Philip Pumerantz, a former high school teacher who helped resurrect the once-maligned practice of osteopathic medicine in California by founding what’s now a bustling medical school, has died at his home in Upland. Jeff Malet / Western University of Health Sciences Philip Pumerantz greets an incoming student in the inaugural class at the Western University of Health Sciences campus in Oregon. Philip Pumerantz greets an incoming student in the inaugural class at the Western University of Health Sciences campus in Oregon. (Jeff Malet / Western University of Health Sciences)As founder of Western University, it was Pumerantz’s mission to achieve a peaceful working relationship between osteopathy and traditional medicine. “It is essential that their doctors have a sensitivity to their social and psychological needs.”In 2003, Western University and Chapman University in Orange County considered a merger.

Source: Los Angeles Times January 13, 2018 00:56 UTC