Congratulations Raye Reeder, M.D., M.P.H. - OSMA Newcomer of the Year Award

The Tulsa County Medical Society was honored to nominate Raye Reeder, M.D., M.P.H., for the OSMA Board Leadership 2024 Newcomer of the Year Award. The Award was established in 2020 to honor an OSMA member physician in their first five years of practice who has exemplified significant contributions and service to their school, community, or organized medicine.

Raye Reeder, M.D., M.P.H., is a family medicine physician practicing with OU Health Physicians in Tulsa. She completed her medical school and residency training at the OU-TU School of Community Medicine in Tulsa, OK, and began practicing medicine on July 1, 2020. She works to provide high-quality, comprehensive, and inclusive primary care for patients in the North Tulsa community. In addition to her clinical work, she works with and mentors medical students and residents to create well-rounded and compassionate family physicians and community advocates.

Dr. Reeder’s passion for medicine extends beyond the typical clinical and classroom setting. Fluent in Spanish, she manages a patient panel of uninsured adults with chronic diseases, as well as assists in acute visits in both English and Spanish for uninsured patients in Tulsa. She also served as a Spanish interpreter at Manos Juntas in Oklahoma City and was a counselor with the Barnabas Foundation providing care and facilitating activities for and adults with special needs every summer. As an Albert Schweitzer Fellow, Dr. Reeder designed and implemented a community service project aimed at alleviating health illiteracy and disparity through peer-to-peer mentoring at a local teen pregnancy-prevention program.

In addition to her volunteerism, Dr. Reeder has received numerous awards and honors. She has been recognized by the Oklahoma Academy of Family Physicians two times, receiving the OAFP Stephen A. Crawford Health Policy and Leadership Fellow (2021) and the Malcom E. Phelps Award (2019). From the AAFP Foundation, Dr. Reeder was selected as the AAFP Emerging Leaders Institute Scholar as one of 30 family medicine students and residents from across the country to receive mentorship from AAFP leadership and staff to create innovative and patient centered projects at their training sites. At OU-TU School of Community Medicine she was awarded the Outstanding Teacher Award and the Crimson Apple Award. 

It’s clear to see that Dr. Reeder’s contributions to medicine, her school, and the community in which she lives and works have been substantial and noteworthy. On behalf of the Tulsa County Medical Society Board of Directors, congratulations to Raye Reeder, M.D., M.P.H. for receiving the OSMA Board Leadership 2024 Newcomer of the Year Award.