AOM Day – Panelists
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Joseph J. Coletto, ND, LAcCurrently, he holds several positions at the Oregon College of Oriental Medicine. He is a full time faculty member who teaches Western Medical Terminology, Living Anatomy, Point Location, and Western Clinical Diagnosis in the master’s program. In the doctoral program, he teaches Professional Development. As an administrator, he is Chair of the Biomedicine Department, Faculty Development Coordinator, and Secretary of the Faculty Senate. He is also in private practice as a naturopathic physician and acupuncturist.
Miles Hassell is an internist in private practice at St. Vincent Medical Center in Portland. He received his medical degree from the University of Western Australia and completed his residency in Internal Medicine at Providence St. Vincent Medical Center in Portland. He is board certified in Internal Medicine.
In addition to private practice, he is the Director of Integrative Medicine at Providence Cancer Center, and a clinical instructor for the training of internal medicine residents. He is also the principal investigator in a trial using nutritional interventions to reduce side effects of conventional cancer therapies.
Miles’ practice incorporates both traditional and evidence-based alternative medical approaches. He pursues aggressive risk factor management for heart disease, stroke, type 2 diabetes, and dementia, and offers dietary counsel using a whole food Mediterranean diet model.
He is the co-author of Good Food, Great Medicine, an evidencebased guide to using diet and lifestyle for optimal health which includes a comprehensive plan for treating and preventing heart disease.
He is frequently invited to give lectures to physician groups regarding appropriate use of nutritional medicine. Miles lives in Portland with his wife Anna and son Tor.
Lyn Jacobs, MD
Lyn has been a family physician since 1998. She moved to Oregon as a National Health Service Corps Scholar and began working for Virginia Garcia Memorial Health Center where she remains today. She is deeply committed to providing quality health care to the under served and has helped bring over 1300 babies into this world.
Over the last 10 years she has worked to transform her allopathic (traditional western medicine) degree into a holistic practice of medicine. She has worked in concert with her colleagues to bring integrative practices focusing on nutrition and functional medicine to the community clinic.
Lyn and her husband Juvencio created “La Finquita del Buho” CSA farm in Helvetia in the year 2000. They have grown from 7 founding members to over 90 member families and provide weekly organic vegetables to over 300 people from their 2 acre farm. They raise grass fed beef and lamb, pork, and have a herd of over 20 goats. They offer fresh cut flowers and free range eggs to their customers as well. They plan several community wide events from canning parties to La Finquita’s annual Harvest Celebration each year. She also sells cut flower bouquets, plant starts, and hand crafted wreaths at the Beaverton Farmers Market.
Lyn is the proud mother of 3 children ages 10, 14, and 17 and can be heard on the soccer or lacrosse field shouting in support of one of her stars.
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Tsueyhwa works at OCOM as a Doctoral Clinical and Instructional Coordinator since 2003. Her tasks at OCOM include curriculum planning, translating course materials and lectures for Chinese-speaking visiting scholars, teaching Chinese Language and Culture, Chinese Nutrition, Classical Medical Chinese, and conducting clinical supervision. Her most recent published article was “GaoZi Medicinal Syrups in Chinese Medicine” in the Journal of Chinese Medicine in 2010. She is currently enrolled in Human Investigation Program at Oregon Health Science University.