OU-COM well
represented at OMED;
wins several honors
Tracy L. Marx, D.O.,
assistant professor
of family medicine,
presented a reading
of the play
“Confessions of a
Reluctant Caregiver”
during the American
Osteopathic
Association’s 114th
Annual Osteopathic
Medical Conference
and Exposition—OMED
2009 in New Orleans
in earlier this
month.
Playwright and
former OU-COM
employee Merri
Biechler wrote
the play, inspired
by her own
experience as a
caregiver for both
her mother and
father, after each
received a terminal
cancer diagnosis.
Marx uses the play
during a two-week
course in pain
management and
palliative care to
engage her students
about issues of
end-of-life care.
Five individuals
associated with
OU-COM received
awards from the
American Osteopathic
Foundation during
the conference
honors ceremony.
The winners include:
-
William
J.
Burke,
D.O.
(’88)
–
director
of
the
family
practice
residency
program
at
Doctors
Hospital
in
Columbus
and
an
associate
professor
of
family
medicine
--
2009
Merck/Schering-Plough
CAP
Excellence
Award-Residency
Program
of
the
Year,
$5,000
award
-
Jan
Saunders,
D.O.
(’87),
clinical
professor
of
orthopedics
Grandview
Medical
Center
in
Dayton2009
--
Pfizer
Fit
for
Life
Physical
Fitness
Award,
$5,000
award
-
Jeremy
Riehm,
OMS
IV
--
Welch
Scholars
Grant,
$2,000
award
-
Sara
Thorp,
OMS
II
--
Russell
C.
McCaughan,
D.O.,
Education
Scholarship,
$400
award
-
Janice
Bacak,
spouse
of
Stephen
Bacak,
D.O.
(’09),
Donna
Jones
Moritsugu
Memorial
Award.
John Howell, Ph.D.,
associate professor
of biomedical
sciences, and
doctoral student
Meng-Yun Chen,
provided haptic
simulation for
visitors to an
OU-COM information
booth, where
Gillian Ice, Ph.D.,
associate professor
of social medicine,
was also promoting
the college’s
International
Programs.
Burke presided over
this year’s OU-COM
Society of Alumni
and Friends luncheon
in place of
President Jeffrey
Stanley, D.O. (’82),
who was attending
the Annual Clinical
Assembly for
Osteopathic Surgeons
in Chicago. Dean
Jack Brose, D.O.,
provided a college
update at the
luncheon, which
serves as the
society’s annual
business meeting.
Jason Smith, D.O.,
a second-year family
medicine resident
and clinical
instructor for
OU-COM at South
Pointe Hospital,
represented the CORE
at the annual SOMA
event and the new
residency fair at
the convention.
Besides promoting
the benefits of the
CORE, Smith
continuously
screened the new
CORE video.
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