Dr. Keenan, thank you for the kind introduction. Welcome to the 2011 Hooding and Commencement Ceremony of the OHSU School of Medicine. To our faculty members who have joined us, thank you for your commitment to excellence in education. To the family ...

The first-ever class of students from the OHSU School of Nursing’s satellite campus in Monmouth will graduate alongside nursing graduates from the OHSU Science School of Nursing Portland campus on Monday, June 6, 2011. In all, 26 students from the ...

A new generation of health care professionals, from physicians, nurses and dentists to physician assistants, nurse practitioners and nurse midwives, are graduating from Oregon Health & Science University this month. A series of graduation ceremonies ...

Atrioventricular septal defects (AVSDs) are a common congenital heart malformation, occurring in 3.5 out of every 10,000 live births. Nearly twice as many children die from congenital heart disease in the United States as from all forms of childhood ...

Research into the use of human hepatocytes in treating liver disease, the effects of vitamin D balance in Parkinson's disease and the developmental origins of bone marrow failure in Fanconi anemia were just some of the 2011 projects funded by the N.L. ...

Oregon was a forerunner in access to medical education for women. Women were studying medicine at Willamette University (whose medical programs were later to merge with the University of Oregon Department of Medicine) in the 1870s, when few medical ...

As OHSU faculty members and family medicine physicians, Fran Biagioli, MD, and Elizabeth Steiner, MD, know well the world of patients struggling with health issues. They also have a very personal perspective on that world – because both Drs. Biagioli ...

Past and present leaders, faculty members and staff of the Department of Behavioral Neuroscience celebrated 50 years in the School of Medicine with a half-day gathering of colleagues, alumni and guests May 20. Looking out at the audience and ...

The Department of Neurological Surgery was proud to host the 2011 meeting of the Society of Neurological Surgeons (SNS) from May 21-24. The SNS is the oldest, most prestigious neurosurgical organization in the world, and is comprised of department ...

Mentoring is a defining feature of academic medicine. But as our culture has grown more complex over the past few decades, and as OHSU has grown in size, many faculty members – especially junior faculty – increasingly say that the professional terrain ...