40 Things to Know: Our Family Health radio program offered consumer health information for more than 30 years

Pictured: Frank Myers, D.O., dean emeritus; Carl Denbow, Ph.D., director emeritus of communications; and Doug Partusch, a producer for WOUB at that time.

“In this photo, which was taken in the control room of the recording studio at WOUB, we appear to be discussing a script – probably looking at a troublesome sentence that needed to be reworded in some way. We had a good team and always worked together to provide sound medical information in an easy-to-understand way. We’d make changes as necessary right up to the point that we did the recording.”

– Carl Denbow, Ph.D., director emeritus of communications

In the age before WebMD and Internet-accessible medical and health news-you-can-use, there was Family Health radio. The program was the brainchild of Dr. Myers and championed by Dr. Denbow, Don Bilski, and many other radio announcers, producers and writers for more than 30 years. The two-and-a-half-minute program offered listeners timely, practical consumer-oriented health information. At its height, the program reached an estimated hundreds of thousands of listeners, on 250 radio stations domestically and worldwide in China, Canada, New Zealand, United Kingdom and the American Forces Radio Network.