Give the Gift of Health

Looking for a special holiday gift?
The OCOM Herbal Medicinary has created a number of wonderful wellness packages to support the health of your friends and family. Packages include: Chinese Sports Medicine Kit, Chinese Emergency Kit, Chinese Relax Kit, Chinese Medicine Cook's Kit, Herbal Tea Sampler, and our very popular Chinese Chicken Soup Mix and Chinese Trail Mix.
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We encourage you to place your order early by calling the OCOM Herbal Medicinary's direct line: 503-445-0956. The medicinary will be open 9:00 AM - 7:30 PM, Monday - Friday, through December 21, reopening again on January 2. Download the order form. 

We also offer gift certificates for herbal formulas and for OCOM clinic services. With our three convenient Portland locations, OCOM's clinics offer a variety of affordable and effective wellness services for you and your loved ones, including herbal consultations ($5), intern acupuncture treatments ($25) and Chinese or Japanese massage appointments ($25). For a complete list of clinic services,  download our clinic brochure or visit our website.

Celebrating 30 Years and Ensuring 30 More

In celebration of our 30th anniversary, OCOM will honor the achievements of our faculty, alumni and community partners at our first annual Cherry Blossom Dinner and awards ceremony on Friday, April 26, 2013. As a member of the OCOM community, we hope you can be there to celebrate with us. Watch for additional details in an upcoming Bulletin.

You can ensure we celebrate another 30 years by making a tax-deductible donation to OCOM's Annual Fund by December 31. Your financial support is an investment with rewarding returns: by donating to OCOM, you help create the long-term change we know is essential for the transformation of health and health care in our region, one student and one patient at a time.

Please make your donation today online. Thank you for your support!

The State of CE: OCOM's Continuing Education Series

OCOM recently kicked-off the college's new calendar of Continuing Education classes with a number of well-attended and exciting events. Swiss physician and acupuncturist, Armin Koch, MD presented on time-based acupuncture techniques, and faculty member and AOM researcher Rosa Schnyer, DAOM, LAc led two days of lectures that included the art and process of writing acupuncture case studies and the relationship between chronic disease and the digestive process.

We've just published the 2013 CE calendar. Sign up early to reserve your seat at the best price by registering online.

2013 Weekend Specialty Clinics

OCOM's 2013 series of Weekend Specialty Clinics run through June 16 and will focus on three areas of health and wellness: women's health, pain management and mental health. These doctoral specialty clinics are led by experts in the field of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). Visiting scholars and OCOM faculty and staff supervise practitioners in our doctoral program in acupuncture and Oriental medicine (DAOM).

Weekend Specialty Clinic visits are $25 each and are held at OCOM's new campus in downtown Portland: 75 NW Couch Street. Please call in advance to schedule an appointment: 503-445-0951.

Weekend Specialty Clinics
December 16 - Menopause

Guangying Zhou, DMed (PRC), LAc - Menopause problems including issues with hot flashes, night sweats, irregular periods, sleep problems and osteoporosis

January 27 - Infertility

Lee Hullender-Rubin, DAOM, LAc - Infertility issues and IVF support

February 24 - Thyroid Conditions

Zhaoxue Lu, DMed, PhD (PRC), LAc - Thyroid and metabolic disorders. Conditions include hypoglycemia, obesity, lipid disorders metabolic syndrome

March 24 - Autoimmune Conditions

Stuart Shipe, DAOM, MS, RPh, RH (AHG), LAc - Rheumatoid arthritis, Lupus, Sjogren's, MS, Hashimotos, Lyme's disease, scleroderma, Crohn's disease, Celiac disease

April 21 - Master Tung's Acupuncture for Pain

Wei Chieh Young, DMed, PhD (PRC) and Henry McCann, DAOM, LAc  (See May 19 description)

May 19 - Classical Chinese Acupuncture for Pain
Wei Liu, BMed (PRC), LAc - Pain related to women's health such as menstrual migraine, dysmenorrheal, endometriosis, low back pain from pregnancy, and other pelvic pain syndrome

June 16 - Mental Health

Rosa Schnyer, DAOM, LAc - Anxiety, depression, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), bipolar, attention deficit or eating disorders