VCOM - Auburn 2017 Yearbook

faculty & staff awards/honors

Faculty and Staff Honors and Achievements

VCOM Administration Dixie Tooke- Rawlins, DO, FACOFP President Elect, American Osteopathic Foundation Member, American Osteopathic Association’s House of Delegates Member, American College of Osteopathic Family Physicians Board Member, Research Advisory Council, Auburn University’s Board of Directors Member, ACOFP House of Delegates Family Practice Program Accreditation Inspector, American College of Osteopathic Family Physicians (ACOFP) Member, Governor-appointed Southwest Virginia Health Authority Member, Council of Independent Colleges in Virginia’s Council of Presidents President and Board Member, American Osteopathic Foundation President, Virginia Osteopathic Medical Association Team Chair/Inspector, Commission on Osteopathic College Accreditation Appointee, Virginia Governor’s Task Force on Prescription Drug Abuse Board Member, Rural Health Research Center of Virginia AHEC, Northeast Osteopathic Medical Education Network Board Member, Board of Graduate Medical Education Consortium of Virginia (OMNEE) Chair of the AOA-House of Delegates

• Silver, for the redesign of the VCOM website - www.vcom.edu. Blue Ridge chapter of the Public Relations Society of America - Silver Summit Award - awarded to Access Advertising, Inc. and VCOM for the college website. November, 2016 Annual Report Competition International (ARC)– Bronze Award for 2016 Annual Report: On the Trail of Our Appalachian Mission, October, 2016.

Evaluator – Commission on Osteopathic College Accreditation (COCA) Consultant for Student Services – Commission on Osteopathic College of

Accreditation (COCA) AOA Greatness Corps

Advisor - National Health Services Corps Institutional Representative – National Accreditation of Advisors to the Health Professions (NAAHP) SCHEN Advisory Committee Minority Access Role Model Award AACOM Diversity Committee Member Institutional Representative - Virginia Medical School Recruitment and Retention Task Force/AHEC Advisory Council Professional Presentations representing VCOM and the Osteopathic Medical Profession: South Association of Advisors for Health Professions (SAAHP) Regional Conference; National Association for the Advisors for the Health Professions (NAAHP) National Conference; and individual colleges and universities including: Hampton University, Drexel University, Georgetown University, University of Central Florida, University of South Florida

Ward Stevens Chair - Council for Rural Virginia

VCOM-Auburn Administration

Elizabeth Palmarozzi, DO, FACOFP American College of Osteopathic Family Physicians (ACOFP) Speaker, Congress of American College of Family Physicians (First

Cindy Shepard Rawlins Member, AACOM Marketing and Communications Council Chair for Government Relations, American Advertising Federation

Female Speaker) ACOFP Convention and Site Committee ACOFP Women’s Health and Leadership Committee ACOFP Resolutions Review Committee Chair ACOFP Constitution and Bylaws/Policy and Organizational Review Committee Southeast Alabama Health Educational Consortium (AHEC) Board of Directors Southeast Alabama Health Educational Consortium (AHEC) Advisory Board Alabama Osteopathic Medical Association (ALOMA) Appointee to the AOA House of Delegates Delegate to the American Osteopathic Association (AOA) House, 2 years American Osteopathic Association (AOA) House of Delegates Bylaws Committee Jack Hughston Foundation Board of Directors

(AAF) Roanoke Chapter Board of Directors Headed the division receiving awards for the following: • 2016 Collegiate Advertising Awards February, 2017: • Gold, for the 2016 Annual Report: On the Trail of Our Appalachian Mission. • Gold, for VCOM+Virginia Tech - A Public/Private Success Story. • Gold, for the Auburn campus photograph titled “Our Future Physicians.” • Silver, for Auburn campus magazine ad series “Training Tomorrow’s Physicians.” • Silver, for design of the VCOM Medical Outreach program logo.

Reference Committee. July, 2017 ACOFP Annual Meeting; Women’s

Leadership Luncheon presentation entitled: Women in Osteopathic Medical Education. October, 2016 October, 2016. OIA Annual Meeting

William King, MBA AACOM Council of Osteopathic Admissions Officers AACOM Council of Student Service Officers

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