April’s Q&A features Pat Brunett, MD, Associate Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine. Dr. Brunett is the Vice Chair for Education, and Director of the Emergency Medicine Residency Program at OHSU. He also serves on the Community Health ...

Dolores Leon, MD ’75, has always tried to learn from her patients. As a pediatric anesthesiologist she has spent 28 years explaining to children what she was going to do to help them during surgery. “For many years I said, ‘Hello. I’m Dr. Leon and I’m ...

Carrie Nielson, PhD, MPH, Assistant Professor, Department of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, has received an appointment as Associate Scientific Advisor to the Science Translational Medicine journal. The journal started the Associate Advisor ...

Oregon's nursing pioneers will be honored this week as the Oregon Health & Science University School of Nursing celebrates a century of existence. During an awards ceremony on Thursday, April 28, the OHSU School of Nursing will honor 10 individuals ...

OHSU Government Relations hosted OHSU Day at the Capitol April 18. The School of Medicine had several departments represented, including Graduate Studies, the Child Development and Rehabilitation Center, the Center for Evidence-based Policy and the ...

The Division of General Internal Medicine & Geriatrics (DGIMG) has received the Multnomah County Health Department's “Community Based Organization Award.” The DGIMG was selected for its outstanding contributions in promoting the health and wellness ...

Bob Hitzemann, PhD, has devoted his four-decade career to understanding how genes regulate complex behaviors, particularly drug-induced behaviors. To put his research experience into perspective for the hundreds of people that attended his March ...

Highlights SOM Curriculum Committee approves revised UME Program Objectives Survey indicates over 80% of faculty understands how their work supports OHSU's mission Faculty development responses being examined Since its official launch last October, ...

H. M. Greene was born in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina in 1878. He moved west to attend the University of Oregon Medical School (precursor to OHSU) graduating in 1904. After completing post-graduate studies at Vanderbilt Clinic, he served ...

Are you familiar with those obnoxious t-shirts we med students sometimes wear? Especially the one that says, “Trust me, I’m a doctor.” I’d like to take this moment to address this t-shirt, and discourage you from doing what it says. First of all, ...