TCOM News

The Osteopathic Research Center is pleased to announce that Gert Bronfort, DC, PhD will present the 2025 Goldstein Lecture, entitled “Spinal manipulation and clinician-supported biopsychosocial self-management for acute/subacute back pain at risk of chronicity: Results of The PACBACK randomized clinical trial comparing outcomes over 1 year to guideline based medical care” on Wednesday, October 29th […]

Dr. John Licciardone, ORC Executive Director, was recently quoted in the New York Times article titled “So Your Doctor is a DO. Does That Matter?” The article highlighted the growth of osteopathic medical practice across the United States, what the general public speculates about the osteopathic profession, and leaned on experts like Dr. John Licciardone […]

The article, titled “Chronic pain outcomes among patients treated by osteopathic vs. allopathic physicians: a 36-month follow-up study,” recently published in the Journal of Osteopathic Medicine, is the first long-term study involving three years of follow-up of osteopathic medical care for chronic pain. Dr. John Licciardone, Subhash Aryal, Ph.D., and TCOM Class of 2027 students […]

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.

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 […]