Carrying on the tradition

Dr. Jeremy J. Johnson was recently announced as one of the 2014 recipient's of the Lloyd and Ruth Rader Resident Physician Scholarship. This award recognizes graduating residents who show great promise in research and/or clinical medicine, and in essence recognizes the most outstanding graduate from an OUHSC residency program. Dr. Johnson joins an elite group of surgery residents who have won this award in the past.

Year	Resident
1984	Gary D. Myers, M.D.
1984	Teresa M. Shavney, M.D.
1985	John D. Randolph, M.D.
1986	Kyle W. Toal, M.D.
1986	David W. Tuggle, M.D.
1988	Tim R. Love, M.D.
1993	Stephen M. Megison, M.D.
1994	Ronald A. Squires, M.D.
1995	P. Cameron Mantor, M.D.
1997	Nikola K. Puffinbarger, M.D.
1998	Robert W. Letton, M.D.
1999	Randy J. Irwin, M.D.
2000	Michele A. Markley, M.D.
2004	Joshua G. Barton, M.D.
2005	Jason S. Lees, M.D.
2006	Hamilton S. Le, M.D.
2007	Douglas Che Miller, M.D.
2014	Jeremy J. Johnson, M.D.

Riding off into the Sunset



M. Alex Jacocks, MD



David W. Tuggle, MD

Two long time faculty members are retiring this summer.

Alex Jacocks, MD, has been at OU since his medical school days, Class of 1977, followed by his general surgery residency and has been on the Department of Surgery faculty since 1982.  During his years at OU, he served as the Residency Director and was awarded The Stanton L. Young Master Teacher Award in 1990, the first surgeon to be so honored.  Dr. Jacocks spends time relaxing in Colorado and said something about building a horse barn this summer.

After coming to Oklahoma for his Pediatric Surgery residency in 1985, David Tuggle, MD liked it so much he stayed. He received the Weigelt-Wallace Award for exemplary medical care for performing an on-site amputation to free a victim from the debris of the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995. Dr.Tuggle was the Paula Milburn Miller, Children's Medical Research Institute Chair in Pediatric Surgery and served as both Section Chief of Pediatric Surgery and Vice-Chairman of the Department of Surgery.  He is heading to Austin, Texas and traveling the globe.

Happy retirement.

Parting is such sweet sorrow



Sajid Shah, Allison Murphree, Arpit Patel, 2013







After years of hard work, treating patients and taking call, it's time to bid farewell to this year's Chief Residents. 

Sajid Shah, MD is off to Baylor in Houston for a vascular fellowship.  Allison Murphree, MD is joining the OU Department of Surgery staff.  And Arpit Patel, MD is going to Dallas for a colorectal surgery fellowship.  Congratulations!

You're doing fine, Oklahoma

May 19-20 was an emotional week in Oklahoma after the tornadoes and the devastation brought by multiple tornadoes. The Department of Surgery and the OU Medical Center were fortunate in that we had no loss of life or serious injuries among our faculty, staff and students, but the property damage and upheaval for many has been significant. Nearly 40 medical students lived in or near the Moore tornado’s path, and at least two students lost their homes. We are still hearing reports about OU Medical Center staff who lost homes or received damage including members of our surgery billing office. We know many more members our community struggle with the tornado’s aftermath. The OU Trauma Center treated 93 patients after the tornadoes, including 59 children and 34 adults. For those of you from Oklahoma or who were here for only a few years during your training, you will find it no surprise that Oklahomans take the storms in stride and are pitching in to help those who need it, and are making plans to rebuild. Obviously, Roger’s and Hammerstein were correct when they penned … You’re doing fine, Oklahoma.

OU Regents' Alumni Award

One of the ten exceptional University of Oklahoma alumni and friends to receive the 2013 Regents’ Alumni Award for dedication and service to OU is former surgery resident, Donald H. Garrett, M.D. (’73).

Presented by the OU Board of Regents and OU Alumni Association, the Regents’ Alumni Award honors the important roles of OU alumni and supporters to the life of the university. A committee formed by the Alumni Association selects the award recipients from nominations made by alumni, friends, and OU faculty and staff. Each year’s recipients receive a plaque and their names are engraved on a permanent plaque in Oklahoma Memorial Union.

Since the first OU Regent’s Alumni Award in 1987, two other surgery alumni have received this award; Sam T. Hamra (‘68) in 1995 and Che Miller (’07) in 2012.

CBS News visited the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine Skills Lab



Our OU team featured in the CBS Morning News show April 7, 2013

 How do we make our hospitals and medical safer from human errors? David Pogue of The New York Times arrived at the OU Clinical Skills Education & Testing Center to investigate how medical schools around the country are using robotic simulators to allow medical students to practice on robots before they ultimately work on real humans.


We see Pogue in action in an operating room where everything goes wrong, from fire to power failure, and how medical teams are trained to respond to stressful situations. Teams at the University of Oklahoma and University of South Florida were featured in the CBS Morning News in April.  See the full story at this
cbsnews.com link

Department of Surgery's Variation to March Madness

Congratulations to the newest members of the OU Department of Surgery


Ademola Adeseye
University of Nigeria

 

Mary Lindemuth
University of Oklahoma

 

Cullen McCarthy
University of South Alabama

 

Joseph West
University of Arizona



Frank Wood
University of Oklahoma