2022 White Coat Ceremony

System College of Pharmacy
School of Health Professions
Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine

 

Aug. 19, 2022 • 9 a.m.
Will Rogers Memorial Center Auditorium
Fort Worth, Texas

PROCESSIONAL

 

NATIONAL ANTHEM
Audience please stand and silence all electronic devices.

 

WELCOME
Charles Taylor, Pharm.D.
Provost & Executive Vice President, Academic Affairs

 

PRESENTATION OF THE MARY E. LUIBEL DISTINGUISHED SERVICE AWARD
RADM (ret) Sylvia Trent-Adams, Ph.D., R.N. RADM Upper Half 0-8
Executive Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer

 

INTRODUCTION OF STUDENT SPEAKERS
S. Suresh Madhavan, Ph.D., M.B.A., F.A.Ph.A.
Dean, System College of Pharmacy

J. Glenn Forister, Ph.D., PA-C
Dean, School of Health Professions

Frank A. Filipetto, D.O., C.P.P.S., F.A.C.O.F.P.
Dean & Everett Endowed Professor, Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine

 

STUDENT SPEAKERS
Tiara Gipson, Class of 2023
System College of Pharmacy

Emma Ehret, Class of 2024
Physician Assistant Studies

Lauren Sullivan, Class of 2024
Department of Physical Therapy

Callie Frank, Class of 2024
Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine

 

PRESENTATION OF WHITE COATS

 

COLLEGE OF PHARMACY OATH
Megan Wesling, Pharm.D., B.C.P.S., B.C.A.C.P.
Assistant Professor, Pharmacotherapy

 

PHYSICIAN ASSISTANT OATH
Lauren Dobbs, M.M.S., PA-C
Associate Professor & Program Chair and Director, Physician Assistant Studies

 

PHYSICAL THERAPY OATH
Myles Quiben, P.T., Ph.D., D.P.T., M.S., G.C.S., N.C.S.
Associate Dean, School of Health Professions
Interim Chair and Professor, Department of Physical Therapy

 

OSTEOPATHIC OATH
Dr. Frank Filipetto

 

CLOSING REMARKS

 

RECESSIONAL

 

GRAND MARSHAL
Melissa Lewis, Ph.D.
President of the Faculty Senate

 

SOLOIST
Erica Simmons, D.M.A.
UNT Alumna

 

FACULTY COATERS
System College of Pharmacy
Elizabeth Hearn, Pharm.D., B.C.A.C.P.
Michail Kastellorizios, Ph.D.
Bryn Lindley, Pharm.D., B.C.P.S.

Physician Assistant Studies
Lauren Dobbs, M.M.S., PA-C
Vic Holmes, Ed.D., M.P.A.S., PA-C
America McGuffee, M.P.A.S., PA-C
Kenya Samuels, M.P.A.S., PA-C

Department of Physical Therapy
Lee Atkins, P.T., Ph.D.
Leslie Ayres, P.T., D.P.T., C.C.S.
Mindy Brummett, P.T., D.P.T., O.C.S.
Carling Butler, P.T., D.P.T., M.S.C.I.

Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine
Advisory Colleges

Beyer College
Jan Jowitt, A.G.N.P
Brittany Love, D.O.
Damon Schranz, D.O.

Everett College
Yein Lee, D.O., M.M.S.
Nancy Tierney, Ph.D.

Richards College
Jeff Beeson, D.O.
Michael Carletti, D.O.
Meaghan Nelsen, D.O.
Sajid Surve, D.O.

Elko College
Sandra Davis, M.D.
Shane Fernando, Ph.D., M.S.
Jay Roop, D.O.
Katrina Roop, D.O.

Luibel College
Lesca Hadley, D.O., M.B.A.
April Wiechmann, Ph.D.

Zachary College
Clifton Cage, D.O.
Bryn Esplin, J.D.
Chris Rheams, M.D.

 

CONGRATULATIONS

Karen Duncan, M.D., M.B.A.

2022 RECIPIENT OF THE

Mary E. Luibel Distinguished Service Award

 

photo of Karen Duncan 2022 Mary E Luibel Distinguished Service Award recipient

 

Karen Duncan, M.D., M.B.A., is the chief executive officer for the JPS Health Network. Dr. Duncan joined JPS four years ago as executive vice president of community health and assumed the position of chief operating officer in February 2020.

Duncan has extensive health care experience and has held executive leadership positions at Atlanta’s Grady Memorial Hospital and Chicago’s Cook County Health and Hospital System. She also practiced pediatrics for more than 20 years and served as medical director during her tenure at Grady Memorial Hospital.

Duncan came to JPS from Health Management Associates, a health care consulting firm, where as a principal she consulted for large publicly funded hospital systems, government entities and managed care plans.

Duncan received a Doctor of Medicine from Emory University School of Medicine and completed her pediatric residency at University Hospitals in Cleveland, Ohio. She earned a Bachelor of Arts in biochemistry at Smith College and completed the executive Master of Business Administration program at Georgia State University.

 

 

Established in 1993, the Mary E. Luibel Distinguished Service Award is bestowed upon those who have exceptional personal commitment and long-standing dedication to the advancement of the medical profession. The recipient shall be of the highest character and integrity, and a caring individual who lives by the precept that service to others is life’s highest calling. Mary E. Luibel was the wife of TCOM co-founder and chairman George J. Luibel, D.O.

 

 

THE PHARMACIST OATH

I PROMISE TO DEVOTE myself to a lifetime of service to others through the profession of pharmacy. In fulfilling this vow:

I will consider the welfare of humanity and relief of suffering my primary concerns.

I will apply my knowledge, experience and skills to the best of my ability to assure optimal outcomes for my patients.

I will respect and protect all personal and health information entrusted to me.

I will accept the lifelong obligation to improve my professional knowledge and competence.

I will hold myself and my colleagues to the highest principles of our profession’s moral, ethical and legal conduct.

I will embrace and advocate changes that improve patient care.

I will utilize my knowledge, skills, experiences and values to prepare the next generation of pharmacists.

I take these vows voluntarily with the full realization of the responsibility with which I am entrusted by the public.

 

 

THE PHYSICIAN ASSISTANT OATH

I PLEDGE to perform the following duties with honesty, integrity and dedication, remembering always that my primary responsibility is to the health, safety, welfare and dignity of all human beings:

I recognize and promote the value of diversity, and I will treat equally all persons who seek my care.

I will uphold the tenets of patient autonomy, beneficence, non-maleficence, justice and the principle of informed consent.

I will hold in confidence the information shared with me in the course of practicing medicine, except where I am authorized to impart such knowledge.

I will be diligent in understanding both my personal capabilities and my limitations, striving always to improve my practice of medicine.

I will actively seek to expand my intellectual knowledge and skills, keeping abreast of advances in medical art and science.

I will work with other members of the health care team to assure compassionate and effective care of patients.

I will uphold and enhance community values and use the knowledge and experience acquired as a PA to contribute to an improved community.

I will respect my professional relationship with physicians and other members of the health care team.

I recognize my duty to perpetuate knowledge within the profession. These duties are pledged with sincerity and on my honor.

 

 

THE PHYSICAL THERAPIST OATH

AS I ENTER THE PROFESSION to practice as a physical therapist, I solemnly and willingly pledge the following upon my honor:

I will accept full responsibility for the roles, obligations and actions of the physical therapist.

I will place the interests and needs of the patients above my own.

I will demonstrate respect, compassion and empathy for all individuals by advocating on their behalf.

I will consistently use current knowledge by embracing advancement, by challenging mediocrity and by promoting high standards for practice, education and research.

I will engage in excellence of care by collaborating and communicating effectively with colleagues, with other professionals and, most importantly, with the patient.

I will steadfastly adhere to high ethical principles, professional standards and all rules and regulations that govern the physical therapy profession.

I will provide physical therapy services with humility to benefit patients, serve the profession and positively influence society.

Thus, I accept the responsibilities that accompany the practice of physical therapy by freely binding myself to this oath.

 

 

THE OSTEOPATHIC OATH

I DO HEREBY AFFIRM my loyalty to the profession I am about to enter.

I will be mindful of my great responsibility to preserve the health and the life of my patients, to retain their confidence and respect both as a physician and a friend who will guard their secrets with scrupulous honor and fidelity, to perform faithfully my professional duties, to employ only those recognized methods of treatment consistent with good judgment and with my skill and ability, keeping in mind always nature’s law and the body’s inherent capacity for recovery.

I will be ever vigilant in aiding the general welfare of the community, sustaining its laws and institutions, not engaging in those practices which will in any way bring shame or discredit upon myself or my profession. I will give no drugs for deadly purposes to any person, though it be asked of me.

I will endeavor to work in accord with my colleagues in a spirit of progressive cooperation and never by word or by act cast imputations upon them or on their rightful practices.

I will look with respect and esteem upon all those who have taught me my art. To my college I will be loyal and strive always for its best interests and for the interests of the students who will come after me.

I will be ever alert to further the application of basic biologic truth to the healing arts and to develop the principles of osteopathic medicine as taught by my profession.

In the presence of this gathering, I bind myself to this oath.