A publication by Todd Korthuis, M.D., summarizes best practices of experienced psilocybin facilitators to ensure safety and effectiveness, which Korthuis says can give “policymakers and program managers a harmonized set of measures they can use to say how safe and effective these services are in the community.”

A publication by Todd Korthuis, M.D., summarizes best practices of experienced psilocybin facilitators to ensure safety and effectiveness, which Korthuis says can give “policymakers and program managers a harmonized set of measures they can use to say how safe and effective these services are in the community.”

Two years after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down nationwide protections for abortion care, an OHSU News story describes how OHSU Center for Women’s Health faculty continue to preserve and expand access to reproductive health care, training and research. In a segment on OPB-Radio’s Think Out Loud, Ian Fields, M.D., and resident Katie Hansen, M.D., describe how OHSU is helping residents training in states with abortion bans learn about abortion care.

Coverage of the Opportunities for Housing, Resources & Assistance shelter’s fourth anniversary in Ashland notes the OHSU School of Nursing Street Nursing Team is among the organizations that support residents of the 52-room facility.

In a story about how high temperatures affect the brain, Shaun Morrison, Ph.D., explains that becoming distracted and irritable in the heat is one of the brain’s coping responses, saying if you can’t get cool, your brain will “make you feel even more uncomfortable so that finding the thing you need to survive will become all consuming.”

In a story about how high temperatures affect the brain, Shaun Morrison, Ph.D., explains that becoming distracted and irritable in the heat is one of the brain’s coping responses, saying if you can’t get cool, your brain will “make you feel even more uncomfortable so that finding the thing you need to survive will become all consuming.”

David Huang, M.D., Ph.D., discusses how he co-invented and commercialized the biomedical imaging technology optical coherence tomography at the launch of Northwestern University’s Center for Engineering in Vision and Ophthalmology. He notes the technology needs to be commercialized to have an impact, saying, “We’re not motivated by greed. We’re motivated by a desire to help our patients. That requires commercialization.”

OHSU nursing student Jessica Calvillo Mendoza is receiving an Umatilla Electric Cooperative scholarship.

In a story about safety improvements in downtown Portland, Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler mentions the Portland Police Bureau’s collaboration with OHSU data scientists to reduce vehicle theft.

Tech Transfer eNews covers OHSU Tech Transfer’s creatorship model for encouraging innovations in science and technology. Arvin Paranjpe, says, “The pivotal change in the whole approach came when we formalized the idea of creator — you do not just have to be an inventor. The IP disclosure form in 2015 might have called them a ‘contributor,’ and then we refined the terminology to line up with the IP policy.”