Stepping Up! Career and Resources Fair
Sept. 23, 2 to 4 p.m. NCNM's Mitchell Hall, Room 310. An outstanding opportunity for students, recent graduates and alumni to learn about current job openings, meet potential employers, and discover resources for clinical business and entrepreneurial ventures.
Free for students and alumni.
More CE Event info
Staff Association Presents: Working in a Changing Environment
Cascade Centers EAP speaker
Sept. 23, 10-11 a.m., Room 302 Academic Building. Class room capacity 55. Speaker will start promptly at 10 a.m., don't be late!
Diet & Optimum Health
Sept. 9-12, Oregon State University, Corvallis. Emphasis on dietary and lifestyle approaches to improving human health and preventing or treating disease, including dietary supplements, micronutrients and antioxidants.
More info
Chronic Infectious Diseases, Integrative Therapies Institute Conference
Sept. 18 and 19, Heathman Lodge, Vancouver, Washington. Discounts for students and faculty.
Registration and info
Seeking Health Educational Institute Conference
Oct. 15-18, Denver, CO. Focus on mitochondria and cell membrane function, dysfunction, connections to pathologies, identification and restoration.
More info
Society for Acupuncture Research Conference
in Boston, Nov. 12-14; early-bird registration ends Aug. 31. "Reaching Across Disciplines to Broaden the Acupuncture Research Network."
Info, registration.
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Welcome New Students, Staff and Faculty!
FRESH START - The halls of the Academic Building will soon be bustling again as Fall Term begins Sept. 14.
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Also, welcome back to all those who were traveling or taking a break this summer. We'll soon have an explosion of activity, including our traditional Clap In greeting to new students and Convocation gathering on Sept. 11. Chuck Eggert, CEO of Pacific Foods, is this year's Convocation speaker.
All are invited to gather outside Radelet Hall (on SW Kelly Ave.) for Clap In at 1:15 p.m. Clapping and drumming begins at 1:20 p.m. Convocation immediately follows in Radelet Hall from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. The grand finale is an all-campus Welcome Back Party from 3:30 to 6 p.m. in the Academic Building parking lot.
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Bike Commute Challenge: Love the feel of the wind through your hair and the sun/rain on your face? Want to build muscle, strengthen your immune system and reduce stress? The Bicycle Transportation Alliance's Bike Commute Challenge goes on throughout the month of September, with over 4,000 Oregon businesses participating. Join the NCNM team by registering on the
BTA's website. Walking to work counts too, even if it's only a few blocks! If you sign up, be sure to sign up under "National College of Natural Medicine" rather than as "NCNM." That's the official team roster.
Have you played Guess the Pet yet?
There is still time to enter the Staff Association contest to match pets with their human friends. Voting continues until Sept. 15, with winners to be announced Sept. 18. All staff and faculty are eligible,
take a look here.
Return of the Food Carts, Coffee on the Way: Sure, you can always walk to the Ross Island Grocery/Deli or the Lair Hill Café, but on-campus food returns on Sept. 11 with the Thrive PacificNW food cart pulling in to the Academic Building's west parking lot (near Naito Parkway). Thrive features yummy Kashmiri, Thai, Mexican and South American fare.
See the full list of confirmed food cart visits. Also,
beginning Oct. 5, a Refuel Coffee truck will set up in the west Academic Building parking lot from 7:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., Monday through Friday. Yes!
Virtual Bookstore: One can still visit the
NCNM Store in person, but all book ordering, including textbooks,
is now online. What will you see when you walk in to the store on the ground floor of the Academic Building? Changes are still underway, but the store will still stock snacks and drinks.
 Library Upgrades: Little elves have been at work in the library over the summer. New chairs have magically appeared at study tables and new white boards in study rooms. Comfy new window seat study nooks should also be ready for the new term. In addition, the library has added over 2,000 new electronic journals accessible through PubMed and
the library catalog, and several new e-books including "The Complete Stems and Branches" and "Cardiology Secrets."
 Tilikum Crossing Opening: Bicyclists, walkers and train riders rejoice!
The MAX Orange Line to Milwaukie and the new Tilikum Crossing bridge opens Sept. 12. The no-cars bridge will carry train, pedestrian and bicycle traffic, and ends about a quarter mile south of the NCNM campus. In addition, the first stop on the West Side is at SW Lincoln and SW Third, relatively near the NCNM campus and quite close to the School of Research & Graduate Studies and Helfgott Research Institute.
Map and schedule here.
In other mass transit news:
TriMet says many bus lines will see changes, including frequency upgrades, Sept. 13. We will lose the number 9 Powell and number 17 Holgate stops on Naito as they will take the new Tilikum bridge instead of crossing the Ross Island Bridge.
However, line 19 will continue to serve the Ross Island Bridge on the west side of the river. We're also happy to report that the line 19 on weekends will have earlier service from SE Portland than it currently does.
Go to the Trimet website
for the latest or download the mobile app.
Summer Shuffle: As one campus wag put it, "It's summer, so we must be moving! You will now find administrative staff and Institute docs in the following locations:
- Tafflyn Williams-Thomas and Bill Tribe have moved to the Academic Building Room 210. Susan Hunter, Sasha Steiner, Danielle Engles, Denise Dallmann, Jerry Bores, David Schleich and Colleen Corder are in Suite 300, Administration Building.
- Also in the Administration Building, Sara Nañez is in 250 Mezzanine, Melanie Henriksen is in the former Provost Conference Room, and some faculty have moved within Suite 250.
- Cheryl Miller, Kathy Stanford and Sandra Brydson are located in Suite 200 and Catherine Downey and Colleen Doherty are now in Student Life.
- Several folks also moved over to Spaulding House, including Orna Izakson, Courtney Jackson and Julie Briley along with Geezer Gallery staffers Stephen Graham and Amy Henderson. Thanks Dave McAllister and company!
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Happy trails to Associate Dean for Classical Chinese Medicine
Anne Foley, who has decided to return to retirement to pursue her interests in herbal medicine, qigong and pottery.
Denise Dallmann, ND ('03),
director of curriculum and faculty development, has agreed to assume the role of interim associate dean of Classical Chinese Medicine. Also, sad to hear longtime employee Matt Burns, ND faculty support administrative coordinator, is hitting the road as is
Kate Frothingham, student life administrative assistant. Both have plans to pursue education and counseling, with Matt teaching fourth grade this fall at Michael Waldorf School. And,
Astrid Harmon, Advancement's project assistant/event coordinator, has taken a job at OHSU
. Bon voyage!
Joining NCNM are
Jenny Kim, evening and weekend library supervisor; Helfgott Research Institute adjunct faculty members
Jessica Montgomery, Ian Rubin and
Krista Barlow. The School of Naturopathic Medicine welcomes
Elizabeth "Liz" Davidson, ND ('12), and
Richard Lok, ND ('09), as adjunct faculty. Best of luck, all!
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Samara Stevens
The first year of medical school is tough enough for most people, but ND and MScN student Samara Stevens had an additional challenge: training for and participating in the most rigorous triathlon around-the Ironman.
Yes, Samara signed on for a competition in Whistler, British Columbia involving 2.4 miles of swimming 112 miles of bicycling and 26.2 miles of running, all of which must be completed within 17 hours. During roughly the same time period, she began her concurrent degree studies. A little overambitious you say? Wouldn't one commitment naturally interfere with the other? "There is no doubt that pairing an Ironman with medical school raised some questions," she said. Like how to get enough sleep, eat right and still give her full effort to her lifelong dream of becoming a doctor.
However, she said, the nutritional support and time management required for the tough physical training averaging 12 hours a week actually helped lower her worries about academics. "I was always someone that had to get A's," she explained, "but the Ironman training meant I couldn't obsess." She passed all of her classes and earned honors in some.
Samara has been interested in medicine since she was six-years-old when she witnessed paramedics working on an injured person at Lane Community College in Eugene. She first got interested in triathlons as the yearbook editor at Oregon State University while studying for her nutrition degree. The avid swimmer and former lifeguard needed to fill some space in the yearbook and discovered there was a triathlon club at OSU. Intrigued, she volunteered at a race and then competed for the first time in 2014. "I was absolutely sold then," she recalled, "I did five or six more races that year."
She first set her sights on medical school at OHSU, but a friend encouraged her to look into NCNM. "I was blown away to find a program that emphasized all the things I wanted to do." She applied and waited. In the meantime, people kept asking her what she would do if she didn't get into med school. After a while, she answered "I'm going to train for an Ironman," and then decided to actually sign up for one. Two weeks later, she was accepted at NCNM.
 Not one to shrink from a challenge, she went full bore into both. With several thousand people cheering the 2,000 competitors, she finished the race in 13 hours 55 minutes, good for 7th in her age group. Samara will enter her second year at NCNM this fall and is as passionate as ever about medicine. But another Ironman?
"I'm not sure I want to put that much energy into it again," she said, "but there is an Ironman in Cozumel in 2016."
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