David Barker, MD, PhD, Professor, Department of Medicine, will receive the March of Dimes Agnes Higgins Award for outstanding achievement in the field of maternal-fetal nutrition. The world-renowned physician and professor who pioneered the theory ...

Ritu Sahni, MD, MPH, Associate Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, has been elected president-elect of the National Association of EMS Physicians (NAEMSP). The NAEMSP is an organization of physicians and other professionals partnering to ...

Arthur Carhart Jones, undaunted by the snide remarks made by classmates at the University of Oregon Medical School (precurser to the OHSU School of Medicine), would answer back, “You’re doggoned right I am – what are you trying to get?” A.C. Jones was ...

Health care providers that classify cancer patients as children or adults often neglect the particular medical needs of adolescents and young adults, which can have serious consequences. It forces these patients to straddle two arenas of health care ...

The Medical Research Foundation of Oregon announced the recipients of its 2010 awards for scientific leadership and innovation in Oregon Nov. 9 during a reception held at Portland’s Governor Hotel. Individual Awards Christine A. Tanner, PhD, RN, FAAN, ...

Since 1985, mothers and their newborn babies from families in need have taken with them a hand-made layette and a book for the journey home. The gifts come from the OHSU School of Medicine Alliance’s Blankets and Books for Babies program, which ...

In an article that sheds light on some of the difficulties young cancer patients (typically between 15-40) confront in their day-to-day lives with cancer-related social services, Brandon Hayes-Lattin, MD, Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, ...

An international team led by John Bissonnette, MD, Professor, Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, and Professor Julian FR Paton, PhD, at the University of Bristol in the UK, revealed that they were able to halt the potentially lethal, breath ...

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has awarded nationally prominent scientist Jeffrey T. Jensen, MD, MPH, Leon Speroff Professor and Vice Chair for Research in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, a $100,000 grant to investigate the safety ...