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Bedlam Food Drive: Beat OU!
Who gave 868 pounds of food for last year’s Bedlam Food Drive? OSU-CHS gave the most canned food, thanks to students, faculty and staff. Give again this year – and beat OU again - as we help the Community Food Bank of Eastern Oklahoma feed Oklahoma’s hungry. Drop off non-perishable food items until Nov. 21 at CHS main campus, Clinical Financial Services, OSU Physicians Houston Parke Clinic, Houston Center, or Health Care Center. Needed items include pasta, cereal, baby formula, peanut butter and jelly, and soup.
OSU Family Gathering
OSU-CHS employees are invited to the OSU Family Gathering holiday meal from noon-2 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 3, in Founders Hall. Drawing for door prizes. (You do not need to be present to win).
You are not the only one: Students learn to cope with stress
Susan Redwood, Ph.D. and Michael Pollak, Ph.D., oversee OSU Medicine’s stress management program for students.
Most new medical students feel stress, and who better to help them than second-years, who have “been there, done that” and can offer a life preserver in what may feel like a sink-or-swim situation.
This year marks the twentieth anniversary for Oklahoma State University College of Osteopathic Medicine’s stress management program for students. It began when Susan Redwood, Ph.D. and others launched a federally funded substance abuse prevention program for medical students.
“My part was developing the stress management program to help students cope with stress,” Redwood says. The peer-led program was so popular it has continued for 20 years, and more than 90 percent of first-years attend.
Dr. Redwood and Michael Pollak, Ph.D. train second-year student volunteers to be small-group leaders for the first-years. For seven weeks, two leaders facilitate group meetings of seven or eight students. Group leaders do not hand out advice. Instead, they offer suggestions, empathy and caring, factors Redwood and Pollak believe help to make the program effective.
“Each year students say, ‘I thought I was the only one who felt this way’”, Pollak says. Peer support, empathy, talking things through and listening coupled with relaxation techniques and cognitive reframing helps them see problems in a different way. Groups brainstorm, suggest and share possible solutions, but there is no one right way, Pollak emphasizes, saying the high participation rate by student group leaders is a positive sign of the program's success. “They would not volunteer if they had not found the course to be useful. In fact, more students volunteer to help than we need.”
Group leader Greg Root, MS-II, says he always did well academically but medical school was “a whole new ball game and you kind of feel alone.” He made friends in the program, easing his adjustment. Being a group leader gave him practice asking open-ended questions and letting people talk about a problem. “You step back and let them tell you about it,” he says.
Group leader Jazmin Matlock, MS-II, says as a first-year she liked being with a group of peers going through similar experiences. “I can lean on those people now,” she says. “The focus was on grades that first year, but well-being matters, too.” Matlock said having group leaders who were opposites, one outspoken and one more reserved, gave balance to the experience. “Being a doctor is about connecting with people, not just physical aspects but emotional aspects, too,” Matlock says. “This training helps us as future physicians.”
Root echoes the sentiment. “I think this will be valuable down the road with patient and it lets you feel like you have helped someone,” he says. “That is rewarding in itself.”
OSU Center for Rural Health hosts annual meeting
Stakeholders and partners of the OSU Center for Rural Health advisory council will attend an annual meeting from 9:30 a.m. until noon on Monday, Nov. 10, in Dunlap Auditorium. The agenda includes an administrative update for OSU-CHS from Dr. John Fernandes. Val Schott, director, and Corie Kaiser, health consultant for the Oklahoma Office of Rural Health, will present an update. Richard Perry will update Oklahoma Area Health Education Centers information. Dr. William Pettit, Jeff Hackler and Chad Landgraf will discuss the OSU Center for Rural Health. Among those expected to attend are legislators, representatives from Oklahoma Osteopathic Association, the State Department of Health, Oklahoma Nurses Association, Oklahoma CareerTech, Oklahoma Department of Commerce, Oklahoma Health Care Authority, Oklahoma Primary Care Association, U.S. Department of Agriculture, OSU/A&M Regents, rural hospital leaders and a representative from the office of Congressman Frank Lucas.
CME is Nov. 21-23
The Office of Continuing Medical Education Annual Primary Care Update is Nov. 21 – Nov. 23, at the DoubleTree Hotel-Tulsa Downtown. The conference features lectures and hands-on activities with emphasis on situations encountered daily by the primary care physician. It is approved for 25 hours of AOA Category 1A CME credit and is acceptable for up to 25.75 prescribed credits by the American Academy of Family Physician. ACOI has approved this program for five hours of category 1A Internal Medicine specialty credit. For more information, or to register, contact Cyndi Canning or Rob Robinson at (918) 586-4615, (918) 586-4617 or (800) 274-1972.
Halloween visit a sweet success
Visitors from Eugene Field Elementary School haunted campus for a Halloween art activity and trick-or-treat parade. Among those helping with the event were Craig Stevens, Ph.D., Dora Johnson, Rebecca Nida, Linda Lawrence, Ellen Stockton, Sarah Quinten, Whitney Gwartney, Cathy Ramsey, Noreen Phillips, Barbara Newman, Reneé Williams, Lee Stidham, Dohn Martin, Jan Hughes, Sheila Pete, George Gottschalk, Dave Money, Jamey Lamb, Linda London and Haley Hawkins.
United Way Campaign raises funds with fun
Chili, goofy hats and a pie-in-the-fact competition highlighted the United Way Chili Cook-off and helped raise more than $8,000 for the Tulsa Area United Way. Dora Johnson’s “Brother-in-Law’s Trophy Winning” chili and Shelli Bayfield’s tiramisu dessert took top food honors and Sandy Cooper won first place in the hat contest. The pie-in-the-face contest was a tie and Jim Hess, Ed.D., gallantly volunteered for the pie in the face, administered by JoAnn Lee, for himself and co-winner Jenny Alexopulos, D.O. Briá Taylor was campaign manager and Ryan Miller was event emcee.
Cookin' with Dr. Pete
Need a holiday gift? Give Dr. Pete’s Recipes for Good Health cookbook, a collection of recipes compiled by Staff Advisory Council. It is only $8 and proceeds help support SAC’s scholarship fund. You will find recipes for appetizers, beverages, soups, salads, vegetables, side and main dishes, bread and rolls, desserts and baked goods, even caper sauce and beef jerky. Try Cajun tortilla soup on a cold winter day, or sausage jambalaya for a hearty meal. A layered banana pineapple dessert can top it off. You also will find recipes that need just a few ingredients and a crock-pot. E-mail Reneé Williams.
Round of Applause
Cyndi Canning was inducted into the Omega Alpha chapter of Phi Theta Kappa, an honor society for two-year colleges. Inductees must rank in the top 20 percent of their class and maintain high academic standing.
The OSU Center for Rural Health was awarded a $3,500 contract from the Elizabeth E. Glazer Pediatric AIDS Foundation to produce a series of maps for their ongoing research and intervention projects in seven east African countries.
Presentations
“Yeasts and Molds Found in Protective Athletic Mouth-guards and Possible Disease Implications” presented at the Central States Chapter Annual Meeting of American College of Sports Medicine, Robert S. Conrad, Ph.D.
“Molecular Interactions between Candida albicans and Lactobacilli”, presented at the 2nd American Society of Microbiology (ASM) Conference on Beneficial Microbes: Beneficial Host-Microbial Interactions, San Diego, Gerwald Köhler, Ph.D.
“Ovariectomy and castration decrease renal protein excretion in mice” poster presentation at the AOA Research Conference, Las Vegas, Al Rouch Ph.D., students Tess Hanner, presenter and Joseph Carroll.
“A preliminary analysis of phylogenetic relationships within the genus Copemys (Rodentia:Cricetidae) with emphasis on Barstovian species,” presented at the 68th Annual Meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology in Cleveland, Kent Smith, Ph.D.
“Use of surface plasmon resonance to detect alterations in human dopamine transporter function following mercury exposure” presented at the 25th International Neurotoxicology Conference, Rochester, NY David Wallace, Ph.D. and another.
“Testing Characters in the Development of Hypotheses of Relationship among Basal Mammalia” presented at the 68th Annual Meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, Cleveland. Anne Weil, Ph.D. and student Ian Browne, presenter.
Kabul Institute of Medicine, “Acute Gastroenteritis and Pediatric Dermatology and Pediatrics Cardiac Workshop;” Teaching rounds at HOPE Hospital, Kabul, Afghanistan, Stanley E. Grogg, D.O.
“Helping and Motivating Patients for Health Behavior Change,” Zarrow Mental Health Symposium, Tulsa, Vivian Stevens, Ph.D. and Teri Bourdeau, Ph.D.
Paper presented at the American Academy on Communication in Healthcare Research and Teaching Forum, “Associations Between Medical Student Attitudes About Empathic Communication with Patients and Empathic Behaviors During Interviews with Standardized Patients”, Madison, WI, Michael Pollak, Ph.D. Susan Redwood, Ph.D. and Dana Lindon, Ph.D.
Publications
“Behavioral and electrophysiological taste responses change after brief or prolonged dietary sodium deprivation”. Am. J. Physiol. Reg. Integrat. Comp. Physiol. (October 8, 2008). doi:10.1152/ajpregu.00046.2008 Kathleen Curtis, Ph.D. and others.
“Role of sex steroid receptors in pathobiology of hepatocellular carcinoma”. World J Gastroenterol (October 21, 2008) 14(39) Mamta Kalra, Ph.D., Jary Mayes, Ph.D., Senait Assefa,Ph.D., Anil K Kaul, M.D., D.D.S., Rashmi Kaul, Ph.D.
“A preliminary analysis of phylogenetic relationships within the genus Copemys (Rodentia: Cricetidae) with emphasis on Barstovian species. Vertebrate Paleontology, Abstracts of Papers, 68th Annual Meeting, Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, 28 (supplement to number 3): 144A Kent Smith, Ph.D. and another.
Yeasts and Molds Found in Protective Athletic Mouth-guards and Possible Disease Implications. Abs. 32, Central States Chapter Annual Meeting of American College of Sports Medicine, 2008 A.J. Warren, J.W. Bullard, J.M. Gulden, J.C. Medved, G.A. Köhler, Ph.D., R.T. Glass, D.D.S., Ph.D., R.S. Conrad, Ph.D..
The factor structure of scores from the Maslach Burnout Inventory: A review and meta-analysis of 45 exploratory and confirmatory factor analytic studies. Educational and Psychological Measurement, 68, 797-823. (2008) Matt Vassar, Ph.D., and others.
Manuscript reviews for:
Journal of Microbiological Methods. Frank Champlin, Ph.D.; FEMS Immunology & Medical Microbiology Gerwald Köhler, Ph.D.;British Journal of Pharmacology and Pharmacology, Physiology and Behavior, and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Craig Stevens, Ph.D.; Toxicology David Wallace, Ph.D..
Study Section Member
NIH study section member for NIDA-B/Start program Craig Stevens, Ph.D..
Movies
Featured in films made for the public outreach of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, an international professional society Anne Weil, Ph.D.. These films, narrated by Sam Waterston, are viewable at http://www.vertpaleo.org/video/WeAreSVP/index.cfm. “Chapter 7: Who we are and what we do,” features several vertebrate paleontologists who are professors of anatomy. Kent Smith, Ph.D. contributed still photos to the project and is credited in several of the films.
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