One morning in early March, Mike McCaffrey woke up and watched a news story about nurses in a Washington hospital making face shields and masks out of office supplies and sheets. He was appalled. “This can’t happen here,” he said. As the associate vice president of logistics at OHSU, McCaffrey preemptively looked into options to […]
For David Zonies, MD, MPH, there’s never a dull moment — and he prefers it that way. Zonies is a trauma surgeon in OHSU’s Division of Trauma, Critical Care and Acute Care Surgery, as well as the Director of Surgical Critical Care and the Extracorporal Life Support program at OHSU, a program he started when […]
Two weeks. That’s all it took for Donna Hansel, MD, PhD, and her team, together with colleagues at the OHSU Vaccine and Gene Therapy Institute, to build, stock and staff a new clinical testing laboratory for COVID-19 — all from scratch. The brand-new microbiology lab enables OHSU researchers to process COVID-19 tests in-house, for faster […]
Anthony Cheng, MD, an OHSU primary care physician, enjoys family medicine because it puts him at the intersection of science and story. His work as a clinician is grounded in listening to the patient and learning what makes them who they are. Cheng also brings that single-minded focus to his work as the medical director […]
As the COVID-19 pandemic spread across the globe, health care workers worried they would run out of ventilators needed to keep the sickest patients alive. That’s when Albert Chi, MD, MSE, an OHSU trauma surgeon, sprang into action. At the first signs of an impending ventilator crisis, Chi pivoted his lab — which previously pioneered […]
Physicians swear an oath to dedicate their lives to serving others. That spirit of service is what led Alix Cooper, MD, to pursue a career in medicine. Nearly one month ago, Cooper was celebrating their acceptance to the Cascades East Family Medicine Residency Program in Klamath Falls, Oregon, with a Match Day hike around Upper […]
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