{"id":36741,"date":"2026-07-06T14:55:28","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T21:55:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicine.wsu.edu\/news\/?p=36741"},"modified":"2026-07-06T14:55:30","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T21:55:30","slug":"wsu-health-college-of-medicine-highlighted-in-wsu-impact-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicine.wsu.edu\/news\/2026\/07\/06\/wsu-health-college-of-medicine-highlighted-in-wsu-impact-report\/","title":{"rendered":"WSU Health, College of Medicine Highlighted in WSU Impact Report"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A new high-level report celebrating Washington State University&#8217;s impact over the past year highlighted the Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine and <a href=\"https:\/\/health.wsu.edu\">WSU Health<\/a>, the university&#8217;s new academic health network.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/news.wsu.edu\/press-release\/2026\/02\/26\/wsu-spokane-public-schools-launch-logan-family-clinic\/\">launch of WSU Health<\/a> and the community-based Logan Family Clinic in Spokane headlined the section about WSU&#8217;s academic enterprise. The initiative integrates clinical care, student training, and research across the university&#8217;s health sciences colleges while bringing healthcare services to local communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The report also highlighted the WSU College of Medicine&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/medicine.wsu.edu\/10year\/\">10-year anniversary<\/a> last year, celebrating a decade of homegrown healthcare. To date, the college has graduated more than 1,000 health professionals, and <a href=\"https:\/\/medicine.wsu.edu\/alumni\/md\/\">62.5% of MD program alumni<\/a> who have entered practice are now practicing in Washington.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In research news, a study from the college&#8217;s Department of Nutrition and Exercise Physiology on <a href=\"https:\/\/news.wsu.edu\/press-release\/2025\/01\/08\/elderberry-juice-shows-benefits-for-weight-management-metabolic-health\/\">the benefits of elderberry juice<\/a> for metabolic health and weight management made the list of WSU&#8217;s top research by media reach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wsu-spacing-after--xsmall\">We look forward to another year of impactful academic, research, and clinical initiatives!<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wsu-cta wsu-spacing-after--xsmall\" >\n\t<a \t\t\t\t\thref=\"https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/wp-president\/uploads\/sites\/3090\/2026\/06\/WSU-2025-Impact-in-Action-Report.pdf\"\t\n\t\tclass=\"wsu-button  wsu-button--size-small\">\n\t\t\t\n\t\tView the Report (PDF)\t\t\t<\/a>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new high-level report celebrating Washington State University&#8217;s impact over the past year highlighted the Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine and WSU Health, the university&#8217;s new academic health network. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25158,"featured_media":30369,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_wsuwp_accessibility_report":null},"categories":[5],"tags":[36,82],"wsuwp_university_location":[],"wsuwp_university_org":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicine.wsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36741"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicine.wsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicine.wsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.wsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25158"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.wsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36741"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.wsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36743,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.wsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36741\/revisions\/36743"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.wsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicine.wsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.wsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.wsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36741"},{"taxonomy":"wsuwp_university_location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.wsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wsuwp_university_location?post=36741"},{"taxonomy":"wsuwp_university_org","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.wsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wsuwp_university_org?post=36741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}