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Around 16 community members were able to take advantage of free health screenings at one of our Community Health Programs' mobile clinics, during Friday's Athens Area Stand Down event at the county fairgrounds. The Diabetes Institute at Ohio University​ was also at the event, sharing information on diabetes and recruiting for Diabetes Community Partners, its peer mentoring program. A Stand Down is a community-based intervention to connect veterans and other community members who are homeless or at risk of homelessness with local resources. The Athens Area Stand Down was launched last year. We were honored to have Ohio University President Duane Nellis with us this morning as part of a discussion tour he’s been taking of the university’s colleges and campuses since becoming OHIO’s 21st president in June. During his Heritage College visit, Dr. Nellis participated in a conversation about our strategic plan, toured our Athens facilities, and answered questions during an open forum with faculty and staff at our Athens, Cleveland and Dublin campuses and our clinical campus sites throughout the state. Thank you, Dr. Nellis, for your vision and leadership. We're so glad you visited with us today! We couldn't have asked for a nicer day for today's football game between our OHIO Bobcats and the Kansas Jayhawks. With the Heritage College serving as the University Partner for the game, our faculty, staff and families enjoyed a day of fellowship and fun as we celebrated the work of our Community Health Programs and others throughout the college and cheered the Bobcats on to a 42-30 victory. OU, Oh Yeah! Our college lost a great friend and champion on Labor Day, when former Ohio state Sen. Harry Meshel died at age 93. Meshel was one of a handful of key legislators who in 1975 spearheaded passage of House Bill 229 to create our medical school. We were honored to have him join us 40 years later as we celebrated the opening of our third campus in Cleveland. When Meshel was asked during that 2015 visit about his passionate support for the legislation creating our college, he said it was all about serving the underserved. “I knew that medicine belongs where people are,” he explained. “I knew that southeastern Ohio needed medical facilities. They needed medical help for vast numbers of people.” In 1976, Meshel became one of the first five recipients of the college’s Phillips Medal of Public Service. We bid him farewell, and remember him with deepest gratitude. As the time for Monday afternoon’s solar eclipse approached, some people found themselves scrambling around, trying to lay hands at the last minute on some eye-protecting eclipse-viewing glasses. Luckily for Heritage College students and employees, anatomy professor Larry Witmer had been thinking ahead, from the time he realized the sun’s brief occlusion would coincide with the Clinical Anatomy Immersion class he teaches. “I knew that our medical students and instructional staff would want to experience the eclipse - and not just in Athens, but also at our campuses in Dublin and Cleveland,” Dr. Witmer explained Friday. Starting several weeks ago, he started planning and getting official OKs to extend the anatomy lab and take some time out in the middle, to let students view the eclipse. “I pitched it as an opportunity to share a unique once-in-a-lifetime experience as a college,” he said. “Executive Dean Johnson agreed and regarded it as a ‘spirit event.’ The Heritage College then stepped up and purchased safe eclipse glasses for everyone (I had emphasized that we had to make it safe). All three campuses will be able to share the eclipse.” As the moon slowly obscured the sun, scores of students and staffers gathered outside to watch this rare celestial event, their eyesight properly protected. Thanks, Dr. Witmer! Throwback Thursday: Many families have deep traditions that make for memories and lifelong connections. Our college is no exception. Each winter students from all three Heritage College campuses gather in Athens for the high-gloss Heritage Ball, also known as the HCOM Prom. Sponsored by the Family Practice Club/Student Association of the American College of Osteopathic Family Physicians, this annual event means it’s time for students, faculty and staff to brush off the formal wear and join in the Nae Nae.

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We launched this blog during our 40th anniversary, the year we celebrated the founding of the medical school. It's the ideal time to talk about the people, ideas and places that made us who we are today, and where we’re headed tomorrow. Our posts are about the many ways that our faculty, alumni, students, friends, partners live CARE LEADS HERE.

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