Michael Lawler PNWU

Pacific Northwest University of Health Sciences is a private osteopathic medical and health professional school in Yakima, Washington. The university focuses on educating health care professionals to serve "rural and medically underserved communities throughout the Northwest". Founded in 2005, the university's inaugural program was the first ne…
Pacific Northwest University of Health Sciences is a private osteopathic medical and health professional school in Yakima, Washington. The university focuses on educating health care professionals to serve "rural and medically underserved communities throughout the Northwest". Founded in 2005, the university's inaugural program was the first new medical school to open in the Pacific Northwest in sixty years. PNWU grants the Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine degree and graduated its first class of physicians in May 2012. Since then, PNWU has continued to expand and now includes the School of Physical Therapy, School of Occupational Therapy, and a School of Dental Medicine.
  • Type: Private, medical school
  • Established: 2005
  • Budget: $33.0 million
  • President: Michael J. Lawler, MSW, PhD
  • Provost: Wayne C. Miller, PhD
  • Dean: Thomas A. Scandalis, DO
  • Academic staff: 51
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