Former Dean Honored With Regents’ Award

Former OU College of Medicine Executive Dean Douglas Voth, M.D., has been honored with a 2020 Regents’ Alumni Award from the University of Oklahoma.

Regents’ Alumni Awards honor individuals, either alumni or friends of the university, who have generously given their time and services to OU. Recipients receive a plaque and have their names added to a permanent plaque in the Oklahoma Memorial Union on OU’s Norman campus. Voth earned his medical degree from the University of Kansas School of Medicine, followed by a residency in internal medicine at Kansas University Medical Center. He undertook a three-year fellowship in infectious diseases at State University of New York, which was sponsored by the Centers for Disease Control and then the National Institutes of Health.

He served as Professor and Chair of Medicine for 10 years on the Wichita campus for the KU School of Medicine, and arrived as Professor of Medicine at the OU College of Medicine in 1987. He was Professor and Acting Chair of the Department of Neurology in 1990, and in 1992 he was named Executive Dean of the College of Medicine, a position he held until 1996.

On leave from the OU College of Medicine until 2001, he was Professor of Medicine and Dean at the United Arab Emirates University. He returned as Professor of Medicine at the OU College of Medicine in 2001, first serving as a director of the Office of Alumni and Development for the OU Health Sciences Center. In 2002, he was named Dean of the OU College of Pharmacy, a position he held until 2007.

Since that time, he has been active in numerous programs and initiatives across the OU Health Sciences Center, notably interdisciplinary education, which involves students from all seven colleges, as well as the Anne and Henry Zarrow School of Social Work on the OU Norman campus. He has also been extensively involved with the Stewart Wolf Society.

In 2005, he was honored with the Delp Award of Clinical Excellence by the Kansas Chapter of the American College of Physicians. In 2012, he was inducted into the Oklahoma Higher Education Hall of Fame. He has emeritus titles from OU including Dean, Regents’ Professor, and Professor of Medicine.