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OU-COM alumnus wins
Distinguished
Service Award
from university
October 14, 2009
William Burke, D.O.,
FACOFP (’88),
will be recognized
at the Ohio
University Alumni
Awards Gala Friday,
Oct. 16, with the
Distinguished
Service Award. The
honor is given to an
alumnus/na each year
for outstanding
contributions to the
university and
community.
Burke is director of
the family practice
residency program at
Doctors Hospital in
Columbus and an
associate professor
of family medicine
at OU-COM. Earlier
this year, he
lectured OU-COM
first and second
year students on
professionalism. To
read about his talk,
go to
http://www.oucom.ohiou.edu/News/press/burke/index.htm.
Burke has been
elected to the
American Osteopathic
Association House of
Delegates and the
OOA House of
Delegates multiple
times.
Burke has traveled
to China four times
as part of a
humanitarian group
to evaluate the
state of primary
care medicine and to
provide medical
assistance in the
aftermath of the
2008 earthquake. To
read about Burke’s
visits to China, go
to
http://www.oucom.ohiou.edu/news/stories/burke/.
He served on the
Ohio University
Alumni Association
Board of Directors
from 1996 to 2003,
including two years
as chairman.
He also served as
president of
OU-COM’s Society of
Alumni and Friends
for three years and
as chair of the
OU-COM Advisory
Board for five
years. As a
medical student, he
served as president
and vice president
of the Student
Government
Association. He is a
1984 graduate of
Capital University
in Columbus.
In 2006 Burke
received the OU-COM
Society of Alumni
and Friends
Distinguished
Service Award, and
in 2008, the
American Osteopathic
Foundation’s
Distinguished
Service Award. He
has been the
recipient of
numerous other
awards, including
the inaugural
Merck/Schering-Plough
Clinical Assessment
Program (CAP)
Residency Program of
the Year Award from
the American
Osteopathic
Foundation in 2007.
He was honored with
the award for a
second time in 2009.
Burke also received
the Prism Award from
OhioHealth on three
occasions, and the
Outstanding Family
Physician Award –
Central Ohio CORE on
two occasions.
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