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

OCOM alumni, DAOM students,

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Our alumni are working in...

Private Practice

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