Thanks to a recently awarded federal research grant, Lincoln City will become one of a select number of communities where new techniques will be attempted to combat the country's obesity epidemic. The Oregon Rural Practice-based Research Network ...

December’s Golden ROSE Award winners have been announced. Congratulations to these outstanding employees! Melkitu Gebre, Custodian, Housekeeping Peter Hazel. Director, Patient Care Operations Arpana Naik, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Surgery ...

The Wall Street Journal recently interviewed Susan Tolle, MD, Cornelia Hayes Stevens Chair, Professor, Department of Medicine, and Director, OHSU Center for Ethics in Health Care. The article focused on Oregon’s POLST registry system, which assists ...

If you want children to think about the role of red and white blood cells in the body, start by asking them to create an autonomous robot to sort red and white LEGO blocks. This was the call to action behind the 2010-2011 First LEGO League (FLL) ...

David Lewinsohn, MD, Professor, Department of Medicine, was quoted in an article for the magazine The Scientist. The article titled, New tool for TB: stem cells, explains how stem cells recruited to sites of infection may suppress immune cells in ...

He reckons he's heard most of the jokes by now: "When are you going to buy the back half?" "Where's the rubber band?" "Hey! Are there another 99 clowns in there somewhere?" But for Patrick Brunett, MD, Associate Professor, Emergency Medicine, driving ...

An OHSU-led opportunity for high school students to understand the value and importance of primary literature and develop their own research proposals is attracting record interest in Portland’s Partnership for Scientific Inquiry (PSI) program. “There ...

Thomas Becker, MD, Professor, Department of Public Health & Preventive Medicine, has been named a fellow to the American College of Epidemiology. Fellows are distinguished by their significant and sustained contributions to the profession through ...

Guiding principles are an important, if sometimes abstract, element of program coordination. The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) evaluates graduate medical education programs by six core competencies: patient care; medical ...

Dean Mark Richardson recently appointed Charles Keller, MD, FAAP, to the Sada and Rebecca Tarshis Professorship in Pediatric Hematology Oncology. Dr. Keller joined OHSU in August 2010 as an Associate Professor in the Department of Pediatrics. Dr. ...