Compass Clinic

Dr. Cauthen is a family physician with over 10 years of experience in clinical medicine. On top of this foundation in clinical medicine, he has also studied healthcare policy and management at the University of California, Berkley and has spent time researching health policy and primary care practice trends at the University of California, San Francisco and in Washington DC. Dr. Cauthen has substantial public health experience as well and has worked to promote health at both the state and federal level. He served as a Lt. Commander in the US Public Health Service Corps and worked as a medical officer with the Indian Health Service in Alaska dedicated to getting high quality health services to an underserved Inuit population. Just prior to coming to Oklahoma to serve as State Epidemiologist, Dr. Cauthen worked as an Epidemic Intelligence Officer at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) where he was responsible for disease surveillance and outbreak investigations at the national and state level. While at CDC, Dr. Cauthen was stationed for two years in Puerto Rico, and worked closely with the Puerto Rico Secretary of Health on numerous health policy issues for the territory. As State Epidemiologist for Oklahoma, Dr. Cauthen contributed to the development of bioterrorism response within the state and helped develop the partnership between the Oklahoma State Health Department and Oklahoma Physicians Resource/Research Network for an early warning disease surveillance system in the state.