Dean Mark Richardson has appointed Steven L. Primack, MD, Professor and Vice Chair, to the position of Interim Chair of the Department of Diagnostic Radiology, and has appointed a search committee to oversee recruitment of a permanent chair. Frederick ...

One of my least favorite things about being a grad student is the frequency with which I am asked the following question, “So how much longer do you have until you’re done?” It is seemingly a very polite and innocuous question right? The problem is ...

Jonathan Jui, MD, MPH, Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, received the Director's Medal at the 2010 State EMS Awards Banquet. The Office of Emergency Medical Services recognizes individuals for their hard work and dedication to the provision ...

The School of Medicine is deeply saddened to announce the passing of Tana Grady-Weliky, MD, Associate Dean for Undergraduate Medical Education and Professor in the Department of Psychiatry. She died on Jan. 18. A memorial service mass was held on ...

Mark Helfand, MD, MS, MPH, Professor, Department of Medicine, has been appointed to the Methodology Committee of the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute. According to Gene Doaro, Comptroller General of the United States and head of the U.S. ...

OX40, a co-stimulatory molecule critical for T cell activation during the pathogenesis of uveitis This month's featured paper is from the American Journal of Pathology, and is titled “Activation of OX40 Augments Th17 Cytokine Expression and ...

An alumnus of OHSU’s Graduate Medical Education program, David Fleming, MD, completed his residency at OHSU in 1982, and has dedicated his career to national and international public health. “If there is indeed a public health army out there,” said ...

Yassar Arain stepped off the plane in Cairo and was immediately swept back over a decade to a trip he had made as a seven-year-old from the US to Pakistan. “It was the smell,” he said. “Diesel, heat, dust, animals. It all came flashing back.” ...

According to research conducted at the Oregon National Primate Research Center at Oregon Health & Science University, the commonly held belief that oral contraceptives cause weight gain appears to be false. The results of the study are published ...

Estella Ford Warner was one of two women in the graduating class of 1918 at University of Oregon Medical School, now Oregon Health & Science University. Also graduating that year was her new husband, Douglas H. Warner. Shortly afterward, Dr. Douglas ...