Skip to main content

Gary L. Slick, DO

Emeritus Professor of Medicine

Oklahoma State University


Dr. Gary L. Slick is a nephrologist, internist and emeritus professor of Medicine at the Oklahoma State University (OSU) College of Osteopathic Medicine. He is a graduate of the Kansas City University College of Osteopathic Medicine and completed an internal medicine residency at the OSU Medical Center and nephrology fellowship at the University of Iowa Hospitals.

After serving as attending physician and program director of the Internal Medicine residency at the Detroit Osteopathic Hospital, he was appointed Chair of the Department of Internal Medicine and Program Director of Internal Medicine at the Chicago College of Osteopathic Medicine for 21 years. He then served as the Vice-President for Academic Affairs at the OSU-Center for Health Sciences and later as the Designated Institutional Official and Chief Academic Officer for Graduate Medical Education at the OSU-Center for Health Sciences and the Oklahoma OPTI until 2022.

His former positions have included chair and executive director of the American Osteopathic Board of Internal Medicine and president of the American College of Osteopathic Internists.

Dr. Gary L. Slick, discloses that he has no relevant financial relationships with any organization producing, marketing, reselling, or distributing health care goods or services consumed by, or used on, patients relative to the content of this presentation.

Dr. Gary L. Slick can be reached at gslick@okstate.edu.