It’s not just poor lifestyle choices or bad genes that lead to serious health problems, it’s what happens in the womb that predicts most, if not all, chronic disease later in life, according to a team of leading-edge clinicians and scientists studying ...
At the recent Association of American Indian Physicians meeting held in Oregon, Dale Walker, MD, Professor, Department of Psychiatry, and Director of the Center for American Indian Health, was presented with a White Buffalo Blanket. The blanket ...
Dear School of Medicine Community: This month, we welcomed our MD Class of 2015. Throughout the many activities of Orientation Week, including the culminating White Coat Ceremony, the topic of change came up many times. Perhaps for the first time in ...
In June, Dean Mark Richardson was offered – and accepted – membership in the Blue Ridge Academic Health Group. The mission of Blue Ridge is to take a societal view of health and health care needs to identify recommendations for academic health centers ...
Charles Keller, MD, FAAP, knows what he wants. Or rather, he knows what the children and families of those with rare, incurable pediatric cancers want – effective, personalized treatment. The cure rate for childhood cancers as a group is approaching ...
Daniel Marks, MD, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics and Robert O'Rourke, MD, Associate Professor, Department of Surgery, recently published a paper in the journal Diabetologia that has been included in the F1000 index, a list of high ...
This month's featured paper is from Annals of Neurology and is titled “Japanese macaque encephalomyelitis: A spontaneous multiple sclerosis-like disease in a nonhuman primate.” Research in this paper was conducted as part of an investigative ...
Leslie E. Kahl, MD, has been appointed Associate Dean for Strategic Initiatives in the OHSU School of Medicine. This appointment was effective July 15, 2011. Dr. Kahl is also a Professor in the Department of Medicine. Dr. Kahl joined OHSU in July from ...
Patrick Brunett, MD, FACEP, has been appointed Assistant Dean for Graduate Medical Education. Dr. Brunett is an Associate Professor and Residency Program Director, Department of Emergency Medicine. The appointment is effective July 2011. "We're here ...
A warm welcome to our newest faculty members: Amir Azarbal, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Surgery Pei-Wen Chiang, PhD, Associate Professor Provisional, Department of Ophthalmology John Clinger, MD, Instructor, Department of Otolaryngology ...