Steven Shea, Ph.D., receives the Sleep Research Society’s Outstanding Scientific Achievement Award “for novel and seminal discoveries of a basic, clinical or theoretical nature that have made a significant impact on the sleep field”

The City of Portland, OHSU, PSU and PCC break ground on a new education and health center in the heart of PSU’s downtown campus that will house the OHSU-PSU School of Public Health, among other programs.

In an editorial accompanying a JAMA Oncology study debating the “wait-and see” approach for rectal cancer patients who respond to chemoradiation, Charles Thomas, M.D., says: “… unless the care team is truly multidisciplinary and thus primed to evaluate, treat, and diligently follow-up patients in a close manner, the watch-and wait approach may not be in the best interest of the patient.”

Tina Kaufman, Ph.D., describes cardiovascular risks associated with cannabis use in a Pharmacy News article titled, “6 reasons to be circumspect about medical cannabis.”

Michael Chiang, M.D., discusses how technology can help rural physicians diagnose retinopathy of prematurity.

Profile on Damien Fair, Ph.D., and his innovative behavioral neuroscience research.

Esther Choo, M.D., joined tennis star Serena Williams and Janine Clayton, M.D., director of the Office of Research on Women’s Health for the NIH, to discuss bias in health care.

Alanna Braun, M.D., describes the weeks after giving birth as being stressful and “a time of life when most anybody needs some help” in a story about proposed state funding for universal home medical visits for newborns and their parents.

Research led by Vinay Prasad, M.D., raises concerns about the “relevance and applicability” of using metastasis-free survival as a surrogate marker on prostate cancer.

A first-of-its kind clinical trial of bionic arms for children led by Albert Chi, M.D., is mentioned in a story about a Maple Valley, Washington, boy who received a bionic arm and is the star a new comic book, “The Bionic Kid.”