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 OCOM Breaks Ground on Future Home
 | | OCOM Groundbreaking Ceremony, June 28, 2011 |
More than 150 people attended Oregon College of Oriental Medicine's public groundbreaking ceremony on June 28, launching the transformation of the historic Globe Hotel into OCOM's new Old Town Chinatown campus.
The crash of cymbals and the dancing lions of N.W. Dragon and Lion Dance Association kicked off the event, bringing ceremony emcee Portland Development Commission Chair Scott Andrews to the stage.
"Given its already considerable involvement in Old Town Chinatown, we expect OCOM to become even more of a major force in this community once their new campus is open," said Andrews. We look forward to seeing OCOM flourish, and to our continued partnership."
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Faculty Member Publishes in Leading Acupuncture Journal
 | | Forrest Cooper, OCOM Faculty |
It is no secret that Oregon College of Oriental Medicine's faculty are known as some of the most experienced and highly-educated Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) practitioners in the country. What is less known is how faculty are leading the way both in TCM and in the broader complementary medical community through their scholarship efforts.
In June, OCOM master's graduate and faculty member Forrest Cooper, LAc, who will enter OCOM's doctoral program this fall, published his first article in the June 2011 issue of Medical Acupuncture. His article, "A Chart Review from an Oriental Medicine College, Comparing Patients Who Came for Only One Visit and Those Who Came for at Least Five Visits," is the first of its kind to be published in a medical acupuncture journal.
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OCOM Celebrates with Kam Wah Chung & Museum, Co.
 | | Kam Wah Chung volunteer, June 2011 |
OCOM staff and students traveled to John Day, Oregon on June 11 to celebrate the grand opening and ribbon cutting for new exhibits at the Kam Wah Chung & Co. Museum's interpretive center.
Student researcher Kevi Keenom found herself behind the counter at the museum as one tour group moved through. Opening boxes and describing the use of the various herbs from over a century ago that we still use today, she was able to bring the medicine and OCOM's educational programming to life for a community once deeply touched by Chinese medicine. READ MORE |
