• China Externship Announced for 2023

    Oregon College of Oriental Medicine (OCOM) is pleased to announce the return of the annual China Trip in September 2023!

    OCOM alumni, DAOM students,

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  • Practical Dermatology with Chinese Medicine series comes to OCOM

    Dr. Mazin Al-Khafaji brings his postgraduate TCM diploma course series,Practical Dermatology with Chinese Medicine, to the OCOM campus beginning May 6,

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  • Alumni Profile - Christina Bjergo

    Working alongside her mother in an integrative mind-body-spirit practice, Christina Bjergo, MAcOM 2005, LAc, combines

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  • Alumni Profile - Victor Kumar

    OCOM spoke with Victor Kumar, MAcOM 2003, LAc, as he prepared to begin a PhD program in Anthropology at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore,

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  • Alumni Profile - Fujio McPherson

    Asked why he makes research a priority in his career, LTC (Ret) Fujio McPherson, DAOM 2010, MSN, ARNP, LAc, responds that he wants “to show

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  • Alumni Profile - Stephen Saeks

    OCOM's conversation with Cincinnati native, Stephen Saeks, MAcOM 2003, PhD, LAc, touched on the “miracle liquid” that stirred his curiosity in

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  • Alumni Profile - Steve Spader and Jen DeMaio

     Steve Spader, MAcOM 2000, LAc, and Jen DeMaio, MAcOM

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  • Alumni Profile - In Yu

    In Yu, MAcOM 2007, DAOM 2010, LAc has one of the most brilliantly infectious smiles. During her childhood near Seoul, Korea, Yu’s mother always sought

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  • Alumni Profile - Chi Wilburn

    Chi Wilburn, MAcOM 2009, recently returned from Bali, where she studied and practiced Shonishin (Japanese pediatric acupuncture) under Soma

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  • Alumni Profile - Sara O'Byrne

    Dr. Sara O’Byrne is a 2012 MAcOM and 2014 DAOM graduate. She serves as the Chinese Medicine Instructor for Naturopaths Without Borders (NWB), a

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  • Alumni Profile - Megan Yarberry

    A conversation earlier this year with Megan Yarberry, MAcOM 1998, LAc, underscored the need for acupuncture in underserved regions of the

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  • Alumni Profile - Gidon Levenbach

    Gidon Levenbach, MAcOM 2007, LAc is a man on the move. Since graduating, he spends half the year traveling and working in the U.S., and the other half

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  • Alumni Profile - Mateo Bernal

    Mateo Bernal, MAcOM 2009, developed his international focus long before studying at OCOM. As a policy advocate in the Mexican states of

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  • Alumni Profile - Diana Hermann

    Diana Hermann is a 1999 graduate of OCOM's MAcOM program. In her Fort Collins, Colorado specialty clinic, she treats dermatological

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  • Alumni Profile - Peter Borten

    Peter Borten (DAOM 2009 and MAcOM 2000), LAc, has “always been a mad scientist type.” Looking around the waiting room at northwest

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  • Alumni Profile - Doug Beal

    As a nurse practitioner and staff member at Kaiser Permanente since 1994, and a practitioner of acupuncture and Chinese medicine since graduating from OCOM in

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  • Alumni Profile - Laura Varga

    Dr. Laura Varga, MAcOM 2010, DAOM 2012, works at The Duke Center for Integrative Medicine, where she practices and educates peers and patients

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  • Alumni Profile - Christine Knight

    Each student has a different story about what brought them to study acupuncture and Chinese medicine. For Christine Knight, MAcOM, LAc

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  • Alumni Profile - Amit Singh

    Amit Singh, MAcOM, LAc is a 2004 graduate of OCOM. Originally from Punjab, India -- “Good food, free spirit; that is the

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  • Alumni Profiles

    Our alumni are working in...

     

    Private Practice


    Amit Singh, MAcOM 2004, runs a thriving private practice in

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