The peripatetic William Hersh, MD, Professor and Chair of the Department of Medical Informatics and Clinical Epidemiology in the OHSU School of Medicine, has been on the road again spreading the word on biomedical and health informatics. In January, ...

Three PhD students have been named Vertex Scholars, based on their academic excellence and commitment to scientific research: Takahiro Hayashi, pursuing his PhD in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology in the Department of Science and Engineering; James ...

A recent paper co-authored by Francis I. Valiyaveetil, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Physiology & Pharmacology, was noted in an editorial in ACS Chemical Biology written by Hagan Bayley (Oxford), an international leader in the study of ...

Ted Ruback, MS, PA-C, Program Director and Associate Professor, Physician Assistant (PA) Program, assumed the presidency of the Physician Assistant Education Association (PAEA) this month, his second year of a three-year term of service as president ...

In late 2008, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) published a report recommending more restrictive limits on resident work hours to promote patient safety. Reaction from the graduate medical education community has focused on concerns about a lack of ...

John Saultz, MD, Chair and Professor, Department of Family Medicine, has been named the new editor of Family Medicine, effective March 1, 2010. Published by the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine, it is the leading journal publishing topics ...

Richard Deyo, MD, MPH, Professor, Department of Family Medicine, discussed a wide range of treatments for low back pain at the second Marquam Hill Lecture of the 2009-2010 series, held January 21.The lecture was one of the best attended in the series ...

This month's featured paper, published in the journal Mammalian Genome, is: "A method for mapping intralocus interactions influencing excessive alcohol drinking," by Tamara J. Phillips, Cheryl Reed, Sue Burkhart-Kasch, Na Li, Robert Hitzemann, ...