Lawrence Furnstahl is named among the 2025 top hospital and health system chief financial officers to know.

Kathryn Marxen-Simonson is interviewed in a Medscape story about a nationwide decrease in the proportion of kids receiving vision screenings, raising the risk for a variety of mental health, learning and physical health disorders. She says, “It’s important that families and parents understand that kids who experience vision loss, with the right supports, can go on to be very successful and capable individuals. And I think that parents benefit from getting support as well.”

Eric Fombonne, M.D., responds to Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s plans to open a research project into the link between vaccines and autism and the discredited Lancet paper, published in 1988, which erroneously linked autism to the MMR vaccine given to children: “There is nothing to debate any more, it has been settled by science.”

A story in the Alabama Political Reporter cites a 2012 OHSU study on food dyes.

A The New York Times story about many older people with anemia finding relief through effective treatment that is being more widely prescribed cites recommendations Jamie Lo, M.D., and The Iron Consortium at OHSU.

Bita Moghaddam, Ph.D., is quoted in a story in Stat on the growing research funding gap at the NIH, saying: “The aim may be to punish elite institutions, but it’s scientists at smaller institutions — those that are not privileged with big endowments or private money — that are suffering.”

State and national media cover the OHSU board of directors’ unanimous vote making Shereef Elnahal, M.D., OHSU’s sixth president.

State and national media cover the OHSU board of directors’ unanimous vote making Shereef Elnahal, M.D., OHSU’s sixth president.

A story produced by the Oregon Journalism Project asserts Gov. Kotek vetoed bills related to child welfare and the Department of Health and Human Services because she and Ajit Jethmalani, M.D., were concerned the new laws went too far and made it difficult for treatment providers to attract and retain workers.

The Portland Mercury profiles Latroy Robinson, a senior research assistant in biochemistry who also teaches ballroom dancing.