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News A Pathway to Medicine T hanks to an innovative partnership with Columbus area schools, the Ohio University College of Osteopathic Medicine hopes to funnel a broader range of students into its pipeline of future physicians. In the new Pathways Institute Partnership, OU-COM has teamed with Columbus Public Schools, Columbus State Community College and other organizations to help students from lower income families or whose parents never attended college realize that being a doctor is not out of their reach. There’s an overall shortage of people seeking health-care careers, according to Elizabeth Minor, Health Careers Opportunities Program (HCOP) program director at OU-COM. “Our program educates and encourages young people that likely don’t know there are very good career opportunities in the health-care industry. We want them to know that they have options and help them reach their goals,” she says. Students learn what to focus on to make their career a reality. Arla Lyles has signed on as director of the Pathways Institute Partnership, housed in Columbus. She will oversee several initiatives that prepare students, as young as sixth graders, to navigate the steps toward health-care careers, including osteopathic medicine. By 2008, the partnership hopes to attract 275 students to OU-COM and other Ohio University health-care programs. The Partnership comprises seven middle schools; Columbus State; OU-COM; Ohio University College of Arts and Sciences; three Columbus high-schools with health academies (East High, West High and Linden-McKinley High); and community health-care resources such as the city of Columbus Public Health Department and Doctors Hospital in Columbus. Pathways came about in part because of Minor’s chance meeting with John Francis, Ph.D., a Columbus State biochemistry professor. Minor says she and Francis began a conversation aboard a plane in 2001 about what they did at their institutions. Four years later, they finalized the Pathways Institute Partnership. Students first gain admission to Columbus State, where some will enter two-year programs related to health care. Students who want to continue their education, however, can easily transfer key credits to Ohio University. Students involved in Pathways also can participate in the OU-COM Summer Scholars Program, a rigorous premedical program designed to enhance preparation for admission to medical school and increase chances of acceptance. –Jennifer Kowalewski 4 www.oucom.ohio.edu
photo provided by Julianna Batizy-Morely, D.O. OU-COM Grad Goes World Class I n an event that attracts more than 3,000 amateur triathletes from around the world, Julianna Batizy- Morley, D.O. (‘96), won the 2005 International Triathlon Union’s World Championship in Honolulu last October. Victory was even sweeter because just a year earlier on Thanksgiving, Batizy-Morley passed out while swimming and was diagnosed with multiple bilateral pulmonary emboli. According to her father, Levente Batizy, D.O., director of medical education at South Pointe Hospital, Cleveland, Ohio, and CORE clinical professor of emergency medicine, “she could barely walk across the room without getting short of breath.” “It was a huge setback physically and took me six months or more to recover,” Batizy-Morley says. Doctors were not even sure she would regain pulmonary function. The emboli left her with joint pain, mouth sores, hoarseness and possible connective tissue disease. Against all those odds, however, she trained to become No.1 in the world for her class. Batizy-Morley completed the grueling 1,500 meter open-water swim, 40-kilometer bike course and 10- kilometer run in two hours, 12 minutes and 57 seconds to win the female 35-39 age division. She was one of only 18 women in her age group to earn a place at the Worlds. “To see her on top of the podium in Honolulu … was an absolute thrill,” her father says. Batizy-Morley, who had been a competitive swimmer in high school, didn’t even start thinking about triathlons until almost two decades later. “I had done one or two (triathlons) in Ohio when I lived there just to see what they were like,” she says, “but didn’t take them too seriously.” Her children’s swim team coach, Gregory Zgliczynski, saw one of her swims and suggested she make the switch to triathlons. In 2003 Zgliczynski began coaching Batizy-Morley, and in May of 2004, at the age of 33, she won her first triathlon. Batizy-Morley trains hard and works as an emergency room physician, “every other week, every other day,” to reconcile the demands of motherhood with her 20-hour-a-week training schedule. On work weeks, for instance, she might be up 36 hours straight. Does she ever sleep? “That’s the million dollar question,” she laughs. “I don’t sleep as much as I should. I guess residency was a good way to get used to it.” Batizy-Morley is now setting her sights on a bigger goal: to become a professional triathlete. That will require her to compete in at least three races with more than 500 participants and place in the top eight. With two such wins already under her belt as of this writing, she was confident she could cinch the third in the spring. Zgliczynski has no doubt she’ll join the pros. “At the age of 30, many people look for the easy way out,” he says. “She’s almost like a teenager with dreams, day in, day out, willing to take a lot of punishment.” –Sally Linder and Melissa Cabral Despite bilateral pulmonary emboli, Julianna Batizy-Morely, D.O. (‘96), rose to world-class status as a triathlete. summer 2006 5
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