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