Health care heroes: An update from the frontlines
Early 2020 brought COVID-19 to the U.S. Ever since, the OHSU community has worked together to save lives and change the course of the pandemic.
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Forces of Change
In the world of cancer research, OHSU continues to break new ground — not just in medical discoveries, but also in building a world-class team of female scientists. Mary Stenzel-Poore, PhD, chief of research operations at the OHSU Knight Cancer Institute, is one of those scientists. With more than 20 years’ experience as an NIH-funded […]
Erik Brodt, MD: The healer
Erik Brodt, MD, is a trailblazing advocate, dedicated to improving the lives and health of people who are of American Indian and Alaska Native descent.
The future is now: Albert Chi, MD, and mind-controlled prosthetics
The first time you meet Johnny Matheny is astonishing. You would be forgiven for wondering: can this be real? That’s because when Johnny reaches out to shake your hand, he’s extending his grasp with the world’s first mind-controlled robotic arm. He lost his arm to cancer, and what has replaced the missing limb is extraordinary. […]
Finding Jack Murdock
“If I do all that I hope to do, I shall probably make some inventions.” So wrote M. J. “Jack” Murdock in 1934 at age 16. Two years later, just as predicted, the teenage technophile started his own radio business that, years later, would lead to the founding of the business that would set the […]
Announcement makes national news
Watch Phil Knight and OHSU’s Brian Druker, M.D., in an interview with Robin Roberts on Good Morning America.
