Dr. Shane Speights

09/06/2025

Shout out to St. Bernards Healthcare for donating emergency respirators to the Arkansas State University Police Department. Nice to see ommunity partnerships at work. Couple of Run with the Dean pics……. without the Dean! It was a great A-State/U of A pep rally hosted at the Arkansas Governors Mansion and of course, some Harvey pics

08/15/2025

Great Run/Walk with the Dean today, and we had a large turn out for our First year student organization fair. NYIT College of Osteopathic Medicine at Arkansas State

08/15/2025

This isn’t me, sorry for the confusion.

08/09/2025

Our first NYIT College of Osteopathic Medicine at Arkansas State Run with the Dean for this year and the Class of 2029 showed up and showed out! It was great to have all of our students back on campus to start our academic year.

08/02/2025

08/02/2025

It was a busy week for NYIT College of Osteopathic Medicine at Arkansas State. We had a celebration to recognize Dr Jerry Balentine, our new NYIT president and CEO while we looked back at the last 10 years of our impact on the state and region.

We announced our partnership with the Mississippi County Hospital System that we hope will be a model for training the type of physicians we need in smaller communities, especially those with community based hospitals.

And we capped off the week with welcoming our 10th class of medical students, the Class of 2029!

06/15/2025

Happy Fathers Day to all the Dads out there. Today was pretty special for us as we watched our grandson, Harvey, get baptized. So thankful for a healthy, and beautiful family.

06/01/2025

Congratulations to the Arkansas Medical Society on their 150th anniversary of representing physicians in Arkansas. I appreciated the opportunity to speak on a panel, with the other medical school Deans in the state, discussing physician burnout and workforce shortages. I’m looking forward to seeing all four medical schools in Arkansas working together on healthcare solutions for our state.

There was an inspiring speech from the new American Medical Association president, Dr Bobby Mukkamala. As physicians it is truly a different view when we become patients.

Also sending out congrats to all the student, resident, fellow and faculty award winners and gala honorees as well. NYIT College of Osteopathic Medicine at Arkansas State was well represented!

I was especially proud to watch a long time friend, Dr Brad Bibb, sworn in as the next president of the medical society. Congratulations sir, well deserved!

05/24/2025

It was a great week at NYIT College of Osteopathic Medicine at Arkansas State as we celebrated the graduation of our Class of 2025.

It was also a special time when we hosted our military commissioning ceremony. So proud of these new soldiers that are stepping up to serve our country. Approximately 1% of our population serves, and 1% of those that serve are physicians. These graduates represent 1% of the 1%.

I was also able to attend graduation ceremonies on the NY campus where we recognized Dr Barbara Ross-Lee, founding Dean of our NYITCOM at A-State campus, with an NYIT honorary degree.

We were able to squeeze in a Run/Walk with the Dean, and somebody is starting to crawl!

05/05/2025

So proud of two of my sons that graduated this weekend. Jacob from the University of Central Arkansas and Parker from Valley View School District high school. Both graduated with honors and service recognition.

Jacob has started a position as a cybersecurity analyst, and Parker will start at Mississippi State University in the fall in their Meteorology program. We couldn’t be more excited to see these two start the next chapters of their lives.

04/14/2025

Today was our NYIT College of Osteopathic Medicine at Arkansas State annual 5k. We had a great turn out of 35 students plus friends and family.

This is a great reminder of how important physical activity is for health and overall wellbeing. Proud of everyone that showed up today.

Special shout out to my Run with Dean group who represented today.

(Token grandson pic, no extra charge)

04/13/2025

It was a great American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine conference last week in Arlington, TX. We had amazing and inspirational speakers including Dr Barry Kerzin, physician to the Dalai Lama, who shared his wisdom on compassionate care.

The healthcare system is not meeting the needs of the public and part of the problem is the fractured Doctor/patient relationship. We can do better.

DO conferences are like a family reunion! I really appreciate the COSGP allowing me to moderate their lunch session. They are the future of our profession and we couldn’t be prouder!
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