“This is an exciting and anticipatory time for residents and fellows – those entering and those leaving our institution. Throughout this very busy season, we are all always reminded of and focused on our goal: to ensure that every GME trainee in this ...

Congress is expected to take up legislation this summer aimed at improving the nation's healthcare system. Whatever the shape of the final bill, it will have at least some impact on one of the three leading causes of death in the U.S.: stroke. Stroke ...

The Portland Chapter of the Achievement Rewards for College Scientists (ARCS) Foundation honored 10 scholars who were graduating from the scholarship program at a reception on May 14. The scholars are all members of the graduate studies program in the ...

The Association of Program Directors in Internal Medicine (APDIM) awarded Judith L. Bowen, MD, the 2009 APDIM Dema C. Daley Founders Award during the 2009 APDIM Spring Meeting. The Founders Award honors a member of the internal medicine community ...

Kathryn J. Zerbe, M.D., Professor, Department of Psychiatry, was recently feeatured as a consultant in a New YorK Time online forum on eating disorders. Information is available here. The following article, also quoting Dr. Zerbe, was also recently ...

The jury is still out regarding the benefit of the omega-3 fatty acid docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) in Alzheimer's disease, according to two double-blind multicenter clinical studies presented at the 2009 International Conference on Alzheimer's Disease, ...

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The Oregon Senate last week confirmed the nomination of Rachel Pilliod to serve as the student representative on the Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) board of directors for a four-year term that begins July 1, 2009. Pilliod is an medical ...

OHSU Library is participating in a free trial of a new product from Elsevier, BrainNavigator (http://www.brainnav.com). The trial will run through July 15, 2009. The trial requires free, individual, online registration at www.brainnav.com for each ...

Oregon Health & Science University has received funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, and will do exactly what President Obama ordered: hire trainees and summer interns for its biomedical informatics training program. The new hires ...