Patty Carney, PhD, MSN, Professor, Department of Family Medicine, has been named recipient of a Bishop Fellowship Award. This is a year-long curriculum for senior faculty to prepare for leadership positions within schools of medicine or academic ...

Researchers at Oregon Health & Science University Doernbecher Children’s Hospital have defined the cell of origin for a kind of cancer called sarcoma. In a study published today as the Featured Article in the journal Cancer Cell, they report that ...

Much is known about his landmark invention: a prosthetic heart valve, developed with Dr. Albert Starr, which saved the lives of thousands of patients afflicted with lethal cardiac valve scarring. But less is known about the man – M. Lowell Edwards – ...

At first glance, SD713 in the School of Dentistry building could easily be mistaken for a “help wanted” bulletin board. The door, if you can find it, is covered in sheets of paper, the specifics of some 60 proposals waiting to be taken as clinical ...

The pediatric cardiac team at Oregon Health & Science University Doernbecher Children’s Hospital is the first in the region and one of a handful in the nation to implant a pulmonary heart valve without open-heart surgery. To date, four patients have ...

The National Institutes of Health has given its first MERIT (Method to Extend Research in Time) award of 2011 to Brian Druker, MD, Professor and Director of the OHSU Knight Cancer Institute, for his research into Chronic Myeloid Leukemia. According to ...

Robert Blakeley, PhD, Professor Emeritus, Department of Pediatrics, passed away Dec 14, 2010. Dr. Blakeley was Director of the comprehensive Cleft/Craniofacial Clinic at OHSU and mentor to many speech professionals. He modeled the comprehensive ...

Patricia Hurn, PhD, has accepted the position of Associate Vice Chancellor for Research at the University of Texas System. This change is effective March 1, 2011. “I am pleased the community of academic medicine recognizes OHSU as an institution where ...

Perhaps cultural anthropologist Margaret Mead put it best when she wrote, "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever does." While the rare transformative gift can ...

A warm welcome to our newest faculty members: Corey W. Fry, MS, NP, Instructor, Anesthesiology & Perioperative Medicine Babak Givi, MD, Instructor, Otolaryngology, Head & Neck Surgery Carlie D. Irvin, MSN, FNP, Instructor, Emergency Medicine Pamela L. ...