VCOM - Virginia 2017 Yearbook

faculty and staff

1996 - Present, Team Physician, United States Ski and Snowboard Association May 2016, presented “Update on Concussion sensor technologies” and “Pardon the sports medicine interruption,” Annual AOASM Clinical Conference, Tempe, AZ

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

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. FACULTY

Sofia Abraham- Hardee, DO, PhD, FACOP, FAAP Speaker, “Peds update on vaccines,” VOMA Fall conference 2016

Cindy Shepard Rawlins Member, AACOM Marketing and Communications Council

Blaise Costa, MPharm, PhD American Heart

Chair for Government Relations, American Advertising Federation (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. • Silver, for the redesign of the VCOM website - www.vcom.edu.

Gunnar and Lesia Brolinson at the 2017 Deer Valley Ski Team World Cup event.

Jones D, Brolinson PG, Patton S, Wong C. Hydrodissection of an Achilles Tendinopathy on a Professional Athlete. MOJ Orthopedics & Rheumatology. 2017 Apr 19;8(1).

Association Scientist Development Grant, “Development and Pharmacological Characterization of Mechanistically Distinct NMDA Receptor Allosteric Modulators” VMCVM-VCOM Center for One Health Research - awarded “The role of tri- heteromeric (GluN1/2/3) NMDA receptors in stroke and its mitigation.” VCOM- REAP (Seed) Grant, “Clearance of Brain Metabolic Waste in a Natural Animal Model of Alzheimer’s disease by Cranial Osteopathic”

William King, MBA Member, AACOM Council of Osteopathic Admissions Officers

Member, AACOM Council of Student Service Officers

Member, AACOM Diversity Committee Evaluator, Commission on Osteopathic College Accreditation (COCA) Consultant, Student Services – Commission on Osteopathic College of

Accreditation (COCA) AOA Greatness Corps

Advisor, National Health Services Corps Board of Directors, Montgomery County Chamber of Commerce Institutional Representative, National Accreditation of Advisors to the Health Professions (NAAHP) SCHEV Advisory Committee Minority Access Role Model Award Member, AACOM Diversity Committee

Cindy Shepard Rawlins accepts an ARC Award for VCOM’s Annual Report in New York City, NY.

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