Research & Scholarly Activity

Research & Scholarly Activity Strategic Plan

About the Department of Research

Research and scholarly activity is a robust cornerstone at OCOM and reflects one of the American Osteopathic Association (AOA)’s top strategic priorities. The department’s commitment to research includes a wealth of resources including:

  • Research Seed Funding for medical students and faculty

  • Travel support to present scholarly works at national meetings

  • A state-of-the-art NIH level 2 biosafety lab

  • Dedicated Cureus publication channel

  • Assistance with manuscript preparation

  • 2 Full-time research coordinators/grants managers

PubMed Articles

OCOM’s Cureus Channel

OCOM has partnered with Cureus to have its own channel, which allows us to promote our brand, showcase our research, and much more. All OCOM students and faculty are welcome to publish in our channel.

Institutional Board Review

  • We use the NIH Office of Extramural Research (OER) decision tool to determine exempt status, and have EDOs (Exempt Determination Officers) on the Research Committee to provide prompt exempt determination to qualifying studies. Click here to see our SOP for submitting research studies.

  • We have partnered with the WCG IRB to provide study planning review and approvals. WCG is a pioneer of independent ethical review, now the industry gold standard, and their 55-year legacy of independent review solutions serves as the foundation on which we continually build to accelerate and improve the clinical research journey.

Research On Display

We invite all of our faculty and students, including our 1,000+ preceptors to the fall research soiree as a way for everyone to get to know one another’s areas of research expertise/interest, and learn about all that OCOM Research has to offer.

Fall Research Soiree
Spring Research Symposium

OCOM’s annual Spring Research Symposium is where students present their research. The event includes a keynote speaker, invited judges, and prizes for the best research presentations. All research abstracts are published in OCOM’s Cureus channel.

The Research Lab

The research lab at OCOM comprises 1,200 square feet of wet and dry bench research laboratory space. This well-equipped multipurpose laboratory space includes wet and dry vacuum, centrifuge, cryogenic sample storage, spectrophotomter, and clinical point of care laboratory testing for common CLIA- waived tests such as CBC, CMP, UA, HIV, Coags, and respiratory viruses.

Research Committee Members

  • Dr. Joshua Hollingsworth

    Director of Research/Faculty

  • Dr. Sean Martin

    OMM/OPP Faculty

  • Dr. Michelle Wallen

    Faculty

  • Dr. Guri Tzivion

    Faculty

  • Dr. Phillip Manno

    Faculty