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When your last name is Adams, you lead a life of “firsts.” You’re first in line at school, first on almost every list and if you are Bob Adams, D.O., ’77, of Kirkland,Wash., you are the very first graduate to be awarded a medical degree from the Oklahoma College of Osteopathic Medicine and Surgery. That was 25 years ago and Adams, along with Charles Henley, D.O., ’77, chairman of family medicine, serve as Silver Anniversary co-chairs of the first-ever Reunion Years fundraising campaign for the OSU College of Osteopathic Medicine. Originally from the Vici, Okla., area, Adams came to the newly established medical school at the encouragement of a local physician, James Young, D.O. “I attended a sports medicine meeting as a student and met a doctor from Seattle who had a sports medicine clinic, which was unusual back then,” Adams recalls. Adams eventually went to Seattle for a fellowship in primary care sports medicine and settled in the area, establishing a sports medicine practice. Over the years, he has worked with the U.S.Olympic Committee, the USA Track and Field Team and various universities and schools. Adams is co-author of a medical manual about track and field sports medicine and travels and lectures around the world about sports medicine. Adams treasures his Oklahoma beginnings and likes giving back to the medical school. “I want to say thanks to physicians, legislators and educators who had the foresight and vision to start a school of osteopathic medicine in Tulsa,” he says. “My class was the first. We took a lot on faith, and we were able to get a good education and become good physicians,” Adams says. “Now we are teachers, researchers and physicians, and the school has grown to become a center of excellence.” Just like its first grad. |
Bob Adams ,D.O., (left) Silver Anniversary co-chair for the Reunion Years campaign, presents a check from the first graduating class to Thomas Wesley Allen, D.O., vice president for health affairs. | |||
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