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Second-year COMP student “I believe in the osteopathic

Amanda Thompson said she profession and the advantages to
struggles with getting the right people’s health to perform
amount of leverage when osteopathic manipulative
performing HVLA treatments, and treatments,” Allen said.
attending Dr. Allen’s workshop
provides her extra practice and “Ethan Allen is a giant in the
helps her learn proper setup. national medical community, and

a giant in the
“It’s just great to learn history of
from someone with It’s just great to WesternU,” said
so many years of learn from Daniel R. Wilson,
experience and someone with so MD, PhD,
history,” she said. “He many years of President of
doesn’t have to come experience and Western
do this, but he does history. University of
just because he wants Health Sciences.

us to learn.” Second-year COMP student “Without his
Amanda Thompson
determination
The history of and drive, the
osteopathic medicine would be College of
vastly different without Dr. Osteopathic
Allen. He was a pivotal Medicine of the
advocate for DOs Pacific would not

maintaining their have been born nor,
degrees in California thereby, our
when some chose to wonderful University.
convert to MDs in the He has given countless
1960s. He also was a hours of service to the
major force in the University as a teacher, mentor,
creation of the College of trustee, and friend. Dr. Allen truly

Top to bottom: Osteopathic Medicine of the personifies the very best of his
Dr. Allen circa 1970s; the Pacific, which helped re-establish profession and of this institution.”
first meeting of the Board of
Trustees in 1977; opera osteopathic medical education in
singer Evelyn de la Rosa California, and has served on Dr. Allen’s impact goes far beyond
receives a bouquet from
Dr. Allen following her COMP’s (now WesternU’s) Board of the WesternU campus. He and his
performance at the 1981 Trustees since its inception in wife, Alice, founded the Rio Hondo
Founders Banquet. 1977. He currently is board Area Drug Abuse Coalition in
treasurer. 1971, which evolved into what is
now the Los Angeles Centers for






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