William Hersh, MD, Professor and Chair, Department of Medical Informatics and Clinical Epidemiology, spoke at two national meetings in February. One talk was on a panel at the Academy Health National Health Policy Conference on Feb. 7 in Washington, ...

Born in Denver, Colo. and an Oregonian since 1997, Nick Westfall had significant roots in the construction industry through his family. The leap to medicine – and to OHSU – began when he participated in a Health Career Opportunity summer program for ...

Opportunities for health care providers to participate in medical missions are numerous. One highly-trafficked "mission matching" web site lists over 2,700 missions to Africa alone. While the rewards of providing care in a developing country can be ...

The Center for Diversity & Multicultural Affairs hosted a lecture in celebration of Black History Month entitled, "Mental Health Issues in the African American Community." The panelists addressed broad topics like racism, violence and identity in the ...

Sharon Anderson, MD, is matter-of-fact about her accomplishments. She is the first woman to hold the title of Chief of Medical Service at the Portland Veterans’ Affairs Medical Center (VAMC), is the former Associate Dean for Faculty Development and ...

A warm welcome to our newest faculty members: Ganesh Cherala, PhD, Research Assistant Professor, Obstetrics & Gynecology Laurie A. King, MD, Assistant Professor, Neurology Joe W. Gray, PhD, Professor-Provisional, Biomedical Engineering Ann E. ...

February 2010 Paper of the month This month's featured paper is from the Journal of Clinical Investigation, and is titled "Human chronic myeloid leukemia stem cells are insensitive to imatinib despite inhibition of BCR-ABL activity." This research was ...

The American Laryngological Association (ALA) has announced that Mark Richardson, MD, MBA, Dean, School of Medicine, is the recipient of the Gabriel F. Tucker Award for 2011. Established in 1987, the Award is presented to a laryngologist who has made ...

Featuring 20 hours of plenary sessions and over 60 hours of breakouts, the 42nd Annual Primary Care Review attracted over 300 registrants to Portland’s Governor Hotel in mid-February. The four-day CME conference featured a variety of presentations, ...

I’ve gotten a lot of positive feedback over the past few weeks in response to my last post about why getting a PhD takes so long (and thank you so much for that) but in reviewing it I’ve decided that I need to swing the balance a bit more toward ...