Imagine devoting a career to something five nanometers in length – an unimaginably small-sized molecule found in only 10,000 to 15,000 mammalian cells. Add the fact that this molecule is encased in the hardest bone in the body, and one begins to ...

With the West Coast shifting to Daylight Savings Time, CNN Health asked Dr. Alfred Lewy, MD, PhD, Professor, Department of Psychiatry, what he thought about the body’s clock being disrupted by “falling back” an hour. In the article, Dr. Lewy ...

At the recent Faculty Excellence Awards luncheon, nine School of Medicine faculty members were honored for outstanding contributions to the education mission in the School of Medicine. The sunny November day had everyone in good spirits as faculty ...

William Hersh, MD, Professor and Chair, Department of Medical Informatics and Clinical Epidemiology, has been named one of the top 25 clinical informaticists of 2010 by Modern Healthcare magazine (MHM). He is the only full-time educator among the 25 ...

The School of Medicine will celebrate its success and look into the future – including opportunities for the school relative to OHSU’s new operational and business model, the Knight Cancer Institute strategic plan, the school’s Research Roadmap, ...

Bednash will discuss the AACN’s influence on nursing education and a new perspective on what professional nurses need to know in today’s complex health care environment. She says that her organization, through consensus building with partners in ...

Patients with mild to moderate Alzheimer’s disease (AD) who received supplementation with the omega-3 fatty acid docosahexaenoic acid (DHA), believed to possibly reduce the risk of AD, did not experience a reduction in the rate of cognitive and ...

Oregon Health & Science University Knight Cancer Institute physicians will share the results of 15 studies at the 52nd annual conference for the American Society of Radiation Oncology (ASTRO). The research to be presented covers a wide range of ...

Oregon Health & Science University Doernbecher Children’s Hospital will lead the next phase of a landmark clinical trial to further assess the safety and preliminary effectiveness of purified human neural stem cells (HuCNS-SC®) as a potential ...

Oregon Health & Science University School of Dentistry Dean Jack Clinton, D.M.D. recently was named president of the U.S.A. section for the International College of Dentists (ICD). Clinton received the Presidential Symbol of Office Oct. 8 from ...