TCOM News

The Osteopathic Research Center was featured in the DO magazine’s April 2025 issue: https://thedo.osteopathic.org/columns/why-physician-empathy-in-health-care-delivery-is-so-important/ It highlights the ORC’s emerging research interest in the patient-physician relationship, including physician empathy and communication, as well as our commitment to research training of TCOM students such as Yen Tran.

It all began at the Macy Foundation Conference in Dallas in 1995 when UNTHSC President David Richards and TCOM Dean Benjamin Cohen were challenged to provide the evidence supporting osteopathic manipulative treatment. That set in motion fledgling research efforts on campus that grew over the next few years. Their efforts were rewarded in 2001 when […]