A warm welcome to our newest faculty members: Kristin Bourret, MS, PA-C, Instructor, Department of Surgery Leslie Kahl, MD, Professor Provisional, Department of Surgery Shannon Overs, MD, Instructor, Department of Neurology Erin Rudzinski, MD, ...

Nurses, physicians and staff at Oregon Health & Science University — four women and five men —shaved their heads in support of children with cancer as part of the annual Portland St. Baldrick's event. "As I take care of infants, children and young ...

Dear School of Medicine Community: Spring has finally arrived in Oregon. As the gloom of winter is replaced by glimpses of the sun, it brings with it a sense of hope, and a reminder of what a great place Oregon is to live and work. This past month, ...

Charles Hofmann, MD, an Affiliate Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine, has been named the Oregon Medical Association’s 2011 Doctor Citizen of the Year. Dr. Hofmann is a Baker City internist. He also won the award in 1990. The annual ...

Pediatric experts across the nation have ranked OHSU Doernbecher Children’s Hospital one of the best in the country in eight specialties, according to U.S. News Best Children’s Hospitals 2011-12. The rankings recognize the top 50 children’s hospitals ...

How did the University of Oregon Medical School (predecessor of OHSU) lose an entire mural? For 16 years, a monumental work of art by the painter Darrel Austin (1907-1994) graced the entrance of Mackenzie Hall. And then it disappeared. As part of the ...

The week of May 2 was National Veterans Affairs Research Week 2011. In Portland, the week culminated with a presentation of recent research results from five VA/School of Medicine faculty members. Michael Davey, MD, PhD, Associate Chief of Staff for ...

The School of Medicine Alumni Association (SMAA) honored a number of outstanding alumni, faculty, volunteer faculty and students at its annual awards banquet May 5. Andrew Duncan, PhD, Post-doctoral fellow in Pediatrics at the Oregon Stem Cell Center, ...

The Department of Physiology & Pharmacology’s Charles Roselli, PhD, and team of researchers were recently featured in the May edition of Endocrine News. The article, titled “Testosterone affects brains and genitals in different timeframes,” explains ...

10 years ago, Brian Druker, MD, Professor and Director of the OHSU Knight Cancer Institute, changed the course of cancer research with the development of Gleevec. Smithsonian magazine chronicles that victory in its May issue. In the article, Dr. ...