Welcome to ROUNDS! This weekly e-newsletter goes out to all OU-COM and CORE personnel and students. (Sorry for this week’s delay!)
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REQUEST
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Please send your news/announcements/accomplishments/publications to rounds@oucom.ohiou.edu for consideration in upcoming issues. If you have any questions or suggestions, please contact Anita Martin, assistant director of communication, at 593.2199 or martina@oucom.ohiou.edu.
ANNOUNCEMENT
University research expo: Call for medical research posters
The Ohio University College of Health and Human Services encourages OU-COM faculty to submit research posters for consideration in their Health and Human Services Poster Exposition on Thurs., May 22, 10 a.m. to noon, Grover Center.
This faculty poster exposition is designed to foster intercollegial interaction. The broad agenda includes health, wellness and disease, as well as policy and ethics that affect the human condition. The college welcomes perspectives from health care administration, economics and policy; biotechnology; ergonomics; nutrition, family studies and consumer sciences; public health; sport and leisure; health care disparities; and interventions of all types.
· Application deadline is 5 p.m., Friday, May 9. No entrees will be
accepted after this date.
· All entries must be made using the online registration form at:
http://www.hhs.ohiou.edu/forms/ResearchExpo.htm
· For more information, contact Jody Grenert, CHHS communication
director, at 593.1433 or grenert@ohio.edu.
AWARDS
Year 1 student wins rheumatology award
Congratulations to Cassandra Calabrese, OMS I, who received the highly competitive American College of Rheumatology Research and Education Foundation/Abbott Medical Student Research Preceptorship. The award is designed for students between their first and second years of medical school and supports a full-time, three-month research experience in the specialty of rheumatology, including travel funds to attend the ACR/ARHP Annual Scientific Meeting.
Congratulations to American College of Osteopathic Family Physicians research award winners
Lisa Phelps, D.O., resident at Firelands Regional Medical Center, received first place for her resident poster presentation, “Dengue fever—A major health concern for world travelers.”
Christopher Selinsky, OMS II, and Amanda McConnell, OMS IV, received first place for their student poster presentation, “The incidence of NASH in a diabetes center.” McConnell also received second place for her student poster presentation, “The prevalence of disease in Soyapango, El Salvador.”
Lisa Light, OMS IV, received first place for her student case presentation, “Congenital melanocytic nevus: A case report.”
William Burke, D.O., director of Doctors Hospital Family Practice Clinic at Grove City, Ohio, received second place for his faculty poster, “The value of family medicine residency to an academic institution: Short-term gain, long-term loss.”
Congratulations to research award winners
Elizabeth Gomes, OMS II, and Amy Zidron, OMS IV, received the Student Presentation Prize for their coauthored presentation, “Are orphans more depressed than non-orphans? A pilot study.”
Amy Zidron, OMS IV, received first place for her (coauthored) student poster presentation, “Does being an orphan decrease the nutritional status of Luo children?”
Caleb Molokwu, OMS IV, received the Dr. Bohdan R. Nechay Memorial Award for best poster on pharmacology and toxicology, first place in the poster presentation from the Sigma XI Awards for Excellence in Research, and Best Poster Presentation from the UTMB Obstetrics and Gynecology Award 49th Annual National Student Research Forum University of Texas Medical Branch.
CALENDAR
Spring 2008 Geriatric Education Series
Glaucoma Treatment
· Mon., May 19, noon to 1 p.m., O’Bleness Education Conference Room 014 & Grosvenor West 029 (by videoconference)
Minority Health Month Lecture
“Affirmative Action and Health Care”
Albert Mosley, PhD., is a professor of philosophy at Smith College specializing in African philosophy, African-American philosophy, the philosophy of racism and social ethics. He also coauthored Affirmative Action: Social Justice or Unfair Preference?
Annual Recognition and Service Awards Program
Ohio University College of Osteopathic Medicine is hosting its Annual Recognition and Service Awards Program. All faculty and staff are cordially invited to attend. Breakfast will be served.
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Heartsaver (CPR) Course
Melissa Kemper, community health nurse coordinator
OMM for the Masses: Back Pain
David Eland, D.O., professor of OMM
OU-COM IN THE NEWS
The Post (04/30/08)
“Housing schools of research animals: OU’s Lab Animal Resources provide proper care for thousands of mice, frogs, fish and more”
http://www.thepost.ohiou.edu/Articles/Culture/2008/04/30/24176/
The Athens News (05/05/08)
“Innovative fitness program looks for young recruits (and their parents)”
(See pg. 18—Take Action 2, program to address childhood obesity)
The Athens News (05/05/08)
“Spanish researcher to aid OU scientists in studying childhood obesity”
(See pg. 23—Gabriel Martos-Moreno, M.D.)
Please send your news/announcements to rounds@oucom.ohiou.edu each week by Wednesday, 3 p.m. for consideration in the following week’s ROUNDS. If you have questions or suggestions, please contact Anita Martin, assistant director of communication, at 593.2199 or martina@oucom.ohiou.edu.