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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’s 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’s 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 – 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

“Navigating Social Media Use in Children and Adolescents: A Pediatric Perspective”
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 – 5:00 CME Session 3: OMM with hands on practice

“Practical OMM for the Busy Clinician”
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’oeuvres (6:00) Dinner (6:30) Music 6:15 – 9:15

Hahn Horticulture Garden on the Virginia Tech Campus

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

“Opioids: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly”
Dr. Katherine Jamison, PharmD, BCPS, AAHIVP
(VCOM Faculty)
(2.0 CME Credits)

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

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

ON DEMAND CME Total – 4 Hrs

Online

Saturday, September 6, 2025

Time Event Location
9:00 AM Continental Breakfast VCOM Lobby
9:30-10:15 Alumni & Student Service Project  
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:

“Head Impact Biomechanics and Helmet Testing: What Inquiring Minds Want to Know!”
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 – 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 – Spaces 472-475
7:30 – 11:00 Virginia Tech vs. Vanderbilt Football Game  
Post-Game Shuttle return to VCOM  

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