A woman describes the challenges she experienced obtaining a death certificate for her husband, a patient at OHSU, through the state of Washington's new electronic death registration system. OHSU provided comment for the story, stating it's not uncommon for the process to take some time due to the enrollment and registration process, and schedules and availability of staff involved in that process.

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.”

Karen Brasel, M.D., is named vice president of the American Board of Surgery, effective May 1.

Katie Zuckerman, M.D., offers advice about diagnosing autism in the primary care setting.

After recent University of Washington medical school graduate Caitlin Quaempts, M.D., completes the OHSU Cascades East Family Medicine Residency Program in Klamath Falls, they plan to work as a family medicine physician for the Yakama Nation.

Posted alongside a list that names OHSU as Oregon’s top NIH-funded institution, a Portland Business Journal story features the NIH-supported work of Steven Mansoor, M.D., Ph.D., to better understand how drugs work at the molecular level. If his team learns the structures of cell receptors associated with chronic inflammation, that information can help design drugs that adjust how the receptors work. Mansoor says: “The reason I find the current work so exciting is if we find a drug that can slow down or block atherosclerosis, that will make a tremendous impact.”

In a story about an Optum-owned Eugene medical practice turning away some patients and Optum seeking to merge with another practice, Jane Zhu, M.D., M.P.P., M.S.H.P., says medical practice consolidation often leads to “higher commercial prices without any definitive positive effect on quality, and really unclear effects on access to care and workforce.”

Kerri Winters-Stone, Ph.D., presented approaches to improving quality of life in cancer survivors at the AACR meeting. In a Cancer Today Magazine article, Winters-Stone says: “Cancer is isolating. If you’re managing cancer alone, it’s not being managed well. We really do need to urgently shift our focus to the needs and concerns of older adults. We need to understand what their preferences are.”

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.”

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.”