hattering glass ceilings and effecting change are traits
that have turned ordinary individuals into nationally
renowned figures throughout history.
Who can forget the indomitable civil rights figure Rosa
Parks—a local National Association for the Advancement of
Colored People leader who was arrested for refusing to give
up her seat to a white passenger on a city bus in Montgom-
ery, Alabama on December 1, 1955?
This event, as well as many others, would prove to be a
seminal moment in U.S. history that helped propel the civil
rights movement and the fight for racial equality to the fore-
front of the nation’s consciousness.
On a similar but less-incendiary level, osteopathic physi-
cians have worked tirelessly over the years to battle rampant
prejudice at every turn, which has allowed the osteopathic
profession to achieve legislative parity with its allopathic
brethren as well as near-universal acceptance nationwide.
One individual leading the osteopathic charge is 2000
NSU-COM alumnus Joshua D. Lenchus, D.O., R.Ph., FACP,
SFHM, who achieved a major milestone in June 2012 when he
became the first osteopathic physician to be named president
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COM Outlook . Winter 2015
Breaking
Barriers
Dr. Joshua Lenchus
Helps Propel
the Osteopathic
Profession Forward
By Scott Colton, B.A., APR
COM/HPD Director of Medical Communications
and Public Relations
S
ALUMNI CORNER
