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MAY 2022 CANDIDATES
ANNOUNCEMENT OF CANDIDATES FOR MAY 13, 2022, THE HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER
COLLEGE OF ALLIED HEALTH Jane E. Wilson, Ph.D., Dean The College of Allied Health’s vision is We Empower Life by maximizing human potential through allied health interprofessional education, research, care, and community engagement. The College serves as the academic unit for undergraduate programs in communication sciences and disorders, nuclear medicine, radiation sciences, radiation therapy, sonography, and radiography, as well as professional programs in audiology, dietetics, occupational therapy, physical therapy, and speechlanguage pathology. The College also offers graduate programs in allied health sciences, communication sciences and disorders, nutritional sciences, and rehabilitation sciences. In 2020 the College of Allied Health celebrated its 50th anniversary! The College was authorized by the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education in 1967, and activated in February 1970, to consolidate and coordinate existing programs on the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center campus and to further develop programs to meet allied health resource needs in Oklahoma. The professional-entry educational programs are diagnostic, therapeutic, or rehabilitative in focus and prepare students to join an interprofessional health care delivery system focused on the wellbeing of the citizens of Oklahoma. Through its graduate programs, the College prepares future leaders, faculty, advanced practice clinicians, and researchers for the professions and for advancing the healthcare system in Oklahoma. The College is authorized to offer 19 programs which consist of seven baccalaureate, five master level, six doctoral level, and one certificate program. Nine of these programs award professional-entry degrees. Undergraduate and graduate professional students of the College of Allied Health may be identified by their nile green tassels.
