Whit Deschner recommends a simple prescription for Parkinson's disease: laughter, and in the highest dose, as many times a day as possible. Even the photos on the cover of Deschner's 1997 book, "Travels with a Kayak," - a book about kayaking that's ...

Hundreds of first-year Oregon Health & Science University students will converge on Portland's BODY WORLDS 3 exhibition Friday to see a unique take on what they'll experience in upcoming anatomy classes. Nearly 400 students, representing OHSU's ...

Oregon Health & Science University has agreed to create a joint graduate certificate program in biomedical informatics with the Information Technology Institute (ITI) of Egypt in a joint protocol signed by Lesley M. Hallick, Ph.D., vice president for ...

Maureen E. Mays, M.D., M.S., director of preventive cardiology and cardiac rehabilitation and assistant professor in the department of cardiovascular medicine in the Oregon Health & Science University School of Medicine, has been awarded diplomate ...

Five Oregon Health & Science University faculty members have been recognized for exceptional efforts in support of the university’s research, teaching, service, collaboration and leadership missions. They are the winners of the 2007 OHSU Faculty ...

Mark Richardson, M.D., M.Sc.B., M.B.A., has been named dean of the Oregon Health & Science University School of Medicine. Dr. Richardson has served as interim dean since September 2006 when the school’s former dean, Joe Robertson, M.D., M.B.A., was ...

An Oregon Health & Science University graduate student and Astoria, Ore. native has accepted a one-year fellowship at the University of Maastricht in the Netherlands to study the molecular mechanisms behind blood clotting. Michelle A. Berny, a Ph.D. ...

Jan Heineken Ph.D., R.N. has been appointed the new associate dean of the Oregon Health & Science University School of Nursing Southern Region. Saundra L. Theis, Ph.D., R.N., interim dean of the OHSU School of Nursing announced Heineken's appointment ...

When a doctor of philosophy’s sapphire and blue-trimmed hood is cloaked on Adam Wright’s shoulders at the Oregon Health & Science University School of Medicine hooding ceremony on June 8, it will mark a rite of passage not only for Wright but for the ...

An Oregon Health & Science University physician is testifying Wednesday, May 9, before a U.S. Senate committee about a new chronic illness management program he developed that could save Medicare more than $100 million a year. David Dorr, M.D., OHSU ...