Welcome and thank you for visiting the website of the OCOM Student Research Conference, now in its third year. If you have attended a previous year, you know it was an exciting and enlightening summer evening, including a delicious dinner! As listed below, previous topics ranged from QiGong, a Practice Based Research Network called qiPartner, and many things in between.
This year’s conference will take place on July 28th from 5:30-8:00pm. Students in their final year at OCOM will be giving talks (and receiving prizes) on their year-long research projects. As usual attendance to the conference is free and open to all OCOM students, staff and faculty as well as community members. We hope to see you there!
“QiPARTNER: Asian Medicine Practice Based Research Network” by Brehan Crawford, Angela Freeman, Pauli Iida, Sunny Jaynes, Brett Running, Sita Simonette, Amy Stell, and Stephanie Worth
“Group Acupuncture Clinics for Veterans: How do you build it so they will come?” by Mateo Bernal, Alitia Danciu, Miranda Frear, Emily Head, Emma Lee, Jennifer Nery, Andrea Sodaro, Kristin Swann, and Corinne Wolcott
“Acupuncture, Chinese Herbs, Autoimmune Disease and Inflammation” by Ali Loercher
“The Treatment of Adolescent Depression with Traditional Chinse Medicine” by Molly Fitzpatrick
“Does the Use of Qigong Increase the Efficacy of the Healing Process?: A Pilot Study” by Rik Ehmann
“Chinese Medicine in Amalgam Illness and Mercury Toxicity” by Shelby VanCleve
“Early Phase Feasibility Study of Group Acupuncture for Veterans with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder” by Diane Behall, Amy Chitwood, Beth Howeltt and Lindsay Matthews
“qiPARTNER: The Development of an Oriental Meidicine Paractice Based Research Network” by Lexi-Burwell-Means, Cynthia Hoff, Nedda Jastremsky, Scott Phelps, Andrew Schlabach, Sally Swan, Dixie Young, and Tanya Zhu
Deborah Ackerman, PhD hired as OCOM Associate Dean of Research
Deborah Ackerman, PhD has accepted the position of Associate Dean of Research at Oregon College of Oriental Medicine (OCOM). Ackerman was one of three finalist candidates who met with a selection committee on campus in early October. OCOM’s previous Dean of Research, Dr. Richard Hammerschlag, retired in September after 10 years with the college.
After evaluating all the feedback received from OCOM faculty, students, trustees and staff, the search committee felt that Dr. Ackerman was an excellent fit for the position based on her long history of successful grant making, familiarity with CAM outcomes assessment research, and direct experience with Oriental medicine through her recent work with Emperor's College of Traditional Oriental Medicine in Santa Monica.
As an adjunct professor in the Department of Epidemiology, UCLA School of Public Health, Ackerman has taught and mentored graduate students and research fellows, made presentations at national meetings, and consulted on legal cases relevant to public health.
Her research has focused on evaluating treatment outcomes, with an emphasis on complementary and alternative approaches. As lead investigator on grants, she has been responsible for everything from developing the research idea, identifying funding agencies; assembling a team of collaborators; writing the grant applications, interim, and final reports; initiating press releases and answering questions from the media.
Dr. Ackerman currently serves as Director of the Health Outcomes Core of the UCLA Center for Neurobiology of Stress. She is also the Director of Patient-Reported Outcomes from Complementary, Alternative, and Integrative Medicine (PROCAIM), a web-based data collection and information system that uses standardized questionnaires to evaluate treatment utilization and assess changes over time in symptom severity, mood, stress and coping skills, and quality of life.
Dr. Ackerman is committed to training practitioners so that they may conduct research and contribute to the evidence base that will inform the public and medical community.
Research Scholars Program Paper Accepted
Paper written by Richard Hammerschlag, Kathie Lasater, Sonya Salanti and Sue Fleishman accepted for publication in the Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine. This paper details the implementation of the Research Scholars Program at OCOM, an initiative of the APREE grant, funded by NIH/NCCAM.
