A story highlights the Prineville Elks’ long-standing support of pediatric eye care at OHSU’s Casey Eye Institute, including the Elks Children’s Eye Clinic and the Elks Preschool Vision Screening Program.

Comments by Aluko Hope, M.D., are featured in an Oregon Health Authority blog post summarizing an Oct. 6 webinar about long COVID. He says: “Just the fact that you are going to struggle with this is something you have to prepare for,” Dr. Hope said. “Thinking of long COVID as a chronic illness allows you to be empowered to recognize the triggers.”

OHSU AFSCME workers ratify updated contract.

Erick Turner, M.D., is interviewed for a story in The Economist about the difficulty of tapering patients off antidepressant medications in a way that doesn’t cause harmful symptoms of withdrawal. He says, “You want six to 12 months in the bag as far as treatment response goes before you consider stopping.”

An OregonLive story on the potential for a COVID-19 surge in mid-December cites modeling from OHSU's Peter Graven, Ph.D.

Ana Wakefield, who was critically injured and treated at OHSU after a hit-and-run accident five years ago, reunites with the team of firefighters who helped save her life.

The Portland Business Journal reports on a $10.4 million lawsuit alleging that OHSU mishandled a sperm sample.

OHSU biostatistician Miguel Marino, Ph.D., is elected to the National Academy of Medicine for his novel statistical approaches to health equity research. Danny Jacobs, M.D., says: “Dr. Marino’s statistical innovations reveal how U.S. health care providers and institutions can better serve historically marginalized communities that continue to experience health inequities today. Advancing health equity is of critical importance. We are proud of Dr. Marino and his transformational work, and pleased that his efforts are being recognized by the National Academy of Medicine.”

Craig Yoshioka, Ph.D., is interviewed on a podcast about cryo-electron microscopy.

A story about the clitoris being poorly understood and not widely considered by most health care mentions clitoral nerve research by Blair Peters, M.D., that could improve sexual sensation for patients who undergo gender-affirming phalloplasty procedures. Peters says: “When I went through medical school, we did not learn anything in particular about the clitoris beyond the fact that it exists, basically. …. (I developed) this subconscious bias that it’s not going to be this super-apparent structure. But it is."