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Because medical school tuition is no longer only $600

Because medical school tuition is no longer only $600

May 23, 2011
Mitchell Heinemann, MD '44, is one of the oldest members of the OHSU School of Medicine alumni community. Recently, in a conversation with the School of Medicine, he recalled details from his life, including where he was the day Pearl Harbor was ...
Fernando and Dolores Leon: Partners in living and giving

Fernando and Dolores Leon: Partners in living and giving

April 25, 2011
Dolores Leon, MD ’75, has always tried to learn from her patients. As a pediatric anesthesiologist she has spent 28 years explaining to children what she was going to do to help them during surgery. “For many years I said, ‘Hello. I’m Dr. Leon and I’m ...
Dubois scholarship a gift of freedom

Dubois scholarship a gift of freedom

February 24, 2011
Born in Denver, Colo. and an Oregonian since 1997, Nick Westfall had significant roots in the construction industry through his family. The leap to medicine – and to OHSU – began when he participated in a Health Career Opportunity summer program for ...
The public health army’s four-star general

The public health army’s four-star general

January 21, 2011
An alumnus of OHSU’s Graduate Medical Education program, David Fleming, MD, completed his residency at OHSU in 1982, and has dedicated his career to national and international public health. “If there is indeed a public health army out there,” said ...
Shirley & Herb Semler: Tools for medicine to help humankind

Shirley & Herb Semler: Tools for medicine to help humankind

December 14, 2010
The way Shirley Semler remembers it, the story starts when she and her husband, Herb Semler, MD ‘53, MS, met Dean Mark Richardson as guests at an OHSU luncheon. Brian Druker, MD, the Director of the OHSU Knight Cancer Institute, was speaking. Shirley ...
SoM Alumni Association rings in the holidays

SoM Alumni Association rings in the holidays

December 13, 2010
Holiday music from fourth-year medical student and council member Jessica Carlson greeted over 200 alumni and guests at the 2010 Alumni Holiday Reception at the Waverley Country Club on Dec. 5. “By any measure, the Association has had a very busy ...
Specialty Speed Dating: Searching for that elusive match

Specialty Speed Dating: Searching for that elusive match

December 07, 2010
It may not always happen in a blaze of fireworks, but at some point all students in the MD program have to declare a specialty – ideally one that they will pursue for the rest of their careers. It’s often a decision for which there are many more ...
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