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OSU Pride Works! honors Ellen Stockton
Ellen Stockton, director of OSU-CHS graphic arts and photography, received the OSU Pride Works! award at the OSU Family Gathering Dec. 3. Stockton joined the Oklahoma College of Osteopathic Medicine in 1980and has received numerous professional awards. Sandy Cooper, director of human resources, and Tina Tappana presented the award and read Stockton’s nomination:
She exudes pride in everything she does. Her standards are above and beyond what is expected of her and she is dedicated to always doing the best job possible. She handles each and every request with patience and professionalism. Ellen is always available to assist when someone needs help, guidance, uplifting or just a confidential sounding board. Even if a project is difficult, she maintains her optimism and keeps a positive attitude. I believe she exemplifies the OSU Pride Works theme to the utmost.
The OSU Pride Works program acknowledges employees who exhibit OSU Pride. It is demonstrated in the way we handle our customers, work with our teammates, view our jobs and ourselves, believing we have an advantage being associated with something of high quality and worthy of respect.
Grogg trots the globe for kids' health
Pinned to the wall of OSU pediatrician Stan Grogg’s office is a map of the world, with its estimated 190-plus countries. For him it is more than a map. It also is a reminder of the 136 countries he has visited (most recently Afghanistan).
When he was a child, growing up in Ohio Grogg was intrigued by Mt. Everest after reading a book about the site. He wanted to see it and caught a travel bug to see the world that he never has shaken. Making trips as a physician lets him achieve that childhood aim while furthering better health care for children.
In October he visited to Kabul Medical University through In His Image, International, lecturing on gastroenteritis, dermatology and pediatric cardiology. He also consulted at Kabul’s CURE International Family Health Clinic newborn nursery and pediatrics, making rounds with another pediatrician and teaching family practice residents.
He says medical care there often deals with harsh realities. Tuberculosis is common; treatment for Group B strep (which can cause premature births) is not affordable; and one-quarter of premature newborns with immature lungs will die because there are no respirators available, he said, adding that often a family of five is not able to afford approximately 25 cents for chlorine to make safe drinking water for three weeks.
Medical education in Afghanistan differs in some ways from the curriculum in the United States, he said. For example, practicing physicians can own a pharmacy, medical students do not receive training in medical ethics, there is no health insurance and preventive medicine is uncommon, he said. Grogg is hopeful about the future of health care in Afghanistan as the country slowly mends. “I just hope my teaching there helps to makes preventive medicine more likely,” Grogg said, adding that he learned something, too. “I was reminded that we are very fortunate to have freedom and good medical care.” (In October 1999, Grogg boarded a plane in Katmandu and saw Mt. Everest’s peak and base camps from the air, some 44 years after he first read about it).
Don Pressnall retires
Don Pressnall prepares to cut the cake at a retirement reception in his honor. Friends gathered to say farewell to the popular Pressnall, who worked for more than 15 years as part of the OSU physical plant staff.
OSU aids Reaching Hands
Reaching Hands case manager Mickie Wyatt (left) and executive director Charleen Henderson pick up holiday blanket and gift donations from OSU-CHS faculty, staff and students and the OSU College of Osteopathic Medicine Alumni Association, represented by Reneé Williams (center). The alumni association donated 10 blankets and 10 Wal-Mart $25 gift cards to help meet the total goal of 30 blankets and cards.
Round of Applause
Christina M. Barnaby, Kevin L. Holmes, and Denise F. Ware have earned designations as certified fraud examiners (CFE) by the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners.
OSU Family Gathering received $870 from faculty for gift cards. Winning $100 cards: Brandi Brown, Crystal Remy and Betty Jo Westerfield; $50 cards: Bruce Lamont, Staci Stewart, Michael Carnes, Sandra Winans, Tammy Lawson, Jennifer Lawson-Newby and Emily Lim; $25 cards: Paul O’Neil, Brandon Smallwood, Markisha Smith, Sharon Bruton, Laura Morgan, Gene Bates, Mike Thompson, Loretta Smart and Gail Carpenter. Dohn Martin was the ham raffle winner.
Kirby Jarolim, Ph.D., (photo) took part in a recent half-marathon race. “I am a race walker and I train with a group from Fleet Feet Sports. My goals were to finish, to finish in less than three hours and to set a personal best time. I did all three,” he said in an email message.
R. Tom Glass, D.D.S., Ph.D. is among Dentistry Today magazine’s Top Clinicians in Clinical Education for the third consecutive year. Forensic dentistry, oral health/appliances and systemic diseases are among his education topics.
Shanna Hampton, D.O., OSU Medical Center resident, graduated in May with a Master of Public Health degree from University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center.
Annual meeting: William Pettit, D.O., associate dean for Rural Health, at the OSU Center for Rural Health Rural Health Advisory Council annual meeting with Rep. Pam Peterson, Tyler Laughlin, U.S. House of Representatives liaison and Kent French and John Miller, both MS-III.
Meetings/conferences/professional and community activities
Annual Scientific Meeting of the Gerontological Society of America, National Harbor, Md., Nancy Van Winkle, Ph.D.
Presentations
Three presentations for “Complementary and Alternative Medicine” at the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, Stillwater - Nancy Van Winkle, Ph.D.
“Optimizing Psychological and Physical Health: A Motivational, Cognitive, and Behavioral Approach” presented at the annual meeting of the Oklahoma Psychological Association, Vivian Stevens, Ph.D. and Teri Bourdeau, Ph.D.
Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C. “Estradiol, osmotic sensitivity, and fluid ingestion,” Kathleen Curtis, Ph.D. “Pair bond formation alters reward responses,” Tom Curtis, Ph.D. “Evolution of opioid receptors: Why the mu opioid receptor would make Darwin proud,” Craig Stevens, Ph.D. “Novel anti-inflammatory actions of beta-funaltrexamine: implications in neuropathogenesis,” Danielle Armstrong, presenter, Randall Davis, Ph.D., advisor; “Molecular signals responsible for IL-1beta effects on hMOR expression in SK-N-SH cells: potential targets for opioid tolerance treatment?” Shekher Mohan, presenter, Craig Stevens, Ph.D., advisor.
“Neuroscience in Tulsa” presented to the Oklahoma Center for Neurosciences, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center in Oklahoma City, Ken Miller, Ph.D.
Award/appointment
Awarded the Oklahoma Psychological Association Early Career Psychologist Award; appointed to the Oklahoma Health Care Authority medical advisory committee, Teri Bourdeau, Ph.D.
Media
“Still Crazy (In Love) After All These Years,” interview - comparisons between what I find in pair-bonded voles and the results from human bonding studies. Science News, Vol. 174, #12, page 17, Tom Curtis, Ph.D.
Invited Speaker
“Estrogen, body fluid balance, and the brain” for the Science and Technology Seminar Series at Northeastern State University, Tahlequah, Kathleen Curtis, Ph.D.
Reviewer/reviews
Promotion and Tenure Committee, College of Pharmacy, Temple University, Philadelphia, Craig Stevens, Ph.D.
Manuscripts for Journal of Food Science and for Brain Research; two for Physiology and Behavior, Kathleen Curtis, Ph.D.
Paper for Animal Behaviour , Tom Curtis, Ph.D.
Manuscripts for the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Anil Kaul, M.D., D.D.S.
Paper for Journal of Anesthesia and Analgesia and Journal of Neurosciences
Chapter in Lippincott’s Biochemistry Illustrated Reviews, Ken Miller, Ph.D.
Research grant proposal - U.S. Civilian Research and Development Foundation, Charles Sanny, Ph.D.
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