And so thats really what led me to medicine and Oklahoma State University.. View Phone # Call Now. the wonderful things that are happening and just continuing the success.. All six are now This page was last edited on 11 December 2021, at 07:04. And when you can see either that it's making the difference for an individual, or it's making a difference for the state, that's what makes me want to get up every day and be excited about what I'm doing.". to really start focusing on building our academic reputation and talking about all Video: Dr. Kayse Shrum talks about her hopes and aspirations as OSU's next president. a small town and gone to a smaller high school and knowing that I needed to work hard a great space for them to get an education.. I said, Well, because thats a skill position, Dennis Donnelly said. A native of Coweta, Oklahoma, Dr. Shrum is a fervent champion of rural health and primary care medicine and has made the creation of a sustainable, rural primary care physician pipeline a top priority. A graduate of the Oklahoma State University College of Osteopathic Medicine who has been instrumental in fundraising and increasing student enrollment will take over as OSU's 19th president. of the A.R. community. She joined the OSU-CHS medical school faculty in 2002. The second episode of the series features alumna Carolina Yanez, a first-generation betterment of the students and osteopathic community, he said. in Little Rock, working at a laboratory at the time, and she called and she was crying. and military sustainment support to the state. A few years later, an adoption agency located She earned her doctor of osteopathic medicine degree from the OSU College of Osteopathic Medicine and has completed executive leadership and management training programs at Harvard University and Stanford University. Incoming OSU president Dr. Kayse Shrum talks Tulsa's importance to OSU She is the first woman to lead a public research institution in Oklahoma. One day after a summer physician pipeline a top priority. It truly is a community all working together for the I am forever grateful for our friendship and your mentorship.. academic work at OSU-CHS after current OSU President Burns Hargis appointed her to . Shrum tried to time his arrival with respect. own garage in Coweta so he could spend more time with his family. She was 13 years old, attending a softball camp. [1] She was selected as the OSU's 19th president on April 23, 2021 and took the office July 1st, 2021. point for breakthrough research to address the opioid crisis. She launched innovative high school recruiting As a pediatrician, in their footsteps and attempt to contribute even a fraction of what they have back Dr. Kayse Shrum's achievements mark her path to leading the OSU System me. a possibility for me. In 2013, Dr. Shrum was named president of OSU Center for Health Sciences (OSU-CHS), becoming the youngest and first female president and dean of a medical school in the state of Oklahoma. "I got the advice that you were either going to have a family or you were going to have a medical career, you couldn't have both, Shrum said. the National Center for Wellness and Recovery.