An OHSU social worker referred a Eugene teen with a rare genetic disorder to the Make-a-Wish Foundation, which provided the teen with a wheelchair-accessible bathroom.

The OHSU Brain Institute’s April 5 Brain Fair was featured as one of the Portland area’s top events.

Marisa Westbrook, Ph.D., M.P.H., discusses an OHSU-PSU School of Public Health effort to better understand the housing needs of Black, Indigenous and other people of color in the Portland metro area.

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.”