Sarah Brown
Dr. Amanda Emmert, the first local graduate of the College of Osteopathic Medicine of the Pacific Northwest campus in Lebanon, has returned to Oregon to complete her residency through a fellowship at Samaritan Mental Health in Corvallis.
Emmert, of Lebanon, and her husband, Ben Emmert, of Sweet Home, married in 2014, the same year she entered medical school. She graduated from East Linn Christian Academy in Lebanon.
“It has been a ride,” Ben…