Liz Lawson, administrative assistant in Family Medicine, has a heart for children and reading. Lawson purchases children’s books and gives them to children at the clinics, marking each book with a “please take me home” message. Lawson, whose mother read to her and instilled in her a love of reading, believes that “if you can read, you can accomplish anything in life,” and she hopes to encourage young children to love reading.
David Barron chaired a recent Oklahoma Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators conference in Tulsa and hosted former Oklahoma Gov. George Nigh. The theme of the conference was “The Magic of Financial Aid: Making the Impossible Happen.” The conference included federal updates on changing legislation affecting student aid and professional development sessions.
Student doctors Julie Wiley, Elise Whitson, and Stephanie Reed gave a presentation on nutrition and maintaining a healthy lifestyle to financial aid professionals at an annual conference in Tulsa in October.
Chad Landgraf and Dan Royall (University of North Carolina at Greensboro) won the 2007 Best Article in Physical Geography Award from the Southeastern Division of the Association of American Geographers. Their article "Spatial Patterns of Surface Soil Magnetism and Soil Redistribution Across a Fallow Field, Northern Alabama" was published in the May 2007 issue of the Southeastern Geographer.
Study published
An article titled “Possible disease transmission by contaminated mouth-guards in two young football players,” details research by R. Thomas Glass, D.D.S., P.H.D., Robert S. Conrad, Ph.D. and James W. Bullard. It has been published in the September/October issue of General Dentistry. The article examines a case of infection and also a case of severe exercise-induced asthma attack in two athletes, possibly triggered by organisms in their mouth-guards. The researchers are conducting further study in which mouth-guards have been found to harbor pathogenic bacterium and fungi, and they will evaluate the effectiveness of soaking them in a sanitizing solution.
Publications
“Dietary Inferences from Dental Microwear in Multituberculate Mammals from the Hell Creek and Tullock Formations of Eastern Montana”, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 27 (supplement to #3): 163-164A Anne Weil, Ph.D.
"Telemedicine and Distance Learning Sites in Oklahoma," Academic Exchange Quarterly, Vol. 11(3): 140-144 Chad E. Landgraf and Brian E. Whitacre (2007).
Paper presented
Presented at the annual meeting of the American Association of Blood Banks, Anaheim, Calif., Oct. 20-21: “Ethics in Relationship Testing in 2007: Any New Considerations?”; “Agricultural Biosecurity: DNA Test Method Development for Bacterial Pathogens” and “Variability in the Genome and its Application to Clinical Testing.” Robert Allen, Ph.D.
Presented “Pseudotrimylus (Soricomorpha, Heterosoricidae) from the Eastgate Fauna, Nevada” at the 67th Annual Meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, Austin, Tex., Oct. 16-20 Kent Smith, Ph.D.
Presented “Dietary Inferences from Dental Microwear in Multituberculate Mammals from the Hell Creek and Tullock Formations of Eastern Montana” at the 67th annual meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, Austin, Tex., Oct.16-20 Anne Weil, Ph.D.
Poster presentation
Presented “An Evaluation of New Integration Algorithms for High-throughput Chromatography” at the American Osteopathic Association 112th Annual Convention and Scientific Seminar, San Diego, Calif., Sept. 30 – Oct. 4 Joseph Price, Ph. D (presenter) and Charles Sanny, Ph.D.
Manuscript review
For Journal of Microbiological Methods Franklin Champlin, Ph.D.; for Brain Research Kathleen Curtis, Ph.D.; for BMC Molecular Biology Randall Davis, Ph.D.
Presentation
“Brain Fitness: Products and Resources for Cognitive Enhancement,” Oklahoma Residential Assisted Living Association fall conference, Catoosa, Okla. Richard H. Bost, Ph.D.
Appointments
Elected to board of directors of the Tulsa Historical Society; appointed to Leadership Tulsa education committee Steve Eddy, D.O., M.P.H.
Appointed to OK Immunization Advisory Committee; appointed as member, Pediatric Infectious Disease Society Stanley E. Grogg, D.O.
