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by
Jennifer
Kowalewski
On Saturday, June 3,
2006, at 10 a.m., commencement exercises for OU-COM will be held
at Templeton-Blackburn Alumni Memorial Auditorium. The members
of OU-COM’s Class of 2006, the college’s 27th
graduating class, will receive doctor of osteopathic medicine
degrees at the commencement ceremony, held separately from Ohio
University’s general graduate commencement.
The class is
composed of 104 members — 61 men and 43 women — which includes
27 minority students. There are 16 residents of Southeastern
Ohio in the class.
Sister Anne
Brooks, D.O., medical director of the Tutwiler Clinic and a
sister of the Order of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary, will be
this year’s keynote speaker.
Sister Brooks, a
1982 graduate of Michigan State University College of
Osteopathic Medicine, and three other sisters from the Order
founded the Tutwiler Clinic, located in the Mississippi Delta,
one of the nation’s poorest regions, in 1983. Founded on the
mission of providing holistic health care to all, regardless of
their ability to pay, the clinic has become a community health
system that sees between 7,000 and 9,000 patients a year. Brooks
and the Tutwiler Clinic have earned national recognition and
been featured on a segment of CBS’s 60 Minutes.
Sister Brooks
also is
a clinical associate and preceptor for medical schools across
the nation and a clinical instructor for nurse practitioner
students in Alabama and Mississippi. In 2005 she was named one
of four physicians to receive the American Medical Association
Foundation’s Pride in the Profession Award. She also is a
recipient of Michigan State University’s Distinguished Alumni
Award.
Ohio University
President Roderick McDavis, Ph.D., will act as presiding
officer, while Larry Schey, M.B.A., a member of the university’s
board of trustees, will convene the commencement. Also speaking
at the graduation will be Shannon Campbell, representing
the Class of 2006; Robert Juhasz, D.O., board of trustees,
American Osteopathic Association; Victor Angel, D.O.,
president-elect, Ohio Osteopathic Association; and Thomas
Anderson, D.O. (’83), president of the OU-COM Society of
Alumni and Friends and a member of the university’s Alumni
Association Board of Directors.
OU-COM Dean Jack
Brose, D.O., will announce the outstanding student award
recipients, including the Osteopathic Heritage Award, Dean’s
Award, Family Practice Award, Specialty Medicine Award,
Obstetrics and Gynecology Award, Pediatrics Award, Geriatric
Medicine/Gerontology -Ohio Department of Aging Award, Social
Medicine-Medical Humanities Award, Biomedical Science Award and
the Centers for Osteopathic Research and Education site awards.
Following Brooks’
address, Provost Kathy Krendl, Ph.D., will present the Class of
2006 and President McDavis will preside over the conferral of
degrees. Brose, who will hood each graduate, said that the
commencement exercises always fill him with great emotion.
“Graduation is an emotional experience for me; it always has been,”
says Brose. “I am always moved by watching medical students walk
to the stage as laymen and return to their seat as physicians. I
consider it an enormous honor to hood our new physicians,
administer the Osteopathic Oath and be the first to call them
‘doctor.’
“This is a special
class for me, because this is the first class that I greeted as
dean. They’ve been an excellent class, one of the best academic
classes we’ve ever had in terms of their performance before
starting medical school and their performance here, which has
been outstanding.”
Following the
conferral of degrees, Brose will lead the class in reciting the
Osteopathic Oath, which will be followed by the singing of
Alma Mater, Ohio.
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