OHSU appoints Amy Shlossman executive vice president and chief executive officer of OHSH Health, effective Aug. 31. Shlossman joins OHSU from LifeBridge Health in Baltimore, Maryland, and says: “I’m thrilled to return to Oregon and support OHSU Health’s exceptions care team in delivering high-quality care.”

OHSU appoints Amy Shlossman executive vice president and chief executive officer of OHSH Health, effective Aug. 31. Shlossman joins OHSU from LifeBridge Health in Baltimore, Maryland, and says: “I’m thrilled to return to Oregon and support OHSU Health’s exceptions care team in delivering high-quality care.”

In an Inside Precision Medicine article on the benefits of organs-on-a-chip, Avathamsa Athirasala, Ph.D., discusses her research on how a bone-in-a-chip may help understand bone metastasis: “What are the first things that the body starts doing in response to a foreign object? There will be inflammatory signals, there will be host stem cells that want to infiltrate in there and start remodeling. You can actually recreate the temporal aspects of this — what comes first, what comes later — in a chip.”

"Fake social media accounts, including two that used the likeness and name of Brian Druker, M.D.; Druker says, “I spent an entire career based on honesty, integrity, bringing new treatments to patients that are going to improve their outcomes. For somebody to be able to usurp that and undermine the trust that people have in me is really disturbing.”

The Oregonian reports on fake social media accounts, including two that used the likeness and name of Brian Druker, M.D.; Druker says, “I spent an entire career based on honesty, integrity, bringing new treatments to patients that are going to improve their outcomes. For somebody to be able to usurp that and undermine the trust that people have in me is really disturbing.”

In an AARP magazine article on people using chatbots to interpret medical jargon and help prepare for appointments, Jeffrey Kaye, M.D., says: “The AI chatbots, online health assistance — all these things are very highly, I find, in the forefront of many older people’s minds.”

In recognition of Alzheimer’s and Brain Awareness Month in June, The Seattle Medium cites a program that originated at OHSU called Sharing History through Active Reminiscence and Photo-Imagery, or SHARP. The program started in Portland, enlisting older Black adults to walk through and reminisce about historically Black neighborhoods. Evidence shows the program forestalls cognitive decline.

In a Willamette Week article on the gentle parenting movement, Andrew Riley, Ph.D., says there’s a lot of grey area in parenting: “There is no single one perfect way to parent. It depends on the individual child and family and their values and their context. However, we do know that there are certain parenting styles that tend to produce the best outcomes on average, and that is pretty well-established.”

Amy Valent, D.O., and colleagues present a poster at the American Diabetes Association Scientific Sessions about a study in which patients with gestational diabetes were given inhaled insulin or rapid-acting analog insulin. They found there were fewer hypoglycemic events in those who inhaled insulin. Of the inhaled insulin, Valent says: “I think a lot of obstetricians [are] waiting for more pregnancy-specific data to know how to use it, when to use it, etc. Just because it does work so quickly.”

The Children’s Hospital Association blog highlights Doernbecher’s efforts to address food insecurity for patient families struggling to following nutrition guidance and get healthy meals during their child’s stay.