Faculty/Staff Directory

Scott A Carlson DO MPH is the current Medical Director and Associate Professor in the MSU-College of Osteopathic Medicine, Department of Physician Assistant medicine. He is a 1982 graduate of MSU-COM and is Board Certified in General Practice. His career spanned thirty-seven years in a private independent practice in Grand Rapids Michigan. In addition to serving patients, he mentored students from MSU-COM as an Associate Professor in the Department of Family Medicine, and he mentored PA ...

Communications Coordinator

Jacquelyn Charbel, DO, FACOS, FACS is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Osteopathic Surgical Specialties in Michigan State University’s College of Osteopathic Medicine.

Dr. Jacek Cholewicki is a Walter F. Patenge Professor in spinal biomechanics at the MSU Center for Neuromusculoskeletal Clinical Research (CNCR), Dept. of Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine. Cholewicki received his Ph.D. degree in Kinesiology from the University of Waterloo in Canada in 1994. His research interests lie in the areas of lumbar and cervical spine function, spine injury mechanisms, tissue loading, and biomechanical modeling using EMG. His current projects include motor control of the...

Professor, WF Patenge Chair

Sung Soo Chung is serving as the Associate Director, and he has worked for the Institute for Global Health since 2012. Chung has been working for 1) global healthcare education, 2) capacity building with other countries and 3) research promotion.

Communications Manager