College News

OU College of Medicine's Obstetrics and Gynecology, Family and Preventive Medicine, and Ophthalmology rank in top 20 medical school departments in country for research funding from the NIH in 2019.

Iron Gate Tulsa is partnering with The Culinary Medicine Program of the OU-TU School of Community Medicine, a branch campus of the OU College of Medicine in Tulsa, in affiliation with OU Health, to bring "food as medicine" for individuals affected by homelessness. As Tulsa's largest stand-alone soup kitchen, Iron Gate provided 233,122 prepared meals and 45,630 bags of groceries in 2019. Since the COVID-19 pandemic, demand for program services has increased exponentially.

Lurdes Queimado, M.D., Ph.D., professor with the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine Department of Otolaryngology, has been awarded a $2.25 million grant from the National Cancer Institute to continue her work on electronic cigarettes and their role in increasing the risk for oral cancers.