OHSU recently hosted its annual Diversity and Inclusion Awards ceremony. Among the recipients was Dr. Shearwood McClelland for his exceptional work in health disparity research in radiation oncology.

Dr. McClelland’s research series “Disparities in Access to Radiation Therapy in the United States,” has been published in Advances in Radiation Oncology. The first three articles of the four-part series are available now. The fourth part (on Appalachian patients) will be published later this summer.

Part 1: African-American patients

https://www.advancesradonc.org/article/S2452-1094(17)30107-0/fulltext

Part 2: American Indian patients

https://www.advancesradonc.org/article/S2452-1094(17)30166-5/fulltext

Part 3: Hispanic-American patients

https://www.advancesradonc.org/article/S2452-1094(17)30235-X/fulltext

Guests include:

Dr. Shearwood “Woody” McClelland

Clinical research assistant in the Department of Radiation Medicine, OHSU/Tuality Cancer Clinic

Clinical leadership teams from OHSU, Tuality and Adventist Health gathered for the third clinical enterprise leadership meeting last week. Participants received updates, asked questions of the leadership team and had the opportunity to listen to a keynote address on the future landscape of health care reform.

Guests include:

Ken Leonczyk – The Advisory Board

OHSU’s Oregon National Primate Research Center is one of seven National Primate Research Centers across the country. A new website makes it easier for the public to learn about what’s happening at the centers and will tell the stories of this important work.

Guests include:

Nancy Haigwood, Ph.D.

Director of the Oregon National Primate Research Center at OHSU

OHSU celebrated National Poetry Month in April this year with its fourth annual poetry contest and recognition event, sponsored by the OHSU Library. In the submission guidelines, poets were asked to focus on their OHSU experience, and the contest judges considered how well they expressed that theme – as well as artistic excellence and the poem’s relationship to health and healing.

Guests include:

Tracy Thornton

Office Manager, OHSU Library

Susannah Lujan-Bear

Assistant Nurse Manager 5A and 5C, OHSU Hospital

Sonja Halvorson

Student, OHSU School of Medicine

Kirsten Myers

Research Project Coordinator, Casey Eye Institute

This year’s employee survey is a chance to share your feedback on working at OHSU and a way to affect change. Taking the employee survey allows your voice to be heard, and automatically registers you to win prizes for participating. Learn more about how your responses are kept confidential and why every employee should complete it.

Guests include:

Katy Fonner

Senior Organizational Development Consultant, OHSU

The adult ECLS/ECMO program at OHSU brings individualized care to patients whether they are in an OHSU intensive care unit, at a hospital outside of Portland or even while in the air, when working with Life Flight transport. OHSU is the only hospital in the Pacific Northwest offering air and ground transport for both pulmonary and cardiac adult ECMO patients.

Guests include:

David Zonies, M.D., M.P.H., F.A.C.S., F.C.C.M., associate professor of surgery, OHSU School of Medicine; associate professor, OHSU-PSU School of Public Health; director, ECLS Program

Sean Freiss, R.N., B.S.N., C.C.R.N., adult ECLS coordinator

The OHSU Board of Directors has appointed Dr. Danny Jacobs as the fifth president of OHSU. The Board also extended Joe Robertson's presidency until Dr. Jacobs starts on August 1st. Dr. Jacobs comes to OHSU from the University of Texas Medical Branch where he currently serves as Executive Vice President, Dean and Provost.

Guests include:

Danny Jacobs, M.D., M.P.H., F.A.C.S.

OHSU President-select

When people think of public health, state or county health departments come to mind. But public health is more than providing vaccines or offering health education, it's a much broader field focused on reducing disease, preventing exposures and promoting healthy behaviors.

Guests include:

Dr. Bill Lambert

Associate Professor, School of Public Health

Jennifer Ku

Doctoral Student, School of Public Health

Research is a central component of OHSU’s mission and helps drive excellence in education and patient care. OHSU’s Research Week is an annual university-wide event that celebrates the broad spectrum of research performed at OHSU across all schools, centers, institutes and education programs.

Guests include:

Sami Friedrich

Doctoral candidates, Behavioral Neuroscience Program in the School of Medicine

Eileen Torres

Doctoral candidate, Behavioral Neuroscience Program in the School of Medicine

For more information: http://www.ohsu.edu/xd/research/research-week/

Every day, more than a hundred people call the Oregon Poison Center and most of them are looking for emergency help. The Center, which also serves Alaska and Guam, has operated out of OHSU since 1978 – but since then, it’s become much more than a hotline for worried parents.

Guests include:

Sandy Giffin

Director, Oregon Poison Center

Charisse Pizarro-Osilla

Nurse Manager, Oregon Poison Center