Optical coherence tomography co-inventor David Huang, M.D., Ph.D., is among the 2024 Oregon History Makers being recognized by the Oregon Historical Society.

As costs continue to outpace OHSU revenues, OHSU is launching an initiative to strategically realign its investments to ensure the region’s critically ill patients can access the highly specialized, complex care no other health system in Oregon can provide. While OHSU hopes to avoid layoffs, university executives say the initiative will require some hard choices and tradeoffs.

OHSU is partnering with St. Charles Health System, Central Oregon Community College and other local leaders to bring its Accelerated Bachelor in Nursing Program to Bend. Susan Bakewell Sachs, Ph.D., RN, says “the OHSU School of Nursing is proud to both help students from Central Oregon become nurses without having to leave home, and also to help the Bend area grow more of its own nurse leaders.”

While discussing Opill, the first over-the-counter birth control pill, Alison Edelman, M.D., says the progestin-only contraceptive medication is “incredibly safe,” adding: “It’s safer than having access over the counter to Tylenol.”

Stephanie Momeni, Ph.D., will receive the 2024 Proctor & Gamble Underrepresented Faculty Research Fellowship.

Valerie Clappison, M.D., became the first Oregonian to receive a wireless, dual-chamber pacemaker on Feb. 28 at OHSU. After receiving the pacemaker, Clappison says she has “been able to do pretty much anything I wanted to do exercise-wise.”

Valerie Clappison, M.D., became the first Oregonian to receive a wireless, dual-chamber pacemaker on Feb. 28 at OHSU. After receiving the pacemaker, Clappison says she has “been able to do pretty much anything I wanted to do exercise-wise.”

Valerie Clappison, M.D., became the first Oregonian to receive a wireless, dual-chamber pacemaker on Feb. 28 at OHSU. After receiving the pacemaker, Clappison says she has “been able to do pretty much anything I wanted to do exercise-wise.”

In a two-part series, Jon Snowden, Ph.D., and Paul Halverson, Dr.P.H., M.H.S.A., discuss the OHSU-PSU School of Public Health’s efforts to advance public health and educate the next generation of public health providers.

Kathleen Carlson, Ph.D., discusses the Gun Violence as a Public Health Issue initiative, which seeks to better understand and find solitons to prevent gun injuries and death.