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Doernbecher Patient's Art to Become Permanent Sculptures

June 17, 2008
Tomorrow, Austin Winters, 10, a budding artist from Hermiston, Ore., receiving care at OHSU Doernbecher Children's Hospital, will watch his drawings be transformed into three-dimensional art. The sculptures will be included in the Tacoma-based Museum ...

Ethics Experts to Testify Before Oregon Health Fund Board

May 20, 2008
EVENT DETAILS WHEN: 9:15 A.M., Wednesday, May 21, 2008 WHERE: Paradigm Conference Center, 3009 S.E. Chestnut, Milwaukie, Oregon PORTLAND, Ore. - Susan W. Tolle, M.D., director of the Center for Ethics in Health Care at Oregon Health & Science ...

OHSU Doernbecher Pain Management Named Center of Excellence

April 21, 2008
The Pediatric Pain Management Center at OHSU Doernbecher Children’s Hospital is one of just six clinical centers nationwide to be named a Center of Excellence in Pain Management by the America Pain Society. Pain centers from every part of the country ...

OHSU School of Dentistry Announces New Appointments, Awards

April 14, 2008
-- Phyllis Beemsterboer, M.S., Ed.D., associate dean for academic affairs, recently was appointed to the ADA's National Oral Health Literacy Committee. The ADA authorized the formation of the committee as a result of a 2006 resolution from the House ...

Streaming Video of President Clinton's Visit to OHSU

March 31, 2008
Streaming video of President Clinton’s speech at Oregon Health & Science University on March 31 is available for public viewing at the following Web address: http://media.ohsu.edu/ramgen/adm/clinton033108.rm To view the video, your computer must have ...

Data About OHSU Patients’ Experience of Care Released Publicly

March 28, 2008
Patient experience data from hospitals across the country, including Oregon Health & Science University, is being released publicly today. OHSU serves as a leader in reporting quality and outcomes data and believes this information will lead the ...

New Backpacks Hit the Spot For Young Adults With Cancer

March 17, 2008
When Dewey Burchell, 19, was being treated for testicular cancer, he really didn’t relate to the pediatric cancer patients or the older cancer patients he saw at the hospital. The things he likes to do - the whole stage of life he’s in - is different ...

OHSU Cancer Institute Earns Recognition for Excellence

March 12, 2008
The Oregon Health & Science University Cancer Institute today was awarded the newly-created prestigious national Blue Distinction Center for Complex and Rare Cancers from Regence BlueCross BlueShield Association in 10 vital cancer areas. Joining in ...

Red Cross Recognizes OHSU 'Heroes'

March 11, 2008
Three Oregon Health & Science University physicians have been honored for the part they played in saving Kathy Ryan, the 66-year-old Portland woman who collapsed last August near Mist, Ore., during the Hood-to-Coast Relay. She was revived by two ...

New Navigator Helps Patients Steer Their Way Through Cancer

March 03, 2008
Cathy Lou Holt had liver cancer. She needed surgery, then help finding a place to stay in Portland during her subsequent three weeks of radiation at Oregon Health & Science University. And she needed help figuring out how she was going to pay her ...
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