SOAR mobile MRI ribbon cutting ceremony | Ohio State Medical Center

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[Text on screen: SOAR mobile MRI ribbon cutting ceremony
Holzer
SOAR State of Ohio Adversity and Resilience
The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center
Ohio University

Lori Cremeans: Thank you all for joining us today to celebrate this very important milestone for the State of Ohio Adversity and Resilience program, otherwise known as the SOAR study...

[Text on screen: Lori Cremeans
Vice President - Hospital Operations
Holzer Medical Center - Jackson]

Lori Cremeans: with the opening of the Mobile MRI unit here in Jackson, Ohio.

[Text on screen: Aimee Shadwick
Director of RecoveryOhio]

Aimee Shadwick: In Ohio, we are here to take decisive action. That's why we've committed $20 million through the Ohio Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services to the SOAR study. A groundbreaking effort to dig deep into the roots of mental health issues.

[Text on screen: Dr. Andy Thomas
Chief Clinical Officer
The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center]

Andy Thomas, MD: Our goal across the state of Ohio is to figure out what are those factors that we can do that will really prevent mental illness and ensure resilience in our populations? SOAR is across all 88 counties of the state with two key projects. First is to do a survey of up to 15,000 Ohioans, looking at not just what are the causes of mental illness, but looking at what are the things that help some people become resilient.

[Text on screen: Dr. Tracy Shaub
Dean of the Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine
Ohio University Athens Campus]

Tracy Shaub, DO: Through the power of partnerships, collectively, we can better understand the factors that influence and affect mental illness that will have an impact on all Ohioans for generations to come. 

[Text on screen: The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center in collaboration with:
Bowling Green State University
Case Western Reserve University/University Hospitals-Cleveland
Central State University
Kent State University
Nationwide Children's Hospital
NE Ohio Medical University
Ohio University
The Ohio State University
University of Cincinnati/Cincinnati Children's Hospital
University of Toledo
Wright State University]

Tracy Shaub, DO: We can do more together to help Ohioans lead healthier lives than we can do in isolation.

[Text on screen: Dr. Scott Langenecker
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health
The Ohio State University College of Medicine]

Scott Langenecker, PhD: In addition to that study, we also have the Brain Health Study, which marshals the technologies that we have to understand how the individual moves towards risk or maybe moves towards resilience. So we're standing in the shadow of the state-of-the-art MRI trailer. We're trying to understand how individual people, the brains of folks, respond to stressors. We try to understand how their immune system responds to stressors. We look at how blood flow in the brain changes in reaction to response to losses and to successes, and all of that is the pieces that we can use to put together to learn things that we don't know yet about how to build and move towards resilience.

[Text on screen: Melissa Plummer
Certified Drug Counselor
Patient Story]

Melissa Plummer: The long-term research that is happening with the SOAR study will help future generations. We didn't discuss mental health or substance use disorders when I was growing up. Studies like this can change all of that.

Scott Langenecker, PhD: So our hope is that all this work over the course of multiple years will accelerate the pace to strengthen, develop, tailor, and implement new discoveries for building resilience in Southeast Ohio, Ohio, and ultimately the globe.

[Text on screen: The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center
For more information, visit:
wexnermedical.osu.edu/soarstudies]

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