Kathryn Stroppel

Strategic communicator

Corvallis, Oregon

I believe in the power of words and a story well told. I bring my communications expertise to bear on my work and the things I love. These days, that's higher education, health, exploring the outdoors, disability awareness and wine.

Kathryn Stroppel

Strategic communicator

Corvallis, Oregon

Racism: What it is, how it affects us and why it’s everyone’s job to do something about it
Racism is a system of structuring opportunity and assigning value based on the social interpretation of how one looks, which is what we call race, that unfairly disadvantages some individuals and communities, unfairly advantages other individuals and communities and saps the strength of the whole society through the waste of human resources.
Synergies
racism lecture OSU
Oregon’s homeless crisis gets an Oregon State response
Faculty, staff, students and alumni in the College of Health respond to the needs of Benton County's unhoused.
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unhoused faculty students alumni community agencies OSU
A Degree of Difference
Profiles of outstanding NYIT College of Osteopathic Medicine alumni
NYIT Magazine
alumni technology New York freelance
PHHS alumnae work to improve health, diversity
At the same time 11-year-old Charlene McGee and her family left their homeland of Liberia in the midst of a civil war, 8-year-old Olivia Quiroz left Mexico City with hers. When they arrived at Oregon State University in the early 2000s, they felt the void left by far-flung family and community.
OSU | Synergies
diversity alumni public health OSU
For the greater good: College welcomes new dean
F. Javier Nieto, MD, PhD, MPH, MHS, a leading epidemiologist and population health expert, brings more than 30 years of expertise and passion for public health to the CPHHS, which became Oregon’s first nationally accredited college of public health in 2014.
OSU | Synergies | Oregon Stater
dean leadership OSU
OMT challenges at the heart of a profession
Why aren’t larger numbers of osteopathic physicians using osteopathic manipulative treatment? Are osteopathic educators doing enough to educate students in OMT so that they use it in their practice? So that patients understand its value? Is there enough research to support its continuation in the world of evidence-based medicine? What is the profession without it?
A.T. Still University | Still Magazine
OMT medical school osteopathic physicians Missouri AT Still University
What is a D.O.?
In this award winning video, ATSU doctors and students answer "What is a D.O.?"
YouTube
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Be still my beating heart
It can happen when you're scared. Or after that second or third cup of coffee. Some people even say it happens when you're in love. It's that fluttery flip-flop in your chest known as heart palpitations. When should you worry?
University of Missouri Healthcare
university health care heart hospital Missouri MU
BJC HealthCare leverages power of community to tell its story, improve healthcare
Tapping into constituents in the community, locally and around the world, to leverage a mass assembly for solutions, ideas and inspiration, is the cornerstone of the health system's new brand strategy and positioning statement: ''BJc. The world's best medicine. Made better.
eHealthcare Strategy & Trends
hospital health care communication story freelance
Sedalia boy makes medical history in mid-Missouri
Twelve-year-old Colin Freeman has played on baseball teams since grade school, which was good practice for the activity that surrounded him last May when he became part of the most important team of his life. The team gathered not on a baseball diamond but in an operating room at the University of Missouri Health Sciences Center, where pediatric neurosurgeon Dr. David Jimenez prepared to remove a cherry-sized tumor from Freeman's brain - while Freeman was awake.
University of Missouri Healthcare
university health care heart surgery hospital Missouri
Mini medical school for adults provides comunity outreach
Bryn Mawr Hospital, a Main Line Health system facility, offered its community a behind-the-scenes look into its everyday operations. The result was a better informed community and new advocates for the hospital.
Strategic Health Care Marketing
hospital mini medical school freelance
Coping with secondary infertility
More than 1.4 million couples each year experience secondary infertility, the inability to achieve a pregnancy despite having experienced one in the past. The causes of secondary infertility can range from ovulatory disorders to male reproduction problems to diseases such as endometriosis.
University of Missouri Healthcare
infertility health care Missouri university MU
It’s a beautiful life, built by a hardworking Beaver
By Kathryn Stroppel It’s June 1954. Poodle skirts and cat-eye glasses are all the rage, and Elvis Presley is about to begin his singing career with Sun Records. It’s the early years of the atomic age and Cold War, and the country is experiencing a cultura
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About

Kathryn Stroppel

Executive communications

Getting to the heart of it

Cutting to the chase

Strategic communication

Branding

Editing

Writing

Marketing

Publications

Speechwriting

Effective presentations

Event planning

Leadership

Change management

Higher education

Health care

I'm a former journalist and an award-winning health communications professional with deep experience in pr, executive communications, marketing, branding, writing/editing, leadership, managing change, speechwriting, strategic communication, events and more. I'm currently the director of marketing and communications for Oregon State University's College of Health.

My experience ranges from newspapers, to associations, to hospitals and health systems, and to higher education.

I'm adaptable, able to communicate complex concepts and can translate higher ed and health care jargon. I bring flexibility, creativity and enthusiasm to every job and enjoy helping my team grow professionally.

In my spare time, I love exploring Oregon and the Pacific Northwest, especially the coast and wine country. I also like hiking and camping with my husband, son and daughter.

My son, who has epilepsy, is on the autism spectrum and has given me new insights into health care and parenting. Being on the other side of the health care experience, from diagnosis to navigating the health care system and living with a chronic condition, has been the most challenging experience of my life. Through it, our family has developed superpowers of love, acceptance, optimism, gratitude and taking one day at a time.

Personally and professionally, I put heart and passion into everything I do, work hard and keep learning.

Kathryn Stroppel

OMT challenges at the heart of a profession

About

Kathryn Stroppel