Message from the Interim Dean
Paula M. Crone, D.O.
COMP-Northwest will continue the traditions started by COMP in 1977. We will train physicians for our future that will be capable of marshalling in a new era of medicine. Our students will become the health care leaders of tomorrow, utilizing the knowledge and technology available today to practice from the Pacific Northwest to all corners of the globe with purpose, passion and skill.
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About the College
COMP-Northwest is the second medical school campus of the College of Osteopathic Medicine of the Pacific (COMP), which is the medical school of WesternU. COMP-NW operates from a 55,000-square-foot Medical Education and Research Building. More...
Giving to COMP-Northwest
For information about how to support the College of Osteopathic Medicine of the Pacific-Northwest, please contact COMP-Northwest's Associate Director of Development Patti Daskalos (541) 259-0362 or email: pdaskalos@westernu.edu.
Willed Body Donation Program
Oregon Campus
More and more people are making arrangements to donate their bodies each year to medical education after death. The gift this offers to humankind is immeasurable and is deemed “priceless” to our future doctors and researchers who through the hands-on experience gain knowledge that cannot be acquired by any other means.
For more information please contact Steven H. Carmichael, Director, Willed Body Donation Program (541) 259-0256 or email: scarmichael@westernu.edu.
Welcome Week Video
COMP-Northwest News
Crone named business leader of year
The Lebanon of Commerce honored businesses and named Dr. Paula Crone as business leader of the year at the annual Distinguished Service Awards on March 12.
“About five years ago, a quiet comet hit down in the form of a gracious lady who had dreamed of being a ‘Marcus Welby’ kind of doctor,” said Rick Petersen of Crone, dean of Western University of Health Sciences. “She brought Lebanon a new dream.”...
REACH Air Medical Services gives medical students close-up look at airborne medicine
Students took turns asking questions of the REACH staff and looking at the cramped interior of the helicopter. The goal was to give them a glimpse at the work environmental of other medical providers...
COMP-Northwest welcomes second class
Oregon's newest medical students are embarking on a path that will one day lead them to becoming integral parts of their patients' daily lives, said the keynote speakers at the College of Osteopathic Medicine of the Pacific-Northwest's (COMP-Northwest) second annual Convocation and white coat ceremony...
New class begins their journey in medicine
First year students at the College of Osteopathic Medicine of the Pacific-Northwest received their white coats, symbolic of their commitment to medicine, on Aug. 4.During the ceremony, which included the convocation and official start of the academic year, many offered advice and words of encouragement for the future doctors...
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Events
Week of Feb 4-8
Expanding the Osteopathic
Concept Week
The Expanding the Osteopathic Concept/Osteopathy in the Cranial Field (EOC/OCF) course at COMP educates second year osteopathic medical students in the application of osteopathic principles to patients with health related problems in the cranial region
Sat, Feb 9
Lebanon Health Career Ladder
Lebanon area sixth-graders study microbiology
Sat, March 16
Lebanon Health Career Ladder
Lebanon area sixth-graders study physical fitness and sports injuries
Tues, March 19
Business after Hours
COMP-NW hosts the Albany Chamber of Commerce’s Business After Hours
Tues, April 16
Mini-Medical School
Lebanon area kindergarteners visit the campus and learn about healthcare
Sat, April 27
Lebanon Health Career Ladder
Lebanon area sixth-graders study cardiovascular health
Sat, May 18
Lebanon Health Career Ladder
Lebanon area sixth-graders cover the topic-Growing your brain and mental health
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