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VCOM-Virginia Homecoming 2025

Mark your calendars to return to Blacksburg, Virginia!

September 5-6, 2025

Since 2012, the Virginia Campus Homecoming has offered alumni and faculty led CME seminars, fun activities and plenty of fellowship during Homecoming Weekend. VCOM Virginia鈥檚 Homecomings are for VCOM graduates from ANY year.

Homecoming 2025 will honor the reunion classes of 2010, 2015, and 2020;  all alumni (from any year) are invited and encouraged to attend!

Highlights include:

  • CME
  • Friday night dinner at Virginia Tech鈥檚 Hahn Horticulture Garden
  • Saturday Tailgate
  • Virginia Tech vs Vanderbilt football game

Schedule of Events

Friday, September 5, 2025

Time Event Location
11:00 AM Registration Opens for Alumni on Campus Main Lobby
11:00 Box lunches available 鈥 enjoy lunch on the VCOM patio. Take a walk around Campus (Show your family around)  
12:00-12:30 Welcome by Rob Campbell
State of the College update with Dean Januchowski
Classroom
12:30-1:30

CME Session 1

"Sports & Performance Psychiatry"
Classroom (1.0 CME Credit)
Dr. Austin Bopp, D.O.
(VCOM Class of 2017 and VCOM Faculty)

Classroom
1:30-1:45 SOAP Notes Performance Classroom
1:45-2:45

CME Session 2

鈥淣avigating Social Media Use in Children and Adolescents: A Pediatric Perspective鈥
Classroom (1.0 CME Credit)
Dr. Ryan Fulton, D.O.
(VCOM Class of 2013)

Classroom
2:45-3:00 Break  
3:00-5:00

3:00 鈥 5:00 CME Session 3: OMM with hands on practice

鈥淧ractical OMM for the Busy Clinician鈥
Classroom (2.0 CME Credits)
Dr. Brianna Beach, D.O.
(VCOM Class of 2015)

Friday in person CME Credits = 4.0

Classroom
6:00-9:15

Hors D鈥檕euvres (6:00) Dinner (6:30) Music 6:15 鈥 9:15

Hahn Horticulture Garden on the Virginia Tech Campus

Rob Campbell will provide you with  a parking pass when you arrive (if you didn鈥檛 receive on earlier in the day). As this is the night before a home football game parking restrictions are in place. Please park in the Faculty/Staff (F/S) Litton Reaves Lot or the F/S Food Sciences Lot. You may NOT park in a F/S 24 hour space or a Visitor (V) space.

Hahn Horticultural Garden on the Virginia Tech Campus
6:00-9:00 Childcare provided by VCOM students Hahn Garden
On Demand CME

ONLINE CME:

Includes two presentations that meet state requirements

A link will be provided to alumni who register for Homecoming CME

鈥淥pioids: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly鈥
Dr. Katherine Jamison, PharmD, BCPS, AAHIVP
(VCOM Faculty)
(2.0 CME Credits)

鈥淗iding in Plain Sight: Human Trafficking鈥
Dr. Sofia Abraham-Hardee D.O./ Ph.D.
(VCOM Class of 2007 and VCOM Faculty)
(1.0 CME Credit)

鈥淓ffectively Caring for Patients from Various Religious Backgrounds and Beliefs鈥
Dr. Brian Dickens, D.O. and Panel Members
(VCOM Faculty)
(1.0 CME Credit)

ON DEMAND CME Total 鈥 4 Hrs

Online

Saturday, September 6, 2025

Time Event Location
Half Day

Alumni & Student Service Project

The 2025 Service Project will be the VCOM Franklin County Outreach 

(Appalachian Outreach event in Rocky Mount, VA)

If you would like to participate, please contact Dean Ron Januchowski

 
10:15-11:15

Family Fun & Wellness Activities (Students invited)

  • Walk/Run VTCRC Trail
  • Disc Golf
  • Beach Volleyball
  • Yoga?
  • Lawn Games
  • VCOM Tours
Walk/Run VTCRC Trail
11:00 Light refreshments  
11:30 Shuttle to VT Helmet Lab  
12:00 -1:00

Virginia Tech Helmet Lab Tour:

鈥淗ead Impact Biomechanics and Helmet Testing: What Inquiring Minds Want to Know!鈥
Dr. Per Gunnar Brolinson, D.O.
(VCOM Faculty)
(1.0 CME Credit)

Saturday CME Total 1.0

Weekend total including On Demand CME = 9 Credit Hours

 
1:00 Shuttle back to VCOM  
2:00-4:00 LUNCH and Free time on your own 鈥 have lunch with classmates or take your family back to your favorite Blacksburg lunch spot.  
4:00, 4:15, 4:30, 4:45, 5:00, 5:15 Shuttle from VCOM to VT drop off Lot 2 or Sterrett Drive  
4:30 Tailgate at Virginia Tech Stadium Lot 2 鈥 Spaces 472-475
7:30 鈥 11:00 Virginia Tech vs. Vanderbilt Football Game  
Post-Game Shuttle return to VCOM  

ACCREDITATION:
51品茶 is accredited by the American Osteopathic Association to provide AOA 1-A credits for physicians. 

DESIGNATION STATEMENT: 
51品茶 designates this activity for a maximum of 9.5 AOA 1-A credits. This includes both live and online activities. Physicians should only claim credits commensurate with the extent of their participation.

 

2025 Sponsors

VCOM Alumni Relations would like to thank our Homecoming 2025 Sponsors. Their support allows us to provide CME and networking opportunities for our alumni this fall.

Ballad Health Logo
Marino-Brolinson/Stoner Management Group
First Bank and Trust logo
Twin County Regional Healthcare - Duke LifePoint logo

2024 Sponsors

First Bank and Trust logo
Twin County Regional Healthcare - Duke LifePoint logo
Marino-Brolinson/Stoner Management Group