HEALTH SCIENCES - Key Persons
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- Clinical Research Coordinator
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- Research Compliance and Lab Safety
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- Budget & Finance Assistant Director
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- EM Resident Physician, PGY - 2 / Integris Southwest Medical Center
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- Coordinator of Instructional Design
Contact Brea with questions regarding UME, instructional design, e-Learning development, instructional strategies, and ed tech tools.
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- Managing Director of Alumni and Outreach
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- Director, Joint Programs & Secure Research Operations
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- Budget and Finance Coordinator
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- Coordinator of Instructional Design
Serving at the Cherokee Nation/Tahlequah Center for Health Sciences site, contact Dave with questions regarding UME, instructional design, e-Learning development, instructional strategies, Panopto and othe ed-tech tools.
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- Coordinator of Educational Technology
Contact David with questions regarding GME, Panopto, Canvas, course evaluations, surveys, and other education technology.
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- Manager of Instructional Design
Contact Dawn with questions regarding GME, clerkships, Leo, ExamSoft, and instructional design.
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- Vice President for Research
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- Assistant Director of Marketing
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- Director of Budget and Finance
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- Clinical Professor / Director of Research and Evaluation
Dr. Blankenship is Dean of the OSU College of Osteopathic Medicine. Learn More
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- Associate Dean of Tribal Health Affairs at the Cherokee Nation
Dr. Douglas Nolan is Associate Dean of Tribal Health Affairs for the OSU College of Osteopathic Medicine at the Cherokee Nation.
Nolan began his medical career at W.W. Hastings Hospital in 2003. He served as Medical Director there from 2009-2016. Nolan has since served as the diabetes program medical director, graduate education medical director, and the program director for the Family Medicine Residency, a program from which many current Cherokee Nation Health Services physicians were recruited. He is a 2000 graduate of OSU College of Osteopathic Medicine.
Nolan received the IHS National Director's Award in 2009 and the Thompson Award for Advancement of Healthcare in 2018.
At the OSU-COM at the Cherokee Nation, he focuses on medical student recruitment and retention, resident program development for tribal nations and advocating for the advancement of tribal health care.
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- Interim President of OSU Center
Dr. Johnny Stephens began serving as interim president of OSU Center for Health Sciences on July 1, 2021. He previously served as chief operating officer and senior vice president.
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- Member of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma
Dr. Tvli Jacob is a member of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma. He is the Clinical Assistant Professor for Oklahoma State University (OSU) Center for Health Sciences (CHS) Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health, holding a position on the Cherokee Nation Campus. His research is done in collaboration with the Center for Indigenous Health Policy and Research (CIHRP) at OSU. Having worked with tribes throughout the United States and Canada, Dr. Jacob has used media content through community-based participatory research media methods to study and understand health with Indigenous Peoples. Dr. Jacob has also worked in developing, implementing and evaluating research in tribal communities.
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- High School Outreach Coordinator
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- Finance
- Vice President of Administration
Eric Polak, MBA, Vice President of Administration and Finance, is responsible for OSU Center for Health Sciences financial management of academic and clinical programs. Learn More
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- Educational Media Services Coordinator
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- Program Evaluation Specialist, Native American Primary Care Center of Excellence
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- Director, Office of American Indians in Medicine and Science
Dr. Stroup serves as the Provost and Vice President for Strategy at OSU Center for Health Sciences. Learn More
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- Director, Athletic Training Program
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- Manager of Instructional Design
Contact Jessica with questions regarding UME, instructional design, e-Learning development, instructional strategies, and ed tech tools.
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- Director
- Director, Grants and Contracts - Pre - Award Administration
- Leadership and Administration
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- Clinical Research Coordinator
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- Director of Educational Development
Contact Justin with questions regarding Leo, the COM curriculum, service-learning, community involvement, and instructional design.
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- Associate Dean, Office of American Indians in Medicine and Science / Professor of Anatomy / Principal Investigator, Native American Primary Care Center of Excellence
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- Associate Vice President of Budget and Finance, OSU - CHS
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- Research Facilities
- Shared Resources Coordinator, Office of Research
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- Budget and Finance Coordinator
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- Photographer / Videographer
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- Director, Office for Medical Student Research
Dr. Vassar's research focuses on making research better: improving the conduct and reporting of clinical research and exploring the effects of bias on study outcomes. He has published over 100 peer-reviewed articles in some of the most prestigious journals in medicine, including Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), JAMA Internal Medicine, JAMA Oncology, JAMA Neurology, JAMA Dermatology, JAMA Otolaryngology, Annals of Emergency Medicine, British Journal of Anaesthesia, Annals of Oncology, and European Urology. Dr. Vassar's research has been featured in the New York Times, Science, Nature, the BMJ, Reuters Health, and many other national news outlets. His publications have made the top 5% of all research outputs on Altmetrics numerous times.
Dr. Vassar is firmly committed to mentoring the next generation of physicians and scientists. His unique and highly innovative approach to mentorship has resulted in over 300 student authorships on peer-reviewed publications and hundreds of conference presentations. One-third of his students have been published in a #1 ranked journal in a clinical specialty, and 66% have published in a top 5 ranked clinical journal. Dr. Vassar's students have been awarded research grants from the Crohn's and Colitis Foundation, the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, and the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP). Dr. Vassar has also been awarded the AACAP Outstanding Mentor Award. Dr. Vassar focuses on the full development of the learner and trains them to write scientifically, submit manuscripts for publication, respond to reviewer comments, and work with media outlets following publication. This training has produced a generation of students who have performed numerous peer reviews for academic journals, served on Cochrane review teams, provided input for the revision of reporting guidelines, gave plenary sessions at national conferences, and led independent research projects that went onto successful publication.
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- for Media Inquires
- Managing Director of Marketing and Communications
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- Clinical Assistant Professor
Dr. Hartwell's research has focused on public health topics - food security, addiction, nutrition, and exercise, using an array of statistical and mapping tools and techniques. He obtained his PhD from Oklahoma State University's REMS program with emphasis in applied statistics, which provided an opportunity to analyze social and nutritional behaviors and biomarkers with NHANES data and publish a best practices manuscript on using structural equation modeling with complex survey data. The work won first place in the Methods category at the 2018 American Society of Nutrition Conference and received a Graduate Research Excellence award. He has over 20 peer-reviewed published manuscripts and presentations and has partnered with Feeding American and Cornell to publish technical reports of behavioral economics within food pantries and food banks, the OSU FAB study to assess nutrient biomarkers and transdermal alcohol sensors, and is currently working with the OSU Center for Wellness and Recovery and the Laureate Institute for Brain Research to analyze MRI data of 9-10 children related to prenatal exposure.
Dr. Hartwell received additional statistical training from attending Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Summer Institute of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and University of Oklahoma College of Public Health, Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology and Oklahoma Shared Clinical & Translational Resources in Bayesian analyses, clinical trials, and burden assessment and health economics. In coordination with Dr. Matt Vassar, his current focus is to extend the office of medical student research further into improving the quality of clinical research as well as extending mentorship to more students.
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- Director
- Leadership and Administration
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- Director of Award and Contract Negotiations
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- Administrative Assistant II
Contact Millie with general questions related to the Office of Educational Development.
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- Assistant Vice President for External Affairs and Strategic Communications
- External Affairs
Dr. Bray is Dean of the OSU College of Osteopathic Medicine at the Cherokee Nation in Tahlequah. She previously served as Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at OSU COM at the Cherokee Nation since 2018. Bray also serves as Associate Dean for Accreditation.
Prior to joining OSU Center for Health Sciences, Bray served as the Associate Dean of Clinical Medicine at the Arkansas College of Osteopathic Medicine (ARCOM) in Fort Smith, and the Vice President of Academic Affairs/Designated Institutional Official for Broward Health in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
Bray earned her doctor of osteopathic medicine degree from OSU-COM and went on to the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine and completed her internship as the Chief Intern Physician, then completed her residency at Cambridge Health Alliance/Harvard Affiliated Hospital.
Bray has extensive experience in the development, accreditation, and delivery of educational programs for both undergraduate and graduate medical education. Bray serves on several national committees and has dedicated her career to medical education as a vehicle to serve vulnerable populations and improve access to quality health care.
Dr. Bray is Dean of the OSU College of Osteopathic Medicine at the Cherokee Nation in Tahlequah. She previously served as Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at OSU COM at the Cherokee Nation since 2018. Bray also serves as Associate Dean for Accreditation. Learn More
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- Customer Service Representative
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- Assistant Director, Research Compliance
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- Coordinator of Service Learning
Contact Rhonda with questions regarding service-learning and community involvement.
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- Communications Coordinator
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- Post Doctoral Fellow, Native American Primary Care Center of Excellence
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- Senior Pre - Award Coordinator
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- Budget and Finance Coordinator
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- Budget and Finance Coordinator
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- Budget and Finance Coordinator
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- Elementary Outreach Coordinator
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- Program Director, Native American Primary Care Center of Excellence
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- Budget and Finance Coordinator
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- Coordinator of Instructional Design
Contact Vladimir with questions regarding the PA program, instructional design, e-Learning development, instructional strategies, and ed-tech tools.
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- Budget and Finance Supervisor