The Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation has won the Oklahoma Psychological Association’s 2004 Psychologically Healthy Workplace Award. OMRF was selected from among numerous applicants statewide to receive this annual award, which the Oklahoma Psychological Association presents to the organization that best works “to make their employees’ environment a healthy one.”“At OMRF, we have won many research prizes over the years,” said OMRF President J. Donald Capra, M.D. “But this award is particularly special, because it tells us that we are taking care of the people who are responsible for our many successes. Our entire staff, and especially our Human Resources Department, deserves the credit for earning this award.”
Chartered in 1946, OMRF (www.omrf.org) is a nonprofit biomedical research institute dedicated to understanding and curing human disease. Its scientist focus on such critical research areas as Alzheimer’s disease, cancer, lupus and cardiovascular disease. OMRF is home to Oklahoma’s only member of the national Academy of Sciences.
Since 1998, OMRF’s workforce has nearly doubled in size, growing to over 600 employees. “We have worked very hard to ensure that OMRF does not suffer the growing pains that plague many organizations undergoing similar expansions,” said Capra. “OMRF is proud to be a place that many Oklahomans – from our scientists to the people who clean the test tubes – call home for their entire employment lives.
