When asked how he found his way to OSU as the newest faculty member at the School of Health and Rehabilitation Services, Stephen Page, PhD, MS, MOT, quotes John Lennon, saying, “Life is what happens while you’re busy making other plans.” In Page’s case, those plans included becoming a college swim coach after graduating from the College of Wooster with a communications degree.

It seemed natural that he would then pursue a masters degree at Bal l State University to study exercise science and apply it to athletes.  During this time, though, Page began performing research with Paralympians.  It was this experience that fundamentally reshaped his path, as the feats pf these elite athletes inspired him.  In particular, he began to become interested in how he, as a researcher, could reduce the impact of their impairments.
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The following release is courtesy of the American Medical Association

CHICAGO – Kelly Regan, a first year medical student at the Ohio State University College of Medicine, was the overall winner in the clinical outcomes and health care improvement category for her research titled, “Expression-anchored Gene Ontology Signature Predicts Clinical Outcome in Lung Adenocarcinoma Patients” during a research symposium at the American Medical Association’s Interim Meeting.

“The work of Kelly and the other young physicians and medical students shows us that the future of medicine looks very bright,” said AMA President Jeremy A. Lazarus, M.D. “The research presented at this AMA symposium provides valuable information for current and future physicians. These advances will help them provide the best possible care for patients.”
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Students at The Ohio State University College of Medicine have created medFIT, a collaboration with the College of Medicine Wellness Team that provides fitness training, nutrition advice and health education specifically for medical students.

Students Rajiv Mallipudi and Juliette Yedimenko have experienced some of the major challenges that medical students face in school: maintaining proper health and wellness while dealing with stress, sleep deprivation, poor diet and lack of exercise that comes along with endless nights of studying, exams and hospital rounding. Their hope is that the organization will provide inspiration for medical students to take up new healthy lifestyle changes.

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The OSU College of Medicine welcomes its most competitive class of Biomedical Science (BMS) students to date. An undergraduate major in the College, Ohio State’s BMS program includes coursework in the areas of laboratory techniques, social issues in medicine, healthcare policy, leadership, and advanced multidisciplinary studies such as cancer and immunology/ infectious disease.

In addition, there is a focus on involving students with the leading edge of biomedical research. Begun in 2005 and having graduated its first class in 2009, the BMS major ultimately seeks to put students in a position to enter a graduate program in medical research, medicine, dentistry, or any other area of healthcare.   

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On August 6th in Mershon Auditorium, 188 incoming students to the Ohio State College of Medicine experienced the moment a dream literally becomes reality.  With Associate Dean for Admissions, Dr. Quinn Capers, MD, reading their names from the lectern, each student walked onto the stage to receive their physician’s white laboratory coats and symbolically commence their entry into medicine.  Known as the White Coat Ceremony, this event seamlessly blends the unabashed pride that comes with being admitted into the College along with the serious truth of a future devoted to medicine in one memorable afternoon.

The pride these 188 new students feel is well-earned, as they are part of the College’s most highly qualified incoming class to date.  With among the highest MCAT composite scores and highest mean  grade point average ever admitted as a single class, these students have inched the academic bar upwards from its already lofty height.  And yet it is their collective well-roundedness and interests beyond the academic that truly define the extraordinary potential of this group.

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