By Darla Shelden, Metropolis Sentinel Reporter
OKLAHOMA CITY— The Oklahoma State College A&M Board of Regents has introduced that Dr. Kayse Shrum will turn into the nineteenth president of Oklahoma State College. The announcement follows an in depth nationwide search involving an inclusive course of composed of representatives from throughout the OSU system, together with school, college students, workers and alumni.
As the present president of the OSU Heart for Well being Sciences in Tulsa, Dr. Shrum might be really useful for approval as the following president of OSU on the commonly scheduled Board of Regents assembly in Stillwater on April 23.
Dr. Shrum’s choice makes historical past as the primary lady to guide a public analysis establishment within the state of Oklahoma
”The OSU/A&M Board of Regents acknowledged from the beginning of this course of the significance of conducting a radical search to verify we chosen essentially the most certified candidate to guide OSU and the system into the longer term following the profitable Burns Hargis presidency,” mentioned Rick Davis, chair of the Regents.
“I respect the deliberative method taken by our Regents, and we’re grateful to Regent Joe Corridor, who impressively led the method over the previous 5 months.
“Dr. Shrum is well-known and revered by the Regents and our college neighborhood. Her management has remodeled our medical faculty in Tulsa, and her efforts have taken us to new heights we might solely think about a couple of years in the past,” Davis continued.
“The institution of the Nationwide Heart for Wellness and Restoration is considered one of a number of milestone achievements. The middle, which has introduced nationwide acclaim to OSU, has turn into the nationwide focus for breakthrough analysis to handle the opioid disaster. What’s most spectacular to me for all of the notable achievements is her dedication to college students and their success,” Davis mentioned.
“College students matter to her. Dr. Shrum is an efficient chief, progressive thinker and her collaborative type, along with her nice love for OSU, means the momentum we’ve achieved with President Hargis will proceed unabated. I’m enthusiastic about the way forward for OSU, the system and the state of Oklahoma,” Davis added.
Shrum has served as president of OSU’s Heart for Well being Sciences (OSU-CHS) since 2013, and her choice on the time made her the youngest and first feminine president and dean of a medical faculty within the state of Oklahoma.
After present OSU President Burns Hargis appointed Shrum to guide the medical faculty, she educated and served rural Oklahoma as a pediatrician earlier than starting her educational work at OSU-CHS.
In line with Regent and Choice Committee Chair Joe Corridor, Dr. Shrum was chosen from a nationwide pool of extremely certified candidates largely as a result of she brings a outstanding monitor file {of professional} success main OSU’s medical faculty.
”I’ve watched Dr. Shrum rework our medical faculty in Tulsa, and I’m satisfied that success will translate to OSU and our system,” Corridor mentioned. She understands and appreciates our distinctive land-grant mission of service to the development and betterment of our state.
“As a proud product of Coweta, Oklahoma, Dr. Shrum has a firsthand perspective of our state’s challenges and the position OSU can play in assembly these challenges,” Hal added.
“Based mostly on what she has achieved to this point, Dr. Shrum will promote scholar success, educational applications, productive analysis and an inclusive and numerous neighborhood constructed on mutual respect. As president of OSU, she might be a terrific chief for our college and state.”
Dr. Shrum said, “I’m humbled and honored by this announcement. I’m additionally thrilled as a result of exterior of my pricey household, OSU has a particular place in my coronary heart. Main the OSU Heart for Well being Sciences and serving to college students, school and workers come collectively to create one thing actually impactful to our state has been immensely rewarding for me. To guide our vibrant college and the system, which is so important to our state on many ranges, would be the biggest problem and honor of my skilled profession. I’m wanting ahead to this chance with excessive anticipation.
“I need to thank Chair Davis, Regent Corridor and our total Board of Regents. I don’t take the belief you could have imparted to me evenly,” she mentioned. “I stay up for working with our board, school, college students and workers on our shared imaginative and prescient of excellence and success. Let me additionally thank President Hargis, who had the arrogance to nominate me to guide the medical faculty. I’m without end grateful for our friendship and your mentorship.”
Underneath Dr. Shrum’s management, OSU Heart for Well being Sciences has skilled unprecedented progress. Scholar enrollment doubled as the middle established new educational applications designed to satisfy the well being care workforce wants of Oklahoma.
Shrum led the development of the A.R. and Marylouise Tandy Medical Tutorial Constructing, a state-of-the-art studying facility that homes Oklahoma’s largest and most technologically superior hospital simulation middle.
Her fundraising accomplishments embody securing a landmark funding in 2019 from Purdue Pharma for $197.5 million to create the Nationwide Heart for Wellness and Restoration for habit therapy and analysis to handle the nationwide opioid habit epidemic.
A supporter of collaborative partnerships, Shrum labored with Cherokee Nation Principal Chief Invoice John Baker and his administration to determine the nation’s first tribally affiliated medical faculty, the OSU Faculty of Osteopathic Medication on the Cherokee Nation, which opened fall 2023.
In March 2019, Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt appointed Dr. Shrum to his cupboard as Oklahoma’s first Secretary of Science and Innovation. In that position, she performed a crucial half within the state’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Her progressive management method and medical experience helped safe much-needed PPE (Private Protecting Gear) provides and led to the formation of Oklahoma’s largest COVID diagnostics lab on OSU’s Stillwater campus.
A local of Coweta, Dr. Shrum is a champion of rural well being and first care drugs and has made the creation of a sustainable, rural major care doctor pipeline a high precedence. She launched progressive highschool recruiting applications like Operation Orange and Blue Coat to White Coat, created the Rural Medical Monitor curriculum and expanded the variety of residency coaching applications in rural Oklahoma by securing help from the Oklahoma Legislature, Oklahoma Well being Care Authority and Oklahoma Tobacco Settlement Endowment Belief.
Her quite a few awards and accolades embody being named The Journal File’s Girl of the 12 months in 2019. Dr. Shrum and her husband Darren nonetheless actively farm close to Coweta. They’ve six grownup youngsters.
Dr. Shrum will formally take over the position of president in the beginning of OSU’s subsequent fiscal 12 months starting July 1.
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