Jill L. Harman, M.Ed.
Director of Alumni Affairs
harmanj@ohio.edu
 

Dear OU-COM Alumni:

In recent years, we’ve noticed that our graduates
are doing more and more research. We try to acknowledge as many of your publications, presentations and other scholarly accomplishments as we can in the Class Notes section of this magazine, but if this trend keeps up, we’ll soon run out of space!

Our Society of Alumni and Friends Board members have discovered the desire among our graduates to find other OU-COM alumni and friends with similar research interests. Some of you have also expressed interest in better connecting to our college and statewide Centers of Osteopathic Research and Education.

To help you keep your fellow graduates and friends at the college abreast of your scholarly pursuits, we’ve opened up a special “research and publications” topic area on the OU-COM Society of Alumni and Friends Facebook page. You can use this page as a sounding board for potential research projects, to connect with other graduates working on similar research topics, or to share your latest publications.

Our goal for this page is to help our graduates connect, socially and academically. With the opening of the university’s new Academic & Research Center, and our university’s recent designation as a state Center of Excellence for Health and Wellness, we are seeing how the exchange of research ideas promotes scholarly collaboration and drives innovations in medicine.  

Already several hundred OU-COM graduates and current students have connected through the OU-COM Society of Alumni and Friends group page. If you haven’t joined, it is easy to do. Just log on to www.facebook.com to create an account, then use the search feature to find the OU-COM Society of Alumni and Friends group page. Once there, you can post your news, catch up with old friends and perhaps make new ones.

Your alumni office wants to hear from you. Whether through Facebook, e-mail, telephone or through either the online or paper version of Staying Connected, we want to share and celebrate what’s happening in your life.  Contact us today and help us get the word out.