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<div>Hi Fellows and List Serve Members:</div>
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<div><b>Sidney</b><b> Coupet, </b><b>D.O., MPH, </b><b>Training in Policy </b><b>Studies</b><b> Fellows</b><b>hip Class of </b><b>2009-</b><b>2010,</b> has been selected as a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar. He will work at the University of Michigan
conducting research on the impact of international rotations on the health care workforce. More specifically, Dr. Coupet will look at whether international experiences influence US physicians’ choice of specialty or their decision to practice in underserved
areas. Dr. Coupet currently practices at Geisinger Medical Center, Danville, PA. Dr. Coupet founded <a href="http://www.dufh.org/"><font color="#0000FF"><u>Doctors United For Haiti</u></font></a> and has been very involved in delivering health care in that
country since the earthquake.</div>
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<div><b>Karen Nichols, D.O.,</b> <b>Health Policy Fello</b><b>w</b><b>ship Class of </b><b>1995-1996, </b>visited Washington, D.C. on Wednesday, June 23. According to the AOA Daily Report (6/23/10), Dr. Nichols conducted a “series of advocacy visits with Members
of Congress to introduce them to the AOA's incoming president. . . . (her) schedule includes meetings with Senator Roland Burris (D-IL), Congressman Peter Roskam (R-IL), Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ), Congresswoman Melissa Bean (D-IL), and Nancy
Ann DeParle, Director of the White House Office of Health Care Reform. President-elect Nichols also had lunch with Joe Heck, DO, an AOA member who is running for Congress in Nevada. This evening she will attend a reception hosted by Congressman Roskam before
continuing with more visits and meetings tomorrow.”</div>
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<div><b>Lorenzo L. Pence, D.O.,</b> <b>Health Policy Fello</b><b>w</b><b>ship Class of </b><b>199</b><b>6</b><b>-199</b><b>7, </b>is serving as interim Vice President of Academic Affairs and Dean of the West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine in Lewisburg,
WV. Dr. Pence previously served as Associate Dean of Graduate Medical Education. WVSOM’s previous Dean, <b>Michael</b><b> </b><b>D. </b><b>Adelman, D.O., J</b><b>.</b><b>D.,</b> <b>Health Policy Fello</b><b>w</b><b>ship Class of </b><b>199</b><b>4</b><b>-199</b><b>5,
</b>is Acting President for WVSOM as of April 2010. (HPF Activity Update 5/19/10).</div>
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<div><b>Robert Kessler, D.O., Health Policy </b><b>Fellowship</b><b> Class of </b><b>2001-</b><b>20</b><b>0</b><b>2,</b> will join the full-time OMM faculty at the Touro University – Nevada College of Osteopathic Medicine as of July 1, 2010.</div>
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<div><b>Kelli Ward, D.O.</b><b>,</b> <b>MPH,</b> <b>Health Policy Fello</b><b>w</b><b>ship Class of </b><b>2002-</b><b>20</b><b>0</b><b>3, </b>has been elected president of the Arizona Osteopathic Medical Association. Dr. Ward is a family practitioner in Lake
Havasu, Arizona. According to the AOMA website, “Dr. Ward is the Past President for the Arizona Society of the American College of Osteopathic Family Physicians (AzACOFP) and serves on the Arizona Regulatory Board of Physician's Assistants. She received the
Lake Havasu City People's Choice Physician of the Year in 2002. Dr. Ward received the AOMA's "Physician of the Year" Award in 2007.” <a href="http://www.az-osteo.org/displayboard.cfm"><font color="#0000FF"><u>http://www.az-osteo.org/displayboard.cfm</u></font></a>
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<div><b>George Mychaskiw II, D.O.,</b> <b>Health Policy Fello</b><b>w</b><b>ship Class of </b><b>2006-</b><b>20</b><b>0</b><b>7, </b>has accepted the position Professor and Chair, Department of Anesthesiology at Drexel University College of Medicine in Philadelphia,
PA. Dr. Mychaskiw formerly was a professor and vice-chair in the Department of Anesthesiology at the University of Mississippi School of Medicine in Jackson, Mississippi. </div>
<div style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><b>Robert Hunter, D.O.,</b> <b>Health Policy Fello</b><b>w</b><b>ship Class of 2</b><b>009-20</b><b>10, </b>has been elected to membership in the National Academies of Practice. The NAP represents ten healthcare
professions who work together “to advance coordinated, accountable, accessible, affordable healthcare for all.” <font color="#0000FF">(</font><a href="http://www.napractice.org/"><font color="#0000FF"><u>http://www.napractice.org/</u></font></a><font color="#0000FF">)</font>
The organization produces policy papers widely circulated to policy makers. Dr. Hunter is a medical director, family practitioner, and emergency room physician in Huber Heights, Ohio. </div>
<div>Thanks for keeping me posted on your activities. NC</div>
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<div>Nancy Cooper, Coordinator<br>
Health Policy Fellowship<br>
307 Grosvenor Hall<br>
Ohio University College of Osteopathic Medicine<br>
Athens, OH 45701<br>
740 593-2017 phone<br>
740 593-1730 fax<br>
<a href="mailto:coopern@ohio.edu"><u>coopern@ohio.edu</u></a></div>
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