VCOM - Carolinas 2016 Yearbook

FACULTY AND STAFF

Faculty and Staff Awards and Honors H ighlighted below are VCOM administration, faculty and staff members who were recipients of awards and honors, and were participants in other professional activities within their discipline.

ADMINISTRATION Dixie Tooke- Rawlins, DO, FACOFP AACOM Council of Presidents Osteopathic Association (AOA) Auburn Research Advisory Board American College of Osteopathic Family Physicians (ACOFP) Chair – Health Quality Workgroup, Southwest Virginia Health Authority Virginia Healthcare Workforce Development Authority Council of Independent Colleges in Virginia’s Council of Presidents American Osteopathic Foundation Board of Directors President – Virginia Osteopathic Medical Association (VOMA) (BIOM). He also currently serves on the Portfolio and Expanded Assessments Task Force (PEATF) of the COMLEX- USA Program for the National Board of Osteopathic Medical Examiners (NBOME); on the Medical Education Advisory Committee for the South Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, been appointed by Governor Nikki Haley; as an Evaluator of Clinical Education for the Commission of Osteopathic Accreditation (COCA); on the Internal Review Committee of the South Carolina Board of Medical Examiners; on the Ethics Committee of the Board of Deans of the American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine (AACOM); and as AACOM representative on the Federation of State Medical Board’s Workgroup on Education About Medical Regulation. Served as a member of the House of Delegates of the American Timothy Kowalski, DO, FACN, represents the American Association of Osteopathic Examiners on the AOA’s Bureau of International Osteopathic Medicine

Adrienne Ables, PharmD, received a Certificate of Appreciation for organizing the October 2015 volunteer event team in accordance with the VCOM commitment

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, VA Medical School Recruitment and Retention Task Force/AHEC Advisory Council Professional Presentations representing VCOM and the Osteopathic Medical 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, U. of South Florida Profession: South Association of Advisors for Health Professions

to serve underserved communities.

In 2016 her work was published in both the Journal for Healthcare Quality and the Osteopathic Family Physician . She was involved in research for four posters/presentation; at the Annual AACOM Conference in Washington, DC, in April 2016; at the American College of Osteopathic Family Practitioners (ACOFP) Annual Conference in San Juan, Puerto Rico in April, 2016; at the inaugural VCOM–Carolinas Research Day in April, 2016; at the OMED Annual Conference in Orlando, Florida in 2015. In August of 2015, Dr. Ables attended the National Board of Osteopathic Medical Examiners – COMLEX USA Level 1 Item Writing Workshop in Chicago, Illinois. In the past year, she has developed and presented two half-day faculty development workshops.

Dean Sutphin, PhD Minority Access Role Model Award

Ronald Januchowski, DO had research published in the Osteopathic Family Physician , a publication for which he served as Associate Editor.

ADMINISTRATIVE LEADERSHIP

He also presented research at the the American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine in Washington, DC in April 2016 and the Southeast Regional Osteopathic Medical Education Conference in Hilton Head, South Carolina, in May 2015. William King, MBA AACOM Council of Osteopathic Admissions Officers and Council of Student Service Officers Evaluator – Commission on Osteopathic College Accreditation

Cindy Shepard Rawlins 2015 Annual ARC International Silver

Award for VCOM’s 2014 Annual Report: Turning

your desire to help others into a lifelong mission, under “Health and Education.” The award-winning report was exhibited in New York City, NY; Hamburg, Germany; and Beijing, China. September, 2016. 2015 Collegiate Advertising Awards - Gold, for “Thinking of Medical School?”

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