Twenty-one students from the MD Class of 2014 gained an early perspective on the life of a rural physician through the OHSU Summer Observership Program, offered by the Department of Family Medicine. The week-long program matched incoming OHSU MD ...

Thirty-four members of the Physician Assistant program celebrated their graduation at a ceremony held Aug. 14 in the OHSU Auditorium. The event marked the culmination of a 26-month program, consisting of academic courses – some shared with fellow ...

Dear School of Medicine community: This month, we welcomed 124 new MD students and in September, we will welcome our newest group of Graduate Studies students. In August, we also awarded degrees to 34 graduating Physician Assistants who now join the ...

Fifty years ago this month, a groundbreaking heart surgery occurred at the University of Oregon Medical School, the predecessor to OHSU. The valve, developed by Albert Starr, MD and M. Lowell Edwards, BS, a retired engineer, consisted of a Silastic ...

Tom Gregory, MD, Associate Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, was the attending surgeon in Oregon’s first dual console robotic surgery in July. Using two Da Vinci Si Surgical System consoles, Dr. Gregory and his assistant surgeon, ...

Jeffrey Kirsch, MD, Professor and Chair, Department of Anesthesiology & Perioperative Medicine, was quoted in a New York Times article on the drug Cymbalta being approved for chronic pain. On Thursday, an advisory panel to the Food and Drug ...

Ask any rural surgeon: practicing in rural Oregon requires a different set of skills than most surgeons receive during their training at urban academic health centers. In a rural practice, cases vary from the mundane to the radically offbeat; ...

In fiscal year 2010, Oregon Health & Science University researchers obtained more research funding than in any other previous year — $392 million. This figure includes $70 million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (stimulus) funding. To date, ...

Shannon McWeeney, PhD, Associate Professor, and Head of the Division of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology in the Department of Medical Informatics and Clinical Epidemiology, has been selected as a Kavli Frontiers Fellow by the National Academy ...

R. Dale Walker, MD, Professor, Department of Psychiatry, was elected president of the Association of American Indian Physicians Aug. 9 at the organization’s 40th convention in Albuquerque, N.M. AAIP is the largest Native American healthcare ...