OU Health Partners Directors Named

Thursday, November 11, 2021

OU Health Partners has completed the membership of its Board of Directors. Newly elected members of the Board were nominated by their peers to carry out the responsibilities of the corporation.

OU College of Pharmacy Researcher Earns $2 Million Grant to Study Innovative Method of Controlling Viruses

Wednesday, November 10, 2021
As COVID-19 has demonstrated, viruses can emerge at any time and wreak havoc across the globe. Because many viruses mutate quickly, there are very few drugs to treat them, nor are there vaccines in many cases. What...

Patients Over 80 Benefit from Immunotherapy for Certain Cancers, According to International Study Co-Led by OU Health Stephenson Cancer Center Physician

Wednesday, November 10, 2021
Patients 80 and older who are treated with single-agent immunotherapies for some cancers benefit from these innovative treatments and have somewhat comparable outcomes to younger people who received the same type of...

OU Health Joins New NORD Rare Disease Centers of Excellence Network

Monday, November 8, 2021

OU Health designated as NORD Rare Disease Center of Excellence, joining innovative network of 31 medical centers dedicated to expanding access and advancing care and research for rare diseases.

OU College of Medicine Researcher Discovers Protein in Development of Nearsightedness

Friday, November 5, 2021

OU College of Medicine researcher Jody Summers, Ph.D., recently discovered one of the body’s regulators of inflammation, a protein called Interleukin-6 (IL-6), plays a role in the development of myopia.

Pain Psychologist Joins TSET Health Promotion Research Center

Tuesday, November 2, 2021

Desiree Azizoddin, PsyD, a behavioral scientist and pain psychologist joins TSET Health Promotion Research Center (HPRC) at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center.

Oklahoma Researcher Aims to Promote Cancer Prevention in Southeast Asia

Tuesday, October 26, 2021

Thanh C. Bui's $3.6 million grant focuses on behavioral interventions for cancer control and prevention in high-risk populations.

OU College of Dentistry Announces Director for New Tulsa Clinic

Monday, October 25, 2021

OU College of Dentistry names Chalmers Rieger Wood III, D.D.S., to direct new clinical operation in Tulsa.

OU Wastewater Surveillance Team to Monitor Long-Term for Foodborne Pathogens, a Global First

Wednesday, October 20, 2021

With the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, wastewater surveillance in Oklahoma became an important tool for predicting surges and clusters of infections.

Lance Named to Board Overseeing OU Health

Wednesday, October 20, 2021

Bill G. Lance, Jr., Secretary of Commerce for the Chickasaw Nation, has been named to the board of directors overseeing OU Health, the state’s comprehensive academic healthcare system.

University of Oklahoma Fran and Earl Ziegler College of Nursing Expands Nursing Education Programs

Wednesday, October 20, 2021
The University of Oklahoma Board of Regents and the Oklahoma Board of Nursing have approved expansion of nursing education programs through the Fran and Earl Ziegler College of Nursing at the OU Health Sciences...

OU Health Sciences Center Study Detects ‘Silent’ Atrial Fibrillation in American Indians Using Smartphone-Based ECG

Tuesday, October 19, 2021

Study by researchers at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center demonstrates effectiveness of smartphone-based electrocardiogram (ECG) to detect atrial fibrillation among American Indians.

OU Health Invests $50 Million in Workforce

Tuesday, October 19, 2021

OU Health has invested $50 million in its workforce since merging its hospitals and clinics into a single entity on July 1.

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