Organic Alliance Adds Dr. Gail Morrison as New Member to the Medical Advisory Board

Organic Alliance Adds Dr. Gail Morrison as New Member to the Medical Advisory
Board
Dr. Morrison is a leader in nationwide medical education

SAN ANTONIO, Aug. 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Today, Organic Alliance,
Inc. (Pink Sheets: ORGC) is pleased to announce that Dr. Gail Morrison, Vice
Dean for Education and Director of the Office of Academic Programs at the
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine has joined the company's Medical
Advisory Board.
Gail Morrison, MD is the recipient of the 2006 Daniel C. Tosteson Award
for Leadership in Medical Education from the Carl J. Shapiro Institute for
Education and Research. The Tosteson Award is presented to an individual whose
leadership has brought about significant innovation or improvement in
undergraduate and/or graduate medical education.
Over the last 20 years, Morrison has been actively involved in curricular
design and implementation at Penn. She developed and implemented Curriculum
2000(R) and Virtual Curriculum 2000(R) -- an innovative, integrated and
modular four-year curriculum for students of the 21st century. Since the
implementation, student performance and recruitment has risen. Additionally,
numerous U.S. and international medical schools have sent delegations to Penn
to learn about the process as part of their own efforts to implement
curriculum reform.
In addition to her work at Penn, Morrison also plays a key national
leadership role in medical education. She was one of the five founding members
of the Clerkship Directors of Internal Medicine, and was recently appointed
Chair of the AAMC Medical Student Performance Evaluation Advisory Committee.
Morrison is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania School of
Medicine. She interned in Internal Medicine at Beth Israel in Boston and
completed her residency at Georgetown Hospital. She served as a Staff
Associate for the Director of the NHLBI, and then returned to the University
of Pennsylvania School of Medicine where she completed her Nephrology
Fellowship and began her life-long focus on undergraduate medical education.
About Penn Medicine
PENN Medicine is a $2.9 billion enterprise dedicated to the related
missions of medical education, biomedical research, and high-quality patient
care. PENN Medicine consists of the University of Pennsylvania School of
Medicine (founded in 1765 as the nation's first medical school) and the
University of Pennsylvania Health System.
About Organic Alliance
Organic Alliance intends to become one of the world's leading providers of
USDA certified organic crops to many of the country's leading consumer package
goods manufacturers, food processors, grocery, and retail restaurant chains.
Organic Alliance sources top quality, safe tested and certified organic at the
source -- prior to customer shipment, utilizing USDA certification in
conjunction with the in-house OAI Quality Team. Company CEO Tom Morrison was
CEO of Superior Farming, formerly one of the largest corporate farms and
organic farming operations in the world before being acquired by Sun World
International and later Black Diamond Capital Management.
For more information, please visit http://organicallianceinc.com/
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