Research teams at OHSU will use two $1 million awards to improve detection and treatment of colorectal cancer and to develop a better approach to treat an aggressive form of brain cancer.

Oregon Health & Science University chose Shereef Elnahal, a medical doctor who ran a hospital in New Jersey, to be its next president, replacing Danny Jacobs, who resigned in October.

Shereef Elnahal, M.D., M.B.A., has been named OHSU’s president-select.

Shereef Elnahal, M.D., M.B.A., has been named OHSU’s president-select.

Lucid News reports mixed reviews from providers since Oregon voters approved psilocybin services in 2020, citing research from the Open Psychedelic Evaluation Nexus involving researchers from OHSU. OPEN co-director Adie Ray, M.D., M.P.H., says, “Affluent clients were our prediction in 2020. We knew this was going to be expensive, so it’s going to be inequitable. I wish we weren’t right about that.”

Helius Medical Technologies, Inc., reports positive results from a clinical trial conducted at OHSU and five other centers across the country.

OCT News reports George Burwood, Ph.D., has received a National Institutes of Health award to measure apical cochlear mechanics in hearing after cochlear implantation.

In a Medscape story about physician-researcher Min Chiu Li, M.D., Alan Hunter, M.D., says Li and a colleague “set the stage for a modern approach to chemotherapy, set the stage for hope.”

OPB’s “All Things Considered” interviews Robert Macauley, M.D., about his new book, “Because I Knew You: How Some Remarkable Sick Kids Healed A Doctor’s Soul.” In response to the question, ‘Why God – if there is one – allows kids to suffer and die,’ Macauley says: “ … I don’t know. I don’t know why God lets such terrible things happen, which even someone as tragically flawed as me would make absolutely sure to prevent, given a pinch of omnipotence and a nanosecond to act.”

Nicole Bowles, Ph.D., discusses how to treat sleep disturbances among firefighting professionals, during the annual meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies.