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Heritage College honors body donors at memorial service

April 18, 2022 5 min

After a two-year hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic, a memorial to honor those who have donated their body to science and medical education was held in-person at Heritage Hall in Athens.

Heritage College receives more than $300,000 in endowed scholarship funding

April 18, 2022 4 min

The Ohio University Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine created six new endowed scholarships totaling more than $300,000 in the past year, thanks to the generosity of numerous alumni and friends.

A photo from the Faculty Teaching and Research Awards Recognition Ceremony

Teaching and Research Awards ceremony honors outstanding OHIO faculty

April 16, 2022 1 min

Ohio University celebrated exceptional faculty members during the Faculty Teaching and Research Awards Recognition Ceremony on March 29.

Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine Athens Campus Dean Beth Longenecker, DO, to step down

April 16, 2022 2 min

Beth Longenecker, D.O., dean of the Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine’s Athens Campus, has announced that she will be leaving Ohio University in May.

Presidential Research Scholars awards program seeks 2022-23 nominations

April 13, 2022 2 min

Ohio University is seeking nominations for its 2022-23 Presidential Research Scholars awards program.

Buckeye Health Plan and Ohio University Partnership Expands Innovative Healthcare in Rural Southeast Ohio

April 11, 2022 2 min

A recent $750,000 partnership between Buckeye Health Plan and Ohio University Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine is expanding the medical knowledge base in underserved regions.

Riley Sombathy is shown looking into a microscope

Riley Sombathy studies rings in dinosaur legs to see how they grew

April 2, 2022 5 min

Riley Sombathy says nothing is more exciting than when he looks into the microscope and the rings appear on the slice of ancient Allosaurus bone.

Heritage College hosts first in-person Match Day celebration

March 24, 2022 3 min

At the Heritage College's first in-person Match Day celebration held in Athens, Cleveland and Dublin, graduating students learned where they would complete their residency training.

Class of 2022 Match Day results show most students will remain in Ohio for residency training

March 22, 2022 3 min

At the Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine’s first in-person Match Day celebration graduating students learned where they would complete their residency training over the next several years.

Faculty Awards

Frances Wymbs chosen as OHIO winner of MAC Outstanding Faculty Award for Student Success

March 11, 2022 3 min

Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine Assistant Professor Dr. Frances Wymbs has been selected as the OHIO winner of the Mid-American Conference Outstanding Faculty Award for Student Success.

New OHIO study finds link between racial/ethnic disparities and COVID-19 deaths

March 10, 2022 4 min

OHIO researcher Berkeley Franz has published a new study examining the relationship between systemic racism, residential segregation and racial/ethnic disparities in COVID-19 deaths in the U.S.

Medical students study in the new anatomy lab inside Heritage Hall under the direction of Professor of Anatomy Dr. Susan Williams. Photo by Ben Wirtz Siegel, BSVC ’02

Care Lives Here

March 9, 2022 5 min

Ohio University’s Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine has established itself as a leading provider of medical education in the state and in the nation. Now it has a home that reflects that success and its mission.

Blake Kinsel, DO ’21, was one of eight students who are the firsts to complete the Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine’s Transformative Care Continuum.

Family Doctors of the Future

March 9, 2022 4 min

In 2018, the Heritage College debuted its Transformative Care Continuum (TCC), an accelerated curriculum developed in partnership with Cleveland Clinic that’s training the family doctors of the future.

A man leaving through a doorway flanked by signs about vaccination

New OHIO research finds reasons for vaccine hesitancy among Ohioans

March 7, 2022 4 min

Distrust in government and institutions is a key indicator of COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy according to a recently published study by a team of Ohio University researchers.

OhioHealth president/CEO to speak at Heritage College’s 2022 Commencement

February 24, 2022 3 min

Health care executive, family physician and military leader Stephen E. Markovich, M.D., will be the speaker for the Ohio University Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine’s 2022 Commencement.

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