1 year ago
Former LUCOM graduate and current faculty member, Travis Engel, DO, MSc, was named the National Faculty Chair of Pediatrics for The National Board of Osteopathic Medical Examiners (NBOME) on Jan. 6. Engel was an inaugural graduate of LUCOM in 2018 and now serves as pediatric clinical faculty member and Chair...
2 years ago
On Friday November 8, the Liberty University College of Osteopathic Medicine (LUCOM) Medical Library hosted its 10th annual Medical Bioethics Symposium with invited guest speaker, Warren Kinghorn, M.D., Th.D., to speak on Moral Injury in Healthcare Professionals. Kinghorn currently serves as an Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Duke University Medical Center....
2 years ago
A pair of OMS-III students, Tiffany Cho and Sima Michele-Sohi Lilly earned the Excellence in Research Award at the American College of Surgeons (ACS) Meetings in late October. The award came from their presentation Elucidating a Key Mechanism of Perioperative and Postoperative Ileus: Microvascular Serum Leak-activation of the Cyclooxygenase Pathway...
2 years ago
A group of 162 student-doctors donned the symbol of their status as medical students and future physicians — the white coat — in the 11th annual White Coat Ceremony for the Liberty University College of Osteopathic Medicine (LUCOM), held over the weekend in the Center for Music and the Worship...
2 years ago
Earlier this year Timothy Hodge, Director of the Center for Standardized Patients and Simulation, graduated with a PhD of Philosophy in Instructional Design and Technology from Liberty University. Prior to his graduation date he was granted a prestigious honor from the School of Education – the Outstanding Quantitative Dissertation Award....
2 years ago
Rising seniors from across the Commonwealth and surrounding states attended Liberty University College of Osteopathic Medicine’s Inaugural Summer Medical Academy on June 3, 2024. The free six-and-a-half-hour program featured four stations: Clinical Experiences, Hands-On OMT, Cadaver Lab/Anatomy and Emergency Medicine. In Clinical Experiences the students learned and practiced suturing and...
2 years ago
Along with other faculty members, Charles Joseph, MD headed a group of students to create a pilot study for Identifying delay in glymphatic clearance of labeled protons post-acute head trauma utilizing 3D ASL MRI (arterial spin labeling). “This was a combined effort of Sports Medicine faculty and my research group of...
2 years ago
The Liberty University College of Osteopathic Medicine Class of 2024’s hard work for four years was celebrated last week during Liberty University’s 2024 Commencement Week that featured a Graduation Gala, Military Commissioning Ceremony and a Hooding Ceremony. The week began on Wednesday evening with the Graduation Gala, where students gathered...
2 years ago
LUCOM Marketing Liberty University College of Osteopathic Medicine (LUCOM) OMS-II student, Davis Melin, earned first place on his poster presentation at the 2024 Mayo Clinic Wound Care Symposium in early March. His poster, titled Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine and Wound Care: Physiology, Principles, and Application of Manual Lymphatic Techniques to Promote...
2 years ago
Byline: LUCOM Marketing Alongside all medical schools nationally, Liberty University College of Osteopathic Medicine (LUCOM) celebrated its fourth-year student-doctor class inside the Montview Ballroom on the campus of Liberty University on Friday, March 15, during the annual Match Day that saw LUCOM achieve a 100 percent match in 2024. It...
