Anne and Rick Matsen walk in Hoyt Arboretum in Portland, Oregon, eight days after Anne's surgery. (Courtesy of the Matsen family)

Anne and Rick Matsen with each of their three children, their children's spouses, and four of their six grandchildren, at Council Crest in Portland, Oregon. (Courtesy of the Matsen family)

Anne Matsen celebrates a successful Whipple procedure at a family gathering in Portland's Waterfront Park with a cake illustrating the procedure performed by OHSU's Flavio Rocha, M.D. (Courtesy of the Matsen family)

The skybridge between OHSU and the VA Portland Health Care System embodies and facilitates the close partnership across missions between the two institutions. From left, Miranda Lim, M.D., Ph.D., associate professor of neurology, behavioral neuroscience and medicine, OHSU School of Medicine, affiliate scientist at OHSU’s Oregon Institute of Occupational Health Sciences, and a staff neurologist at the VA; Kathleen Carlson, Ph.D., M.S., associate professor of epidemiology, OHSU-PSU School of Public Health, and a core investigator at the VA; Sahana Misra, M.D., professor of psychiatry and associate dean for veterans affairs, OHSU School of Medicine, and chief of staff at the VA; and David M. Cohen, M.D., professor of medicine (nephrology and hypertension) and cell, developmental and cancer biology, OHSU School of Medicine, and associate chief of staff for research and development at the VA. (OHSU/Erin Hoover Barnett)