College News

The University of Oklahoma Health Sciences is proud to announce that two of its esteemed faculty members, Valerie Williams, Ph.D., MPA, vice provost for academic affairs and faculty development at OU Health Sciences, and Ronald Kingsley, M.D., clinical professor in the College of Medicine Department of Ophthalmology, have been recognized as honorees at the “55 Over 55 Inspiring Oklahomans” event.

The University of Oklahoma will receive $16 million over four years from the Health Resources and Services Administration of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to recruit, retain, and graduate medical students from Tribal, rural and medically underserved communities in Oklahoma, with the goal that those students will go on to practice in their home communities.

A new vaccine candidate to provide broad protection against pneumonia, developed by a researcher at the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine, is being given to humans for the first time in a Phase I clinical trial.

Potential infection with Clostridioides difficle, or C. difficile, emerges as one of the most troubling risks during a hospital stay, particularly for people taking antibiotics or those with a weakened immune system.