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Now a professor and chairman of the Department of Psychiatry
at the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine-Tulsa, Yates
earned his M.D. from the University of Nebraska College of
Medicine in 1977 and earned an M.S. in preventive medicine
from the University of Iowa in 1986.
He went on to teach at
Iowa and then moved to Tulsa in 1997, where he has been named
to the Best Doctors in America directory
for three straight years, and honored with the Outstanding
OU Psychiatry Faculty Resident Teaching Award in 1999.
Yates
has also led a remarkable career in terms of research and
leadership. His interests in psychiatry in primary care
populations; alcohol, drug, nicotine and anabolic sterioid
abuse; and epidemiology and health services research have
been prominent in his research studies and in his more
than 200
scientific manuscripts, abstracts and chapters, authored
or co-authored by him. Yates also served as president of
the Association
of Medicine and Psychiatry for the 1999-2000 year.
He and
his wife, Sonja (Schmidt) Yates, have three children, Ted,
23; Timothy, 21; and Sarah, who turned 18 yesterday.
They live in Tulsa.
Yates graduated magna cum laude in chemistry from Dana
in 1974. He was a varsity golf letterman from 1971-73.
He was
also a member of the Pre-Med Club, Alpha
Chi Honor Society, and played football, basketball and softball for Rasmussen
Third Floor in intramurals. He currently is a member of Joy Lutheran Church
in Tulsa, where he sings with the ‘Joy’ful
Mens Choir.
Yates especially remembers his academic advisor
and chemistry professor Eugene Lindblad, as well as
Chemistry Professor
Frank Hengeveld.
Dana College is a private, liberal
arts institution that currently enrolls approximately 600
students. The campus is located on
150 acres overlooking the Missouri River Valley in Blair,
Neb. Dana grants bachelor’s degrees in more than 20 liberal
arts, business, education and pre-professional programs. Dana
is affiliated with the Nebraska Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran
Church in America, and its athletic teams compete in the Great
Plains Athletic Conference.
More information on Dana College can be found on its web site, www.dana.edu.
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Dana College
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