Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine
Category: Research

April 10, 2025 • Osteopathic Research Center Osteopathic research center
The Osteopathic Research Center was featured in the DO magazine’s April 2025 issue: https://thedo.osteopathic.org/columns/why-physician-empathy-in-health-care-delivery-is-so-important/ It highlights the ORC’s emerging research interest in the patient-physician relationship, including physician empathy and communication, as well as our commitment to research training of TCOM students such as Yen Tran.

April 1, 2025 • Osteopathic Research Center, Research
It all began at the Macy Foundation Conference in Dallas in 1995 when UNTHSC President David Richards and TCOM Dean Benjamin Cohen were challenged to provide the evidence supporting osteopathic manipulative treatment. That set in motion fledgling research efforts on campus that grew over the next few years. Their efforts were rewarded in 2001 when…

November 14, 2024 • Osteopathic Research Center OsteopathicResearch, Publication,
The November 2024 issue of Journal of Pain included a study by Dr. John Licciardone titled “Impact of Shared Decision-Making on Opioid Prescribing Among Patients with Chronic Pain: A Retrospective Cohort Study,” and included investigators from TCOM’s Class of 2026, Bassam Ballout, Yasser Bibi, Michaela Digilio, Rylan Fowers and Braden Van Alfen along with Subhash…

October 8, 2024 • Osteopathic Research Center Awards, OsteopathicResearch, Publication,
Dr. John Licciardone was awarded the JOM Clinical Research Award at the 2024 OMED awards for the article titled: “The process and outcomes of chronic low back pain treatment provided by osteopathic and allopathic physicians: A retrospective cohort study.” Read more about the JOM Clinical Research Award and other awards granted at the 2024 OMED awards here.

August 5, 2024 • Osteopathic Research Center OsteopathicResearch, Publication,
The Osteopathic Research Center was recognized this past spring for a study done over physician empathy and doctor-patient relationship that was published in JAMA Network Open. The research team, led by John C. Licciardone, DO, MS, MBA, PRECISION director, and other investigators, including: Yen Tran, Khang Ngo, David Toledo and Navya Peddireddy, all students TCOM…
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