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Wednesday, August 17, 2016 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
Pett launches practice in Sisters
By Jim cornelius
News Editor
Kevin Pett took a long and
winding path to the practice
of Asian medicine in Central
Oregon.
At age 38, he left a suc-
cessful career in the tele-
communications industry to
pursue a passion for healing.
He went to graduate school
and secured a PhD through
the International Institute of
Chinese Medicine in New
Mexico, and studied further
at Oregon College of Oriental
Medicine in Portland.
“It took me nine years
to get to Central Oregon,”
he said. “Unfortunately I
invested in real estate back
East.”
After untangling himself
from his commitments in
Virginia, he chose Central
Oregon for his practice.
“I really liked my time
in New Mexico, and Central
Oregon has a similar feel
to the high desert in New
Mexico,” he related.
Almost all chronic
conditions are going
to be better served by
Asian plant formulas.
— Kevin Pett, PhD
Pett’s background in
Virginia provided him with a
challenging test-case for the
uses of Eastern medicine —
one he worked on in his PhD
program: Lyme disease.
“I actually wrote my
dissertation on Chinese or
herbal medicine for treating
Lyme disease,” he told The
Nugget.
Pett actually relishes tak-
ing on challenging chronic
conditions — 0which he
believes are particularly ame-
nable to the Eastern approach,
which is to seek the root of
a condition, not just treat or
manage symptoms.
“Asian medicine is really
about why the body is doing
photo by JiM corneliuS
Kevin Pett, PhD.
what it’s doing,” he said.
“Almost all chronic con-
ditions are going to be bet-
ter served by Asian plant
formulas.”
But it takes a knowledge-
able guiding hand to find an
effective treatment — you
can’t just throw plant formu-
las at a problem willy-nilly or
in isolation.
“Individual plant compo-
nents work better together
than they do independently,”
Pett said.
Pett works with chronic
pain, sciatica, lupus, Crohns
disease, rheumatoid arthritis
and a host of other chronic
ailments. He also helps peo-
ple experiencing mental and
emotional turmoil, depres-
sion and insomnia.
“When life throws you
some curveballs, it can really
take you out,” he observed.
Pett is currently practic-
ing a couple of days a week
at Hawthorne Healing in
Bend and on Wednesdays at
Bigfoot Wellness in Sisters.
He is hoping to expand his
work in Sisters Country,
where he feels very comfort-
able and welcomed.
He enjoys exploring the
area, and recently ran Black
Butte.
“I’ve met a lot of people
up here,” he said.
For more information,
contact Kevin R. Pett, PhD at
541-640-9788.
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Guilty plea in
crime lab thefts
Former Oregon State
Police forensic scientist Nika
Larsen, 36, of Bend, pleaded
guilty Monday in federal
court, to using her position
as a forensic scientist to steal
controlled substances from
evidence items submitted by
law enforcement agencies
to the Oregon State Police
Crime Lab for analysis and
testing.
Pursuant to a plea agree-
ment, Larsen pleaded guilty
to two counts of obtain-
ing a controlled substance
by misrepresentation, fraud
and deception. U. S. District
Judge Anna J. Brown pre-
sided over Larsen’s guilty
plea and will sentence her on
December 12.
The parties involved are
jointly recommending the
judge impose a 36-month
term of incarceration
followed by a term of super-
vised release with condi-
tions, including community
service.
Larsen’s actions had sig-
nificant statewide impact on
drug cases.
A statement of facts
accompanying the plea
agreement notes that:
“As a result of the defen-
dant’s criminal conduct
involving the tampering with
and theft of evidence in crim-
inal prosecutions, every dis-
trict attorney in the state of
Oregon immediately ceased
prosecution of any case
involving evidence tested
by defendant Larsen at the
Pendleton and Bend labs…
Every district attorney had
to review every pending case
where defendant Larsen was
the forensic scientist on the
case.”