WesternU Health Oliver Station in Portland, Oregon is now offering podiatric medical services with the hiring of Craig Clifford, DPM, MHA, FACFAS, FACPM.

WesternU Health Oliver Station provides multi-specialty care in the Lents neighborhood of Portland, with a spectrum of services that include management of chronic diseases, wellness exams for all ages, Osteopathic Manipulative Treatment (OMT), and same-day urgent visits.

Dr. Clifford arrives at WesternU Health Oliver Station after working the past 15 years in Washington; most of that time spent with the Franciscan Foot and Ankle Institute in Federal Way, before joining a private practice in Silverdale, Washington a little over two years ago.

“Private practice was an opportunity to learn and hone the non-surgical skill set,” Clifford said. “In the hospital system, I didn’t have access to conservative options other than steroid injections or a referral to physical therapy, and I was encouraged to push surgery on most patients. I was missing a half dozen conservative options I should have been providing. I took the opportunity in private practice to learn that. While in private practice, I offered podiatric-focused rehabilitation and regenerative medicine options, such as platelet-rich plasma, shockwave therapy and laser therapy.”

Read the full story: Dr. Craig Clifford brings podiatric care to WesternU Health Oliver Station | WesternU News

College of Veterinary Medicine Dean John Tegzes, VMD, MA, Dipl. ABVT, once again appeared on AirTalk on LAist 89.3. The June 23, 2025 edition features Dr. Tegzes talking about pet insurance.

Click on the link below, scroll down and click on the "Listen" button underneath the headline "The state of pet insurance. Is it worth it?"

Link to AirTalk

Aquilops is ready for its closeup.

Western University of Health Sciences Professor of Anatomy Mathew Wedel, PhD, and his colleagues identified and named the cat-sized dinosaur Aquilops americanus in a paper published in 2014 (Farke AA, Maxwell WD, Cifelli RL, Wedel MJ (2014) A Ceratopsian Dinosaur from the Lower Cretaceous of Western North America, and the Biogeography of Neoceratopsia. PLoS ONE 9(12): e112055. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0112055).

Aquilops, a small, early relative of Triceratops, is prominently featured in Jurassic World Rebirth, starring Scarlett Johansson and premiering in theaters on July 2, 2025. In addition, Aquilops is featured on Dr. Pepper cans and in Funko, Mattel, and LEGO toy lines.

“Aquilops is scientifically interesting because it’s the earliest horned dinosaur in North America,” said Dr. Wedel, who is a faculty member in WesternU’s College of Osteopathic Medicine of the Pacific and College of Podiatric Medicine. “For the past 10 years, though, I’ve been wondering, ‘Where are the Aquilops toys?’ It’s a cute little ‘cat-ceratops,’ there should be toys! And now thanks to the movie, Aquilops is going from being a scientifically important but fairly obscure dinosaur to the pop culture stratosphere.”

Read the full story: WesternU professor helped name dinosaur featured in Jurassic World Rebirth | WesternU News

The WesternU Office of Humanism held a Juneteenth celebration June 24, 2025 on the WesternU California Esplanade.

Faculty, staff and students enjoyed free food and live music performed by the JazzZone.

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Thierra Nalley, PhD, and Jeremiah Scott, PhD, of COMP's Department of Medical Anatomical Sciences, along with colleagues at the Northeast Ohio Medical University, University of Arizona, and University of Chicago, published a research article on the developmental anatomy and evolutionary history of the occipital condyles in apes, humans, and our extinct relatives: N. Grider-Potter, T. K. Nalley, J. E. Scott, F. McGechie, W. H. Reda, and Z. Alemseged. (2025). Occipital Condyle Development in Extant Hominids and Australopithecus afarensis. American Journal of Biological Anthropology, 187, e70076. The article is freely available online at https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.70076. 

Public Affairs and Marketing is holding an open studio portrait day in Pomona:

9 a.m. to 2:50 p.m. Thursday, July 17

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