the apatosauruses in the Sam Noble Museum that are on display there. There’s a display, if you go in there, of the largest specimen of apatosaurus ever found, which was found out in Cimarron County.”

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New Project ECHO Line: Help the Healer ECHO

Supporting Resiliency in Health Care Providers in the Time of COVID

Our health care workers have given so much to care for our communities during the COVID pandemic, often times at the expense of their physical and emotional health.

With a population in such need and a duty to reach and support our heroic health care workers, the Help for the Healer ECHO will provide a platform to support individuals and organizations on the front line of caring for patients and communities during COVID.

Get expert knowledge in a virtual learning network with mental health and wellness experts. The curriculum is aimed at supporting provider resiliency and caring for the care giver, healer, and helper during COVID.

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Spotlight

What Washington didn’t know was that psychiatry would be the field of medicine she would practice.

“Psychiatry was nowhere on my radar. When I started my third year of medical school, I knew with certainty that I didn’t want to go into psychiatry or surgery,” she said. “My second rotation was psychiatry and I fell in love. I knew that I wanted to work with patients with severe mental illness. I love being able to be there for people at some of the lowest times of their lives and help them see improvement no matter how small.”

Washington is now founder and chief medical officer at Elocin Psychiatric Services in Broken Arrow.

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Before earning his degree at OSU-CHS, Arve was a physical therapist and conditioning coach. And while he always appreciated working with athletic trainers, his interest in becoming one didn’t start until he provided physical therapy services at a local high school.

“I worked very closely with the athletic trainer there and was able to experience the profession in a way I had not before,” he said. “The next logical step for me was to complete an entry level master’s program in athletic training in order to gain that skillset.”

When Arve began researching athletic training programs to enroll in, the two things that were important to him were a knowledgeable and accomplished faculty and quality clinical experiences.

“OSU-CHS provided both of these. All the faculty have worked, or still continue to work, as athletic trainers,” he said. “I felt challenged throughout the program and grew as a clinician. I was able to have a strong influence on my clinical placements, so they were tailored toward my professional goals.”

Arve said his experience at OSU-CHS was outstanding and he received an excellent education in emergency care, sports and orthopedic rehabilitation, as well as several other areas.

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