The Athens Messenger features a story about Ohio University alum Amy (Smith) Maggard ’11, ’14D.O., who grew up in Athens County and just graduated from the Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine.
Amy (Smith) Maggard ’11, ’14D.O.
Maggard earned a B.S. in Biological Sciences—Pre-Professional from the College of Arts & Sciences at Ohio University. She told the Messenger she plans to become a pediatrician.
When Maggard decided to go to medical school, however, the trip was only a short hop — she didn’t even have to leave Athens County.
Maggard is one of the 124 students who received D.O. degrees from Ohio University’s Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine this spring. She’s also one of 16 Athens County residents who have attended the medical college in the last decade.
The Heritage College has long prided itself on how many students it recruits from Ohio. That number has included many from Athens and nearby counties; from 2005-2014, 146 of its matriculating students, or about 11 percent, came from southeastern Ohio. (With a new campus in Dublin, Ohio, having opened last year, and another in Cleveland set to begin classes in July, the Heritage College is also pursuing focused recruitment efforts in central and northeast Ohio.)…
Maggard, who graduated in 2007 from Alexander High School, said she was already thinking about becoming a physician by that time. “I think I knew throughout high school that I wanted to go to medical school,” she recalled. “I really liked science, and I really like the idea of helping people, so it kind of fit together.”
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