When University of Oregon freshman Maria Purice applied for a lab assistant position seeking someone who “could tolerate awful smells and squirming maggots,” she didn’t realize she was also embarking upon a career choice that would someday land her in ...

Removing an appendix is one of the most common surgical procedures performed worldwide and accounts for an estimated 25,000 hospital stays in Canada each year, CBC reports. However, a recent CBC article explains that U.S. and Canadian doctors have ...

For years, there has been broad agreement within the health care community about the clinical potential of the electronic health record (EHR). Despite this consensus, the health care industry as a whole has been slow to adopt these records beyond a ...

A warm welcome to our newest faculty members, listed alphabetically: Michael D. Alperin, MD, Assistant Professor, Family Medicine Jared August, MD, Assistant Professor, Pediatrics Gennadiy Bakis, MD, Assistant Professor, Medicine Emma R. Brooks, MD, ...

The OHSU School of Medicine is excited to welcome 203 new Graduate Studies students to the start of the 2010 academic year. Spread out over 26 programs, the new students come from 10 different countries – including China, India, Iran and Turkey – and ...

The Lasker Awards have been awarded annually since 1946 to living persons who have made major contributions to medical science or who have performed public service on behalf of medicine. In the USA Today article, Dean Richardson said the awards ...

The opening line of a biography written by the late Arthur C. Jones, MD (1896-1983) reads, "Education in the Pacific Northwest owes a large debt to Dr. Olof Larsell. The University of Oregon Medical School in particular bears the imprint of his ...

The Daily Astorian has reported on OHSU’s new partnership with Columbia Memorial Hospital in Astoria, Ore. The partnership will bring a heart specialist to the Astoria hospital four days a week. Diana Rinkevich, MD, Associate Professor, Department of ...