VCOM Auburn Yearbook 2019

Faculty and Staff Honors and Achievements

VCOM Administration Dixie Tooke- Rawlins, DO, FACOFP Recipient of the First Outstanding Leadership Higher Education May 2019. Featured in Our Health magazine as one of the Roanoke and New River Valley’s 11 Leaders in Local Healthcare, April 2019. Received the AACOM Robert A. Kistner Award, presented on behalf of the AACOM Board of Deans, in recognition of significant contributions to osteopathic medical education, April 2019. Past President of the American Osteopathic Foundation. Member, Council of Presidents of Osteopathic Colleges for AACOM. Member, Governor-appointed Southwest Virginia Health Authority. 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 Award by the Virginia Network for Women in

“Scholarly Activity and Residency Research Overview” Resident Research Symposium Meetings. February 2018 Co-Investigator – American Osteopathic Association (Clearance of Brain Metabolic Waste in a Natural Animal Model of Alzheimer’s Disease by Cranial Osteopathic Manipulation). Co-Investigator – NCAA-DOD Grand Challenge (Concussion Assessment, Research and Education (CARE) Consortium: CARE 2.0). William King, MBA Member, Council of Committee, AACOM. Evaluator; Consultant, Student Services —Commission on Osteopathic College of Accreditation. AOA Greatness Corps. Advisor, National Health Services Corps. Board of Directors, Montgomery County Chamber of Commerce. Member of the Board, Bluefield College/ VCOM Consortium for the Joint M.A. program. Institutional Representative, National Accreditation of Advisors to the Health Professions. SCHEV Advisory Committee. Minority Access Role Model Award. Minority Access Presenter, “Advancing Diversity and Inclusiveness in STEM”. Institutional Representative, Virginia Medical School Recruitment and Retention Task Force/AHEC Advisory Council. Regional Conference; National Association for the Advisors for the Health Professions National Conference; and individual colleges and universities including: Hampton University, Drexel University, Georgetown University, University of Central Florida, University of South Florida, Virginia Tech, Auburn University, and Spelman College. Osteopathic Admissions Officers; Member, Council of Student Service Officers; Member, Diversity

AHEC, Northeast Osteopathic Medical Education Network Board. Member, Board of Graduate Medical Education Consortium of Virginia (OMNEE). Gunnar Brolinson, DO Chairman, Sports Medicine Conjoint Exam Authored seven publications: “VCOM Caribbean and Central American Global Clinical, Research and Education Potential for Collaboration with SOUTHCOM” US Southern Command Meeting. June 2019 “Concussion Clinical Evaluation, Treatment and Research Update” American College of Osteopathic Family Medicine; ACOFP Conference. March 2019 “Concussion OMT Workshop” American College of Osteopathic Family Medicine; ACOFP Conference. March 2019 “Is That Head Injury a Concussion?” Atlantic Coast Conference and American Athletic Conference Officials Meeting. March 2019 “Concussion Research Update: Why OMT is Necessary For Our Athletes” American Academy of Osteopathy; AAO Conference. March 2019 “VCOM 2018 Research Retreat: State of Research at VCOM“ VCOM Biomedical Research Retreat; Podium Presentation. December 2018 “Status Post Concussion: The Impact on Motor Control” American Osteopathic Academy of Sports Medicine; AOASM Conference. May 2018 Committee, American Osteopathic Board of Family Physicians.

Inspector, American College of Osteopathic Family Physicians. Member, Council of Independent Colleges in Virginia’s Council of Presidents. 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.

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