Month in Review

April 2008

* Margaret Aguwa, DO, MPH, Associate Dean of Community Outreach and Clinical Research, and Professor of Family and Community Medicine, has been selected as the first recipient of the Sadia Abbasi Award, by the Women’s Center of Greater Lansing.  The award was created to honor people who have made significant contributions to women’s health. 

* Aubrey Hoye, MSUCOM Class of 2009, was selected as the Medical Student Council’s Osteopathic Representative by the Emergency Medicine Residents’ Association.

* Brian Smith, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, has been selected for the Lilly Scholars Program.

* Margaret Aguwa, DO, MPH, Associate Dean of Community Outreach and Clinical Research, and Professor of Family and Community Medicine, has been named a Detroit News Michiganian of the Year.  The honor recognizes significant contributions to the community by individuals whose work have helped make life better for others or have brought special recognition to our state.

* A total of 63 health care professionals attended three different CME manual medicine courses provided by MSUCOM during April – “Craniosacral Technique Level I” in Tucson, “Direct Action Thrust: Mobilization with Impulse” in Fee Hall, and “Principles of Manual Medicine” in East Lansing.

* The MSUCOM Office of Development held two dinners for alumni and donors during April, one in conjunction with the Arizona Osteopathic Association meeting in Scottsdale, and another in Las Vegas.

* Osteopathic medical students, under the leadership of Frank Komara, DO, Professor of Family and Community Medicine, held a Senior Falls Screen and Risk Assessment, open to the public, at the Ingham County Medical Care Facility in Okemos on Saturday, April 12.

* The Learning and Assessment Center hosted the first regional Great Lakes SimExpo, targeted at medical educators and learners, at the LaSalle Bank Club in Spartan Stadium.  The program included multiple vendors and speakers.

* Faculty and staff won two poster awards at the recent American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine/American Osteopathic Directors and Medical Educators convention in St. Louis. Second place (and first place viewers’ choice) went to Cheryl Doane, DO, Sherman Gorbis, DO, Taylor Scott, DO, and Jonathan Rohrer, PhD, for “Implementation of Hospital OPP/OMT Integration Workshop Modules.”  Third place went to Norma Baptista, PhD, Eric Zemper, PhD, and Jonathan Rohrer, PhD for “Implementation of an Assessment Instrument for the AOA Core Competencies.”

UPCOMING EVENTS:

* Thursday, May 1, 2008, 11:00 am, 2008 Hooding and Commencement Ceremony, Wharton Center.

* Monday, May 5, 2008, 5:00 pm, Walter F. Patenge Medal of Public Service awards ceremony, Kellogg Center.

* May 16-20, 2008, CME - “Advanced Muscle Energy with Clinical Correlations” in Fee Hall.

* September 12-13, 2008, Osteopathic Open golf tournament and Silverfest weekend activities, East Lansing.

* Week of June 23, 2008, Class of 2012 Orientation.

* Friday, June 27, 2008, 1:00 pm, Convocation, Wharton Center.