Prepared by Lee Lewis Husk ----- This year’s 2010 Henrietta Doltz Puhaty Lecture is a homecoming and reunion of sorts for its guest speaker and members of the OHSU community. Daniel Sheridan, Ph.D, R.N., F.A.A.N, worked at the OHSU Hospital for many ...

Tom D. Wang, MD, Professor, Department of Otolaryngology/ Head & Neck Surgery and Chief, Division of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, was elected President-elect of the American Academy of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery (AAFPRS). ...

Gretchen Berland, MD ’96, started medical school at OHSU one day after accepting her second Emmy award. A graduate of Wilson High School in Southwest Portland and Pomona College in Claremont, Calif., Dr. Berland moved to Boston after obtaining her ...

Craig D. Newgard, MD, MPH, Associate Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, is undertaking a significant research project related to national trauma guidelines for field triage. Dr. Newgard’s project, "Prospective Validation and Cost Analysis of ...

At U.S. medical schools, physicians-in-training are battling the realities of rising tuition and increasing student loan debt. An anonymous donor who recently pledged $5 million to endow a scholarship fund for medical students at Oregon Health & ...

The Department of Otolaryngology, Head & Neck Surgery’s Timothy Smith, MD, Professor, and Mark Wax, MD, Professor have received the Distinguished Service Award from the American Academy of Otolaryngology—Head and Neck Surgery (AAO-HNS). The Academy ...

Two Oregon Health & Science University programs that teach teen athletes healthy alternatives to steroids, sports supplements, alcohol and other drugs have received the Mentor International Achievement Award. The Department of Medicine’s Linn ...

In tribute to Dr. Albert E. Mackay, Franklin P. Johnson, MD, said that Dr. Mackay's life and that of the University of Oregon Medical School (UOMS) were so firmly linked that the two were quite inseparable. His name was linked with every advancement ...

With 15 of Oregon’s 36 counties containing geographic Health Professional Shortage Areas for primary care, the need for family medicine physicians in rural Oregon is clear. Each year, eight physicians enter the workforce after finishing the Cascades ...